Thomas Hill

A little vignette I fiilmed last week with the beautiful Canon FD 20mm and the awesome Vivitar 90mm macro lens plus 50mm 1.4 SSC for the slomo at the end.
First shot is in BW and colored in Davinci, filmed with GX85. Arrow shots at sunset between 12800 and 25600 ISO, which worked impressively well in 4K, not so well in slomo of course. I am very, very impressed by this camera. Battery life is good. With two original batteries one should be happy for the day. Sorry for the sound quality and lack of sounddesign. All shot in L monochrom and portrait with manual color temperature, 8bit 4k and 125fps HD at the end. High shutter speed for the fans of motion cadence. cheers
 

No, we are not censoring ourselves because of some fuckwits.
Politics are allowed.
Wankers aren't.

Fixed in current firmware.
It is very good with M lenses so far. No OLPF but don't know about the thickness of the filter stack. I need to get hold of a 28 cron to test with but others seem fine
cheers
Paul

Sony to the rescue! But with the one BIG ASS caveat that it's rumored to cost about $1200 US.
"Sony Xperia Pro is a 5G-enabled smartphone encased in a rugged case that features HDMI direct camera connectivity and a massive 6.5-inch CinemaWide display with 4K resolution. A triple lens camera is included too (12MP+12MP+12MP), an 8-megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB RAM and 512GB expandable storage (up to 1TB)."

File this under "Just checking it works/Isolation Cabin Fever" but just had a quick go with the UVC output function to see if a makeshift external monitor can be deployed if you need one but aren't carrying one.

The short answer is yes it can.
You'll need an Android device (its doable on iOS but only with a costly adapter last time I checked) and with older devices such as mine you'll need a USB OTG cable which are only a few quid and useful anyway to connect USB drives etc to the phone.
You'll also need a viewer app and there are a myriad of free and paid ones on the Play store so just search for combinations of "uvc" and "usb webcam". I haven't tested enough of them to draw a conclusion so best to use your own judgement based on whatever downloads/review criteria you normally use. 
When you have the software installed, its a simple case of connecting the USB-C of the FP to your phone (either directly if your phone is USB-C or via the OTG adapter if not) and the default setting of your FP is to auto-detect what you have connected to the USB-C port so you will see a prompt telling your to switch to Cine mode.
So, is it useful?
It could have been and might still be if you don't mind the caveats.
The first caveat is that it will only work in Cine mode.
The second one is that you don't have access to any of the menus (not even the QS) when it is in UVC mode and won't be able change anything, although if you have a lens with manual aperture, set the mode to shutter priority and have Auto ISO set you can some minimal non-optimal control.
The third one is that on my phone (which is only USB2 on the OTG port) the performance isn't great or even approaching not that great in terms of lag and frame rate. On better devices this should be less of an issue.
With those sort of caveats, the question is whether its of any use whatsoever and again the answer for me is still a very frustratingly "almost".
The biggest boon is that with a cheap 1/4" 20 mounting mini ball head and phone grip attached to the FP you can have the elusive tilting monitoring solution which I find invaluable without an EVF. It can also be fully articulated to be front facing if required.
Would you use it to actually do meaningful monitoring with ?
Its performance doesn't make that viable on my device at least but for framing when the camera is not at eye level then its perfectly fine and also for focus checking as most of these apps have a finger pinch function to zoom in.
Do I need that all the time ?
No but as my phone is Android anyway, its far more convenient to have a cable and adapter in my bag to press it into service when I do rather than having to carry a real monitor and all the additional power and mounting stuff that goes with it.
The fourth caveat of course is that it takes up the USB port so no external drive and if you are thinking "well if I'm recording on SD thats not an issue" then welcome to caveat number five which is that you can't record internally either !
So you can frame with it but have to unplug it every time you want to record anything.
Oh well at least it passed a bit of time while we are confined to our house !

The movie is Captain Marvel and it's not the Pocket but

You can do that?! 

Totally agree. It's more about how well the person behind the camera is operating it then the deficiencies of the camera its being shot on because most modern cameras are very good. We mostly nitpick...except for Panasonic not adding PDAF, thats just annoying as hell.

"It even has 'de-focus' in the name!"

This is the problem we have with Slog2, VLOG etc. The internet says it's crap but they don't know how to use it properly. 
Very compelled by the X-T4 to use as a general all round purpose cam, but then again, it maybe worth waiting to see how that R5 stacks up. Or a new GH6 for that matter. 

Same with the em1 mark iii. It has some nice features but it doesn't have anything that justifies $100 more than the rumored price of the x-t4.

Shot on EM1x, looks very very nice.  They used 17mm 1.2 and 25mm 1.2 with segments on the 12-100f4 and 300mm f4 according to the comments.  Love the handheld tracking shot using a wheelbarrow at the end.
 

Sorry I posted the wrong link in my last reply. It's still a good article about TWD... and apparently I was wrong, they shoot TWD on 16mm, not S16.
This is the article about FTWD...
https://www.panavision.com/mcdonough-brings-anamorphic-look-fear-walking-dead

Just another Sunday night of fucking around 😂

Bite your tongue, young man! I think it's only gotten better since you know who was choppered away.
Yeah, those church scenes were amazing. But if the whole thing has been shot on an Alexa, I don't know what happened. Maybe Gimple replaced the DP and editors too.

I shot Fuji for pro work during 2 years. In my experience the AF results were really dependant on two things: the glass used & the available light.
I like to shoot with fast glass and that was always a problem, but more dependant on the lens design then cameras AF.
I'd really like it if Fuji redesigned their fantastic 23mm F1.4, 35mm F1.4 & 56mm 1.2mm primes for video AF. 
Those lenses weren't made with video in mind as Fuji bodies hardly shot any video at the time those were released.
If I were to enter Fuji system again today, I would probably acquire the F2 WR lenses, but I already know they aren't close to having the mojo of their faster older lenses..

I didn't know about them shooting Walking Dead on S16 but, since you mention it, I wonder if they shot the first 3 season's of Fear the same way.
Fear started out a little slow but by season 3 was getting good and looked as good as TWD. Then they changed showrunners, the writers and at least half of the cast in season 4. They added more recognizable names to the cast which probably hurt the production budget and might have played a part in a camera switch because the look of the show changed and over time they implemented a really washed-out not very filmic looking grade.
The worst part is that the writing really took a nose-dive that season and hadn't recovered by the first few episodes of season 5 which was when I quit watching. The sad part (for me) is that I like Lennie James, Garret Dillahunt and Maggie Grace but the stories went from being pretty much on par with the original show to more of a Z Nation level.

I am selling my GH5+PL12-60, it is actually a little large/heavy and probably too much camera for my needs. 
I bought an Em5iii when it came out, (it is much better value after the price just dropped to $999).  I just shot some outdoor activities in the pouring UK rain and mud with the Em5iii an Rode videomicro.  The interviews were done with two little waterproof Instamics.  The IBIS with the Olympus 12-100/4 dual-IS is incredible.  You can do much larger movements and walk with smoother results than with the GH5+PL12-60 dual-IS combo.  With the x2 teleconverter I can get stabilised 4k from 24-400/f4 FF equivalent.  I don't really need my Osmo Pocket anymore, except if I want to do boom-type shots with a selfie stick.  The PDAF autofocus works great, especially with the face detect in interview situations.  I'm getting a little lazy relying on it as it also works great for reveal "slider" shots and touch rack-focusing.  The C-AF was the only reason I got the Em5iii over the Em10iii, but I could have got two for less than the price of the Em5iii!
I like the Oly image, but still tweaking a bit to get the best out-of-camera colours (just using natural, -2 sharpening) and exposure without having to do much grading in post.  No zebras, so relying on the histogram which is much nicer than on the Panasonics (stretches across the bottom).  The EVF isn't as good as the GH5, and the mic input gets in the way of the flippy screen.  The GH5 4k 10-bit picture looks better, but youtube and social media where I do my local/community event films have crappy quality, so it doesn't really matter.  I do wish the Em5iii had the constant face-detection box during recording like with the newer Em1iii - just to give 100% confidence that the C-AF is doing it's thing.
The only missing thing to make the Olympus the perfect camera for me would be built-in NDs.  F4 and ISO 200 and no ND at 1/48 shutter is OK in the UK winter, but I use fixed NDs for the sunny weather (tired of fixing vari-ND colour messes in post).  I carry the camera around much more than I did with the GH5 so have more opportunity to shoot stuff.
I'm also really downsizing my overall kit as I only do small local events and documentary paid jobs on the side.  My Voightlander 17mm and 42mm are going too to raise some cash.  I'm keeping my GX80s for time-lapse cameras as they aren't worth much on the used market (working on a long-term time-lapse waterproof setup).
When I see stuff like this, I know it's me lacking as a filmmaker, and not the camera that I'm using: 
 

They really need something like Leica's evf for the TL series but at the Sigma LVF-11 price point.

excellent article, scientists data is always welcomed to show some lights in any topic.

Here's an informative interview about viruses that move from animals to humans and how scientists track down their origin https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-coronavirus-wont-be-the-last-outbreak-to-move-from-animal-to-human

Car chases are always exciting, but this scene just looks rediculous. Huge props to the camera team, but have been a highly stressful situation for the guy in the passenger seat.
 
 

If that's a data sheet for the sensor and the x-t4 is not going to have 6K, I think I know how Fuji can differentiate the x-h2 from the t4 😎 

As far as ergonomics & features, the Canon competition have to start implementing stuff like internal NDs..
Sony especially should include the FS5's Vari-ND tech inside Alpha series. 
I don't see them going too far up resolution/codec wise because of XDCam cannibalisation fear.
Panasonic are in the best position to compete on that front, but they really need to sort out PDAF, and maybe hire better design team (take some cues from Leica ffs)!
Fuji, I'd love them to do a proper cine cam, but make it radical by taking cues from retro 8mm pistol cams: