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The hololens is super cool, we have one at work, but honestly it was a little disappointing the first time I played with it; the "window" of holograms that you get to see projected in front of you is just quite small, I'd say maybe a 10 or 20%-sized box of your vision? I don't know, it's certainly not as cool as the promotional material seems to indicate though. Yes you can plan Minecraft on your kitchen tabletop or whatever, but still, only in that tiny box. It is pretty neat how it literally looks like a hologram floating in front of you though. The resolution isn't amazing yet either, so I'm not sure how great the current headset would be for actual editing, needing high-res, etc. As far as an immersive, futuristic experience, I was much more impressed by the HTC Vive, which is only $800 compared to $3,000 for the Hololens. Either way, it'll be very interesting to see what kind of tech and gadgets comes out of this segment as it matures. Just imagine the shenanigans the next generation of kids is going to get caught doing by their parents!

I bought one of those cheap NPF-to-V mount adapters a while back. I've got loads of the sony batteries and was hoping to use them to power my pixapro 100D on the go, but I don't know if they just couldn't provide enough voltage or what, but beyond some disappointing flickering, I never could get it to work right, so I sent it back. All the reviews I've seen show these types of solutions working fine for panels, but maybe the power draw is just very different for more powerful single-source lights. I don't know, my anecdotal evidence anyway, for what's its worth. For now, my pixapro remains tethered to the wall. V-mounts are expensive!!

I was watching a video on the Lumix YouTube channel detailing the anamorphic mode and somebody asked the same question (I think): "To my knowledge the HDMI can't output the full anamorphic resolution so it crops it and adds black bars on the sides?" Lumix answered: "You are correct, if you elect to output the 4:3 aspect ratio of the Anamorphic mode over HDMI, it must "fit" into the resolution available for HDMI output, that resolution can be no taller than 2160 pixels so the HDMI output will have a 2880x2160 image within the HDMI approved 3840x2160 output (think of it as a 4X3 image with pillar-box bars on either side, like the Blue-Ray of The Wizard of Oz, a movie presented in its original 4:3 aspect ratio). If you record internally you get 3328x2496 resolution with no pillar-box bars. Keep in mind that you can always record to the internal and external recorder together and see if the added resolution is important to the production." Hope that helps. Here's the video I pulled the comment from, if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reKtdJhEGg4

Don't underestimate the 16-50 power zoom lens. Yes, it's slow, 3.5-5.6 I think, but it's a super cheap, tiny, ultra compact and stabilized 24-70 equivalent, and the autofocus is really quite good. I actually done notice much of a difference between it and my S lens as far as autofocus speed goes. If I'm not flying a super wide prime on my gimbal, the humble little 16-50 pz is my favorite lens to use. I also like keeping it on my NX500 for walkaround stills purposes, like on vacation, etc. I have the 30mm too and basically never, ever use it. Ricardo stated it perfectly above, that has been my exact experience with it as well.

The really flat gamma settings can be harder to bring back contrast and beautiful color in post and don't really seem to increase dynamic range much over the tweaked standard profiles anyway, I don't know, most of us are probably using the above poster Ricardo's settings, because he clearly knows how to make that camera sing! I'd be very careful with DIS. The edges warp super easy and can ruin the footage. The only time I really use it is occasionally combined with the IS of the 16-50 S lens for some discreet handheld work, like if I'm filming in a store, somewhere without a permit, etc. Using it like that, it's rock-steady, just don't try panning like crazy with it, running around, etc.

I'll give you my take: The NX1 is very useable at 1600, in my opinion, that's really the highest I ever have to go with fast glass and a speedbooster. I'll use 3200 in a pinch, but that's honestly more light than I need 95% of the time. There is no gamma DR on the NX500. Most of us NX junkies here on the forum have stopped using Gamma DR anyway, and run with a tweaked standard profile, but the NX500 also lacks a master black level control, so it is quite difficult to get a flat image to match the NX1. Quirks that drive me crazy: You can't adjust the focus punch-in; it's always right to the middle of the image, which is really annoying. Can't do it while recording either. Also, the EVF can't be toggled during recording, you either choose to use it or you don't, the only mirrorless cam I have played with that does this. No mic input on the NX500 also. Preamps on the NX1 are great, head and shoulders better than Canon. Autofocus seems about the same between the two cams. It's no dual-pixel, but very reliable during talking heads, interviews, that kind of thing, and I use it on a gimbal without a problem. I actually like the EVF much better on the NX1 than the Sony cameras, and the screen is way, way better as well. Sony screens and EVFs seem very mushy and soft to me, and peaking is basically useless. The NX1 is far superior in that regard. I've never used a Fuji camera, so I can't comment there. As Mountneer said above, the hack doesn't change rolling shutter at all. My favorite features are the bitrate hack of course, and allowing silent shutter on the NX500, which makes it rule as small, portable timelapse camera. The ergonomics of both cameras, but especially the NX1, are just fantastic. Clear, easy to use menu system, comfortable in the hand-- I just can't give them up. I've been playing around with a GH5 at work quite a bit lately, and it's a cool camera, but... I still like my NX1 more! Good luck!

Ehh, to be honest, this post is a bit misleading, you really don't need top-of-the-line hardware for h.265 editing at all. My humble little machine is an ancient (by computer standards) Sandy Bridge-era i7-2600, 16gb of ram and a lowly little GTX 750 Ti, and my PC has no trouble at all cutting h.265 4k in full resolution on my 1080 monitor. Even adding luts doesn't really slow it down a tremendous amount. If I have to add a ton of stuff in the edit, especially speeding up duration, etc., then sure, I have to use proxies, but really, no need at all to break the bank for HEVC editing.

I see a lot of people mention this "exposure drifting" in NX threads -- but other than auto screen brightness levels changing which confused me once -- I have never experienced this issue. Occasionally on either the NX1 or the NX500 I will get some kind of bug where my actual exposure is much darker than what the settings should provide, but a quick restart always fixes this, and it happens very rarely and has never ruined any footage, just a photo or two. I don't think it's the "smart range" thing that causes this either (Did we ever reach a consensus on what that actually does? A while back in the ideal NX settings thread I remember some user saw an increase in dynamic range with it turned on.) Anyway, if this issue really exists, it must be copy-to-copy, and neither of my cams (thankfully) suffer from it.

I've mentioned this before in other similar threads, but a few years back I did pretty exhaustive vari-ND research and eventually settled on the SLR Magic one others have mentioned. It's fantastic. No discernible cast of any kind, no X-patterns, no vignetting on wide angles, hard stops on either end so it doesn't just keep spinning all the way around, it's really just about perfect. The other one I had been looking at at the time was a genustech, but we have one at work now and it's kind of a pain to use and I like the SLR Magic much better (I have the original version, before they added the additional twisting polarizer thing on the front). But I just combined it with Xume magnetic filter holders so I can stick it on any lens I own in half a second, works fantastically.

I wouldn't worry Juxx, looks like Luca is still busily at work, thank goodness.

Just gonna leave this here, I saw this video earlier today and it seems relevant: http://www.diyphotography.net/make-ultra-lightweight-giant-scrims-diffusion-gels/

If anything, I'd expect some Super! Exciting! New! 1-inch sensor! mirrorless cam announcements from Nikon that nobody wants and nobody will buy. Then again, Nikon has revealed time and time again that they only really care about what Canon is doing, so maybe they go all out and try to rival the marvelous *cough* EOS M, since Canon is doing so well with those, right? I'm afraid they're not going to make it, which, sadly, will let Canon become even more dinosaur with their pricing and innovation without a direct DSLR competitor on the market. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see an awesome video-centric mirrorless Nikon just like the rest of you would, but I just don't think the video enthousiast market is big enough for these companies to bother with--or turn much of a profit on. We would all buy it, yes, but us camera/video/hybrid/mirrorless nerds are definitely not the most common demographic. Look at Canon, who happily ignores our pleas and survives and thrives with the intro-DSLR market, soccer moms and high school kids who go into Sam's Club or Best Buy and want to buy a "real camera". Most of the time the 18-55mm kit lens is the only one they ever use, and eventually it collects dust. Canon doesn't care, because that's their bread and butter! If Nikon is really planning to axe their lower-end camera lines, I just don't see that being a good move business-wise. Sure, there is higher mark-up and higher return on prosumer bodies, but also way less sales. Too little, too late, I'm afraid.

Rokinon 12mm f/2 in NX mount, it's the lens I have on my NX500 90% of the time.

Yeah I was rather taken with the idea after a number of users posted on here about the Redrock Retroflex rig a while back. That particular product is obscenely expensive for what it offers, so I thought I would make my own, but again, I only used it a few times. Definitely way more stable than just regular handheld with such a tiny cam, and you certainly feel legit.

Yeah I have one of the cheap magnet ones for my NX500, but I rarely used it and eventually it did fall off. It was just kind of clunky and big to bring with me all the time, I like the nx500 for its pocketable portability, and hacked silent shutter. It's lack of an evf is the cam's biggest downside. The loupe was cool the one or two times I used it though, just for fun I combined it with a pistol grip handle on the bottom of the camera for a kind of hipstermatic/cinema verite rig, but I never really used it that much. I never bothered with one for the Nx1 just because of the EVF, never felt like I needed one.

Moonlight was absolutely gorgeous color-wise, what a fantastic grade that movie has. La La Land will be tough to beat though, marvelous-looking movie. But what about Lion? I really liked the movie (though I wasn't as blown away by its cinematography as some of the other nominations) but it did, surprisingly, take home the ASC cinematography prize this year, which is normally pretty telling. It'll be interesting to see how it all pans out.

Of course there will always be another pot of gold at the end of the future-camera rainbow (at this point we're all hopelessly addicted to that future-gear wonder, hope, and speculation anyway, else sites like this would not exist) but for my needs, at least right now, thick color, clean 3200, and decent high frame rates in an affordable mirrorless cam is really all I need, and the GH5 looks to check all of those boxes rather excellently. It won't be a day-one purchase for me or anything, I'm pretty happy with my current gear, and I'll at least wait until the promised summer firmware upgrades are out, but still, exciting times!

Well one thing I've noticed is that if my bitrate is too high I won't actually be getting 120p, the frame rate fluctuates down, sometimes I'll be getting like 116 fps, sometimes 109, etc. These are what show up as the framerate right in the information of the image in premiere, finder info etc. To be honest though, in my opinion anyway, it doesn't really seem to negatively affect the footage. I generally don't have my bitrate set that crazy high anyway, I usually shoot with 180mpbs in 4k and 160 in hfr fhd

Personally, I can't stand OS X. I've never understood why most creatives seem to prefer it as an operating system. Why?! Granted, I grew up using Windows and worked in IT for a couple years, so I'd venture to guess I'm probably more of a power-user than the average, everyday person, but still, just in things like ease-of-use, customization, more advanced program management and multi-tasking, I'd take windows every time, hands down. In fact, the only reason I can possibly think of using an apple computer or their OS -- ever -- is if you're a fcpx user, since hackintosh is such a pain to get reliably running. Maybe there is some special secret to loving OS X, but if there is, I certainly haven't discovered it yet.

@wolf33d Do you know if that footage was shot with the recently updated Log profile? I just saw this video earlier this week, which supposedly fixed the crappy log of the previous mavic firmware:

Funny that you're asking about this technique, I was just barely reading about it, browsing reddit earlier today some dude shot a cool little John Wick-like action piece in his apartment by himself, rocked a little snorricam, someone linked to this video in the comments, obviously pretty DIY, but maybe good enough to at least get some test shots.

The Rokinon 12mm f/2 is a great lens, very small and light, I've used it on a GH4 quite a bit and liked it. Recently I've also seen some test footage from Laowa's new 7.5mm f/2 which looks very impressive, and definitely solves "the wide-angle issue" of micro 4/3. EDIT: Well, I should have read the post better, you say you don't like the exaggerated look of those ultra wide angles, my bad! Best of luck and happy shopping.

@Gregormannschaft I have used the crane with an a7sII and a Nikkor 28mm AIS lens quite a bit, without any problems, and gotten some pretty awesome results. The extra stability from the IBIS definitely provides a smoother look than with my NX cameras for example. You can still see the screen pretty good too, just tilted up a bit, so it's not like you're flying blind.

I hate to be "the NX1 guy" in this thread ha (I'm actually suprised none of the usual suspects have piped up yet)... But it might be worth looking into the NX1, or the even cheaper NX500 for that matter, both produce lovely, sharp 60p (and gorgeous 120p as well!) with minimal moire/aliasing, crazy low rolling shutter, and decent enough lowlight performance with a fast lens, which you're obviously interested in, i.e. shallow dof, or you wouldn't care so much about sensor size. I have no idea what they'd go for down under, but there are lots of gently used ones around for pennies. Our very own forum member Lucabutera is selling some awesome NX-L speedboosters that he has crafted as well, I have one, which gives the camera about a 1.1x crop. Seems like it'd fit your parameters pretty spectacularly. Best of luck!

@mercer I used to have a 70D that I used with ML, including on some paid projects. Lenses with IS work just fine with raw recording, either MLV or the older RAW files, there's no difference. I never noticed any battery issues either, seemed the same to me, and yes, aperture priority would work just fine. Basically, magically lantern doesn't prevent you from doing anything the camera already does normally. Granted, this was a couple of years ago that I was using it, they were nightly builds right after the 70D port was released, I sold the camera shortly thereafter, but if you have to use a canon dslr, ML is the only thing that makes it remotely tolerable to use in my opinion, especially the peaking, zebras, audio meters, and built in time lapse functions. Raw with sexy dual pixel af is definitely pretty sweet tho! Best of luck.