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It is not out yet , we do not know a thing about its performance, definitely I am looking for something more convenient than a Crane V2, smaller than a Crave 2 and more reliable -with better support - than a Moza. Maybe this will do it. I am delaying a buy for a whole year now.

Suddenly all the Canon C, all the Canon dSLRs and mirrorless, all the Nikon cameras ever created, all the Fuji's, all the JVC's, most of Sony and Panasonic until a year or 2 ago, all the cam corders and the cinema cameras, suddenly are useless, because they do not have IBIS, and do not shot on 12800ISO.. I shake my head in disbelief.

I have an NX1 operating in Canada for a couple of years (in heavy snow and sub zero temperatures most of the time), and being my crash-cam for a whole year now and it is working flawleslly (a lot of salt water on it, and the occasional rain). The exterior plastic has started to reducing in width, but no problems whatsoever. My "good" NX1 is like new even after a few years of heavy use as my A cam.

Go full M.

I would definitely pay a 20% DJI premium over the other brands. With that said, there is a Crane V2 mkII in town! http://www.zhiyun-tech.com/crane_plus_en/

@eleison Age has nothing to do with the perception of culture. Age can be an advantage if one have spend his years (semi-)wisely because has better knowledge and understanding of cultural trends through history, so can compare, and excercise his hard-acquired criticial judgement. Junk is just junk, you just have a whole junkyard on your screen right now. Through history there was (and is) a lot of garbage produced, we just tend to forget that for every masterpiece ever written, were billions of useless pages (or paper, or papyrous, or clay) of npt important stuff. Obviously this is going to lead somewhere, but current productions are just not very important right now, content wise. Time is a limited comodity, especially in this time in history, and watching a Jackass influenced video by a jackass (and I do not mean the animal) doesn't make it the future, and doesn't make worth watching, usually. In the time one needs to read "The Kentucky Dervy is Decadent and Depraved" can watch a couple Casey Neistat videos. I know what I would choose.

@eleison God eleison imas! Have you even read Hunter S. Thompson?! PiewPieDie is his equivalent in vlogging world? "Eyewitness to history" by John Carey is a great reportage book -from Greco-Roman culture to the 80's, I didn't see any resemblance with any vloger I ever watched.

Since when Vlogging became an essential watch? I do not watch, or care, for vloggers, or whatever they called, but I am very well informed with media and social culture. I have seen a few (3 or 4) Neistat videos, and a PewDiePie video of The Last of Us gameplay, just to see those persons. Never heard of the others mentioned here. All these videos produced are just digital noise. Next (current) generations will have issues with their critical judgement. Like always, there will be millions of junk, and a few master pieces, PewDiePie WON'T be the Aristoteles of the 21st century. The new Black Mirror season has a few episodes on those subject matters.

To be fair, because I saw somewhere else mentioning the C100mkII pricing, the price is with an Atomos Ninja INCLUDED in the price. For a lot of people that's all they need. C100's video quality has nothing to do with the underwhelming Canon dSLRs image quality. I remember back in 2015, when the NX500 was out, a 700$ kit camera (with one of the best 16-50pz kit lenses), and still one of the smallest and lightest APS-C ILCs, the press crucified it because of the 4K crop. 3 years later Canon and Nikon can not solve the puzzle on bigger and heavier dSLRs.

It isn't for sale, it isn't ready yet. They have difficulties with Apple's operating system. They say that Android version and hardware is ready, but nothing is certain with KS.

I hope Sachtler Flowtech will be my next one. Cheap tripods are not an option. If you try, let us know!

Not even C200 has a 10bit codec. Panasonic is pushing the envelope, and well done, but that doesn't mean that 10 bit unlimited-bitrate codecs or raw (and their extra needs in data space and processing power, and advanced -and expensive- workflows) is a necessity for everyone (or most). Personally, I am investing in other equipment right now. I will re-access the market after I have seen all the players and most of the trends. HDR is definitely one (and 10bit is part of it) but we are a couple of years away, from being a couple of years away, from it being a delivery standard.

So far Santa brought me.. 3 additional Sony D11/D16 wireless kits SmallHD Focus Panasonic bundle Audio Technica 4025 stereo microphone, big capsules Sennheiser MKE440, a mild upgrade in Samsung SSDs and a new coffee maker!

If Canon had slow motion on their cheap dSLRs, would be like this! and probably that is why they do not have, because indeed, it could be looking like this. There are 2 things that may change things though, Youtube compression is just terrible in your case (for some other reason than camera footage), and slow motion falls apart in higher ISO. Test more, without your son, daytime, go to a skate park, or do some slow mo of your friends playing basketball, or someone cycling etc Only you can be the judge of your own projects.

I am coming back to comment on the Focus monitor. So far is being excellent judging focus, and framing. I have only done a few tests, as I haven't any camera work at the time, but my opinion is very positive so far. I wish there was a double tap - magnification option, instead of the 2 fingers action, it could be faster and move the camera less. I wish it said there was a screen protector included, as I bought and installed an extra one (for 23euros! crazy expensive for what it is) and then I discovered the included one under everything!

@elgabogomez Lovely kid, terrible video quality. For me, both video modes are unusable. Actually I am shocked as how bad they are. I was cleaning my hard drives last night, and saw some footage I had for a documentary I was shooting a year ago with my NX1 (people with kinetic problems dancing, and sword fencing) and that slow mo footage (not perfect of course, and no good lighting unfortunately) played in film festivals alright.

It is not that simple as having a couple of XLR inputs on a camera, and writing a script is easier, just imagine the databanks of written material already. Google has an interactive library and experimenting with AI for a few years now. Also, you have that on a GH5 already, and a couple of friends mess that up, recently. To replace a sound division you need a robot that has to adjust the mic(s) in position, gain, move fast to one sound source (or person) to the other- and silently, put wireless mics to actors as backup - or primary sound gathering, have algorithms that can judge how to place the mics and how to move them while in action, a myriad acoustic measurements (most of those are the easy part, really), critical judgment if a take is right, or not, and thousands other things. I am pretty confident that sound for video will be one of the last things that robots will do and it is pretty obvious that sound for video will be the last thing you could/would do on a set. But of course we will see.

Pot player seems to work the best here, less temperatures, less rpm. For editing laptops, that heat is a premium, it would be ideal. I, too use Media Player Classic and Pot player.

Congrats for your new equipment! Excellent choices and future proof (for the middle term at least). The Mixpre6 is a bonus, and it is a no brainer. In my opinion the best low cost recorder for most people (I am eying the 10t myself, but I bought a lot of equipment, and I will slow down for a while!). It could be a better deal than the wireless, because you can connect anything to it. Not many tips really, the Mixpre has excellent analog preamps with analog limiter/compression capabilities, so you are a couple of steps ahead of the usual Zoom/Tascam crowd! The AUTO search of Sony is stellar (it works 99% of the time), and be careful of the ATTenuation setting on the transmitter (I usually have it on -6), and the gain on the receiver (better play it safer there, as you do not want to overload the mic capsule before your signal passes through the excellent analog circuits of the Sound Devices). Just play it safe, you can give some dB gain on post easily!

Recording sound for video is exactly the same the last 30 years (I am working as a sound man the last 20 of them). Only big difference I am aware of (and I am going half a century back to make it count) is the wider use of wireless systems. 416, a 70s design, is still my workhorse, and a lot of people's also. What you need, now and then, is physics (acoustics) and a lot of experience. Nothing is going to change the next 5 years. At least not as much as in sight/image. My hi fi system is from the 90s, there is absolutely 0(zero) reasons for me to upgrade. To the contrary, in the generation of bluetooth speakers and listening music from tiny ear buds, my hi fi is even more impressive (acoustically). Do you know how many TV sets and image players have me and my family changed since then?

sorry, but better cameras mean better image, not better sound. Even "better pre amps", better microphones, and better recorders, do not mean better sound. That kid, or anyone, could always do something amazing with 300$. I still have my super 8 slicer, film stock on the fridge, and a couple very good cameras. That kid, or anyone, could have done amazing things with all these.

I had the same fear that @Trek of Joy has, that a newer camera eventually would replace my camera on a manufacturers line. So I got 2 NX1 and 1 NX500. No better NX camera, ever!

Very bad marketing from Panasonic, not something they do. As of the size/weight, something very important for me, when choosing a small camera. Nikon D750 Dimensions (W x H x D)5.5 x 4.4 x 3.1" / 140.5 x 113.0 x 78.0 mm Weight1.650 lbs / 750 g GH5 Dimensions:5.5 x 3.9 x 3.4 in. (139 x 98 x 87 mm) Weight:25.6 oz (725 g) A7Riii Dimensions:5.0 x 3.8 x 2.9 in.(127 x 96 x 74 mm)Weight:23.2 oz (657 g) Samsung NX1 Dimensions:5.5 x 4.0 x 2.6 in.(139 x 102 x 66 mm) Weight: 19.5 oz (550 g) Canon 7DmkII Dimensions:5.9 x 4.4 x 3.1 in.(149 x 112 x 78 mm) Weight2.002 lbs / 910 g My humble opinion is that NX1 nailed it for an APS-C pro mirrorless body, and Nikon for a full frame dSLR. The rest are even too big/heavy for their sensor (and native lenses), and others too small/light (yes, having a very small and light full frame camera isn't ergonomically right for bigger and heavier lenses). GH5 has the smallest sensor, but is the heaviest mirrorless there is. D750, being a full frame dSLR, has almost the same volume as the GH5. Adding an adapter there, you add more weight and size, worst AF (if, at all), no native lenses and obviously aditional cost. Canon needs to step up their game, fast. Who is going to buy the 7D in 2018? and even if the 7D mark III arrives in 2018, in no way will have the same codec as the C200, a camera that costs 3-4 times the 7DmkIII price. We all know how Canon plays the game. Canonikon have to realize mirrorless is the future (present and past, for most of us).

So, what was the announcement then?

If I have used the GH5 for a few tv episodes already, on a whole season of a TV show (I did sound there) and a couple of other projects, and every time, I go back to my NX cameras with a smile on my face. GH5 is what I recommend to most people right now, but I still waiting for my next system to come. I have a sense it could be a Canon pro mirrorless, or the "new" Nikon. Fuji is near, but not yet, and maybe never. I resisted the GH4, and I am glad I did, now I am expecting something different than the common sense that GH5 is. There is already another Panasonic camera on the horizon, maybe GH5 is old news already (look at a couple of threads in this very forum, and dozens more in other forums). I am pro S35 and APS-C. There is no end to anything.