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2 hours ago, Fritz Pierre said:

More GH5 revealed!

 

 

She should have gone the broadsword way to compete with RED's gladius :D . I'd say nice video and It shows the budget difference between shooting with a RED and a GH5. Even to the point of choosing a similar music to Reznor's style. I'd say between 65-75% there, good enough for me.

7 minutes ago, mercer said:

I just finished watching the first season of Taboo and I am surprised how much cinematography is going into these new shows. TV are almost exceeding movies nowadays. 

I think good TV has surpassed movies in 90% of the cases. when you count the quality vs. speed vs budget is incredible what the teams can achieve. A lot of them would look great on a big screen. IntoTB is a great show and I'm looking forward for the new season!

Glad I waited. Now a laptop and a PC with Ryzen, and who knows maybe even Vega, for Resolve looks  -a lot- more cost effective than staying mac and FCPX. 

4 hours ago, jonpais said:

+1 Very enjoyable video, nice colors, great location and all. But... this is hardly definitive. First of all, Panasonic's AF-C works best with contrasty subjects, and the woman wearing the white coat at the beginning of the video, and Kai's nutty hat  are easy pickings for the camera's AF system. When I did my own tests of the GH4 with the Zhiyun Crane, when circling the subject, the three year-old camera had no problem maintaining focus, even with a longer focal length, if the subject had so much as a spot of sunshine in her hair. it also worked well if the subject was wearing a black and white blouse, jewelry or sunglasses. Then, we're talking about wide angle in these shots, so the focus won't be so critical. Lastly, this video has been edited (it's 2-1/2 minutes long), and I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but just like reviews we are always complaining about that bury the bad stuff in a couple sentences among heaps of praise, these results can hardly be called conclusive. 

God, you're right, I didn't even realised about the hat, but the bit at the beginning with the hands and the heads wasn't that bad either. I'm sure it will be better, maybe not at dual pixel level. One thing I did see is no focus hunting back and forth, so there's still hope.

Does anybody know if the AF gets affected by the V-Log stuff? With the possibility of adding a LUT maybe we can apply a contrasty one and help it a little bit, or at least in manual focus mode. As in Focus LUT 

Finally! Not bad at all!

dual SD cards with backup; you can't risk a card failure in a wedding. That alone is enough for me but... No risk of overheating, no 30 mins limit, an everlasting battery and the simple reality of having a proper Panasonic battery grip that Sony has never produced for their apsc line. 3600 ISO with a 1.4 lens is more than enough low light for me, if 6400 is mostly clean I won't need anything else. I'm just waiting for the AF-C performance when the need rises, as tracking in a gimbal or a one man band interview that can't always check the focus is the biggest win Sony has over Pana.

I have an actual photo of a Sony engineer testing the A7SIII E.F in beta mode.

Here's a Sony engineer running away from the scene after testing the 4k60p. The battery was short lived and went brightly nuclear shortly after, that's why they call it Elephant's Foot.

Jokes apart (although Chernobyl is no joke), I love, love, love my RX10II but I rather complement it with a GH5 than a small battery, 30 mins limited, tilty screen and who knows what limitations more, one SD card a7siii. 

I subscribe to your post. Anybody can shot with a RED and make a bad movie so I'd like to see examples of the opposite too. 

three minutes of pure cinematic, narrative, acting, conflict gold. I love this film. At least they finished, it's in youtube and has more than half a million views in this iteration. It's humbling. Horrible, fun and humbling.

Gotta say, Andrew, that sound or not sound you're going to make my RX10II shine. That looks impressive!

2 hours ago, Xavier Plágaro Mussard said:

Programs must be used in english. It's a limit that helps everyone!

You forgot the /Irony. I'm sure chinese  and russians agree with you .

1 hour ago, Axel said:

Not fixed then. I noticed a few months ago that I couldn't map the 'Magic Keyboard' (german version) to FCP X shortcuts (left bracket, right bracket etc. become Umlaute- äöüß). Wrote to Apple, but there is no solution other than buying a traditional keyboard or use FCP X in english.

The translation to german is flawed. In FCP 7, they didn't translate the important stuff like Browser, Viewer, Canvas, Playhead and Timeline. No one knows what the german word for browser would be anyway. In 10.3, it became worse. Originally, they had translated roles ('Rollen' in german) to Funktionen (functions). Because a term of analog film, reel, translates to Rolle as well. Now they call it Funktion in some places, Rolle in others. Very confusing, particularly for newbies.

You are completely right; it's not fixed in reality and Apple won't do anything if at all until the next update that can take months. Let's hope they do something about it.

Fixed. It's a bug based on language. I changed it to english and worked without issue. Loving it now. In fact I love FCPX so much I feel stuck with Mac but the update put the -bug- of PCs buzzing in my ear and that razer blade, Razer Core and Resolve look mighty interesting. hmmmmm! Lately I'm reading reviews of people who are using it more and more like Biscardi or Marco Solorio and Youtube is growing a healthy tutorial community.

Sorry to highjack the OP but I think I got bugged. I hope it's just user error but I wanted to know what do you think. Anybody got this before or know how to fix it? Should I bug report it?

4 hours ago, liork said:

4K compilation, I guess it was not shot with flat profile:

And maybe the distortion or loss in sharpening I see in a couple of videos is the E-stabilization activated. But WTH, the rolling shutter is gone, how Olympus managed to do it?

1 hour ago, John Brawley said:

 Let me know if you have any ideas ;-)

JB  

 

 

 

Yes, I was expecting you would get one from the beginning! I hope you get all it's performance. I just have one request and it's to check if there's any improvement in the 1080 50p video side since it's still what I use the most. That and maybe to check if you can shot a video with AF-C at all time; it would be a nice stress test if it's really that good. Hopefully it will be worth the price hike.

Don't think is make or break, There's loads of valuable info here! In my case is make small bets. Never risk your money in one big project if you can't afford to fail. The same for fests, better go to five fun small fests and win friends, contacts and info in chunks than go to a big one and miss the opportunity. Psychologically is better to find a great cheap wine than a bad or normal expensive one. Look this year's star David Sandberg.

53 minutes ago, Tim Sewell said:

No-one is going to read a full screenplay at an early stage so you need that elevator pitch on paper to even have the smallest chance of someone calling you a couple of days after the festival and wanting to chat.

I agree with you 100%. Not even one's parents will read a script without asking first what's about. And before presenting anything I'm a zealous proponent of Blake Snyder's method mixed with a dose of Brian Mcdonald's ink for a couple of last revisions.

Whatever it brings it's leaving Kenon with it's trousers down. The FS7 is barely two years old and already going to be updated with all of Sony's bling? I guess they're thinking if there's a race to the bottom in camera sales, let's be the winners while the rest play with the old rules.

3 hours ago, sanveer said:

I am thinking of picking up one myself. Though I might wait a little causr I hardly get time to do photo and video work, and I have a lot of equipment I still haven't used. MaybeI shoot like crazy for the next couple of weeks to justify buying this.

@sanveer you know you'll do it. The idea is growing inside you!
@Chris Oh thanks, a little fix until the arrival! And looking good!

29 minutes ago, sanveer said:

I saw another (promo) video of the Olympus. It seems to have excellent auto focus for video and superb IBIS (IBIS + OIS). Though Panasonic may not let it have 10-bit internal (that only the GH5 may have). After the release of the RX100v (that supposedly does 24fps with continuous autofocus), 15fps (18 electronic?) with continuous autofocus seems still decent (though not insane anymore).

I am also wondering whether the Dynamic Range has been improved. Overall this seems like the best mirrorless camera for Street and Sports Photography (including ones by Sony).

10-bit is definitely awesome specially with a real Log, but I'd rather have 60p raw for photo and phase instead of DFD and JPEG until otherwise corrected . My problem with the RX100V is that it makes the Olympus not so insane but you have to buy several cameras if you want to do different stuff. Selfie Vlogging RX100, photo-video a6500, dual card oh-no-crap-the-SD-failed-in-the-ceremony system a99II. I guess people will still complain about the small sensor and bigger DOF but all what Oly is offering in one single camera in contrast with all the money you have to spend with Sony makes Olympus look revolutionary!

I should shut up, I'm pumping up myself 

If it finishes being like this with a decent tracking and without the distracting hunt I'm sold. I mean, I'm there already throwing money to the screen, but I must be doing something wrong; still no camera. I can't imagine how the people waiting for the GH5 feel!

4 hours ago, Cinegain said:

It's the resolution I suppose. We paint it red to fit right in!

 

Gotta say I love this song and Daddario is out of this world, radioactive or not.

16 minutes ago, gh2sound said:

The half life of this thread is long lol

As long as a thorium particle radioactive decay :D

2 minutes ago, kidzrevil said:

You think the Olympus will hold up to the xt2 ? Im really hoping so @Mattias Burling

Better ergos, tilty-swively screen, IBIS and a flat profile. For video is a no brainer. For photo I'll be very interested in the final production camera focus speed and tracking ability, that's a tough call against the great XT2. @omega1978 said it wasn't so good, let's hope Oly can fix it.

Rohnfelder is a photographer. I agree with you both @Cinegain and @Mattias Burling, it's shot with standard video settings, I'm sure he hasn't touch the sharpness setting which means, that if this is the standard setting it looks great and he obviously hasn't used the flat profile. Even after all this it looks great. At 00:18 there's a very high end Sony look to the waterfall, I was very surprised.

@Inazuma I haven't try the Fuji, but they have lots of experience with lenses and I'm sure the quality is extraordinary. I'm not worry about the weight coming from FF but performance in the Olympus has to be great even wide open. I know one thing for sure, They've learn how to tweak the settings for the testers. I saw this posted three hours ago