SuperSet

PS. Under appreciated LUTs. I just tried your Panasonic VLog LUTs and they look great.

Those grades look great. I'm a little unclear on which ones are the FLog + external recorder vs ProNegStd?

How does this end?

1. Camera stays as it is and everyone just goes MF or just uses touch focus. This is my guess given Panasonic's statement about '95% of reported issues are user error'.

2. Panasonic issues a fix. I would be surprised if this happens but Panasonic did leave an out with that last sentence about pledging to make improvements to the AF.

Panasonic's Matt Frazer is gonna be a busy dude at NAB next week.

So, 1 area AF for 24p, 30p or 60p?  Not sure why they chopped it into 2 sentences there.

2 hours ago, DBounce said:

I wouldn't recommend it. This is definitely a two handed affair weighing what it does. It works well on the Helix Jr. But handheld is viable with  an LCD eyepiece. Of course this does mean resorting to manual focus sometimes... it stills seems funny saying that.

Ok, Helix Jr it is then. Thank you for your input.

Hey fellas - Sorry about bumping this old post but was wondering if anyone used this on a pistol grip gimbal?  With the 24-70 lens, is it too heavy or will it work?

2 hours ago, Ken Ross said:

I guess he and I got the only good ones.

Seriously, if only people would learn how to use these, they ARE capable of good AF. And yes, many of his clips in many of his videos with other cameras are badly out of focus...and that includes Sonys. I thought this was actually one of the better ones. Oh the irony, oh the irony.

On a related note, I had gotten a request from PhotoJoe for my AF settings (he had seen my videos that try to mirror Max's tests), but I got the request too late for his shootout with Max. I tried to respond on his website as he requested, but I'm not even sure it went though. 

 

Someone posted a link to that Autofocus Fix on the last page and if you click on that video, ironically, the top comment is from Casey Neistat. I'm just guessing that he might have followed that guy's advice which was to ... once you achieve focus, switch it to MF.

#FocusGate #NotFastSoFurious #TooCloseForMissilesSwitchingToGuns

It's not censorship when someone doesn't want to pay you for your opinion. 

YouTube party over? Parties weren't meant to last. 

With all the Auto Focus videos flying around, I'm not sure which one are the fake news

11 minutes ago, Ken Ross said:

Thanks webrunner, I agree. It was actually the GH5 and I was trying to duplicate, as close as I could, the terrible failures Max had doing the same shots. I really find it hard to believe the 14-140 lens has that much better AF, if any. 

FWIW, the autofocus performed better on my GH4 with the 14-140mm than my 12-35mm.

Wonder if it's lens related as I also read Lee Macreaths post about his lackluster autofocus performance, also using the 12-35 lens. 

Well, that settles that. 

1 hour ago, fuzzynormal said:

Just a general question to all:  how important is AF on these cameras to you?  I mean, I truly never use it.  Why does it matter to y'all in a practical motion-picture-shooting way?  Just seriously curious about the people that find it a huge benefit.  I admit I'm a little blind in this area as I'm an old-school manual focus guy simply because my era demanded it.

If you're shooting solo or flying on a gimbal, autofocus is very useful

Autofocus can be extremely helpful when you're running on a gimbal or filming solo for Vlogging.

What's the workflow like for this latest iteration?

Looked at some more AF videos and still confused on whether it sucks or not..

Just watched Max Yuryev's GH5 video and the autofocus performance did not impress me at all. Disappointing.

Anyone seen any more downloadable VLog footage outside of Luke Neumann's earlier ones?

Ok, great, thanks much!

I have an extra NX1 and 16-50 that I've been thinking about selling. But.. don't know how much I should ask or what is the best method (ebay, craigslist, forum)?  Any advice appreciated.

I'd like to hear Luke Neumann's take on that Cinema5d article

The image coming out of that 12-60mm lens is a lot nicer than I thought. And it's a very useful focal range too.