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10 hours ago, Martin Rieder said:

So if I use a grey card to WB with the eoshd settings, do I then still do the B2M2 adjustments?

1) Set all three Custom WB profiles with the same B2M2 settings - these are saved forever until you make changes to those specific values

2) Shoot grey card

3) Enter that Kelvin value into any of the three Custom WB profiles.

Most values are never far away from 3200 / 5600 / 7000 so if you want to be in the ballpark to begin with then just do as advised in the PDF.

You could have the second and third profiles set to 3200 and 7000 then use the first one as an 'exact' white balance according to the scene you are shooting currently when using a grey card.

A note to those, like me, who always went auto WB - it takes time to build a bit of muscle memory for when shooting greatly diverse scenes and having to remember to change between Custom WB profiles. I have gone from 3200 indoors, dashed outside into searing sunshine to catch the bride, and nearly called an ambulance because she looked on the verge of dying.

On 5/1/2017 at 5:31 PM, Stefan Antonescu said:

Battery life is 26 hours. Even if it's only half in real life, I think it's plenty for most users.

The battery life on my Beholder DS1 is 9000 hours switched off. I am impressed that the batteries have yet to leak and finish the pile of crap off for good. Wasn't there a myriad of problems with the original Pilot that did not come to light until after the initial showboating videos?

Loads of tutorials on YouTube.

22 hours ago, Ken Ross said:

Well I can tell you that shot of the bear toward the end is precisely the same shot I've tried with both the A7Rii and A6300 (same exhibit, same bear). Both held focus for about 2-3 seconds, despite their PDAF. I'm not sure if the bear's dark fur presents a difficult task, but I was able to hold focus longer with the GH5 than the PDAF of the Sonys. Go figure. 

As for the micro vibration, I was shooting at close to a 400mm FL (FF equivalent) for many of these shots. I was at the max of the lens plus I used the lossless 1.4 ETC of the camera. The birds were relatively far away. So yeah, without being locked down, I can see a bit of micro vibration in some of these long shots. If you think that's bad, you should see similar shots with Sony's IBIS. This is far far better. I'm actually quite happy being able to hand hold at these focal lengths with just that amount of movement. Coming from Sony's IBIS, this is a delight.  Just remember that no IBIS will create a locked down look at focal lengths like these.

140mm (280eq) on my GX80 is miles ahead stability wise than the 200mm f4 on my A7sii - different planet altogether. 

1 hour ago, Emanuel said:

 

This is suffering form the Sony zombie look, which (appropriately so) is most apparent at night - those skin tones need the EOSHD Pro Color treatment

Agree about the stealthiness. Tested it on my hip today, pointing to the side and pretending to film something else in front of me with an even less intrusive looking camera. There are times during street protests when it kicks off and looking away from the action whilst filming it is the way to go.

28mm FF equivalent at f11 with that small sensor is a decent angle of view and a huge amount of depth of field. Practically everything was in focus when I got my test home - with tripod quality stability.

I bought the GX80 almost exclusively to be used with the 14-140ii for street scenarios and even at 140mm it looks like a non threatening toy. Bloody love this camera.

1 hour ago, webrunner5 said:

Well if say you are doing a commercial for a Jewelry Store I would think taking video of Diamond Rings you might even want to turn it up. People just don't use video cameras all the time to get a Film look. It is, well it is a tool to make money with at times, or just for fun.

I don't think I would want to shoot my young children, when they are growing up, looking like a 50's movie with sharpness turned all the way down! I think your wife might not be too happy with that 10 years later!

And now since the GH5 does 3D LuTs I would think you can make it look like anything you want with practice.

Same with insect macro.

1 hour ago, Mattias Burling said:

Switching from Premiere CC/Resolve to FCPX is the best decision I ever made. Over the last year I must have saved at least six months in editing and render times

(Btw, today I downloaded a 30 day trial of Capture One Pro 10. Took me about 20 minutes to realize that it's time to dump Lightroom as well. So, "Buy buy Adobe. Loved you from CS5 to CC but you have lost the mojo.")

 

Capture One is excellent. I use FCPX and love its simplicity but needed a RAW editor for my Sony pics. Affinity (which I also have) didn't support Sony RAW - though they do now - so I ended up buying Capture One and love it.

Pity there are so few tutorials on YouTube but there is a German guy who shows its full capabilities and he's going to be doing some in English some time in the near future.

Amazing that nobody thought of that before - or the next obvious thing staring us in the faces that none of us can see.

Loads far more efficiently on my mobile now for some unknown technical reason

15 minutes ago, Geoff CB said:

Same, especially because it's supposed to have long battery life and can power my A7r II. Will be great to use one large battery instead of separate batteries for my camera and monitor. It's been a huge PITA dealing with the A7r II's battery life on shoots.

Forgot about the battery bonus

1 hour ago, Emanuel said:

Add a few hundred bucks and you can add an external recorder instead...

I just fancy the monitor. I looked at the BMA a few months ago but couldn't justify it for my needs. £400 for a bright, lightweight five inch monitor with waveform and focus assist is what I am considering as it looks handy for macro video with its articulating arm. Bit of a nightmare using the screens on my Sonys in bright sunshine and my recent GX80 is even worse. Squinting through the EVF whilst lying prostate is equally impractical.

I'll be waiting on thorough reviews first, though. The low price has made me suspicious.

Small HD 5" monitor caught my attention. I am not in the market for any camera bodies or lenses, mind.

6 hours ago, Dunjoye said:

Nice colors too

I forgot to look because I wanted to check the autofocus. I guess the absence of noticing any bad colours is the same thing.

What to expect? Autofocus as good as this will be nice:

45 minutes ago, mickachiste said:

ok guys, I just want to have your opinions. I am coming back from a long trip in Indonesia where I used the GX85 for filming mainly surfing. I have to recon that I had in trouble a lot a time with the focus. When using the 50p, I had many non usable footages. Like it was impossible to get it properly ! But when using the 4k, everything was ok... Is it my camera ?

For most of the footages, this happens with nice sunny conditions... Any idea ?

I only shoot 4K and like you, have had no problems. I won't be using 50p on this camera because it is 'job specific', so cannot help you.

There will be hundreds having problems and talking about them on various forums if there isn't a problem with your camera or technique.

I can't see anything online, apart from this thread.

I like the look of this. Ships in June, reviewed to death by August, decision imminent September.

Started with a mobile, then a Panny TZ30 and for two years the wonderful Panny FZ200 - everything on auto for a year because I enjoyed capturing and editing, not knowing or caring for exposure or colour or audio.

If it isn't fun, it won't matter what you use. Technical stuff can sap the life out of some people (like me) but can inspire others. 

So advising newcomers as to what camera to buy is not an exact science.

18 minutes ago, Hanriverprod said:

 

Stunning, though I cannot fully appreciate it as I don't have a high contrast monitor - let alone a series of them.

17 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

 

Wow the audio on the bigger guy in the stripped shirt, well what can I say. Total fail. What the hell.

Levels too high. But yes, great moire test.

On 19/04/2017 at 6:27 AM, jase said:

Well, I used the extra E-stabilizer in this video here entirely and I did not notice any disadvantage except the crop:

 

Worked it out now, but getting consistently better results (given my ergonomics) when switching E-stabiliser off.

Incidentally, I love that Natural -5 -5 -5 -5 look having tried it out the other day. I am toying with the idea of getting a Tiffen Ultra contrast 3 filter but there aren't many examples (besides yours) or reviews out there.

9 minutes ago, jonpais said:

That's exactly how I shoot with my G85 - dial focus assist to 10X, go into the menus, AFF/AFS, select AFS, then use AF lock for just about everything. Or tap to focus on the image app. Last night though, the app kept freezing on me, not sure why. This morning, all seems fine again.

I've heard that the Panasonic apps are quite good. Once I have a fair bit of footage in the can (building muscle memory and seeing what I can get away with in post using Natural / -5 everything) I'll look into them.

38 minutes ago, sgreszcz said:

Yeah, that's how I use my GX80s.  I love my Voigtlanders, but miss the AF-S insurance when I use them.  Still really thinking of consolidating my lenses to a few Panasonic primes and a couple of zooms.

12-35/2.8 + 35-100/2.8 for outdoor events

12/1.4 + 42.5/1.2 for low-light/indoors (will keep Olympus 75/1.8 for range)

15/1.7 + 42.5/1.7 for travel.

I have my A7sii and A7s for low light work but the autofocus on them is terrible for riots and other such fast moving and unpredictable events.

I really needed cheap 4K, one lens solution, smaller sensor for greater depth of field, better autofocus, easy manual focus (so a bridge was out), small and light camera and under £1,000 because it will get damaged eventually with the kind of things I'll be filming this next two years.

Having said that, I must discipline myself not to chase after some of those lenses on your list or I'll end up with a GH5 which I really don't need.

Edit: And top notch stabilisation - that was the clincher. To shoot 280mm (FF equivalent) without looking like I needed a shot of morphine, is something else.

Just set my GX80 up as single point, smallest box, back button focus - nice and snappy when shooting video (even in low light) with a 14-140ii.

The GH5 should be equally as fast if you avoid all this complicated fannying about with settings nobody really understands.

Edit: AF-S and not AF-C 

On 12/04/2017 at 5:02 AM, Trek of Joy said:

Had the DS1 and couldn't stop it from drifting to the left (common problem, google it) despite spending countless hours trying to get it sorted. Took a big hit selling it used because they wouldn't replace an obviously defective unit. Beholder is dead to me.

Cheers.

Same here. Absolute shambles of a company.