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Max said he recorded 4K 60p indoor for 1 Hour 53 Min until the battery died, without overheading.

Max with a X-T4 vs A7III vs Z6 - IBIS & Video Quality Comparison

3 hours ago, Márcio Kabke Pinheiro said:

-IBIS can go up to 6.5 stops with some of the prime lenses.

Fuji claimed the X-H1 IBIS had up to 5.5 stops. I look forward to seeing how well this works.

Bigger, better, brighter screens. 3" lcd camera screens seem pitiful now that we have 6" oled phone screens that go everywhere with us.

Like Andrew said in his article on the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K: "Now here’s a screen we should have seen on the GH-series of cameras for a LONG time:"


 

5 hours ago, ajay said:

I find this whole CDAF vs PDAF debate rather irritating. Tony Northrup yesterday already was trashing S1/S1R because of Panasonic's perseverance of using CDAF in the new FF system. Really? No one has had hands-on with a production model yet (and won't for some time) and already is claiming that it will have autofocus issues.

The problem is that everyone watches these reviewers on Youtube and repeat on the forums what is the perceived downfalls of a camera before the camera has ever been tested.

Obviously Panasonic has faith in their autofocus system. As others have stated, as faster processors come into play it will come to a point in which autofocus is so fast you won't be able to tell who is using what system to obtain focus. Who cares if it's CDAF or PDAF as long as it works?

 

When the GH4 launched in 2014, Panasonic "obviously" had faith in their autofocus system. Yet when it came to video, the CDAF looked pretty bad compared to the PDAF on the 70D, NX1, and a6000. The GH4 was a fantastic camera, but it was clear back then that Panasonic needed to include PDAF if they wanted to achieve good video autofocus. So in 2017 when the GH5 was realeased, a lot of people were disappointed that PDAF was again missing from the specs. Panasonic "obviously" had faith in their autofocus system, but real world usage found the GH5's "Advanced CDAF" was still not as good as the PDAF in some 3 year old cameras, much less some of the latest models from other manufacturers.

Now in 2018 with Canon, Nikon, Sony and Fuji all producing cams with really good video autofocus using PDAF, I think it's easy to see why critics are disappointed that PDAF will again be missing from Panasonic's next generation of cameras come 2019.

Panasonic's decision to stick with contrast detect AF is disappointing IMO, especially when you consider how good the video autofocus is on the Nikon Z7, the latest Fuji and Sony Cams, and of course Canon's Dual Pixel AF.

36 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said:

AC costs extra in both cars.

A/C is standard equipment on almost every model car sold in the US. Like a radio, it's included on the base model of even cheap cars, because it's 2018.

5 hours ago, MurtlandPhoto said:

Yes it does. Keeping with the car analogy: to the average consumer A/C is a basically a necessary feature in all cars, and we pay for it accordingly. A rear LCD is the camera equivalent of a car A/C: required but we still pay for it. A better car analogy is people wanting 4-wheel drive and a trailer hitch on a Ford Focus. Better buy an F-150.

Maybe not the best analogy. You can get a Ford Focus with All-Wheel-Drive and a trailer hitch. There are of course some capabilities that you physically could not get in a smaller car or in a smaller camera. But there's nothing that prevents Ford from putting AWD on a Focus, and nothing that physically prevents Canon from having 4K video w/ Dual Pixel AF on the M50.

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I'm looking forward to testing the new firmware. Do I have to wait 2 more weeks to get my hands on it?

20 minutes ago, MediaMan said:

My only beef in the 2 day shoot was trying to hold focus when it's on a gimbal/stabilizer. I'm looking forward to testing the tweaked AF. 

I love almost everything about the GH5 except the wonky video autofocus. I'm interested to see how they tweaked it, but since you can't add PDAF through firmware, I'm not expecting any major improvements.

9 minutes ago, omega1978 said:

thanks,

Nx1 normal Gamma 16-235 with MBL 9 sharpness -10 contrast -3  + Lut Rec709.A7S with EOSHD picture Profil .P4 in Cinelike D.

i use a variable Nd Filter on Nx1 with aperture on 4 and set zebra to 100 to avoid clipping highlights.

pilotfly H2 for moving shot and a shoulderig.lenses 16-50s, rokinon 16,35,85. timelapse and bike shots with xiaomi yi4k

This is great. Thanks for sharing. Again, I love what you put together.

Do you mind me asking what Lut you used on the NX1 footage? I'v seen the discussions on using different luts with the NX1, but I haven't had the opportunity to use any myself.

22 hours ago, omega1978 said:

not the only one  NX1 mixed with A7S and Phantom 4 Pro

This looks fantastic. I would love to know more about how you setup your NX1, A7S and Phantom 4 to try and match them up.

This discussion reminds me of an article from a couple years ago titled: Camera Wars: Why Autofocus is the New Megapixel.

16 hours ago, Ken Ross said:

No, absolutely, not, they weren't 'very different' from Max's test for the portion that I did. I did 2 tests that mirrored 2 of his tests (the outdoor test and the 'lens in front of the camera' test. Both of my tests were 100% successful and 100% repeatable and both of his were utter failures. How can you possibly ignore this even if I didn't conduct every single test he did? 

I literally said your test were a 'little different', since you used a different lens, then you quote me as saying 'very different'. You then ask how I can possibly ignore your test result, after I said your autofocus test were helpful. Do you always try so hard to create conflict or just having a bad day? Nobody is ignoring you. You are important too.

3 minutes ago, Ken Ross said:

Max's camera is on par? Really? With what, another broken camera? Despite other videos which show something quite different, including the ones I've posted? There appear to be a couple of folks here that would rather pick one video as representative of the AF and all other videos be damned. It's an interesting thing to watch people ignore what is clearly contradictory evidence.

Your autofocus test were helpful, but they were a little different from Max's weren't they? He was using the 12-35 2.8, and he did a significant amount of indoor testing with his assistant walking toward and away from the camera. I could have missed it if you did the same test, this thread is 86 pages long already.

4 hours ago, Borbarad said:

So much about awful the GH5 AF.........

 

 

Well, its seems their is a nice learning curve in howto.... and then the GH5 does AF

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Even after dialing in settings that he said worked "quite well", the camera still loses focus almost 10 times in less than a minute and a half (12:17-13:30). And this was while conveniently using an external recorder not recording internally, after Max found that the GH5 autofocus worked much better when not recording internally. Joseph now says in the comments he didn't realize this and that he wasn't trying to deceive viewers. So he bashes reviewers like Max for supposedly not taking the time to understand the camera, at the same time that he supposedly doesn't know as much as Max about the camera.

12 minutes ago, zerocool22 said:

I dont think this will be happening, as even the c100 or the c300 dont have RAW. It will surely affect their higher up camera sales, as I know I would be buying a 5d iv instead of the c300 ii.(for my needs)

It was a joke.

2 hours ago, mercer said:

Omg, this is so ridiculous. Don't regret your purchases guys. The GH5 has amazing auto focus...

That CDAF is distracting. Put Canon's Dual Pixel or Sony's a6500 quality PDAF in there and the GH5 would check all my boxes.

12 minutes ago, Neumann Films said:

I didn't really use it since I like MF but it seems to be pretty solid.  Yeah, been working on LUTs for a while.

I know a lot of people use manual focus, but after using Canon Dual Pixel AF and PDAF on the a6500 and NX1, I was really hoping the GH5 would add PDAF and up their game with smooth video autofocus.

Would love a built in variable ND. Now be sure to include a touchscreen and focus tracking (with PDAF) like the a6500.

Disappointing, but I'm not totally surprised that you can't use the touchscreen to control settings or navigate menus.

But you can't use the touchscreen to lock onto the subject for tracking? Seriously?

The rolling shutter on the a6300 is just awful. I really hope there has been some improvement on the a6500.

28 minutes ago, The Chris said:

IBIS and PADF, Panasonic why did you leave them off the GH5? 

Lets hope they didn't leave them off the GH5, just features to be announced at a later date.

7 hours ago, theSUBVERSIVE said:

With what Olympus just announced, I think that Panasonic is working on something to improve AF as well. I'll worry about AF later when they fully announce the GH5 but before that Panasonic does need to address IBIS to the public.

I hope we get surprised with a big autofocus improvement on the GH5. In the meantime, I have my eye on that EM1-mkII.

1 hour ago, wolf33d said:

One of the feature I wait the most on the GH5 is the video AF like on the A6300. I do a lot of gimbal use and need a proper video AF. SB AF is not usable..... That is why for me it is a problem

This. Give the GH5 better video autofocus like the A6300 or Canon's Dual Pixel and it will check all the boxes for me.