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Sigh.  I haven't had any issues with this card (EXCEPT with Panasonic  cameras)- this lineup is great for the price, speed and capacity.  I get 90mb/s read which is twice as fast as the SanDisk extreme that is the same price.  Of course the Lexar is uhs-ii vs SanDisk extreme uhs-i.

That being said I have posted here and there is another blog post (not mine) that says Lexar cards and Panasonic GH line do not play well together.  It makes my camera laggy and on my g7 it once ended a recording. On my gh5 I wrote about the lag issues and my findings.  There is even a YouTube video that shows the Lexar 128gb 1000x lag issue on the GH5 (I had the same issue).

Also... You ejected the card while it was being written to and blame the card???

I love the read speed but due to the Lexar / Panasonic incompatibility I am using the slower SanDisk extreme until uhs-ii prcies come down to the Lexar level.... However in my time using the Lexars in the gh5 dual slots, besides the lag all the files were fine.  

I have 6 Lexar 1000x cards and they have worked great for me, bought from Amazon official.  Everyone can make a bad card, but no one can save you if you pull a card while it's being written to...

Why wouldn't you just mount the monitor on the handles and use a thin hdmi cable... also the mic...

I think even using GH5 with lenses around 1200g total is about the limit of what crane can really handle effectively.  I mean, I've tried it with my D750 and it's just not designed for that kind of weight.

Is anyone else having trouble with GH5 60fps files?  I can't seem to get them into resolve 14

Metabones needs to make this since there are no f2.8 aps-c e-mount Sony lenses in sight... FE mount to e-mount!

Yeah V1 came with 4x 18650 so two sets

 Seems like V2 has the bigger 28650 or whatever which has 2x the battery life but only comes with one set of Batts

For the new model, does it use one battery or two? Also can it use the old 18650 as well? Thanks, I couldn't tell from any of the photos in the listings.

Uhm... No.

Are you expecting a miracle from it? I've done some fairly long takes with simple movements and it works great especially with ois/ibis.  I think most gimbals benefit from using image stabilization.

It is a tool that needs to be leaned, if you start doing weird motions and angles it doesn't do well, not to mention peoplethat can't balance their cameras on it.  Though to be fair none of these small gimbals have enough adjustments for perfect balance (need 2 on each axis, but only tilt has 2 adjustments the test only have one).

It's because Lexar and Panasonic don't play nice.  It works great in my other cameras and I'm getting 90mbs read on my 4(?) year old computer... Faster than my older Samsung pros which actually work better in the camera than the Lexars.

The AF even in that video compared to the Sony stuff shows it's still pretty behind.  Maybe if they tweak the algorithms a bit they can improve it.  The Sony is really smooth whereas the Panny stuff is kind of abrupt, especially when it does the in and out when it finds focus.  The Sony of course is not god like all the time, especially at night, but when it works, it works so well you don't even notice it, whereas with the Panasonic you can tell the camera is doing something.

9 hours ago, jase said:

About focusing: is it really true that on the a6500 you either get MF or AF-C only? Nothing like AF-S or MF with AF-ON? Is there any way to MF and use AF for a quick focus while you are shooting?

That is how it works.

What I do is assign a button to AF enable/disable.  Then in af-c mode I just use it to switch between af-c and MF.

Stupid cludge but it works.

GH5: 4k 8-bit 24p 100mbps

SD: 2x Lexar 128gb UHS-II (don't use these, GH5 no likey Lexar)

IBIS on, screen on, relay mode for cards, just filming a static scene against a wall.

Panasonic - 2:19 - longest.

DSTE - 1:51 (111mins) - when it shows 1 bar replace quickly.  Charges faster than memowa.

Memowa - 1:45 (105mins) - flatter curve so 1 bar lasts a while.

Kastar - 0:58 - Sad. (first one wouldn't hold charge)

Not really impressed by run times.  Oh well.  Keep in mind the variable quality between batteries so this might not be representative of the brands.

Ok I tried to google 60fps GH5 Resolve and got nothing.  I can open my 8bit 4K files fine.  I can't open my 8bit 60fps stuff in Resolve 14.

Admittedly I don't know how to use resolve but I got my other clips into the timeline at least, but the GH5 60fps says "media offline".  Is this just unavailable in the free Resolve 14 beta?  The audio from the files play, but no video...

Another one from me: make this camera work better with lexar sd cards.  For some unknown reason this camera hates lexar cards... The 1000x uhs-ii ones are good for $/gb and speed, but they don't play nice together.

I will test some.  I have kastar (garbage, first one wouldn't hold charge, second one like half of my dste), DSTE, and just bought some newmowa because I heard they are also as long as the wasabis.

The DSTE so far doesn't feel as good as the panny but I haven't tested.

The newmowa does come with a plastic case for the battery though.

I changed my settings for smoother use and I like it so far.  Speed is like 25deg for pan and smoothness 200.  Dead zone is 1.

If you are having problems try slowing the follow rate and increasing smoothness.  You might want to increase dead band too.

I think the defaults are way too fast for 24p

I find the length of the gimbal and size is super annoying to deal with as nothing fits it, so shorter is welcome.  For my rungun stuff I leave it assembled but it takes up so much space and sticks out of my bag pretty far.

They should have updated the payload too.  Mine has started to make a quiet grinding sound in the pan axis when slowly moving.  I also reduced the follow rate to like 25 degrees/s and smoothness 200 so not sure if that had anything to do with it.

Have only tried with dual recording for backup.  I can try going on card for a day.

Lexar are the only uhs-ii cards I have but I can try my older Samsung pro 64gbs too.  It comes and goes so it's really annoying.

No one else is eperiencing the recording lag? Press record, camera takes like 8seconds before starting recording?

Using 2x lexar 128gb 1000x for dual card writing.

Happens occasionally, a few times a day.

When recording how are you using tap to focus? I can't do it in mf or af-c.  In MF mode I have to drag the box, in af-c it brings up the dialog and asks you to "set" the new focus area if you tap the screen.. I wouldn't really consider  that tap to focus.  Because when you need two taps to focus + lag of dialogue box which takes 1.5 seconds to activate.

I've been using 1 area af-c since day one.  It's ok sometimes but still inconsistent. For example I just tried it with Panasonic 25mm f1.7 moving towards and away from a teabox with text.  It did not do well.

It's better than previous models but still not nearly as good as competition or whatever the panny reps hyped it up to be, which is the main reason for the "controversy" and they have only themselves to blame.  

On the other hand it does sometimes have it's act together and if you use it properly you can get some decent gimbal shots.  Yesterday I tracked some planes in the sky and used it to follow some people with f2.8 35-100mm.

Speaking of which, zhiyun crane + gh5 + 35-100mm and dual is can actually be a thing.  I need to review the footage on the big screen but back of camers looked ok, and 10x zoom looked white stable. Finally they saved this lens (ok fine they saved it with gx85 and g85).

Axel only uses very good cameras, the best cameras actually, and his budget is yuge. He has so many cameras you're going to ask him to stop camera-ing, but he's going to say no, sorry, he won't stop.

I got mine from adorama.  Also it also seems a bit slow when ending recording to two cards.  Similar to the g7 ... I just wish it was a bit more responsive. 

Ok doing some runandgun today and encountered this several times: gh5 a bit laggy, hit record, takes like 5-6 (or more) seconds before camera starts recording. Happened at least 3 times today.  Also a but laggy in general some times. 

Anyone else get this? Saw a Reddit post on it but not many answers.

Shooting in movie mode, manual everything and MF.  Stabilizer on.

On 3/27/2017 at 11:21 AM, forofilms said:

http://metabones.com/products/details/MB_SPEF-E-BT3

"Fast contrast-detect AF on all E-mount cameras.Phase-detect autofocus support on A7RII, A7II, A6300 and A6500."

On 3/23/2017 at 0:36 PM, forofilms said:

Apparently there is a new metabones adapter coming that will allow AFC to work with Sony's PDAF with Canon lenses. 

Literally on the same page you linked to:

"Continuous AF and video AF are not supported. (Performance may be unsatisfactory.)"

What you quoted only says PDAF support which they already have on their older SB...

So... nothing has changed, af-c still "unsupported"