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I think the commonality of the sensor between the two will potentially make that less challenging. With the ability to bake in a LUT on the BMPCC4K there does present an opportunity to have it produce out of camera footage that matches Panasonic's internal profiles more closely. Some sort of unifying LUT for the BMPCC4K, such as a version of the Leeming LUT for it, would have potential. Plus, of course, by then Panasonic will have yielded to public pressure and enabled RAW through HDMI for the GH5

If they were to put it in anything, they'd put it in the A7Siii (whenever that happens) to stimulate sales of that. But, then again, you then end up with the protectionism stuff again where they don't want to give away the farm on the lower (ha!) end cameras. There is also the issue of getting too closely in bed with a 3rd party damaging your own brand if the whole solution doesn't work 100% of the time. There is a thread on here at the moment regarding the GH5s not playing nice at certain resolutions with the Atomos and both sides pointing fingers at the other. A bit of a minefield things like that, as is only being one firmware update away from disaster on either side so it also increases the support testing efforts and so on. Manufacturers should make their own for all those reasons but for some reason (protectionism or not sufficient demand/return or both) they don't seem to bother.

I think it will help that this sensor has been available for quite a while so is a known entity and they've had the opportunity to study what other companies are doing with it. That, combined with using the same OS as the Ursa, should make it much more of an integration job rather than a ground up development. Add on Blackmagic now having another 5 years experience of learned lessons of development of building cameras and its not unreasonable to suspect it will be plainer sailing this time round. I'll still be standing well back when I first plug mine in though, obviously. In 2021 no doubt.

I think you are completely disregarding the fact Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web for precisely that though. We live for the let down and the entitlement fuelled ranting

Technically feasible but politically/commercially less so would be my opinion. The only new sales it would generate would be for Atomos so I can't imagine the will would be there.

Why not. They've already gone "yeah, fuck it" and thrown the kitchen sink at it for that price !

I was thinking along the lines of something similar but much cheaper but it would require it being on the output. We'll see I suppose.

I'm wondering if you can have a baked in LUT on the HDMI output whilst simultaneously recording RAW without one? It offers some interesting possibilities if you can....

It still has an external power input though? I presume you could use a usb-c hub as well?

I do hope Blackmagic have already bought up a boatload of the sensors. I can just see Panasonic getting on the phone to Sony this morning and saying "You know that IMX294CJK sensor that we buy off you for our GH5 cameras? How many have you got?....Right, we're on our way there now....We'll take the lot"

Nice walkthrough here

Internal F-LOG is a big winner for me personally. Would've been nice to have Eterna internal as well but as Fuji have released the F-LOG > Eterna LUT for it in their last update its not a major issue. So if we couldn't have both, I'm glad they chose the internal F-LOG !

I don't think they are mutually exclusive either. Its more the GH5s that has the problem as far as I can see. Prices of a used GH5 are currently dipping below £1.2k and will be further deflated by the time the Pocket 4K actually arrives to be more or less a flat £1k. If you add in the value of the full version of Resolve then that means you could have a GH5 AND the Pocket 4K with Resolve for pretty much the same price as the GH5s and Resolve. In that scenario, where I could have the best of both worlds in terms of a highly featured and capable all rounder AND a cinema oriented one for the same total price (especially as they share a common lens system) then I'd really struggle to choose the GH5s over that.

Thursday is D-Day for Operation Cheap Screen so I'll let you know. If it doesn't explode as soon as I plug it in.

They do tax free with an EU VAT number but, yeah, for the sake of a couple of days when we are all in all likelihood looking at a six month wait (at least ) does seem daft

https://www.gridaccessories.com/products/grid-5-0-viewfinder/

You can pay in Euros at CVP by the way

If you are dead set on ditching the GH5, I'd cash it out as soon as you can and get a cheap 2nd hand G7 and review again when the Pocket comes out. The G7 will tide you over nicely and keep you in MFT so you can keep your glass as a hedge for if you go for the Pocket. If you decide against the pocket you won't have lost hardly anything re-selling the G7. Especially if you buy it in the UK and sell it in Alicante ! Spoilsport

I'm not one for hyperbole as a rule but this camera has just completely and utterly re-defined the market. The value of my camera collection has just sprung a major leak !

Mmmm..... I've just tested it on 2 different phones and a tablet with GX80, LX15, G7 and FZ2000 all without any issues. Its really odd that its not setting the shutter for you. Basically, if that part of it has an issue then the brackets won't work as it hasn't got a starting point. OK, try it with your other phone tomorrow and let me know.

When you are selecting it in there, does it highlight in orange before it comes back to the main screen?

Don't use the Bracket function of the Stepper app as there is a bug with it, hence why I made the dedicated one. So only use the dedicated one. When you are using the dedicated one, make sure you select a shutter speed first by pressing the Shutter button This will open a list and you select your base shutter speed from there. It will then return you to the main screen and you should see the selected shutter speed.

They should definitely have called it The Pocketti ! It sounds like some sort masterpiece of industrial design sculpted by Pininfarina for the gentleman filmmaker of the late 60s.

Yeah, looks like Tech. V-Tech to be precise

Here you go