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1 hour ago, Joowe said:

We make videos in a metallurgy lab. 
I have a lot of macro lenses but the only one that gets me the colors of metals is voigtlander 125mm macro. 
As I said, I have no extensive knowledge and no time for color grading but with this lens, the color comes out easy. 
I will never buy mirrorless lenses, good or cheap because we change the camera every time we can to improve and all the lenses we have are EF. When changing we do not have fan brand complexes. 
It may cost money to buy a good body right now but not as much as changing the system. 
We work in a lab and the weight or dimensions of the lenses do not matter. 
We also have Otus and it is ridiculous in a mirrorless but it gives us good results and this is what we are looking for.

It sounds like you are very sensitive to colour rendition, I can understand because you're using colour more as a scientific instrument rather than aesthetic for entertainment.

In this case, I'd be worried that changing camera would change the colours - camera brands have colour differences much greater than individual lenses.  Maybe try to rent the camera bodies before you commit to buying - it would be better to find out if they're going to work before you pay retail price for one! 

You're looking at spending thousands of dollars to use your existing lenses instead of spending a thousand or less getting the right lens for your GH5s.  I would question the logic of that decision.

There are wide and fast lenses available for MFT, people don't talk about them much because they're expensive, but they're cheaper than buying a brand new flagship camera body.  Plus they'll hold their value longer.

What are your specific needs?  You talk about "best color HD" because you "lose angle in my lenses".  It sounds like you just need a wide designed for MFT with little CA to match your APO lenses.

On 2/4/2019 at 4:32 AM, thebrothersthre3 said:

Guess I need to invest in a 4k monitor one of these days.

Not until you're delivering in 4K.

Seriously, as the owner of a 4K monitor the only uses for it are delivering in 4K or as a tool to reduce time spent on story and increase time spent pixel peeping.

I guess you could also argue that 4K monitor is useful to have a 1080 window with room for a GUI in your NLE, that's useful too.

2 hours ago, Jonesy Jones said:

Took my new P4K to the zoo today. Footage looked great. Got some great shots of the animals. But for some reason when I got to the zebra display they were acting funny and I couldn't really get any good shots. Great shots of the elephants and giraffes, but not so much the zebras. Bummer.

Happy April 2 everyone.

I'm not surprised.  The P4K has great colour science, but zebras have no colour so they're not compatible.

I think to shoot zebras you have to be a black-and-white thinker.  Maybe having a DPreview account would help?

4 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

Sony logic menus should be standard on everything!

6 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:

thisbis rally simple, well explained technique that I’m sure will help a lot of people. Especially those in wedding films. 

I saw that one.  It's a pretty fragile effect, you'd have to be careful applying it otherwise you're likely to get a hard edge and artefacting.  They apply it pretty non-carefully in the video and it's bordering on breaking the image.

Hilarious! Well done Andrew!!

On 3/30/2019 at 8:01 PM, androidlad said:

Until we have variable curvature sensor, curved sensor at this size will largely be limited to industrial/scientific use as one curvature has to match a specific focal length.

Surely a curved sensor for all lenses would be a better fit on average than having a flat sensor for all lenses?

20 hours ago, LindseyL said:

Hi. Any help would be so appreciated. 

I shoot primarily video. My primary camera is the SONY FS5 ii. My secondary camera is the Canon 5 D Mark iii. I have had three shoots now where my footage is soft on the Canon using the 24-70 L II 2.8 USM. I have tried every conceivable thing but it does not get any better. Focal length each time is 24 mm. Has anyone else experienced this? I seem to have no issues with this lens on my Sony at various focal lengths. DSLR rookie move - my first and second shoot on this project... I accidentally had the flat picture profile selected. I changed that this time back to standard but still the same issue of the whole shot being soft....

 Thanks in advance. Lindsey

 

+1 for the advice from @Nikkor to shoot test stills to check if it's the lens or the camera.  

If it's the camera it might be a setting changed, like the Sharpening or other adjustment?

4 hours ago, currensheldon said:

Atomos - Have had a flurry of announcements the last couple of months, but maybe they're saving something very cool for NAB. Hoping a 4K Ninja Star recorder so we don't have to slap a big monitor that eats batteries on our mirrorless cams. 

I always thought that they removed the Star in order to force people to buy the larger (more expensive) recorders and that they could do that because they were really the only game in town for RAW/prores at this price point, and that anyone who wanted those codecs would want them badly enough to just go along with it.  However, now there are lots of cameras doing these things internally they have less of a monopoly on these maybe there will be some incentive for them to re-release that lower-end option.

I know it would make a bunch of people happy.

4 hours ago, currensheldon said:

The Panasonic S1 does have all of that now.

It's sort of weird how much people have been ripping on the S1 - No, it's not a full-frame GH5, but with the upcoming V-Log/10-bit update, it's pretty darn close. Every other manufacturer gives us internal 8-bit 420 (Sony, Nikon, Canon), big crops (Canon), no 60 fps (everyone), etc.

Add on that Panasonic has the best ergonomics for video by far (in my opinion) and a great XLR adapter, and you have a very capable camera. 

And don't forget that Panasonic have a history of adding modes and unlocking things with firmware updates...

2 minutes ago, Snowbro said:

They forgot to add autofocus though

That wasn't on your list!

2 hours ago, Snowbro said:

Sold the 1DX II; I will buy another Canon when they have..

• IBIS
• FF 4k
• 10-bit internal
• 120p 1080p
• 4K 60p

In a mirrorless body under $4,000

It will be a while, so buy a temporary camera to use in the meantime.  Make sure its well specc'd and robust so it lasts long enough to fill that gap.

36 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

Well the biggest problem I have encountered with B4 lenses is they are so damn long zoom wise.  It is pretty hard even on a tripod to use them extended which is tempting to be honest. With the crop factor they are super long millimeter wise on paper. Like nearly 1000mm on a m4/3 camera! ETC you are taking 2000mm! You really can't use a 2000mm lens to be honest. Even 900mm is pushing it. Atmospheric pollution, let alone camera shake is deadly at that length. I have tried to shoot birds at 1000mm and even just shallow beating is a disaster! 750mm seems to be my limit. YMMV

+1 for there being limitations to focal lengths, or at least if you're using them to look at things that are far away.  I started having difficulties around 1000mm equivalent, so similar experience.

This may or may not apply to the OPs situation..

Depending on what camera you're using, some modern lenses act like they're parfocal because the camera compensates throughout the range.  The XC10 is like this and it works quite well as long as you're zooming slowly.  If you do anything fast then it struggles to keep up.

9 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

I think its great for making little 30 second pieces from using the re-frame function in the app. To be able to make something interesting with multiple angles from basically just being stood there holding it makes it a great holiday/event camera as far as I'm concerned.

Absolutely agree.

The one thing I've learned from shooting family videos is that the moments you're after happen without warning and tend to be interactions between the kids and the outside world.  This means that you need to always be rolling, and need to be filming everything so you can get the action/reaction shot sequences.

From that point of view......

4 hours ago, Kisaha said:

Imagine in 2022 a 360 8K camera with m43 dual pixel sensors..

TAKE MY MONEY!!!!

10 hours ago, Laurier said:

Well, The cameras are massively more expensive to buy/rent, most content end up in 1080p on youtube so that a cost hard to justify.

Is that where the majority of ARRI footage ends up?

Genuine question - not trying to be rude or anything - I don't have any visibility of this part of the industry.

I would have thought that Alexas were too expensive for 'free' distribution unless it was advertising materials, and that they'd mostly be used for movies and TV behind paywalls or at least licensed by broadcasters who pay with advertising revenues.  These cameras sure seem expensive to me!

7 minutes ago, leslie said:

been a bit busy this week. Had the 15mm olympus body cap lens turned up this afternoon. To late to have a play with lol. I also took a set of digital calipers to the bmp4k and got some measurements from it, had a piece of perspex lying around. Drew it up in cad and got it cut out at work on the waterjet , I'm calling this the mark one. Now that i have had some time to look at it there's a few things i want to change. i want to add about 4mm to both sides of the hand grip hopefully that will allow enough room to cut out a hole that will allow  the battery door to swing open. i think it should work. i plan on milling out a space for a quick release tripod mount as well and finally  horizontally mill a slot for my ssd to slide into.

Cool!

So is this a DIY rig then?

I watch lots of 'maker' youtubers and I think this might be the first intersection of CAD and cameras I've seen

Interesting.  I watched some of the wolfcrow review of the LF (I know some people here don't like him, but he has more experience of the industry than I do) and he said that the feedback from rental houses was that the cameras with larger than S35 sensors just aren't that popular.  He suggested that the manufacturers might have overestimated lots of people would be coming from FF DSLR revolution to cinema cameras, but who knows. 

1 hour ago, ah5168 said:

Pictures of the Tilta F970 Battery Baseplate fitted to the Tilta Cage. You can use the Batery Baseplate fixed directly to the bottom of the camera without the cage. It provides 7.4v and 12v outputs.

With a fully charged pattern NP 970 7800 mAh battery using the 7.4v output I am getting 1hr 35mins of continuous 4k Prores recording to the external SSD.

That's a pretty tidy setup considering how many things are there..  cool

Ok, here's a quick comparison.  I didn't do spot WB or metering, but it was in Aperture priority mode, manual WB, and nearly identical framing with no backlighting, so this is probably a reasonable test.  I compared it to the Super Takumar as it has a similar FOV and aperture range.

For reference, the focus was in the middle of the frame, which is the grass seed just above the lip of the glass on the left.  I have essentially cropped off the bottom and right of the frame in order to give a complete diagonal from centre-to-corner, although in this case there probably wasn't much point as there's nothing in focus in that part of the frame.  Anyway, the grass seed in the top-left is more than half-way to the edge of the frame.

11 minutes ago, Snowfun said:

Insta360 One X if the idea is to make fun and very entertaining holiday films. Put the app on an iPad, load the footage and play with the 360 look around. Immersive, interactive and a great deal of fun to be had.

And use the app on the Mac (and presumably PC) to edit into a “film”. It’s the future!

Plus her phone.

 

360 video is shoot-now-frame-later but is low quality, so it depends on your style.  I'm interested in shoot-now-frame-later but the quality isn't there.. yet.

It's about film-making style.

3 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

Inevitably, the answer to both of those questions will be "all of them and then a few more just to be on the safe side"

The more lenses you have the safer you are from just putting one on the camera and leaving the house to go shoot something!

3 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

It travels compact but expands rapidly!

I keep my GH5 + lenses in a drawer and it's pretty tightly packed in there, and I keep pulling out the 135mm or 200mm, using them, then wondering why they won't fit back in the drawer.  Then I have that "ah ha" moment where I set them back to infinity focus and put them back, then I have that "oh dear" moment when I realise I do that every time and still don't remember.. ???

3 hours ago, hijodeibn said:

I agree, she probably get used to just use her phone, specially since it is not going to take any more room from her handbag...

Non-techie types do like using their phones, but "there is no zoom" is also something non-techie types who have a bit of interest in photography understand and care about.

Don't confuse people not knowing about cameras or tech with people not knowing about what makes a good image or what they like.  We are drowning in photos and video and therefore live in the most visually literate time in all of human history.

4 hours ago, Mark Romero 2 said:

Bigger sensor of the FZ1000 vs the FZ300's weather sealing and touch screen.

When in doubt, go for usability and durability, then just tell them to shoot everything and not worry about the camera.