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Sticking with the GH5, G85 and GX85 for at least another year, probably longer. After 2020 I'm just not in a position to "upgrade" without going into debt, and honestly there aren't any cameras out there that really excite me for my work. Sony did really well with the A7siii but I'd need to either buy 2 or 3 because Sony doesn't really have much in terms of a solid b-cam. Their APS-C cams just don't have good enough stabilization and the rolling shutter is really bad for sports. 

I do expect I'll be jumping back into the Mac world given the performance people are getting with the new ones. That'll probably be the only big thing I'm going to spend money on this year or next. Just gonna see what they have in store. 

It was a disastrous year for an event / wedding shooter like me. I hope that things get better by summer but I don't have a ton of faith after the shit show these last 10 months have been. The way the US has handled this has been utterly embarrassing, and it's not just the government either. The selfishness, greed and ignorance I've seen has been brutal. I always knew it was there, but it has been impossible not to be beaten over the head by it every single day. And those aren't political statements, they're facts to everyone except the deluded cultists of he who shall not be named.

Good riddance to a truly awful year. Here's to a better 2021 for all of us. 

Merry Christmas to you too Andrew! Here's to a better 2021 for all of us! 

Have they added shutter angle yet? 

What androidlad said. Alternatively you can try one of those upscale plug ins that are out there. They may give you slightly better results but honestly 1080p holds up pretty well when upscaled without them. 

On 12/3/2020 at 12:39 AM, seanzzxx said:

It doesn't, camera nerds on fora have a hard on for it, that's all. In the extremely unlikely event that you would ever need to show your movie on a projector that doesn't support 23.98 fps you'll have to speed up your footage by some imperceptible amount. (I'm speaking from experience here).

It's about consistency, especially when you're working on professional projects. If I deliver 23.98 fps footage to someone that hired me to film b-roll for their feature or documentary, I'm probably not going to get hired again. That footage needs to seamlessly fit into their work flow. Having a hard on for it really has nothing to do with it. 

If you're personally filming stuff for your own project, then shoot in whatever frame rate your heart desires. 

12 hours ago, Tim Sewell said:

Tim pool is a cynical hack who'll espouse or promote any batshit idea that he thinks will get him clicks. I used to follow him on Twitter under the heading of 'seeing what other views are' and saw his videos attempting to incite anti-immigrant feeling in Sweden, under the guise of 'news-gathering'. He's a money and attention whore and best ignored. He is in no way a credible journalist.

Yep. It's all a grift. Right now there's a lot of money to be made spouting that rhetoric if you have no morals. 

14 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Tim Pool was one of those original Wall Street Protestors and citizen journalists, he's been around for a very long time. Worked for VICE too as one of their journalists (described by even VICE as a "lefty" & "progressive"). He's backed Bernie Sanders, and voted for Obama each time. Just because he's disappointed in the direction the Democrat Party has been going lately, and is willing to call out B.S. when he sees it, doesn't make he some kind of "crazy extreme right winger". He's at heart a lefty.  The world needs more people like him, folks who can see the perspective from both sides of the political divide and work with all sorts of people rather than driving us apart. 

Those aren't attacks on the Democratic Party, those are attacks on our elections and pandering to the most delusional of Trump's supporters.  You (and he) can claim all you want about how left he is, but it's a ridiculous claim. 

14 hours ago, IronFilm said:

You're Jewish too?

I'm not religious, but yes my relatives on my father's side are Jews. My great grandparents and their kids left during the earlier pogroms, the rest of the family were never heard from again once the Nazis invaded Lithuania. 

Free speech is a great thing, but not all speech deserves to be amplified. I know first hand what happens when these ideas gain traction, and it's not good. 

14 hours ago, IronFilm said:

I think it is extremely dangerous to live in an echo chamber of only knowing people who already agree with you and reinforce your existing biases. 

Sorry, I'm not subjecting myself to QAnon, white nationalist or unfounded election conspiracies. People are dying and getting hurt because of that garbage. My ancestors were put into concentration camps by those types. 

14 hours ago, IronFilm said:

b) you're referring here to a video produced by a journalist Tim, who is a self described liberal and has backed the likes of people such as Bernie Sanders. I'd say it is a ridiculous stretch of a claim to say he's an extreme right winger. 

A simple scroll through his videos makes the idea that he's "liberal" really laughable.

Regardless: Any platform that highlights Newsmax and the other content I see highlighted is not worth supporting. 

4 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Please share screen shots! This is what I see (and from memory, this looks pretty similar-ish to the random collection of videos when I first visited LBRY.tv):

The second video I see upon going to LBRY is a video intending to undermine the credibility of our election. 

You don't live in the US so maybe it's just that you haven't seen the damage that has been done by QAnon and other bad faith actors, but you literally cannot go a day without seeing / hearing people that believe this rhetoric or reading about someone being threatened with death and violence because they're "stealing" the election. 

I don't care about differing views, or being exposed to them. I do care about the spread of disinformation that leads to violence and civil strife in my country. I didn't go looking for things to make me concerned when going to LBRY, those things found me in the form of their promoted videos and the large Newsmax banner under "Popular Channels." 

I've been seeing people in the filmmaking community plugging LBRY as a YouTube "pro-free speech" alternative, but their main page basically recommended alt-right and Newsmax pro-Trump videos on my first visit, which makes me think that the people going to LBRY are those so bad that even YouTube banned them, kinda like Parler is with people banned on Twitter. 

It was weird seeing Tom Antos claiming the only place where his videos can be seen uncensored was LBRY, as if YouTube has been censoring his filmmaker gear reviews. 

Curtis Judd plugged it the same day.

Anyone else notice this? Is it some kind of push from LBRY in connection to the community? 

Sad but not terribly unexpected. Companies can just send their products to a bunch of shills that will all create glowing videos praising it and not have to deal with pesky independent journalists and professionals that will ask questions they don't want asked for articles they don't want written. 

Co-opted media and unscrupulous YouTubers are a lot more appealing to these companies. They don't even have to fly those types out to exotic locations anymore, those folks will do it simply because they're sycophants. 

14 hours ago, Mark Romero 2 said:

Well... I really like the image from VLOG and having more flexibility in post, but that is mostly for my real estate videos where I have basically NO control over the lighting and color casts. 

I guess I should try shooting some other things in 8-bit on the S1 so I have an idea of what 8-bit would be like on the S5.

I really only film in 10 bit when I am doing commercial or narrative stuff where I'll push the image hard. 8 bit is more than enough for basic little tweaks for my corporate and event work. I love 10 bit, it's why I went with the GH5 to begin with, but I think a lot of people/projects don't really need it. Most clients don't see the difference anyway! Maybe I'm just being silly though! 

4 minutes ago, Mark Romero 2 said:

I think it is ANY resolution in 10-bit and unlimited in 8-bit at any resolution. 

I am not sure if the different frames rates have time limits as well or not.

Hmm. Even in APS-C mode? 

I still think it's a viable option. Do you need 10 bit? I know it's nice to have, but for a stationary camera it might not be as necessary? 

The record limit on the S5 is just in 4K60p right? 

I agree, re: suggestions about going with the S5 though if that's out of your budget then the GH5 is still a damn good camera. I'd also consider the GH5s if it's mostly going to be on a tripod; IBIS is nice, but it has the better low light and better colors. The G85 is a good option if you don't need to do too much grading in post, just basic stuff. I use it and a GX85 as b and c cams for my GH5 and I'm very happy with them but I also don't do any heavy grading when using them. 

I don't know that the G7 is a good idea these days. The price of the G85 has gotten so low, especially used, that I think it makes sense to just go with it over the G7. Not to take away from the G7, it's still very good for what it is, but I couldn't recommend it over the G85 unless you absolutely could not afford anything else. 

The Viltrox speedbooster is very good, though auto focusing is pretty awful in video mode. I don't think the metabones adapters do much better in that regard. You might see a slight IQ improvement with the metabones but not enough to justify the extra costs, in my opinion, unless you just have the money to spend. 

2 hours ago, Video Hummus said:

Smaller file sizes with same quality or same file size with better quality. I think where it would come in handy is say filming a interview scene in 8K, perhaps with two people sitting together, and then just punching into the faces when they talk. No need for two cameras, etc...

8K HEVC IPB would be very nice to have if you are recording to a $600 512MB CFExpress card.

It’s also great for throwing around rough cuts to be uploaded to Dropbox or whatever for review. A fast edit, export, feedback cycle.

There hasn’t been a demand for it because the hardware manufactures have been so lazy to implement proper acceleration. No one is going to demand it if they can’t buy hardware to work with it.

I just feel like we're years away from it becoming viable for lower end users, and higher end users probably aren't going to use h.265 anyway over ProRes and compressed raw. To me the promise of h.265 is on the delivery end more than anything. 

It's still a pain in the ass to edit for most people that use a lot of these lower end professional/cinema cameras, and h.264 is already in wide use at this level. There aren't really that many benefits to it, outside of smaller file size, is there? I also don't sense much of a demand right now. 

This is both very promising but also kind of disappointing; the performance boosts are impressive and they seem to be giving you good value, but I hate that Apple is going back to a more closed off system. The switch to Intel really opened things up, especially when it came to 3rd party programs. 

It also makes me wonder how easy it will be for those 3rd party developers to re-write or port their programs to use the new processors.

I was actually blown away at how small this is when seeing a picture of it in someone's hand. This is gonna sell like crazy to wedding videographers, I think. 

I stopped using Resolve 16 when multicam editing became too difficult for my system when it worked flawlessly with 15... And I don't think it's just my system, since I know others have had trouble. 

I'll probably try this out to see if it's better, though. Fingers crossed. 

What were the lenses you used? What made ya go with the GH4/5? Did you find shooting in low light to be a problem? What would you say was the most difficult thing? BTW! It looks good! Please let us know when it's available! 

External RAW is nice to have if you need it, but having to send your camera in is ridiculous. 10 bit is much more useful for 99% of the work most of us do... Give us that, internally, please. I want Nikon to succeed, it's better for everyone, but c'mon. 

On 10/29/2020 at 2:04 PM, herein2020 said:

Here in the USA it is getting bad again as well but I don't think they will go into lockdown again. Even without a forced lockdown, I'm starting to decline more jobs as this thing worsens.

Same. It's incredibly frustrating, because I'm in a state that actually did well (Vermont) but I can't go to any of the neighboring states for work without having to quarantine because they didn't do so well. And even if I could, it's not worth the risk to myself or my loved ones. 

The first thing I thought of was the Tokina 11-16mm but that's APS-C. Do you absolutely need 11mm? Is your budget in the $500ish range? 

You can often get a good deal on Rokinon/Samyang lenses used. They're faster than the Irix, and are pretty decent lenses especially for the price, though the Irix likely has better build quality. Reviews say the Irix is soft wide open, so be aware of that.

The Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 would go really well with your 18-35mm but I think it's $1100, so that might be too much.