newfoundmass

No offense but if you need *8k* to crop and re-frame for 1080p editing you got bigger issues than resolution! ?

I don't want or need 8k.
 

My apologies to Gunpowder. 

I've never seriously looked at getting a RED camera, so color me shocked to see they were charging $2,500 for an SSD. 
Even if I had the budget I'd never shoot on that, out of principle. 

This feels like a class action lawsuit... 

This feels like a class action lawsuit... 

I'm hoping Jinnitech crack open the original 1.8 RedMag and find there is just a couple of cassette tapes in it so I can join in the lawsuit !
Nice work !

He doesn't deserve it?
RED have accused him of all sorts in a court case that had been running for nearly 3 years that has now been dismissed.
A company owned by a multi-billionaire trying to bully a tiny operation out of business based on absolutely bogus claims and he's had to keep his mouth shut about it?
I think he deserves to be able to make it into a 5 part mini-series after all that.
Not to mention be bought a drink by everyone who will benefit from what he has laid out there.
 

Now I never really expected RED to have made the physical media inside their mags so it doesn't come as a massive surprise to find that they contain fairly run of the mill standard drives.
Did I think they were taking the piss with the price they were charging for them?
Well I still wince thinking about how much I paid for the 64 gig Redmags that I bought with the EPIC so the answer is definitely yes but when you looked at how much Panasonic were asking for P2 cards then it was par for the course.
This video - which has been produced by a company that make alternative mags - shouldn't come as too much of a surprise then when they strip an official one and show the components.
What I hadn't really appreciated though in terms of significance are the statements that RED have made regarding them developing the drives, the millions spent on custom firmware that writes the data in a unique way and how its a US made product.
All of which this video pretty much debunks and in addition shows there being a somewhat innacurate description of the capacity.
Charging people ten times what they could buy the product for is one thing but the misleading descriptions is another and one that might well cause them a few issues.
I'll be very interested to see what the producers of this video have in store for part 2.
Particularly as it appears RED have been trying to sue them.
 

Looking into this a bit further, it seems RED's suit against Jinnitech for IP infringement was dismissed a few days ago, presumably freeing them up to release this video.
Meanwhile, Jinnitech's suit against RED is still very much alive....
https://casetext.com/case/jinni-tech-ltd-v-redcom-inc

They're decent! I'm not a big fan of earbuds though!

I just got my wireless earbuds for doing the survey ha ha

I love Gunpowder 
Neither of my pups ever stay still long enough to have their picture/video taken

What? I'm not sure what you're even trying to say? 
You said the GH5 was overpriced on release. That is just silly. It's $2000 price tag for what you got was a bargain two years ago. It wasn't overpriced at all on release. 
That it's $1500 now is a sign that the gap between it and the cameras that have come out since has narrowed, not that it was overpriced on release. It's a much more competitive market now than it was then, and things are moving faster than ever. It's also probably a sign that the GH6 is coming sooner rather than later. 
They've raised the bar with the S1H, for sure. Whether it's successful or not, everyone else is going to need to come close to matching it. That might not be an easy task for Sony. 

Looking at the WEX deals, the D200 in particularly is very capable. Good ergonomics as well. The Fuji S5 Pro I bought from WEX cost more than the D200, but it's got the Fuji CCD. Colour is lovely and it came boxed almost as if it's never been used. Not bad for £120!
It also somewhat blows my mind that you can now get a Fuji X-T1 for £160. Nothing for that price can touch it for mirrorless photography. The EVF, the lovely design, decent AF and very capable sensor.
On the video side, the GX80 is a bargain at £160 as well... 5 axis IBIS and 4K, plus I hear some bloke will give it CineLikeD if asked nicely?!

By the way, one slight drawback here is the price variation in different markets.
Most notably in Sweden where some of the prices I've seen him get gear for means that @Mattias Burling might well end up shooting his $150 entry on an Alexa
 

I win!
https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail/?id=sdigpandcgx800bob&categoryName=cameras-compact-system&superCatName=electronics&title=panasonic-lumix-dc-gx800-(body-only)-b
4K for £135
But this got me thinking as well... What if we have a fun "EOSHD Challenge" where we all trawl the bargain bins in our local towns and online, pick something for super cheap, could be $50, $100, no more than $150 or $200...
Make a video with it.
Then the winner is judged in a poll - on artistic merit, and technical image quality (can be 1080p of course)
The winner, wins the camera of the last place guy ?
Plus a special bonus camera from EOSHD.
What do you think? Worth setting up a challenge like this?

The Panasonic 12-35 is a great lense. I'm sure it would be good on a GH5s with stabilization turned on.
If you absolutely need a new camera the S1 is a good option, especially with the pending firmware update.
I'm still incredibly fond of my GH5, whether I'm using an adapted or native lens. The stabilization when using dual IS is great, and is very good even when using a Sigma 18-35 with the Viltrox speedbooster.
 

Really cool from smallrig you can build a rig from parts on their website in a 3D space also in real time. 
A good way to visual any of your future rigs or if you plan to add/build on what you already have.
 
https://3d.smallrig.com/

If that was a real wedding... ?
The goal is to be as least intrusive as possible for weddings. I barely want them to know I'm there for the actual I Do's. 

I hope they do keep the MFT mount as one aspect that seldom gets mentioned about the LS300 (although I'm going to do it again verbatim here  ) is that if you want you can actually use an APS-C lens on a Speedbooster to make it faster and then use the VSM to crop back into it to counteract the vignetting.
So, for example, I have a Tamron 16-300mm all purpose travel zoom that is a bit slow at f3.5-f5.6 but on a Speedbooster it becomes a far healthier f2.8-f4 and I set the VSM to 85% to take out the vignetting.
Ditto for the Sigma ART 18-35mm f1.8 it becomes f1.2 and the VSM at 85% maintains its field of view as though it were on an APS-C camera.

If you set the VSM to 100% then its just like putting a FF lens on any other APS-C sensor via a Speebooster so like an EF lens on an EOS-M etc.

Give me that Super 35 sensor and M43 mount and take my money. 

It was disturbing how many questions were about an EF Mount...
So I made sure to keep it clear in my answers we want MICRO FOUR THIRDS MOUNT!

(plus Timecode I/O, and ND filters!)
Ohhhhh...... nice:
Main features: 10-bit ProRes 422/422HQ/422LT, at 4K UHD resolution and 59.94p/50p/29.97p/25p/23.98p  recording to M.2 SSD** 4K UHD 29.97p/25p/23.98p 4:2:2 10-bit or 4:2:0 8-bit (150Mbps)  and various HD recording to SDHC/SDXC card* HDR recording, HLG or J-Log1 (10-bit)