Video Hummus

Andrew is so right about this camera. When I saw the release I was like...OK so this is a worst A7SIII for $400 more with a XLR top handle but all the important cinema features are missing:

• No internal ND
• No XLR on body
• No audio controls on body
• Same shitty LCD screen without an EVF to save it
• No SDI
• They didn't even include a way to secure the HDMI PORT! LOL!

Cinema camera my ass!

Oh man. I would have returned immediately to BH saying it was defective. I have seen other people experiencing something similar. Sorry, I don't have any solutions.

I fear with the camera market shrinking that camera companies are cutting on manufacturing quality, parts, and assembly to increase margins. Another pet peeve of mine is "weather sealing". If the warranty excludes weather related damage in their fine print, obviously the company does not feel confident about their product, and anything they say around the subject should be taken with a grain of salt.

ND, polarizer, BPM 1/4.

ND is used the most by far. Would love an internal ND solution in a mirrorless camera.

I'm really excited for M1X or M2 powered Macs, especially a refreshed future Mac Mini. As far as video editing is concerned, the MBP 13" just eats H265 without breaking a sweat...on battery power for 3+ hours with 20% battery remaining.

The performance (video editing) is amazing, but the power efficiency is what really impresses me the most and what really makes the new M1 powered Macs impressive. I have an Anker USB-C PD battery bank that can output 30W charging, adds 94Whr on top of 58Whr internal battery in the MPB, and could probably power this laptop for over a week or more, even with some video editing sessions. Which might be handy for people that might be off grid or traveling where mains power is either spotty or non-existent. 

I can't speak for Premiere Pro but in FCPX I have background rendering turned off and viewer set to Better Quality. I can throw in 4K H265 10-bit 4:2:2 at 480Mbps ALL-I (from R5), apply the Canon Rec709 WideDR LUT and even Image stabilization and play back with no dropped frames. Everything cuts and slices and moves around the timeline without any hiccups. Its so so nice.

PC will get there and probably surpass performance but probably not power efficiency. So exciting times for Mac laptops in any case.

11 hours ago, Beritar said:

Great pictures, Pana Leica 50-200mm ?

Yes, all pictures on the PL 50-200mm (except for the dog; that one is the PL 10-25mm). PL50-200 is one of my all time favorite lenses.

16 hours ago, szamtfsh said:

3.5'' 9.33MP 1280nit 10-bit WCG RGB-OLED Touch Screen with 120Hz AE-AF

Interesting...but camera manufactures are allergic to quality screens. I call fanciful BS.

23 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Have exactly ZERO problems with the GH5S losing the mechanical shutter, and gaining an eND. 

Panasonic should release a S5S (lol) with Sony's 12MP sensor in A7SIII but without a mechanical shutter and a internal ND solution. Throw in some kind of internal RAW of some kind and it will be attractive vs A7SIII even without Sony level AF.

23 hours ago, IronFilm said:

How many people are buying the GH5S anyway for serious hard core photography usage? 

With a good telephoto it can take great pictures. But, I agree. Panasonic should make a future video centric camera more like a FX3 than the GH5S.

The Cost for Panasonic to have Sony manufacture a MFT 4/3 sensor, that isn’t a security camera sensor with a very narrow feature set, is probably rising by the day. Especially since Olympus is essentially gone.

They said they were going to look into leaning into MFT strengths and their next cameras was...the BGH1.

I would be very surprised to see a GH6, especially since Panasonic had been completely quiet.

They would be better off making their FF cameras competitive because everything is trending up from there. 

11 minutes ago, newfoundmass said:

It lacks the resolution and frame rate options, anamorphic modes, RAW, and codecs that the Pocket 6K Pro has. And it costs more than twice as much. These are major features that productions want in a camera. 

If you don't see why this is a far more superior value than the C70 I don't know what to say. 

 

They both have their place & uses. Personally I see the C70 has a more reliable, better built workhorse camera without RAW.

I think the more apt comparison would be between this and REDs “crash cam” Komodo. This makes a much better crash cam money wise and also has more useful features for 1/2 the price.

1 hour ago, tupp said:

Yet another Super35 camera from Blackmagic with an EF mount.

 

Wonderful!

I’m wondering if the new design is part of a future FF EF mount model with internal ND?

Ugly duckling but useful features. Somehow they made the Pocket camera even bigger and bulkier. 

26 minutes ago, RWR said:

One of the GH5 variants had that, I believe.

GH5S

5 minutes ago, pixelpreaching said:

Sony Venice

What your arrow is pointing at is the lens mount essentially. You can remove the lens mount block from the Venice, keep it tethered to the camera via a cable, and place it elsewhere so it can fit where the whole camera cannot. Like in say an airplane cockpit facing the pilot or a race car facing the driver.

Ok, I found an image on Sony's website. Doesn't look quite the same to me. You're probably right though.

Will probably still have the same crappy 3.0" 1.44M dot LCD screen on it, that much is for sure!

What camera is this?

14 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Many of us thought an a7 series (or similar hybrid) from Sony would have had an eND within 2-3yrs back 2-3yrs ago!!

We'll probably see another couple of years pass by once again with nothing happening....

So you thought you would get an eND before 10-bit? I think its coming. They are running out of things to compete on.

On 2/6/2021 at 1:25 PM, ntblowz said:

Yesterday I was shooting bowl jam all day using mix of 4k25/50/100p, i didn't get the overheating warning but I did get down to 5 min

How long did you actually shoot if you can remember? I had mine out the other day in -2C weather (wind chill was pretty bitter) shot up to the imposed 30min restriction, changed battery, and SD card and turned the camera back on and it said I had full recording ability. Camera was off for like 5 mins. So its definitely factoring in the actual temps with latest firmware.

Still wish they would improve it more so I can essential forget about it.

On 10/8/2020 at 9:38 PM, Pikepike said:

Since the newer T7 is only $20 more and runs considerably faster on my computer

I use a T7 as an editing drive that I have Velcro'd to the back of the screen of my M1 MacBook Pro and it has been great. Drive mounts fast and editing has had zero hiccups with supplied USB-C cable. I did briefly use another cable I had (a shorter one in an attempt to clean up the rig a bit) but I was having weird problems and dips to 200MB/s writing via BM drive speed test app. I threw the cable in the bin. So I guess, not all USB-C cables are the same. I average ~700MB/s for reading/writing with the supplied cable.

I welcome USB-C everything but they gotta sort out the cabling and branding Thunderbolt 4/USB4/USB3.2 v2.2412. REV @45234 Bin 5 or whatever the hell they name this shit.

13 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Very very few FX9 owners could 100% replace their FX9 with a Sony a1, they're too drastically different.

Perhaps, but Sony A1 + XLR-K3M is a compelling setup. No internal ND or SDI. I would bet money Sony will release a mirrorless camera like A1 or A7S with a eND within the next 2-3 years.

8 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

Without some significant upgrades, it might also bring MFT users including GH5 owners to that fork in the road where they choose another route.

Yep, and that describes exactly what I did. When they released the S5 without PDAF I saw the writing on the wall. I simply want a camera with excellent AF regardless if I use it 90% of the time or 30% of the time...it's there when I need it.

It's a shame really, Panasonic offers all these excellent features, great camera bodies that double as weapons, good menus, excellent features sets, great firmware updates, but the market demands good AF and they have been left behind.

20 hours ago, newfoundmass said:

It's not that I'm opposed to 8K, I just really hope it's more than a GH5 but with 8K. I just don't think that's enough to ensure that M43 will be viable (outside of Japan anyway, where apparently it was the most popular mount last year) moving forward. 

On 2/3/2021 at 5:30 PM, kye said:

Personally I don't mind if it goes 8K, because the GH5 is 5K and I shoot 1080, so a 2.5x oversampling to a 4x oversampling isn't a large difference.

People shouldn't be opposed to 8K cameras. As the R5 and now the A1 show, the best thing Panasonic could do to improve a MFT sized sensor image is to aim for 8K and use the extra resolution to downsample a superb 6K, 4K, and 2K image with less noise and more DR from cleaner shadows. Offer 8K open gate 4:3 anamorphic which no one is doing in mirrorless.

But the single biggest thing Panasonic could do to sell their cameras is:

Offer reliability Phase Detect AF with face and eye tracking. DfD is stigmatized no matter how much they improve it.

FF mirrorless has really taken huge leap in performance in the past 2 years. I'm not sure MFT has a place anymore and I really loved my MFT cameras. I just don't know what they could make, besides a Sony A1 at 1/4 the cost, that would sell.

As a MFT fanboy for many years, Panasonic would do better to focus entirely on FF and fix their AF and compete on their excellent feature while bringing in more cinema level features and color. It's the only way they will stay relevant in the shrinking market.

On 2/1/2021 at 2:47 PM, androidlad said:

A1 seems to have insane rolling shutter performance for video. Only 2ms for 8K 30P, thanks to DRAM being made available for video read-out modes for the first time ever.

In stills mode, this increases to 5ms @14bit readout.

Thats ARRI Alexa levels of rolling shutter and approaching ARRI Alexa levels of dynamic range as well.

Seems to me, based off Gerald's hands on with it, that it is perhaps worth the price tag for people that don't want or need a flip screen and wants a hybrid camera that does it all, at least the best one so far.

I wonder how FX9 owners are feeling now?

8 hours ago, tupp said:

The word "Black" in the filter's name refers to the tiny black particles embedded in the filter to absorb light that scatters sideways through the diffusion, thus reducing "glow haze" and "halos."

 

This black particle technique first appeared in Harrison & Harrison Black Dot diffusion filters.

yes, and those preserving the blacks without lifting them up.

Black Promist is one of the best "mist" filters that preserves contrast, especially in the blacks, hence its name. I think it is money well spent to have a 1/8 or a 1/4 black promist in your bag. I haven't used any of the other filters.

Well, hedge funds double shorting stock should maybe be more careful next time.

11 hours ago, Robert Collins said:

So if you currently hold GME stock valued at US$250 a share you have already been 'pumped and dumped'

Highly doubt the majority of GME stock holders care.