Shell64

8 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Please deal with this account:

https://www.eoshd.com/comments/profile/45696-tompeter/

This isn't someone who "barely interacts" in the main forums, but has zero interaction with other members in any other threads. His account purely exists to spam the For Sale Subforum. With all his links promoting hotdigital-international (& others) eBay accounts. (just done by an automated bot I'm sure)

Perhaps if he was posting really good deals then his spamming would be tolerable, but they're not. Every time you might click through to look at the auction you just think "meh", they're never even close to the best deal you could get on eBay. 

And the volume and which this bot account posts to the For Sale Subforum is so high that it spams the forum with unnecessary posts, diluting down the actually relevant For Sale posts made by forum contributors here.  

YES. This guy needs to be banned. A lot of the spammers though aren’t active. But tompeter just won’t stop. Please ban. 

39 minutes ago, mercer said:

Or the LX100... or the GX85...

What lens(es) do you use with your G7 and what type of stuff do you shoot?

I don’t have much lenses. Just the kit lens and meike 25mm 1.8. I shoot corporate, interviews, promo videos, and documentaries. 

42 minutes ago, hijodeibn said:

Hard to find something cheaper, you will have to get another G7....probably you should get something better and leave the G7 as the b cam,

Good idea. 

2 hours ago, hijodeibn said:

Looking at both auctions, I can say I could get a G7 for 150-180 bucks cheaper than a G85, which for me was a good margin to go for the G7, but I need 10-bit for the grading....too bad, anyway, I will certainly get a GH4, probably for a little more than a G8

What would be the best b camera to the g7 that is cheap?

YES!  Let’s ditch monopolies...Adobe, Vimeo, ALL OF THEM!  I already have

Welcome to the Resolve brighter side of life : )

I know it would be nice though because the recorder could act as an external monitor. That is the only way to monitor on the g7

The hdmi is 8 bit. I am also curious how an external recorder would work with this. I don’t have one but you may not be able to change the frame rate as when using the internal lcd the settings take effect once pressing the record button...which is also when the g7 shuts off external output

Just now, mercer said:

Well the GH4 is a 5 year old camera that was $1500 at release. And the FZ2500 is a 3 year old camera that was $1200 at release. I just don’t understand why the newer sub-$1000 cameras, with IBIS, do not have better 1080p?!

With that being said, the FZ2500 is one of my all time favorite cameras. I have a search on eBay saved and will buy another one once I can find one for the right price. The 200mbps all-i is beautiful in that camera and it does 10bit 1080p externally.

That sounds like an awesome run and gun camera with a beautiful image. 10 bit external with v-log and it would sing. 

Just now, webrunner5 said:

Well You can't see Anything recording external with a G7. The LCD screen goes black.

You mean when connected to hdmi and not recording internally? This is the one area Panasonic seriously crippled this camera. 

25 minutes ago, ntblowz said:

I thinks its depend on the region, the gx85/g85 sold here is unlimited rec and with both 25/30 options on the menu.

Yes this is true. NTSC g85 gets unlimited recording, PAL version does not. You can hack PAL versions to switch to NTSC but you lose 25p and 50p, only 24, 30, and 60p. The g7 hacked has unlimited 4K in PAL and both unlimited 4K and unlimited avchd 1080p in NTSC.  The ntsc gh4 is region unlocked and has no record limits whatsoever without a hack. The fz2500 is the same. 

8 minutes ago, PannySVHS said:

Thanks Glenn! The GH4 has a HD all intra codec with 200mbit and it costs less than 1000usd now, or the Fz2000 you had, 200mbit, also in the sub 1000 dollar category.

Right, like Shell64 wrote, the 72mbit all-i is to stay away from, the 50mbit interframe codec should be pretty nice.

Yeah. Or you can use an external recorder to shoot 220mbps all-i prores. 

The Sony a6000, like the gh3, has a beefy 50mbps codec combined with a solid 1080p image.  it’s sensor is also larger.

Has anyone used the g7 with an external recorder?  Can you change the frame rate when recording externally and not internally?

I agree. Although it’s not hard to get with a cheap ninja 2 recorder. 

The 1080p Panasonic gives is great but wish we got that beefy all I codec. 

29 minutes ago, mercer said:

Love your work, Panny!!! Do you know how the .mov all-i codec on the GH3 is?

I still can’t believe you have to buy a GH5 to get the all-i codec from Panasonic... all of these sub-$1000 Panasonic cameras should have all-i 1080p.

YouTube Nigel barrow does a lot of content on the Panasonic gh3 and older cams like that. I like his channel. He said that the all-I codec grades worse and has more noise than the 50mbps intra-frame codec. Probably because infra-frame is more efficient. 

*Nigel Barros (not Nigel barrow)

Thanks for the feedback. The appeal of this camera for me is having such a versatile lens that does great wide and telephoto. My g7 gets a nice shallow dof with my 25mm 1.8 lens, so having a second camera that is so versatile would be nice. It would be hard to match though, @webrunner5.  Any other ideas of a b-camera?  The lx100 seems nice as it is the same price used as a Panasonic 12-35mm 2.8 but the lens included is even better. Also the Panasonic gx85 might be nice. 

Just tried the unlimited record mod on my black panasonic g7 and it worked. Over 1hr of 4K recording listed. I will post the firmware version soon.  Also this only affects 4K as 1080p has record limit unless in avchd 

*2.5 if it were the m50

Sorry I keep posting so much, I just have a lot of questions on cameras right now. Not trying to spam. 

I’ve looked into the original Sony rx10 as a b-cam to my g7 (I shoot 1080 on my g7 a lot.). How is the shallow depth of field with the smaller sensor?  This camera is attractive because it gives me a nice wide angle and nice telephoto, as on my g7 I generally have a 25mm meike prime lens on. Any thoughts?

I guess Canon is comparable to Albert Einstein then!

Looking for a second camera to the g7. Would a dji osmo action as a wide shot mayby on a slider look good?  I’d shoot in hdr mode. Or what about an iPhone with filmic pro log v2?  

7 hours ago, Mako Sports said:

why bump an 8 year old thread @Shell64

For lols. 

Neat. I don’t have an android device, but I could experiment with android x86 on my pc. That’s a cool app. You are ingenious @BTM_Pix

Will do. You should pin it so the thread doesn’t get lost. You should possibly ban tompeter and TimNJack, whose posts are the weirdest I’ve ever seen. Did you already ban Gujarish?

https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/27098-new-canon-ef-lens-to-mft-speed-booster-on-bmpcc/

3 minutes ago, PannySVHS said:

G85 and GX85 don´t have unlimited anything. 30min is the limit. Don´t know about the GX9. Would seem the same. HD on the G7 is much nicer. Now that is a bummer! Anyhow, G7 is a great cam if you like nice HD and 4k better than GH4. If you need IBIS and HD is not so important get the G85.

 

Exactely! Have been wondering about that for a long time! Think his film was called Andromeda or something like that, all shot on several G7s in 4k.

For those hd g7 shooters like myself if you have the ntsc version, shooting 1080p 24fps in avchd you have no record limit. I have successfully recorded over 30 minutes with this. There are also hacks to get unlimited 4K, but it might not work anymore. I haven’t tried. Biggest gripe I have is not being able to use an external monitor plus the internal focus peaking never wants to actuallly show up much. 

3 hours ago, Grimor said:

Best way to find the "sweet spot" is this android app and a good/calibrate external monitor. 

 

Can you change the settings while recording?  Also would love an iOS version as I don’t have android. 

1 hour ago, IronFilm said:

You should be able to get a secondhand G85 for that price instead

I wish I did that but I have already owned the g7 for a year. At least it’s still a great camera. 

47 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

How the process works...

Millions of Russian and Chinese A.I. bots register at forums around the world, beating down the first line defence (Captcha)

Most are obvious when they make their first post. The first post from new registrations here are completely hidden to you guys and only shown for me so I can filter them out. I read the post and make a judgement on whether it's a real person or not. 99% it's easy. 1% of the time, a more sophisticated bot like you describe here will slip through but doing a cut and paste or convincing camera related topic.

This is where I need your help. If you spot repeated behaviour like this and you think it's a bot, please flag them in this topic or email me!

I’ll let you know if any others. Other than one person recently spamming leveled have seemed to go down.