A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?

[tupp]

18 minutes ago, PPNS said:

i think the meike 8mm was super nice but consider getting laowas 6mm or 7.5mm if you want such a wide fov. They’re just so much smaller and lighter 

I have heard good things about the Laowas, but my experience with the Meike cinema line and the Metabones 0.64 speed booster is that they have excellent performance that would work well with the high resolutions and the smaller sensor.

[John Matthews]

Damn. After playing with the 7artisan 10mm, this camera looks so good. The electronic IBIS is working wonderfully and you don't hear any audio weirdness like with normal IBIS sometimes. The colors when you put the Log into FilmConvert are great IMO.

About the 10mm, it's not perfect. For starters, there was quite a bit of play in the mount. I fixed it with a little electrical tape. However, it's super easy to focus and quite fun. The image seems quite sharp too.

[Emanuel]

Great piece of tech, both ; )

Irresistible. Love the colours.

[John Matthews]

A few more thoughts on the ILS...

Here's a 4k shot of my balcony solar panels. I really thought I could make some moiré with this. Not the case, at least not in the 4:3 4k mode. Everything is hand-held with the E-stab on.

For DR in GoPro Log2, it seems to be living up to their claims 14 stops.

When it does clip, this is what it looks like:

Personally, I can live with this. I have a FilmConvert Hazy plugin to smoothen out some of that harshness on the clouds:

This was all done rather quickly and could have been better, I'm sure.

Here, I cranked up the shadows just to see what it would look like.

I might run it up against my S9 just because I'm curious.

[John Matthews]

Went for a walk this morning. I was able to make a short video:

Sorry for the music. Everything is hand-held. Shot it at various frame rates. Most everthing shot in GoPro Log 2 (the slow-mo shots are in Natural) and plopped into a timeline for cutting and added FilmConvert with the GoPro Mission 1 Pro and GoPro Log 2 profile. No grain was applied. Anyway, you'll get an idea of the colors, electronic stab, etc.

I also wanted to say that I was able to update the ILS to the GoPro Labs firmware and use a QR code for putting a super-helpful histogram (better than the Lumix one on the GX800).

[Alt Shoo]

It’s a real fun camera to use. It actually brought my muscle memory back to the days of manual focusing. I remember when people used to talk condescendingly to people who relied on autofocus. Now it’s flipped. So funny. The  negative comments I read about using this camera is mind boggling. If the camera isn’t for you, just go about your business. Why try to bash the person wanting to experience something different?