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[img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Rewo-gh2-cage-on-set.jpg[/img] Photokina is less than a month away now and it is going to be a busy time. I will be there to get my hands on the new cameras, and I don't think I can remember a month like this with such exciting products being released. Sony's full frame camcorder the VG-900 will have a mirrorless mount, all in a video camera form factor for £2.5k and now we have a Blackmagic Cinema Camera that shoots amazing 12bit raw for the same price. These were mythical cameras only 6 months ago. Raw video for $3000? Full frame video camera with E-mount? Then we come to the GH3.

[color=#222222][font=Helvetica Neue', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif][size=4][background=rgb(255, 255, 255)]I'm curious as to why so many people think that an affordable larger sensor RAW camera from BMD or anyone else is just around the corner. The BMCC seemed at NAB to be an incredibly disruptive and innovative product. It took BMD a lot longer than they initially anticipated to get the product out the door. Then there's the super 35 sensor Kineraw, which has some of the same limitations as the BMCC (like no overcranking at full resolution, though it does support up to 720p60) but costs twice the price. So why do people talk like it's easy to crank one of these things out and the sub $3K RAW camera we've all been waiting for will be out in a matter of months? Sony and Canon have not shown themselves to be nearly that nimble, and I think it will be a number of years before Blackmagic can put out another camera. [/background][/size][/font][/color] [font=Helvetica Neue]I'm sure in a few years there'll be a great super 35 RAW camera at an accessible price point, with all the features we've been asking for like higher frame rates, but there comes a point where one has to stop waiting and make the most of what's available now. With the inclusion of DaVinci Resolve and Ultrascopes, I think the BMC offers a value proposition that we won't see bettered for a good while to come.[/font]

[quote name='vincegortho' timestamp='1345918601' post='16474'] So the GH3 is staying micro 4/3 sensor size then? I ask because, so many people gave panasonic grief about it's small sensor size.[/quote] Because extreme shallow dof was fashionable. I hope that MFT will survive, because it is a very smart compromise: • the sensor size allows for lens resolutions as close as they can get to be covered by actual pixels for HD video without line-skipping. Bigger sensors don't. • practically all bigger mounts can be adapted, but not vice versa. • the mechanics of DSLRs with their clumsy, loud shutter mirror, perishing fast, will soon be realized as hoary relic. EVF and LCDs are getting brighter and sharper with every generation, and they show >focus, >exposure [i]and[/i] >color temperature (which mirrors can't). If you replace the shutter, the camera can be much, much smaller and lighter, provided that the lenses as well are small and light. • the fastest lenses for full frame may be f1.2. If they are good, they are very expensive. The famous Noktons are with f.95 one full stop faster. They compensate fully for the 2:1 crop ratio ... • ... if [i]extreme[/i] shallow dof is desirable any longer in the first place. You see it everywhere, I feel it starts getting old. • The BMCC has an even bigger crop. Who knows? Perhaps MFT also will be adapted to the Blackmagic.