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Raw would need HD-SDI and those would be expensive to do.   And why go to all that effort in putting the BMCC into a tiny pocket form factor... When have it require a chunky external box?   Compressed raw internally to SD cards is a miracle and worth celebrating. In my view it's easier to buy a couple of 64GB cards for $200 and recycle the card via a Macbook Air when it fills up than it is to use an external recorder. This is no problem on a production and even for a one man operator with a backpack taking a break in Starbucks from shooting, it's perfectly easy to do and takes a few minutes via USB 3.0.

A pleasant surprise to note, is that the GM1 uses the same battery charger as the GX7...not the same battery...but the same charger. The batteries are the same size except that the GX7 one is thicker. Great for traveling.

Just to be clear, GM1 is separate class of camera to something like the G6. The G6 is designed as a DSLR replacement. The GM1 is a compact replacement.   The size is the main advantage. It makes all sorts of rigging possible or easier and cheaper. Great for multicopters and ariel shoots.   The GM1 has an electronic shutter at full resolution for stills. Important for street photography or gigs where you don't want a constant KERBANG going off in someone's face, especially during a burst mode shot.   In terms of image quality the GM1 is less noisy and has less aliasing than the G6.   And G6 was already one of the best cameras for the price, around $650.   This is $750 with lens. Very reasonable.   But the G6 has advantage of EVF and articulated screen plus 1080/60p.

this is seriously impressive and makes me happy to be a Panasonic customer. over the last few years i've talked quite a few friends and family out of buying canon (it seems to be the only brand newbies buy), and into m43, and they've all been extremely happy. I still have my beloved gh2 even after buying two gh3s, but with a better pocket cannon like the gm1, maybe the time to retire the gh2 has finally come.

"Apathy and protectionism" aside, let's not forget that a raw workflow does NOT appeal to vast swaths of the professional marketplace because of its demands on post-production and storage (during the edit, and archiving afterwards). Having a small file, edit-friendly codec come right out of the camera, ready to dump and edit, saves time and money. Not everyone can strive for the additional IQ gains, because they have to quickly turn the edit around into a sell-able product. That's the boat I'm in. I have to make money with my gear, production and post. And sometimes "good enough" simply has to be good enough. So, I'm shooting three hours of talking heads tomorrow with my 5D mk III. How would I ever pull that off with raw (on my camera or one of BM's)? And who really cares, because it's talking heads. How good do they have to look? ENG, corporates, and industrial shooters are all in the same boat I'm in... a huge chunk of the professional marketplace. Good enough shooters. I truly believe that if any of the majors saw dollar signs in any camera like BM is making or proposing, they would have a usable, working model for sale yesterday, would work better, and would have fewer growing pains and supply issues. That said, I'm very glad that there are some disruptive players like BM and the Digital Bolex in the game, I really am. But until the tech becomes something well-designed, bulletproof, easy-to-use, and quick to edit, I think the big players will stay out, protecting their turf by selling billions of $ worth of cameras and lenses while the sector matures. Why would they do anything else? The temerity of telling any massive camera company that someone knows their business better than they know their business is mind-blowing. To be specific to one certain 800 pound gorilla: so, when has Canon ever been a get-there-first company? Nothing they've ever produced in the last 20 years has been bleeding or even cutting-edge. But something is clicking for them with this whole Cinema business. I'm certain they were surprised as any of their major-player peers that... "hmmm, people wanna shoot video with these still cameras?!" Translate that into Japanese, of course. And they're scratching their heads all the way to the bank ever since. But my guess is they're not missing-out on much yet.

...yet everyone still bashes the free-market that makes things like Blackmagic possible. Sony and Canon are NOT part of the free-market, they are Corporate-Statist entities. Sorry to take it political territory, but it's important to understand the economic conditions that gives great products like Blackmagic a chance to come into reality. Many Filmmakers, Young-people, Westerners, ect... are voting for more and more socialist policies that are going to DESTROY companies like Blackmagic and kill our opportunities for future innovation in this field. Know the real enemy! "BM like cameras do not have mass market appeal and never will." Not yet, but they are going cult-status as we speak. They're a "word of mouth" product. They don't "need" mass-market appeal, because like Grant Perry said, they are not in debt... they don't need to move 10-million units to pay back loans. And, BTW, is that what you really look for in a camera? Mass market appeal? Who gives a crap about "how popular" something is... I only care about what products can deliver. Let the "fad-chasers" wallow in the misery of their overpriced, 8-bit, 2005-codec, technology forever if they like... Almost every film-person, here in LA, that sees my Blackmagic in use orders one. They're only going to get more popular as the other companies continue to under-deliver.

BM like cameras do not have mass market appeal and never will.

This is the problem with oligopolies where the products are relatively undifferentiated. Either you collude, and agree to keep certain features at certain price points, or you all compete, which means dropping price to marginal cost and then making no money. So thank god for BlackMagic.

It's disturbing that no Japanese company really wants to push technology that's readily available to the masses. How hard is it to put in a gig or two of fast ram for the camera to write to and them dump to a slower memory card? How hard is it to put audio meters on the display? How hard is it to record 4K at 24p? I'm tired of Sony, Canon, Panasonic and every Japanese brand that continues to pump out bullshit 8-bit 1080p mush. Step the f--k up and do something you bunch of conservative, profit-squeezing, planned obsolescent lame companies.

Thanks! :D Yes of course, for these frames I used standard Adobe Camera Raw for initial balance and exposure then tried something different out, that I figured may give an individual look: I used photographic software to process it. This is something you could do to sequences I believe, with Photoshop macros, though it would be complex, but I think the result is very very film like. I'm glad it comes across as a good photographgic style, though workflow wise it'd be slow. The software used was Alien Skin Exposure. I don't own it personally, an older version (3) is on a work machine. It's now on 5. As you can see, it has beautiful film emulations that are very customisable to create deep looks. http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/index.aspx A blue and red primary shift in ACR are two of the major parts of this particular look, blue goes more teal, red a little orange... maintaining skin tone but twisting the world a little on its colour wheel, no secondary required. The result is the blockbuster epic feel without the ludicrous orange skin you get in Transformers and the like. If you don't mind shipping an SSD or hard drive, or setting up a big download for me, I'd like to experiment grading a full piece in raw like this!

The book focuses more on his career at what is thinly disguised as CBS (way back when). There are many kinds of happiness you can buy, or enjoy through success. You can't buy or succeed your way into a happy marriage--in my opinion. You're either lucky or you're not. I was lucky, and I think the character in the book similarly so. I didn't think I was lucky at the time. Anyway, it wasn't the Ace I wanted but someone I had the presence of mind not to throw out the one dealt to me (though again, I had not idea it was an Ace at the time!). Even if it's possible to have a happy marriage where you might board a jet at a moment's notice for business, do you want it? If you have someone you want to be with (and I mean this in the simplest way), why would you leave? My wife and I share few interests yet I'm always happy if she's just doing her thing and I'm doing my thing and we're in the same house. Can I, or anyone, have both? This is all extremely relevant to Zach's question. No one works alone. Whether married or not, we all have, and seek, relationships. Deciding who you want to be with answers many of these questions. I agree, that movie is nothing great, here are some more, than I think worth watching. "A New Leaf" "Pete N' Tillie" "Razor's Edge" "Brief Encounter" "Dodsworth" On divorce, this, to me is a masterpiece: "Shoot The Moon" Interestingly most of these movies don't have high reviews at IMDB.

They removed it because they can't be seen to endorse anything that isn't arse licking when it comes to the big names in the DSLR community.