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No global shutter? Yawn. Just kidding of course. This thing looks amazing.

Aimed at the broadcast market but just as well equipped for high end cinema, the VariCam 35's secret weapon is an efficient codec developed afresh - AVC Ultra 444 - and an industry standard Super 35mm sensor with PL mount. Read the full article here

Ever noticed this subforum: http://www.eoshd.com/comments/forum/6-screening-room/ ? ;) That's what makes me laugh every time the discussion about content vs gear turns up... Content is king. Yes, I agree. But hey, we are on the internet here. And this forum - like most others - is mostly a bunch of guys who like to talk about technical nerdy stuff, rant about the next CaNikon and hack their camera. The Screending Room (in other words: the content room) hardly gets any discussion or comments at all.

I think it comes down to price really. This camera is spec'd like a Sony F in terms of what it's competing with. It depends on how much this will go for, because Canon and Sony already have this camera for over $20,000. I wouldn't depend on Canon to do anything other than the usual "throw us a bone."

Are you talking about the 1.500$ nex5 disguised in a "pro body" which has worse video quality than a 500$ dslr?

"When you're a hammer you treat everything as a nail." That's the way I look at every new H.264 camera. The only difference I've seen in Vasiley's GH hacks and this HDMI capture stuff is the reduction of motion artifacts generated by the video compression. I've done tests myself, could never see a difference. So I step back and ask myself, 'what artifacts ever bothered me in my videos?' The only time macro-blocking annoys me is when I'm watching a video on Amazon, which I paid for, and it slows down to a lesser compression and I see it :) Everyone has their aesthetic. I have not noticed any H.264 that I thought much better than another camera's H.264 in a similar price range. Of course, there are DOF differences. The Panny cameras are a pleasure to use (but that is ergonomics, not what I see on the screen). I could see the differences in Matt's video above, but I think more a DOF difference between cameras. I do see better color saturation in APS-C cameras vs MFT, but the larger sensors also create worse moire (because of the line skipping). That's mostly a physics problem. Anyway, the difference isn't big enough that it would stop me from filming my Citizen Cane :) Even H.264 with all I-frames and a 4:4:2 color space is not that much difference from the stock video I get out of my used GF3 body. Many people, like Skip, get fantastic results from H.264. Getting that quality has to do with photographic skill to me, however. Just my conclusion so far. There are two major video technologies. 1. ) Compressed video in an 8-bit channel color space 2. ) RAW sensor-data sourced video There is no in-between. If there was Panasonic would be offering RAW. Why aren't they? The cameras create RAW images in photo mode? Why not just string 24 of them along every second? Why do 4K instead? If you find the honest answer to that question you will see, again, there is no in-between. I strongly urge everyone to get their hands on a RAW based camera, Blackmagic, or Magic Lantern. Shoot a couple of clips. Ezra Pound said music criticism was pointless because 10,000 pages couldn't describe the first 4 notes of Beethoven's 5th. Shoot some RAW. Shoot some H.264. Pick which works best for your aesthetic.

http://www.eoshd.com/content/3898/sony-nex-5n-versus-fs100-and-nex-vg20-hands-on-comparison Not very.

This would be nice: How about a 'video form factor' camera with a removable lens mount featuring a 'real' rubber cupped viewfinder (plus a flip out/upside down touch screen) with an almost Super 35 sized a 16 Megapixel (APS-C) sensor which doesn't overheat and shoots unlimited length HD to SD cards but also captures RAW 5K stills and excellent audio too with full manual control yet offers a 'clean' 4:2:2 HDMI output and shoots 50/60P at up to 28Mbps, unhacked. How about we add focus peaking, focus expansion and adjustable 75% or 100% zebra, all on/off at the same time with full manual iris/gain/ISO/shutter control? Body only price? Around $1.5K. Interested? Sorry DSLR guys, you're too late! It's been available for nearly two years. Sony's NEX VG20.

I saw the explanation video too, it sounded more like an infomercial for canon because I don't know how anyone with eyeballs could advocate the c500 over the alexa for a theatrical release with a straight face. Esp considering the footage shown in the tests looked like a wedding video. I love Shane's posts though, full of insights.

Why don't you picture for a moment that I am an extremely busy man that doesn't have time to read through the thousands of words you have written on that page. And just tell me why you have started an indiegogo for a product that has already been finished and can be released without any need for fund raising?