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Why would a camera manufacturer spend time (money) adding more "power" to an older camera that does nothing to pay their bills? Why do people believe manufacturers limit or turn off features? Why would Olympus, which has no video line, throttle back a camera to stop it from competing with their non-existent video cameras? To me, EOSHD has improved immensely from last year by staying away from this type of (naive to me) conspiracy thinking. Wake up camera people :) In a very difficult camera market ALL manufacturers are looking to put in as many features as they can to compete against smart-phones. A win for any of them is a win for all. Panasonic didn't come out with 4K out of the blue. They have been working on this technology for years. As for Magic Lantern, when the 50D came out there weren't CF cards fast enough to write RAW video. Anyway, RAW is STILL not for consumers, for a long list of reasons. I want built-in Canon RAW as much as the next guy, but I don't believe it's as easy a decision as it looks (overheating issues for one). Sadly, people may leave EOSHD because Andrew isn't feeding into this fantasy of picking up a used E-M1 for $300 and turning on 4K video. They will follow people who feed into the dream, rather than the reality. This is true in all areas of expertise (why there are so many charlatans). DON'T FALL FOR IT ;)

Unconfirmed rumours and conspiracy theories about features are a waste of time and distract away from the tools available to use right now, as well as your time to be actively creative and make some stuff. ;) If it can't be bought, doesn't matter. Life goes on. :D

No comment on the whether or not you should post a trailer here, because I'm not a host in this forum. You're probably right about the poor visibility in that place, but I think the Screening Room is a nice idea in general. I think it just needs a bit more advertising. Besides, a trailer posted here may get more visibility here at first, but only for a short while. After which it will start sinking into oblivion fast, whereas in the Screening Room it'll stay relevant longer. In other words, the simple solution to the eyeball dilemma would be more effort from both the administrators/hosts and the users in this forum to make the Screening Room more popular. Talk about it, move unrelated clips to it, maybe even link to clips inside it, compose songs about it and so on, so that people will notice its existence and start flocking there more often, and eventually automatically. Well, just my 2c.

well to be fair, you can't really pan fast or walk with it as it ends up looking like you used warp stabiliser in post. At least from my experience with the EP5 last year.

Wonderful job all round and superb casting. So hard to find actors like these with character in Los Angeles! Bravo Marc :)

I emailed 43rumors asking "do any of the em1 rumors indicate the video image detail will improve?" and they said yes. I asked when the firmware will be announced and he said within 10 days. Even though I love the image I get from the GH3 and I love the handling, I would probably give it up for the 5-axis and better viewfinder if the EM1's video detail is improved.

Yup. It's freaking ridiculous too. This is the main reason I put up with the other video limitations of the OLY cameras. The 5 axis feature trumps pixel peeping...if you're actually using the camera to shoot stuff other than a test chart.

I reckon go for it (though it's not my house either). People have posted films in the main forum before. There was a horror short not long ago. And you're right that posts in the screening room don't seem to get the number of hits.