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The "Grey Vignette" is often called a "veiling flare" or "veiling glare". Often caused by longer bodied anamorphics and/or the size of the front element. Most anamorphic lovers consider it to be yet another artefact that is attractive, watch Any film with beautiful Panavision C lenses flaring and you will often notice it. To minimise or eliminate it - don't point the lens at a bright light source! Or use a mattebox and flag to cut the light from hitting the front inside edge. I doubt the FM module would impact flare character much at all, the only thing to watch is the rotating front - if the glass is dirty or smeared it will create a spinning streak in its flare when pulling focus. Here is a vid explaining most common artefacts asociated with anamorphic, a few "veiling glare" shots shown:

First, I too think it looks sharp. :-) The hard zoom in definitely, and I'm pretty sure there's a couple of frames at the beginning of the track back that would fail (hard to be definitive on Youtube), and the BBC would potentially fail you on the speed of the dolly back itself. Yep, its that tough. They let a ton of micro-skew go in the 5D2 days, but have tightened up recently. If you want to know why they, Discovery, Fox and others are so vigilant on skew and micro-shake its because it messes with the layers of compression they need to get it to people's homes. Now is your film fine for a web customer? Sure! Looks really nice. But for me, the A7s is only a specialty camera right now UNLESS I invested the time to learn its quirks. Hope that made sense.

What do you mean? Rack focus is the whole point of the FM

Roger Deakins is a great DP. Can't argue that. That being said I could care less what his opinion is (or anyone else) of any given film. A lot of DP's have terrible taste in film. BITWC is a great film. Not that anyone gives a shit what I think :P

I don't really care about Roger Deakins. He's got an entire crew to cary around his gear, light, and get him coffee and craft service. In my case it's just me, walking around, trying to capture the best images I can. The lightweight of the Sony bodies and the silent shutter option in the A7s is very intruiging. I'm going to rent one in the next weekend to see if I can live with it as my main camera.

Overexpose it a bit if it's noisy? You can bring it down later in post.

Ok no problem, I will ask.

I thought this was hysterical. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/welcome-to-the-first-installment-of-pogues-101268781239.html

Moot point? Apart from you mathematical DOF equivalence -which sounds accurate- the look and feel of a larger sensor is very different. Try to shoot outside on a sunny day and get shallow depth of field with a M43 sensor. On full frame you would need ND filters to be able to open up to f5.6. On APS-C you probably need a stronger ND filter to open to f3.5. Can you imagine the kind of filtration you need to shoot under a summer sun at f1.8? Unless you are using good expensive filters, you'd need to correct IR and color shifts. The "character" of the lens would probably be lost under layers of filters, and the rig would not be so convenient. No matter how you look at it, a bigger sensor has a different -IMHO more cinematic- feel that cannot be so easily compensated. It helps both in bright and darker environments. Wether you consider it fundamental or not is a matter of taste or the specific look you aim for, but the difference between APS-C and M43 is an important factor, just like perceived resolution, dynamic range and color science. And by the way, there are wider aperture zooms that you can use on E-mount. That's one of the particular strengths of the system, that you can easily adapt lenses from many other mounts, or even use native primes, which is the ideal way to go if circumstances allow it.

@comurit If being on the list enables a discount code on accessories, count me in...as I've already ordered FM lens by emailing anamorphicshop.

I´ll like to be on that list. Its possible to buy one from Spain when abailable? Thanks

You won't regret it. As long as you can control the light on your set the GH4 will give you great images, and the first time you drop 4K on to a 1080 timeline and reframe it you'll be sold. Plus all the other niceties and fantastic button ergonomics. Even the 96frame is not useless.

g6 , rj speedbooster, plus dumb adapter and canon fd lenses as they are very very good and cheap 24, 28, 35, 50mm or get a canon fd 35-70mm f4 instead of primes its a steller zoom and cheap on speedbooster its a 25-50 f2.8 very very sharp with practically zero distortion !! very good glass in this lens then you can use lenses on dumb adapter and get one lot of focal lengths then use them on speedbooster and get another set of focal lengths