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https://vimeo.com/128428344 Thanks Werner for coming by! better skin tones below:

Panasonic is doing some really cool things, but I feel like their lineup isn't fully realized. The GH series is awesome, obviously. And the new Varicam has features that have simply never existed before, like a sensor with 2 native ISO ratings. All the technology is there. All they need to do is fill out the middle of their line-up. This is what I'd love to see from Panasonic: Tier 1 - DSLR style B Camera - GH4 - It already exists. It's awesome. It's the only DSLR that I don't actively hate shooting with. It's got 4k internal, a super versatile mount/sensor combo, v-log, it can fill the memory card without stopping the recording (I can't believe that's a feature nowadays), and don't forget my favorite feature, the insane battery life. Tier 2a - The "News" Camera - DVX200 - It already exists. From what I can tell, they ripped the guts out of a DVX100 and replaced them with a GH4. That's a great idea. The m43 sensor size is perfect for this style of camcorder. It's big enough to get a nice looking image, but not so big to be constantly searching for focus. The DVX form factor is battle tested with XLRs, ND filters, timecode I/O, AC power options, you know, everything video cameras used to have. It's not going to be adopted by the "micro-budget film" crowd, but plenty of people shoot news, docs, and events. If I shot more of that stuff, I'd buy a couple of these in a second. Tier 2b - The "Pro" GH4 - AF200 - Everyone was bummed out by the DVX200's fixed lens. I have to imagine Panasonic is going to release an AF200 which is basically the DVX with the lens ripped off. Sell it for under $4,000, and I'll buy 2. Rigs suck. Recording audio to a zoom recorder sucks. No timecode I/O sucks. No ND filters suck. Please Panasonic, just release this camera and take my money. Tier 3 - The "Shoulder" Camera - Varicam35 Mini - I would love to see this camera. It would be Panasonic's answer to the FS7. I imagine a shrunk down Varicam35, designed for a single operator. It would have a similar 35mm sensor, but with a m43 mount (like that JVC camera), 2 native ISO's, 4k, high frame rates in HD, ND's, XLR's, V-lock batteries, ENG style viewfinder, v-log, and great LUT integration. They can keep the RAW capabilities. As far as I'm concerned, if clients are asking for RAW, they've got budget for a rental. Give me a solid 10-bit 422 codec, and I'll be happy. Price it anywhere from 10-15 thousand, and it'll give the C300/FS7 crowd another great option. Tier 4 - The Rental - Varicam35 - It exists. It's an extremely well thought out camera. Panasonic may have been a couple years late with it, but they didn't cut any corners. Rent one. The LUT integration is really awesome. And let me repeat, 2 native ISO's!?!?! The traditional thinking would say my proposed Varicam Mini would cannibalize sales, but as long as they hold back that one high-end feature (RAW maybe?), it won't cannibalize the high-end projects that the Varicam is aimed at anyway. GET TO WORK PANASONIC

Where's the frontpage article? Revolutionary camera imo, for the budget shooter. The GH2 of 2015

Yeesh, seems like a lot of folks been removing their sense of humour along with their moire.

This is my favorite thread.

Here's the response from Werner, "I put a look on the skintone because we are trying to make the thing naturalized - and we can't if its flat - if I show you the raw image - then you have to do the work. So we are trying to save your time. Which is very, very valuable. I am sorry that me and my team did a bad job on the skin tones and that they look too Hollywood - we will try better next time if we don't all die very quickly by accident by a comet or something just as random as that, like getting hit by a stray bullet."

I zink yu shut wörk e liddl bit mohr on zat akzent

DAMN YOU..... I'm a kiwi! :-D

New Lens recomended to try out as you all know I do like the Tokina/Angenieux 28-70mm and the Nikon 28-70mm 'Bourne Lens' and I'm pleased alot of you have bought them and found them to be superb lenses. I was shooting a pop video for Rozalla last month using the Nikons and as I was shoooting with 3 cameras I wanted total glass parity so it all matched up look wise in the edit. So 2 cameras had the Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 IF EDs on them and I bought a Nikon 35-70mm F3.5 AI for the 3rd camera..... WHAT A LENS ! it matches the bigger Nikons exactly , colours blacks etc and it is very very good and cheap on ebay. I used it on a speedbooster so its f2.8 and looks great It has clicks on the apperture at f3.5 and f4 f3.5 is a midges softer fully wide open but a f4 it tightens up alot , so I used it at f4 on the speedbooster = f2.8 This is a late 1970s early 1980s lens and is built like a tank all metal , fully internal zoom and the focus only moves the end of the lens about 1cm forward 72mm front end for filters But the glass is stunning ! the full Nikon 'Bourne ' look we all love and it edits in exactly with your bigger Nikon Bourne lenses the 28-70mm and the 80-200mm Its smaller and lighter than its big brothers but packs the same punch .......I highly recomend this great lens Andy

All the Nikon 85mm lenses are really great. I've personally had the older scalloped nikkor-h 85mm 1.8 and the 85mm 1.4 AIS I also had the 100mm 2.8 Series E and really loved that too! It's cheaper, but really is an great lens

Kind of a amusing response that, be it serious or facetious. Anyway, I found it cute and funny because there's so many beginners and earnest enthusiasts accessing this newly affordable gear --and they seem so damn serious about their cameras. How do the British explain it? "Taking the piss out of..." or something like that? You (should) know as well as I do that we deserve to be mocked. If you don't get the silliness, you might want to consider why. The more this Ed guy riles things up the better, as far as I'm concerned. If any court needed a bit of jesting, it's us.

It is important that both our written suggestions and your video reach someone at samsung.

​Of course they havent, why would they? Just watched it. And I thought it was fun.

good job Werner, but you loaded the footage wrong. edit: ;)

​I just got my NX1 yesterday to compliment my A7s. Loving just about everything about this camera right now with the exception of focus peaking and zoom assist you point out here. I've really gotten used to that on my A7s and find it really useful.

Super 35/APS-C will be here for along time - Panavision has a warehouse full of Super 35/APS-C lenses as it supplies Hollywood with cinema glass. I dont think they will be changing soon at all! Super 35/APS-C is the look we all know as 'cinema' ---full frame is not! I really dont like the look of full frame I stopped using my Canon 5 years ago

​glad you like it , with the speedbooster it is a f2 monster! the look full wide open is superb - thats how I use mine , stack your NDs to keep fully wide open outside

Last call for the V2 upgrade was sep. 2nd. And still no news, reviews or a single pic to be found - weird... Maybe Van D promised a little to much again on the delivery dates again

Great video Pavel - thanks putting this together for the Samsung engineers to review.

​Nooo.... don't get them in m4/3 mount! The safest bet is to get them in Nikon F mount. I went into a bit more detail as to why when I purchased my set: http://ironfilm.co.nz/rokinon-cine-lenses/

The latest update stops movie standby mode from reverting back to photo mode after a clip is done recording.

​ I've wanted a full frame camera ever since I got my 600D, I thought that was the way to go, better image quality overall and better bokeh. But as I've learned more and more on photography and video, I realizes that is not what I needed, and actually started looking at smaller and smaller sensors (GH4 M43). At this point i've decided to get the NX1, and I dont have any second doubt this is the best video camera I can get for the money, that surpasses any other sensor out there.