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I really don't understand how cheap external recorders manage to give us Prores options and camera makers can't! Is there some kind of embargo for still cameras or for video cameras with prices lower than certain level?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1336174-REG/smallhd_mon_focus_5_touch_screen.html Micro-HDMI Input?? Thank goodness the GH5 did away with the Micro HDMI nonsense and went full size! But now you'd return to that?? Please don't :-o Get a monitor with full size HDMI Stupid! But if it makes you money.... not stupid! However, why not get a mattebox instead for this purpose? At least it has more real uses than a battery grip would have for you. I would skip this and go for the Sony UWP-D11 instead (they're great, I own five of them!).

I have banned Evgeny's two accounts for trolling.

There are two users appeared on here called "Evgeny Magata" and "evgenymagata" both of whom have only posted about this project. Are you Evgeny Magata Snr or Junior? Paranoid? Haha, yes that is funny to be fair. Just to clarify, I'm not paranoid as I don't really give enough of a fuck about this to do more than a Roger Moore slight eyebrow raise. I probably would be paranoid if there was someone called "btmpix" posting more or less the same content as me though. All on the same thread. At the same time. But that's just me. I didn't say YOU had been on dpreview so, by your own measure, if me mentioning someone who had gets you all paranoid then that's funny. Just to be on the safe side I'm putting you and lowercase you on ignore as I really can't be arsed debating something with someone with such an obvious agenda.

The new Feiyutech a2000 was sitting at my door waiting to great me on Friday. I had purchased this gimbal as a replacement of the Zhiyun Crane V2. I had found the Zhiyun to be less than ideal for flying the GH5 with the anamorphic adapter installed. The is largely because when counterbalanced the movement of the camera is more limited. Comparing the two I would say the Feiyutech is better made, and better thought out. It can easily accommodate the larger anamorphic setup and at no point feels overworked. The remote is built into the handlebars, which can be folded for transport. setup is a breeze and minor changes to the balance of the camera do not require rebalancing. It is easy and fast to use. And these are two things I like a lot. Below is some quick footage of the GH5 with SLR Magic 40 Compact anamorphic adapter on the a2000. The taking lens is the 35-100mm f2.8 ver 2, which is quickly becoming my goto lens when shooting anamorphic. Comment welcomed. Enjoy!

If anyone is interested in getting a LukiLink style adapter: https://www.febon.net/ https://febon.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/andyzhengster/videos Andy has been producing these devices for a long time. His English sucks but he can be reached via email. (Not trying to sabotage the LukiLink. The app their making is definitely worth supporting. Just providing info. These adapters have been available for several years.)

I just spent the last two weeks in Costa Rica with the family and put together a video of the trip. Almost all of the footage was filmed in 4k/Cinelike D with my GX85 and 14-150 II. There are a few GoPro shots (scuba, zipline) and a few shots during a night hike with the 45 1.8, also my wife had a zs100 I used for some monkey shots (also using Cinelike D). Due to my old under spec'd MacBook air, I could only export 10mbps. There are blown highlights and crushed blacks but I'm very impressed in what this camera can do. Coming from a 5DII I can see a huge difference in quality. There was a lot of rain so I had a ziplock bag and elastic band to create some weather resistance. https://vimeo.com/231261700

I can't speak to stills as the Nikon VS Canon debate is like android VS iOS or Mac VS PC....but I can confirm through experience that usability wise the Canon is superior for video. The Dual Pixel AF is incredible. The flip out screen is fantastic. Obviously its not 4k but the 80D really has great 1080p. All these things are my opinion... but what is a fact is that a TON of YouTubers and Wedding videographers that I know shoot with and LOVE the 80D. Just shot a wedding last night with mine on a MoVI and it was a workhorse. Having a LED on the MoVI kept me at ISO 350 which really helps. The 80D doesn't do well over ISO 800.

Even with a likable president like Obama, the system in place, of 350 billion dollars I think spent on military operations makes us an incredibly scary nation. I really had hope Obama could have winded that down. And in the last months of his presidency, I wish he put in some executive actions to limit, well, I guess, executive actions. And then tried to put in some failsafe measures against nuclear attack. We are a war nation. I think the 2nd highest spending country on military is China. And it's sad, because, even if we achieve more social justice in America, for instance: gay marriage, what we are doing to the rest of the world is terrible. And not to mention the control corporations have on America. We are, as written in Empire of Illusions, an inverted totalitarian government. Corporations have complete control over politicians, with the need to raise millions from fundraising. Plus lobbying on issues, and they even write a lot of the bills that are introduced. The health care reform bill that was introduced this year by Paul Ryan, Ryancare, was almost entirely drafted by insurance companies. The only hope, I feel, is more candidates who are elected by direct funding from citizens. Left or right politically, if we can turn America back into some sort of democratic system, where politicans have power, and are not beholden to corporations, that would be really good. Because we are in for a terrible economic collapse as well as environmental collapse. All it takes is China to stop loaning us the trillions we have in debt to them. And for the environment, well, it's looking like in one hundred years, only about 50 percent of the world will be habitable. So yes, right or left on the political spectrum, I wish we could all come together to prevent environmental and economic disaster, which all of us I think could agree on would not be good.

I'm happy to report that my setup is pretty simple. Which is something I never thought possible for anamorphic shooting. Here's a picture:

Musicians? Where most stuff happens in low light? I'm with @noone If EVER there was a camera made for that world it is the A7S. Why? There's only so much software-engineering (reducing noise) that one can do around small pixel sizes. The tech is probably at its limit. The pixel pitch of the A7s is 8.4 microns. GH5 is 3.3. Let me put this in perspective. You want to race two cars with same transmissions. Do you go with 8 Litres or 3 Litres? This isn't to say the GH series cameras don't have their strengths, like running all night, flexible software and working with inexpensive glass (which may be more important if you're recording whole shows). A7S...beg, borrow, or steal Otherwise, any other full-frame.

Hell no, go for Nikon D500 or D7500, better stills performance AND better video performance.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1336174-REG/smallhd_mon_focus_5_touch_screen.html Micro-HDMI Input?? Nooooo Thank goodness the GH5 did away with the Micro HDMI nonsense and went full size! However the a7S mk2 is still stuck with micro HDMI But at least get a monitor with full size HDMI? As for an external recorder, I reckon 9 times out of 10 it is not worth it unless you are at a minimum going from 8 to 10 bit (or raw. Or gaining a leap in resolution to 4K, such as with the a7S mk1).

We filmed Sammy the dog touring around Asheville, NC. Filming a dog is a crazy man's work. So difficult, but working with the cutest actor makes up for it haha... Let me know if you have any comments or questions!

Ahaha. That was great. Good job. The actor direction is excellent as well.

It's a great lens for sure, but it's not so great for video except in very limited circumstances. It breathes a lot and isn't parfocal. But it's a beast for stills. I wish Olympus would repirsise the F2 zooms they did in 4/3 for m4/3. (They made a 14-35 F2 as well) JB

Actually, ignore my first post, Andy's stuff isn't good for us. Here's basically the LukiLink (Android only) available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/HDML-Cloner-broadcast-streaming-Android-capture/dp/B01CI08N6M The app itself hasn't been changed much yet, I guess the OEM provided them with the source code for the apk, but I hope Frank can add all the stuff he's promising on the Kickstarter page.

You use the vectorscope and the skintone line for color correction. With grading, go about it however you want. Hollywood movies often have very stylistic skintones that aren't on the skintone line, ranging from gold orange to blue, green and washed out white. Tastewise I myself would be tempted to push it towards:

That first video does not look particularly "cinematic" to my eyes. Many blown highlights, underexposed subjects and poor framing. I'm going to replace the word "cinematic" with what it really means... "good cinematography", that is to say, shot by someone who understands the art of cinematography... which is defined as the art of making motion pictures. There is no camera setting at normal playback speed that will do this for you. Light you subjects, compose your shots, have purpose to your camera movements. All should support your story. The second video is again mostly all slow motion, save for one scene that last only a couple of seconds. The title is correct... the GH5 can look quite cinematic... but as we have seen demonstrated time and time again... so can a smartphone. But only if the shooter understands the art of cinematography. At this point in the game it's not the cameras that are lacking, it's the users.

Hi Kino, In relation to this I think it changes little if the heir of Samsung is in prison. The data is clear, Samsung's strategy to focus their employees on commercial products and smartphones has proved to be a great success. http://www.bgr.in/news/samsung-records-85-percent-jump-in-profit-in-q2-2017/ I just hope that Samsung (also for a prestigious issue) continues to shoot professional cameras with NX2 release, also because Red has decided to enter smathphone market with Red Hydrogen damaging the Samsung Galaxy market , So I hope that Samsung to discourage Red (which has 100% sales of professional video cameras) is to produce professional cameras and camcorders, for professionals, invading Red's market. These are just my considerations, but the only certainty I have is that if Samsung comes out of a new professional camera, whoever has a Samsung camera will definitely run to buy it.

Curious that you'd start two accounts purely to cast aspersions on a specific project. I have no connection to this project whatsoever but I can't see the issue even if someone HAD just bought an off the shelf component and wrote optimised code for it and packaged it as a new product. Its the same process as camera manufacturers who don't make their own sensors use so what's the problem? In point of fact, it is better for the end user if the company behind this project do source the hardware and bundle it with their software instead of offering a software only solution as you're getting a guarantee that the whole solution works as designed. The Achilles heel in this respect won't be the input device but the hardware its running on as there is as much variance in android phones as there are variants. As I say, I have zero connection to this project (and I'm pretty neutral about it as a product as well) but can't understand why you'd have such a problem with their approach to such an extent you'd create two profiles on here to cast aspersions on it. I could have this completely wrong of course and your intentions are purely as a public service to warn everyone here of what you describe in your post as a "borderline scam". If so, its to your credit that you'd join here specifically in response to this project to do that and it'll be good to have you add more posts with either of your accounts to contribute to the community about other stuff. Interesting and purely coincidental I'm sure though that your view of this specific project being a scam are also echoed so closely on DPReview by a poster formerly known in these parts. He seems to have a real bee in his bonnet about it too. And if there is one person who knows about scams..... #MyIronyMeterHasExploded https://m.dpreview.com/news/1746775569/lukilink-turns-your-smartphone-into-an-external-hdmi-display-for-a-dslr

I decided to shoot a short sequel to my GH4 VLog video "Chicago." Recorded internal at 8 bit on the GH5. Handheld with IBIS. V Log L.

A7s. I have been shooting live music for a long time for stills and it is the camera for me for this. I don't have to worry about ISO and I don't need to just use a fast lens/aperture. Video is not something I have done much of but have been doing more since getting the A7s.

I couldn't agree with you more! I mean like, triple AMEN! I have never worked with a camera SDK that seemed like it was designed by half-competent developers (unlike the main ML devs). Indeed, recently I wanted to control Sony cameras. Did I load up the SDK? NOPE. Been down that road, with unanswered questions on life-less forums. So I installed the USB Camera Remote and used a library that basically does key-stroke pressing on the application's interface. When it comes to SDKs, all the camera makers are pathetic. Now this may seem like a tangent, but I want to prove a point. Adobe Premiere just re-vamped their whole TITLE making process. THREW OUT THE WHOLE THING. Now there is a "Graphics" interface. When you create a title you get bountiful properties and methods in the Graphics pane. It's been built from the ground up. Should be perfect, right? Yet it has everything but the TEXT OF THE TITLE! In order to change the text of the title you have to click on the "Text" tool on the timeline. Is the text of a graphic a property of a timeline? WTF! It makes me speechless! My brain freezes trying to comprehend how Adobe management could let something like that pass. It's a KLUDGE of monumental incompetence. My 2-cents There are very, very few software developers who have a real talent for programming. Just like there are very, very few bloggers who have a talent for writing about cameras The world runs on computers. There is still a fair amount of managers at Canikon who weren't brought up on computers. In short, there is a chronic shortage of talent. If Adobe can't get enough good talent, what hope everyone else? Look at ML, of the 28,000 members my guess is there are only 50 or so people with hard-core programming skill. And if more, they don't have the time. Put another way, I bet 8 out of 10 software guys at Canon don't even understand what the ML devs do. It's over their head.

Hi, Wanted to make something new so I worked on this video for several month. Most of the tilt-shift effect is simulated in post (masking in AE), it's not as good as the real out of focus blur created by TL lenses but much more practical than having a huge drone carrying a DSLR camera. I also modded a GoPro lens that was mounted on a custom made drone (TBS Discovery with Pixhawk FC) to get the "native" effect. The inspiration for this project came from Keith Loutit, the god of tilt-shift timelpase.

GH5, no troubles with heat, rolling shutter is kept in check, tons of cool features, sweet battery life, cardslot is on the side and dual slot type, proper audio interface... ISO is now supposedly pretty solid up to ISO3200. Nice 'n grippy for handheld shooting; especially with the 5-axis B.I.S. and optional Dual I.S. (2.0). Vari-angle display with well-implemented touchscreen. Tons of compact native lenses as well, as you know. Keep it light and throw it on a gimbal. And... people seem to be enjoying it for stills as well, for which it also has numerous interesting features. Like, don't get me wrong, the pixel level results from the A6500 sensor are pretty great, like, the amount of dynamic range, level of detail, high ISO noise performance, really great stuff and all. But once you look beyond that, it really falls apart. The body is just rubbish. Like, Sony... c'mon, take notice, all other crop sensor mirrorless camera flagships are pretty nice bodies. GH5, E-M1 Mark II, X-T2, NX1, even the Canon EOS M5 for Pete's sake. But no, they went for a super cute small footprint camera, because that's what Sony envisions the people want. Btw, there's not other choice, there's just one model of this generation APS-C Sony mirrorless camera, atleast the other manufacturers are giving you the smaller ones as an option, not forcing you to go along with it. With flagship cameras you expect great things, but that's hard to realize when you've got only so little space to make it happen... so, chip infrastructure is baaaaddd. That's why you get massive rolling shitter. Heat dissipation is more or less non existent, leading to recording interruptions and camera shutdowns. They've come up with a 'solution': tripod mode! So basically you raise the threshold for overheat protection to kick in, that however renders your camera sooo friggin' hot, that you are no longer supposed to shoot handheld with it. I mean: c'mon son! Anyways, some people are willing to make that work or claim it's not that bad, all I know is: I can't just rely on it at any given time. But ok, we'll shut our eyes and pretend we didn't see anything. Still, the body is terrible. The cardslot is co-located at the battery compartment, you can't imagine how happy I was when the G80 had gotten a dedicated cardslot on the side, rather than the G7's one that's at the battery compartment as well. The battery itself is tiny and doesn't last very long, don't you just love changing batteries all the time? Yeah, well, me neither. There's no dedicated headphone jack for monitoring. It lacks a sizeable grip for comfortable holding. The screen flips, but not all the way up, nor is it of the vari-angle type that flips up from the side so you can still mount a mic on top and still see the screen. It's a touchscreen now, but the implementation is rather limited, you'd expect more from a manufacturer who's in the smartphone game (although, I'm not suprised they're not killing it, the new XZ1 for example looks amazing on paper... just like their cameras, in reallife... they just don't win you over). Like honestly, what were they thinking here. Back to the image, atleast that's alright, right? Well, like I said, tons of rolling shutter and especially color at its default settings is appaling... even generates color channel clipping. You can make it work, but it takes you a lot of tweaking... don't know about you, but I rather get stuff done than dicking around. That's why people love Canon so much, they're like the opposite of Sony. Don't care about innovation, about specs, how it looks on paper. They just want you to pick it up, shoot with it and find the results pleasing with the minimum effort that went into it. Their AF is on point, colors are pleasing right of the bat, light codec 1080p only on many of their cameras so NLE's slices through the footage like a hot knife through butter. But you know, for how long can you really ignore con-/prosumer need for 4K? Slowmo? Sensor stabilization? Vari-angle screens & mic-in port? Etc. So, you're kinda in between these two extremes. And with the Sony btw, lenses. Argh, their lens philosophy. For a good 3 years now their mirrorless lens line-up has been dead (if not taken into account big bulky expensive ENG/Cinestyle zooms), no development no releases whatsoever. At this point the APS-C E-mount cameras are entry level fullframe cameras for poor souls unable to afford the A7 line-up. Atleast with the A6x00 they can start building their fullframe lens collection and wait until they have enough money to upgrade. Don't know man, not cool! For me one of the main benefits of a crop sensor mirrorless body is the fact that the lenses are small, the body itself doesn't even matter all that much, but if you can keep lenses compact, you've found the secret to a compact system! Sony fails to embrace this. Another big no-no for me! It just all adds up... to something that's disappointing, but like, I was looking forward to the A6300 when rumors of it were leaked and it got closer and closer to launch, because I do like the APS-C performance, I think it's a sweetspot. You get a bit more dynamic range and are able to squeeze a little bit more juice out of the colors. High ISO lowlight noise performance is really respectable. Obviously the crop is less, so your options to go wide angle are better. It's easier to establish a shallow depth of field. All true. Like the occasional fullframe look? Throw on a focal reducer! Still, you have the option to keep lenses small... atleast, with those manufacturers that are willing to embrace that path. Like honestly, I'd probably pick the APS-C Fujifilm X-T2 instead (there were rumors of a videocentric X-T2s, but it has been pretty quiet for a couple of weeks now I believe) or the good ol' Samsung NX1, though, that one really doesn't cope very well at high ISO either. Both the Fuji and Samsung have a bit similar issues that make 'em less appealing. First is the less flexible lens mount option, with no electronic adapters either. No sensor stabilization is a biggie for me. And no vari-angle screen, plus the X-T2 isn't touch sensitive either. To me both Panasonic GH5 and Olympus E-M1 Mark II are what mirrorless crop sensor bodies should be all about. Like, there's hardly anything bad to say for them. You might only be able to 'blame' them for not having APS-C/FF sensor performance. But if that otherwise gives you everything you could ever dream of wanting and be compact at that as well... it's easy to find ways to make it work out just fine. So until someone comes up with something like the GH5 in terms of body and features and throws in an APS-C sensor, for me: Micro Four Thirds it is.

Yes ETC. On the GH5 adds an extra lens to any of the lenses you own....in 4K....with a reasonably small crop...really what I had hoped they would do on the EVA1... with a mount that could receive adapters...instead I'll just save my pennies for the LT

Canon are very frustrating. Their feature choices between models are so trivial. So intricately, and purposefully strategised to the point of almost complete bafflement. The 1DX II doesn't have C-Log. The 5D IV does. The C300II has 10 bit 422, and crippled high frame rates. The C200 has RAW, has 4k60p and non-cropped 120fps. But doesn't have a 10bit codec. The XC10 has 422. The C200 doesn't. The C300 MK I does, which is 6 years old. You could go on forever. Canon should just combine the C200 and C300 II together and sell that. Now that would be a blockbuster! But they won't. At the end of the day, it is just cameras, with specs and buttons and other stuff. We're actually lucky to have so many options in order to tell good stories. But still....

What is the latency in ms for the different frame rates? Or expressed in frames if you want that. What's with the sudden hate against using existing interface solutions? h264 encoding chips are not new and aught to be cheap at this point, same with the USB side. And when it come so getting the data, you could just have ethernet as transport via USB, it's not like the 15Mbit stream is that high demand. What would be interesting is if they made a host mode USB port where you could plug in a wifi adapter, just set it up through cable first then it would work as an access point. UDP multicast and you have a wireless monitor, or several depending how many phones you have. The app side would be fairly similar I think. Latency would not be much more than cable, maybe max 10ms and that is insignificant compared to other things. You could add a wired ethernet adapter too which would be useful as you can add professional access point and have large area coverage. I would not rely on recording through wifi tho.

@Frank Glencairn you have a NDA with your own project? Never heard of that! Look, my problem is that I have serious doubts on you and the other guy being capable to engineer hardware and program a software to show hdmi input with focus peaking, lut etc.pp. yourself. It's not a trivial task. Let's assume for the project crrdibilities sake you are not just relabeling an existing product but you are working with some Taiwanese manufacturer (i.e. Febon) and they agreed to modify their design to your specs as for the hardware and some people that are engineering the software... Why is it so hard to say so, I guess it will rather make people trust more in the project than if you and the other guy pretend to have done the engineering and programming on their own. And BTW since at that pricepoint the hardware company can not use fpga's, it's going to be an ASIC, how many HDMI to h264 Asics exist, it's not so hard to find out which one they could be using, also the tech specs of the ASIC will certainly specify the design inherent latency of the (h264) video encoding, which you fail to mention in the project description. This part is influencing the latency indepenfently of the phones speed and could already be specified. And being a bit more specific about how you are going to solve iOS lack of UVC drivers would be interesting. (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32133699/is-it-possible-to-connect-external-wired-camera-to-ios-device)

It wouldn't be too bad to jerry rig a wireless charger to the back of the phone, connected to a power bank, if your phone supports that kind of technology (which mine does! )

A good decision! 1. Speed Booster XL has the most full-frame-like look, unless you want to avoid vignetting on APS-C lenses then go for the Ultra. Also if you want the absolute best corner sharpness go for the Ultra. 2. Not tried the battery grip as the internal battery last ages and spares so easy to carry! Might improve ergonomics though. 3. The XLR hotshoe audio adapter? 4. 35-100 II... Nah. I'd go for the Olympus 12-100mm F4 instead. Run & gun with AF I take it? 5. Only if you need AF when re-framing a shot otherwise stick to Sigma 6. You don't need it, the screen is fine! Keep it simple. 7. Haha 8. Yes.

It would be interesting to see how long the phone lasts with the app open, screen on and phone turned to airplane mode... but if it's 3 or 4 hours then you have a charging break for 30 minutes (if the phone supports Quickcharge 2.0 it can really charge very fast) that would be ok and you could buy a spare phone for $300 to use whilst the other charges... Still a saving over buying an OLED 1080p field monitor. Come on... Be more positive.

Thinking of buying this one: http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Kowa-Prominar-INFLIGHT-1-5x-anamorphic-35-lens-like-Iscorama-Bolex-Moller-/263151749882?hash=item3d45110afa:g:8eIAAOSwrGFZladz I was actually on the look out for an iscorama, or bolex moller (I think I like that one the most with the all the footage I saw until now), but this plus a rectilux might be a good option?