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I would disagree with you on the points that Samsung's own store did not sell them and the employees who worked there never heard of NX1. I worked at Samsung's OWN store as a sales associate in London where we have seen the NX1 and got trained on it month before the release of this camera. I was the first person to sell the NX1 on the launch day. I bought the NX1 (display unit) that was being used in the store as training purposes by us and to show customers after the store shut down on December 23rd. I'm still using it and I bought another NX1 just few months ago to use it as backup or B-cam. Used the NX1 last month on a wedding. The footage came out astonishing. I also had the Sony A7S II, but it was resting inside the bag most of the time. Prefer to shoot with the NX1 more.

I have used the Sigma 18-35mm with a Nikon speedbooster as well as the PL 12-60mm and the Voigtlander 25mm 0.95. My thoughts below PL 12-60 The 12-60mm makes shooting quite easy with its AF and Dual IBIS but it does often render a clinical video sharpness look that cinephiles can't stand. Focus by wire is particularly poor on this lens compared to others I've used (from Olympus' cheap 50-150mm or the PL 15mm 1.7). This is my most useful lens due to its great focal range and it goes with me everywhere. I'm not in love with the look it produces but don't dislike it either - pleasant bokeh when you get close to your subjects. I usually shoot at f4 to soften the look. I'm currently looking into alternatives like the Olympus 12-100mm to get away from the focus by wire. The PL is sharp, renders lots of detail, and very flat contrast wise IMO. Voigtlander 25 When I use the PL 12-60 interchangeably with my 25mm Voigtlander the difference in lens looks are so pronounced that its as if different cameras shot them. The voigtlander is soft, dreamy, and very contrasty. Manual focus on the voigtlander takes some getting used to but is very smooth overall. Close focus on this lens (and I believe the 17.5mm) is ridiculously good, so the macro capabilities are worth noting. The lens is pretty light (not much heavier than the 12-60) and balances well on the GH5. I much prefer the look of this lens to anything else I've used on MFT, including the PL 15mm,, Olympus 17mm, Lumix 20mm, etc, even if it is soft. Sigma 18-35 The Sigma 18-35mm 1.8 with a speedbooster could see in the dark almost as well as the Voigtlander, and produces noticeably sharper results wide open. I found it gave a more accurate and less filmic rendering. With the Nikon speedbooster you get a nice manual aperture control ring, which couples with the nice zoom and focus rings that beat out any focus by wire alternative. IBIS gave me issues if not set to the proper focal length, so when zooming you have to manually change this which is very unintuitive. If this works in the Canon mount I'd consider picking another copy up. (Canon metabones users, please share insight into this?) Mostly, I hated using this lens because with the speedbooster it was 2.2 lbs. The size and weight advantage of Micro 4/3 disappears. This made my camera feel ridiculously front heavy and I'd leave this lens at home a lot. It felt more balanced with the XLR adapter mounted and a shotgun, but still, the size and weight made it really unattractive to use for everyday shooting. I sold this combo. A couple things to consider that haven't been mentioned so far - consider the Extended Teleconverter (ETC) mode on the GH5 when looking at lenses, as this gives you a 1.4 crop that you can apply to any focal length. Your 18-35 will perform as a 25-50 or 35-70 (roughly). I've mapped this to my front custom function button for quickly getting extra lens reach when needed. Also , the Panasonic 42.5mm 1.7 is a very nice lens which can be found cheaply second hand. Much cheaper than the 1.2 and produces nice shallow DOF. Though I've found that the focus by wire sucks.

Wait you are "fairly sure" that a national study for the Department of Justice is "bullshit" based on what exactly? Kilpatrick, Dean G.; Resnick, Heidi S.; Ruggiero, Kenneth J.; Conoscenti, Lauren M.; McCauley, Jenna (July 2007). "Drug-facilitated, Incapacitated, and Forcible Rape: A National Study" And who is "they" ?

I got mine for a while now, and it sill surprises me video & photo wise, its a very impressive and versatile camera once you know how to work around its weaknesses (video frames)

thanks update: im writing!!!

With iOS 11 Apple opened up the dual camera depth data API to developers. I’ve been using the built in portrait mode on my iPhone 7 Plus for a while now and love it. However, today I downloaded a new app that takes full advantage of the depth sensing technology and it’s blowing my mind!! The app is called Anamorphic and it was $2.99 and it may be the best app I’ve ever purchased. The app allows you to take an image, and then adjust where you want the blur to happen in 3D space. You can then feather the blur in the same way you would feather a Luma Key, but it feathers it in Z space. It then applies the most realistic and gorgeous anamorphic bokeh and aberration. Export it out and put VSCO Cam on it and it looks like you took an image with a film camera with a T1.4 vintage Cooke anamorphic lens on it!!! Just testing this app out today has made me giddy and it really feels like magic when you use it. I’m so excited to experiment more with this and even more excited about getting an iPhone X with the faster telephoto lens and OIS! This excites me about the future of cinematography. It’s going to be computational! Imagine shooting on a $100,000 cinema lens that has been profiled that you can simulate in post. Lytro is working on it on the high end, but the fact that my tiny cheap iPhone can do it blows my mind Below you’ll see the normal image that was taken and then the “Anamorphic” with VSCO one. Download the app here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anamorphic/id1247287369?mt=8 I would love for this thread to become a place where we all can share our shots taken with computational photography methods if the admins allow it. If you have an iPhone 7 Plus or 8 now, get the anamorphic app and start shooting!!

Don't underestimate how much heat is generated by encoding video, and how the bodies size factors into what features it gets.

I signed the petition about a year ago. I am happy to hear they got a response from Samsung. My question is would you guys be willing to trust Samsung again after leaving us hanging like this? and if not what kind of commitment would be needed from Samsung for you to trust them. For me, I would need to see a 2-3 year lens release roadmap schedule similar to what Sony did. It's not that I need a lot of lenses I just need to know they are committed to developing the line and that an NX3 would follow after the NX2. Actually, who am I kidding I like my NX1 so much I would probably buy an NX2 no matter what lol. I can only imagine if they made the NX2 today it would probably have some ridiculous specs like 4k 120p and 1080 @ 480

@mercer You got me by the second Sony F3 BOOM! Ticks of all of your boxes and, if you are lucky, you can get away with a 4:4:4 version.

@TwoScoops What is the point here? that sexual crimes are "too few"? How that exactly work if your mother/daughter/wife/girlfriend has been affected in any way? What if your wife's boss is trying to touch her while in work, or if your daughter had a couple of beers more that she should on a dorm party? and who exactly is this lady (I know who she is), and what are her initiatives? 248000 in 2001, 126000 and 188000 in 2009 and 2010, 570000 in 3 years are not enough for you??!! The whole country of Slovenia that won European Championship in basketball are a bit more than 2.000.000 people, almost as much as serious sexual crimes in US the last decade. 91,6% of rapes in Italy go unreported - 60% in US (95% among college students), in many nations in the world sexually assaulted women and kids are considered outcasts - even stoned to death, in some countries (that law passed in Turkey last year) doesn't considers a forceful sexual act as rape, as soon as the perpetrator marries(!) the victim. Instead of trying to minimize those numbers (even 1 is too much) they are not enough for you to sympathize, or be more responsible with your attitude towards victims of serious crimes? https://web.archive.org/web/20140201182537/http://sgdatabase.unwomen.org/searchDetail.action?measureId=26309&baseHREF=country&baseHREFId=675 all the official data is on the internet, there is no point put a dozen of links here, just sad that some humans are so far apart from reality. It is obvious that our communities need a lot of work and evolution steps to start act as an evolved specie, even us, the "lucky" ones in the western world seem to not really comprehend how an altruistic community lives, works, evolve. The good thing, is that politics are starting to play a major role in people's life, most of them for the very first time. You see American sports right now, it is all about equality, understanding and co operation. It isn't the most civil and productive exchange of ideas, but in the end, I hope political thinking, logic and reasoning will prevail, or not (e.g look at the outcome of "Arabic Spring" throughout the world"). This thing can go either way. Do not forget that after the most amazing democratic experiment in Ancient Greek city states, and a cynical productive Pax Romana (hardly a couple centuries in total, or less), followed 1500 years of dark ages. Just in case, don't be too close with your cats. You never know when the next Inquisition is coming, and maybe they will burn wizards, not witches.

The iPhone 8 has the same size sensor as the 7. http://www.techinsights.com/about-techinsights/overview/blog/apple-iphone-8-teardown/ "The wide-angle Sony CIS has a die size of 6.29 mm x 5.21 mm (32.8 mm2). This compares to a 32.3 mm2 die size for iPhone 7’s wide-angle CIS. We fast-tracked the die photographs for this teardown blog so didn’t record the color filter images today, however we can confirm a 1.22 µm pixel pitch."

Great work Rodolfo!

I've used the 35,50 and 85 and have found them all to give a ugly image. - Would not recommend. Sold them for the sigma zooms.

I've noticed quite a few 1DC on ebay since it going EOL. Hopefully in another year or so it'll be really affordable.

You understand that the US Government didn't do the actual scientific work? They just paid for it. And they didn't pay for it by imposing a big new tax (which is how governments remove money from the economy), they spent money -- thereby injecting money into the economy. And even if you argue the bulk of that money went to government agencies like NASA, NASA had to hire a ton of new engineers and scientists and admin/support staff, who then spent their money on food and living and other stuff, thereby spreading all that extra money the government was spending into the wider economy. I mean I suppose if you looked hard enough you would find some area of study that fell by the wayside because funding was diverted to the space effort, but when people have jobs they tend to spend money, and when there's a lot of money moving around freely that's when companies make more money and can spend more money on R&D. I have no idea how you can quantify unseen un-discoveries in the 60s directly due to the space race, but I think the giant leap in technological advances in medicine, computing, aeronautics, materials science, telecommunications, geology, not to mention the huge cultural impact and the inspiration it gave to a whole generation of kids to work in science and engineering... I think it was worth it. But they were expensive. The USPS made it cheap enough for people to try it out to understand how convenient it can be.

Yes. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/16/apollo-legacy-moon-space-riley http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/hidden-figures/technology-from-the-space-race/ http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/10-tech-breakthroughs-to-thank-the-space-race-for-617847 And so much more. The space race drove an a huge wave of technology and miniaturisation that made it possible to have cell phones, laptops, GPS, and digital cameras. Whatever the US Government paid in grants and funding and investing in innovation it is still being paid back for in taxes paid by companies, employees of those companies, and the sales taxes for each product sold. In fact the space race is government spending at its best -- private enterprise can't take the risks that governments can in exploration, and without discovery we won't open new markets. And without the USPS you wouldn't have eBay or Amazon. Without cheap, (relatively) reliable delivery internet shopping might not have caught on the way it did as quickly as it did.

This is the point I've been long making. That the feeder network of cameras matters a lot for sales success of the higher end cameras. Thus Panasonic made a massive blunder with their Panasonic EVA1. They have a massive success with their Panasonic GH series of the years. Then you have the Panasonic Varicam LT which is a top notch high end camera. The Panasonic EVA1 was the golden opportunity to build a bridge between those two worlds Panasonic has succeeded in!! & provide a pathway up for GH series owners. But Panasonic failed to have a MFT version of the Panasonic EVA1. While this is an area Sony is doing successfully. You could start out with say a NEX-5N or a5100, then move up to an a7Rmk2, then secondhand FS700 for 4K raw, then an FS7mk2, and then a VENICE!!! All the way along you get to stick with the same E mount throughout! Genius! Have you seen CHDK?? Magic Lantern was so successful because they got to build on top of that success. You won't see Magic Lantern for any other camera ever happening any time soon, without that massive amount of groundwork being laid beforehand.

I didn't read everything (I am a new user of this forum) in the thread (I'll do that later) but I'd like to thank @BTM_Pix because now I have the chance to use CINELIKE D (and V) on my gx80 Below you'll see stills from a cinelike d and standard profile shootings

Hi Andrew! Quick questions, as I’m using multiple GH5 with Metabones for live recording, do you know if the firmware 2.0 support smooth iris ? Panasonic cameras change apertures in 1/3 steps causing visible exposure shift, while other cameras uses 1/8, allowing smooth and invisible changes. Do you have any news about that?

Yes, I see that exactly that way. I don't say it's bad storytelling or awkward or pointless, on the contrary. But if you try and count the minutes (or screenplay pages) this "film in film" takes and make it fit to any of the narrational structures that modern script gurus teach ... There is a similar, er, secondary storyline in the third season of Six Feet Under. I thought by myself, when will this bullshit stop? When is this going to make sense again? And only later, much later, did I realize, wow, this is what's happening to everybody all the time! Is it because you lose track, become a stranger to yourself? Or has there never been a track, a goal, a personal destiny in the first place? One of both answers is wrong, a lie, sometimes a life-long lie. And both questions are equally disturbing. On the three act dogma: apparently, a story doesn't need an end. Happily ever after seems to be a formal way to end a story, but isn't it really anything else but who cares?

It really is not such a big deal to be lacking 444 As to record 444 you need a fairly expensive recorder, which kinda defeats the purpose of buying this amazing camera on the cheap?! While it can still do great ProRes HQ with a very cheap HD recorder.

in DPR forum I know only 3 or 4 female active users (one of them has the most accurate knowledge about optics), and its the most popular photography website! virtu signaling about equality and diversity solves nothing, they can add few females photogs next time and survive the PR disasters. That's what companies are doing, even in the west. Apple ad contents look super inclusive, liberal and cover almost any minority in the American society, but their work space is noticeably male dominated. No, Apple is not sexist, they hire whoever they think is capable of increasing their profit, it's not their fault that many of them are still male, but they advertise in a way you think reality has changed dramatically! I don't want corporations fool me about social issues. I want higher "real" engagement from women in photography community, and I don't think women necessarily need a woman to tell them they can engage more.

Just a pun. Maybe it was too Ebrasive.

And I think @Andrew Reid response was just a pun on Ebrahim as in its a female so would be Ebra-her rather than Ebra-him

I believe it was just a joke to lighten the mood.

Ebraher!

Wait a minute... Ebrahim is that you?

Hehe...And your claim sounds as you were caught in the scandalization trap of frustrated editors who always offer solutions for problems people don't have. (BTW: Next week I'll get 17 years old...so no old man out here...) My mom works for more than 20 years in the health industry. My grandma - till retired - worked as physician in Bavaria. Every 2-3 years armchair editors wrote about "discrimination" and "sexism" against women in the health indistry. The truth? There was none...Brainwashing at its best... I understand, that it might be some sexism in our society. BUT it is not a general / major problem without artificially constructed scandalization. "No scandal? Let's create one..." My mom took a look at this thread...She was laughing. Her claim (she could confirm this by sending you a mail from her official real name mail account): "I didn't meet sexism. Neither in the health industry, nor in photography...That might be some singular cases in Central Europe, but I didn't EVER have any problem with sexism. I have more problems with exagerations and hallucinating media editors." EDIT: She will create an own account @EOSHD in some days to officially express her opinion (mainly photography and filming)...

On most forums and mainstream sites, you aren't even allowed to discuss issues of sex, race and politics so you're lucky I'm chilled out about it. If things get divisive and out of hand, only then will I stop it.

Yes it will and it looks lovely. You get a slight bit a vignetting in 4K, but the more you stop it down, the darker the corners get. In fact, just a few posts above yours, someone shared this video all shot with 25mm cmount:

The problem is that focal reducers naturally want to shrink the optical path, which is why a boosted lens is shorter than the same lens with a plain adapter. To do an anamorphic focal reducer you need to overcome this tendency, which is much easier said than done. Even if you succeeded and were able to produce an anamorphic focal reducer I don't think that people would go nuts over it. The reason is that it would be a rear anamorphic adapter, and therefore would not produce the horizontal flares, oval bokeh, and differential depth of field that are the main reasons why anamorphic is used nowadays. No doubt there would be a flurry of interest in the market, but then people would be spitting mad when they discovered that their newly created rear anamorphic lenses just do not look anamorphic. And then the mob with pitchforks and torches shows up at my house. No thanks!

Updated video tutorial https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6F1iXrslVvhQnpkengwV2VPVVU

Hi to All, I wrote a script to fast enable/disable Cinelike for gx80-85 in IOS (iphone or Ipad) Link for script https://workflow.is/workflows/ee3e045edbea4a79bec648e31e7d2a07 (Download Workflow App before) In attachment a Video Tutorial to use it I hope can be useful AD84C80E-8445-4169-BB78-633CB561CE69.MP4 or link https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6F1iXrslVvha0dXMXdPU0hhLW8

That happened to me with two seperate a6300. On the third replacement the EVF was tilting... I know its a sensitive subject and believe me, I want Sony to succeed, but this is their mo these days. The a7 and a6000 have been very solid for me. The rx100iv, a6300, a7ii and a7sii have all disappointed me. I hope you get a better one next.