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I filmed this last year with a Sony A7sii + 28mm F2 and a 50mm f1.4 + Phantom 4. Let me know if you have any questions!

If you want shallow DOF and a vintage look on stuff out of a cheap 3ccd, you can always just pick up an old Letus35 lens adapter. Seriously. Man, that'll take the edge off, give you nice motion cadence, and look cool doing it. Goofy way to go, but it works. What you're alluding to is a real and interesting dilemma. With even consumer cameras/lenses looking pristine and wonderful, and everyone has 'em, what does one do to differentiate --but still have something that looks nice? Personally, I absolutely want my IQ to have flaws. It fits the sorts of stories I like to tell. Ramshackle and shabby a little, but still well crafted. Slight chroma aberration on the edges of frame? A smidge of ignetting? Check and check. I want the viewer to sense that what they're watching is not "normal." Thank goodness for the legacy flaws of 24fps! Now, when I do corporate stuff, I slap on my OlyPro lenses @f4 and 60fps. Otherwise, let's keep other stories in visual dream-land.

I went out and shot some impressingly boring test footage with the tokina 11-18 that also included sky. I used different settings, these affect the vignetting of it. I'll publish it later today, now I gotta run..

Why would you want a small chip camcorder?? Unless you have a specific purpose in mind, then don't both! An example exception might be a very fast paced run and gun doco, and then going for the likes of a Sony X70 could make sense. As for a large chip camcorder, nah don't go for the AF100. (unless you find it INSANELY cheap, we're talking sub $500 territory. At least!) A couple of years back I was seriously considering buying one, but glad I went for the hugely superior Sony PMW-F3 instead (which is dirt cheap today, but I probably wouldn't buy in 2017... as the FS700 has now fallen down to extremely attractive low prices).

I have an af100, it has virutally no dynamic range and weird highlight rolloff and 8bit wrapped to 10bit output. Its fine for shooting in very controlled lighting, but honestly unless its very very cheap, I got mine for $500, I wouldn't bother, go find a cheap gh4 and rig it up, youll have a much much better camera. Or a g85 or something with unlimited record time. The Af100 is just very dated. Havent used it with a recorder, ill give it a go for you tomorrow

Interesting test from Daniel:

Hey, I'm looking for one of these short 2x scopes if anyone has something they want to sell. Thanks, Jon

Depends on codec. Same here. I used a MacBook Air for over a year and FCPX worked great on it with 4k from compressed footage. My 1DC footage was not good. But gh4/ GH5 8 bit handles great

Ok, here you go, 11-16mm tokina lens at 11mm, and several options: 6K anamorphic 24p 4992x3744 - stabilizer off - stabilizer ‘hand’ C4K all-i 24p 4096x2160 - stabilizer off - stabilizer ‘hand’ - stabilizer ‘hand’ + e-stabilization (video) 4K all-i 24p 3840x2160 - stabilizer off - stabilizer ‘hand’ - stabilizer ‘hand’ + e-stabilization (video) https://youtu.be/Al-FkHgO6Ik How do I make it show the player? Ah..

Hey guys, I like the image out of the EX1, which is comparable to a GH2 when it comes to color fidelity and low light performance. That in combination with the super fun pro camcorder body with a nice zoom lens with rings for aperture, focus and zoom. It has NDs, great stabilization, great controls, stupid menu:) Very versatile, fun to use, nice image. And CCD magic, guys! That EX1 mojo with its triple CCD magic:) Now, finding a EX1 below 1000EU is not possible. So I started looking for alternatives, which turned out to be either cheap with not convincing image or expensive with a nice image. Speaking of Sony PDW 200, the pimped EX1 here. So I figured, if there might be some HDV camcorder in the great body of an EX1.There are some like a Sony HVR Z5, which can even be used with an additional flash recorder instead of DV Tape. But image didnt convince me enough, too much aliasing going on. So I became to open this thread. Sony F3 is the ongoing darling of this forum and really tempting. Still not a cheap package with an external rekorder. AF100 has the image of a GH2 in a real camera body. For 500EU it would be tempting. So my question was, if it gives out a better image quality to a recorder, like intraframe 8bit 422. And if it was easy to rig up and use as a shoulder camera for longer shoots. FS700 with a Shogun is ridicilous in the sense that it is so small and light and that it puts out such a great image, but I don´t like the ergos and price is still prosumer region:) There was a thread about DVX100 mojo. I look for something like that with a much better image and without tapes, for an amateur auteur price:) I think the most compelling cameras I found in the 3chip category besides the legendary EX1 are Sony AX2000 and Panasonic AC90, the latter still around 1500, though. AX2000 for 500EU would be worth a look for me, it is still runnig for 800 plus. So there are no "cheap" 3CCD or 3CMOS EX1 style cameras. I wouldnt mind trying modern 1inch cams like the X70, but these guys are not cheap at all. That´s why I was looking for alternatives, that and some CCD magic. Though the AX2000 has 3 CMOS chips. But it writes to cards, has a nice and stabilized lens, has NDs and puts out an appealing image. Hey Liam, Sony AX2000 might have some appeal:) So far my first pick.

That last pic is porn.

More than any other, this one blog post helped me master professionalism and bokeh, and avoid legal pitfalls. http://www.27bslash6.com/photography.html

I'm definitely interested in some older 3 chip camcorders, but the appeal to me might include.. dv tapes, low resolution, some noise. If you want a great, high res, clean image, it might not be the way to go. That just seems like 2 different things to me. Are there other specific features that would make these ideal to you other than charm? They ARE movie cameras as opposed to photo cameras, with a whole different feel using it, so I can respect that of course

*update* Comprehensive test to come (just posted by Daniel*) * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H06EXJn2k3M&lc=z23jjznhrmu2zfggb04t1aokgujkxtfhciyfmwhtx5ygrk0h00410.1508030539094930

Daniel has just posted that he will update a new test today. I've asked him to test it with longer focal lengths beyond 21mm on the anamorphic, 6K Photo and stills 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1:1 modes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUFJ9OJ28As&lc=z23jjznhrmu2zfggb04t1aokg4yuojbg2mjsv5thjvplbk0h00410.1508016665373862

I do really appreciate Daniel as well his honest gear tests. Very responsive BTW. Pity he has no more in his hands to add his input. Beyond his creative topics on his GH5. Thematic subjects in-focus are also a value-added indeed. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5HAPKYbBL6ogj2GWO_gE6A/videos Humble buddy, that's my cup of tea.

Can someone point me to data/studies about how much impact humans have on climate change vs natural changes that are occurring naturally? I'd love to see some statistics.

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Updated the IMDB page as well. Thanks again Iron Film for the heads up! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5989056/

And on the anamorphic, 6K Photo and all 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1:1 stills modes? Have you tested the vignetting along such lens on all or any of them?

Could you tell what GPU you have, that runs NX1 files smoothly? Also do you have W10 Home or Pro version? I am thinking to buy Resolve Studio version, but I should also buy Nvidia GPU and maybe (hope not) W10 Pro update.

I use the Speedbooster XL on the Tokina 11-16 APS-C...hand held with IBIS on, I get zero Vignetting and it gets me down to 7.4mm at f1.8, so very fast and very wide!...I did consider the PL 8-18 for a bit, but I find 12 mm already wide on the GH5 (I own the PL 12-60), so for the rare occasion I need wider, I already owned the Tokina and it's 1 1/3 stops faster....I remember previous discussions, re the XL or Ultra SB, on APS-C lenses, though at the time, I felt it was easy enough to do a small crop in post and the wider FOV and extra 1/3 stop was significant with the XL...also no issues with the Sigma 18-35...these lenses are Nikon mount and on a tripod the results are the same...I had initially thought it might be an issue with handheld, but there's none.

Oh! Didn't actually read through the entire update log! My bad! However I'm currently in the process of buying the Studio version so I can check that it's indeed the case. Might just be another bug from them as there seem to be a lot of them...

I have a geforce 1080ti. How can I help (never used resolve)?

Simo, have you already tried any one of these tips? https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/24937-gh5-autofocus-improvement-on-new-firmware-update-for-soon/?page=3 https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/24937-gh5-autofocus-improvement-on-new-firmware-update-for-soon/?page=2

Because it's not supposed to be "to your liking", it's supposed to be as specified. There's a reason we have things like Rec709, etc. The TV should come with those set, then people can bend them to their liking (frame interpolation, contrast on max, etc.). I wonder how people feel who professionally color grade stuff for cinema when they see it played on consumer TV sets. People here hate on Sony because the colors aren't perfect and then think it's perfectly fine that TVs/computer monitors/mobile phones show everything completely distorted anyway? I'm still stuck with my 2008 Panasonic plasma TV that I setup as good as I could while using a display probe (incl. output LUT in Davinci Resolve, etc.). The picture is great and it tremendously decreases my pleasure of watching movies at my friend/family's places.

Very nice object. I'm not personally interested in anything which is not AF, but I recognize the huge work that Luca did for this project and the terrific result he achieved. Bravo Luca!

What is confusing is that this line below is also in the free versions description: "Added support for hardware accelerated HEVC decode on supported NVIDIA GPUs on DaVinci Resolve Studio on Windows and Linux" But yes there is the Studio word. So it must be that there is no support for HEVC in the free Windows Resolve version.