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B&W video can look beautiful for the right subject...especially portraits of interesting faces and documenting everyday life. Without the distraction of colour, often the viewers attention is drawn closer to the subject and can give a timeless feel. Without the luxury of a monochrome sensor, it’s always best to monitor in B&W - since the composition often benefits from contrast in lighting and tone that is not easily noticed when viewing in colour. @mercer MLVFS is now working with the most recent nightly builds, making post processing very painless...especially when combined with Resolve for export. Here is an early ML video that made me upgrade to FF Raw a few years ago...something magical about it. This music video also looks great in B&W:

After grading some sample footage from LensProToGo (pulling a former powergrade I did for the GH5 to the EVA1 footage with no adjustments) I'm totally convinced, that the EVA-1 is the best looking camera below 10 grands. Colorscience is superb (only slightly different than the GH5 - Powergrade worked perfectly), absolutely no image "worseners" like sharpening nor noisereduction - great detail and noise structure, and great motion cadence as well as dynamic range. Only the 8 bit artifacts in the slowmotion parts worry me a bit. Link to original grading (+ links to raw footage) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dy8djdDPyc

There's the crop. And then with the "video oriented" XT2 it still lacked proper exposure tools, had issues with lenses changing exposure while recording due to lens corrections, and you can't record video without moving the mode dial a few clicks from stills modes. Some of that was addressed in future FW updates, but it wasn't right at introduction and its still somewhat clunky if you're shooting stills at the same time - like when traveling. That's what I mean by getting it right. Eliminate the crop in 24/25p mode like Sony. Give us higher frame rates in HD. It needs histogram and zebras from the outset. It needs a record button so you can stab it in any mode to get video. AF tracking needs to be improved, it doesn't need to be at a9 levels, but Fuji is still playing catchup with its AF algorithms. I still hope that the XH1 inherits the bigger GFX battery and newer processor, but FR says no and he's been much more accurate than the other rumor sites. So that one isn't a deal breaker. I don't own the grip so my XT2's are capped at 10 min, but in heavy use I've gotten temp warnings just shooting still bursts and short clips in hot places like India and Cambodia - but no overheating. Though I've never had any overheating with my a7r2 either, even when I was shooting in blazing hot conditions like Egypt and the Namibian desert. As always YMMV. I'm still pre-ordering and selling one of my XT2's once its announced. Hopefully its a big seller and Fuji decides to add a dedicated Cinema camera to its lineup to compliment the MK Cine zooms. There's a lot of room outside of Sony, Canon and Panasonic's offerings as Blackmagic and other upstarts have clearly demonstrated.

"Precision conversions to allow the interchangeability of Hybrid Log-Gamma and V-Log L, for the Panasonic GH5. There are 3 variations of each conversion to accommodate the interaction of white balance with color space: Daylight, Tungsten, and an averaged conversion (4300k)." EmotiveColor.com PDF Download HLG Converted To V-Log L (Tungsten)

Hey Mercer, finally a post where I can say, "SHOOT LOG ALL THE TIME!" The drawbacks of LOG, chroma noise, only create a nice film-grain look in BW. All that said, I believe you'll still get a better image shooting RAW. I compared the RX10II to the professional X70 I had at the time an couldn't see a difference. In short, those RX10s shoot a sweet image and have a nice selection of LOG profiles. If I was going to shoot B&W that would be of my top 10 cameras. Nice images! I keep meaning to shoot BW. Another hangup I need to fix. Post a video when you have one! @UncleBobsPhotography First, you'd need to remove the Color Filter Array (like the Leica Monochrome) to shoot true B&W--in STILLS! In the RX10, it's actually a 1080 image downsampled from 4K, so you shouldn't have much chroma problems interfering with your B&W. In other words, not sure a b&w sensor would give you much benefit except it should be more sensitive to light (having no light-slowing micro-filter-lenses) and give you a higher effective ISO. h264 duplicates values in 420 or 422. Cracks me up that in some other threads people want 444 in 10bit. Who needs that? Give me 444 in 8bit and I'll throw a party! Anyway, h.264 stinks for everything compared to RAW but stinks less for B&W Rock on Mercer!!!!

@Dustin yeah it’s tough to spend money on a hobby, I’ve spent a small fortune over the past couple of years. Honestly, you seem happy with the D5300, so maybe you should just consider keeping it or selling it and upgrade to the D5500 for the Flat Profile. You get consistently good images with the Nikon, so why mess with a good thing? Maybe look into a small slider you can use with your monopod. The RatRig V2 slider is great and light and was recommended to me on here. Also, a lens with good OIS will be nearly as good as the GX85’s IBIS. My Canon 24-70mm f/4 is as steady as IBIS from the GX85. Anyway, just some thoughts.

You can set a button for it so it’s painless with a prime, but with a zoom it may get annoying fast if you change focal lengths often. Now if you’re just punching in or out a little where the focal length change is less than 5mm, you probably wouldn’t have to bother changing it. And I’ve heard of some people just setting the middle focal length of a zoom and the IBIS still works... okay. I have a Minolta 24-35mm zoom I used with the GX85 and I would set the IBIS at 30mm and it was not a big deal but for a bigger zoom range it may be noticeable. If you do decide to go native, I’d take a look at the Olympus 12-40mm, instead of the Panny, the manual clutch focus ring makes it feel more like a manual lens when focusing.

Hey Dustin, although I agree that you should save the extra money and go for the G85, you can get CineLikeD and CineLikeV with the GX85 hack. There is a huge thread about it on here. But to be honest, I think the added weight of the G85 will help with the IBIS. When I owned the GX85, I found the IBIS to be really good but it wasn’t tripod steady, it had a floaty feeling to it. Also, just in case you’re unsure how the IBIS works... if you’re using a non native zoom lens, then you will have to set the focal length every time you zoom in and out and if you are using a Speedbooster with the zoom, you will have to set the adjusted focal length, every time you zoom in or out.

Thank you so much Jon! Was about to upgrade tonight, this is a lifesafer!

Are these solutions good enough? And isn't good enough merely an euphemism for actually pretty bad? Time will tell. As we will get accustomed to see HDR images, we will later, probably years later, be prepared to compare and judge them. That makes early adopters brave pioneers. The more I learn through articles like these, I realize that my hopes of getting started with the bare minimum are naive fallacy. The point where I land with a smack is usually when someone introduces monitor calibration to the discussion. A long and winded rabbit hole with the conclusion that I can only come incrementally closer. Some colorist (van Hurkman? Hullfish?) said that to be aware of the problem was more valuable than to have access to a (sort of) perfectly calibrated monitor without an inkling of what that meant. In the FCP X thread you showed that it's by far not as easy to know all variables to keep the correct color space conversions (another horrifying term) in the 'pipeline' as it should be. I keep reading and commenting, but right now I feel confused and frustrated. I hope, not entirely unselfishly, that your efforts pay off and that you then can explain how you got there!

Ahh just like the good old days when all you needed was your Canon dSLR, a nice bright yellow jacket, some moody landscapes and way too much time on your hands with no kidlets to look after ?

Yeah, not great but better in 1080p. Then again, do you plan on doing a lot of back and forth whip pans? They’re on the verge of cracking the 80D which has a faster buffer than the 70D and more AF points. Plus the original Canon firmware 1080p is better with a higher bitrate, all-i codec. Plus the revered Canon crop mode.

Ah yes, hardly the best showcase of the potential of the EVA1, but still cool to do one of my little vlogs with it :-D

Yeah is one of the annoying features of the Canons (vs say Sonys) is you're stuck with PL or EF, you can't switch between! Or get a Canon C100 mk1 upgraded to DPAF Or just get a Sony a6500, the AF is decent enough. Or hire a 1st AC ;-)

They should send him a 2nd free one!

Hopefully this video will show dissuade you from buying a 5D4 if you need 4k. From my personal tests, the rolling shutter is so bad you can even see the lag when doing a closeup on someone's face even when you're not panning. They compare the rolling shutter to the 1DX2 which is far better in 4K when it comes to rolling shutter.

Hey, thanks. It saved my butt for recent travel, by its portability.

Mark, the Z camera makers should make you an ambassador and use your footage in their promos. You have been consistently getting nice images with that little box.

I've seen it mentioned too, ages ago, in the ML forums by one of the developers as the reason why. It is all relative, if you're used to an Arri Alexa or RED ONE or such, then a C200 is very lightweight indeed! Heck, even compared to say the "lightweight" Sony F5/F55 then a C200 will feel just fine. As it is pretty small, basically the same weight as a C300. (which I do have experience with) And yeah, if you're coming from DSLRs then you'll find a C300 (or C200) possibly "too big" and would prefer something just a little bit smaller (such as say a C100, I really think the difference in size between a C300 and C100 can make a big difference in shooting with it stripped down for long periods run and gun. But pity about the C100's poor specs! However you'd likely find the Panasonic EVA1 just perfect! Very small size + great specs). Do you really think Canon are likely to OFFICIALLY say this? Nah, that strikes me as very unlikely, as the backlash would be immense! And they'd gain nothing at all from that (vs achieving the same ends by communicating it discretely via back channels)

@deezid didn´t watch the whole thing yet. but at 5.45 min is my favorite part "that supernatural favour" What´s P4P? Edit: watched almost to the end. Very nice to watch apart from the professional camera work it has a nice structure to it to center everyting around the ceremony rahter than having the usual kindo of wedding collage. I would have liked to see it start earlier with the foley real time sound, f.i. the violine player and the choir. Anyhow, great video.

After 2 years Iam still in love with it, I won't buy new one now I'd probably wait for Canon 1DX mk2 to get cheaper on 2nd hand market until then I still do low budget music videos so the money is tight can't afford yet to get bigger better..at the end for normal people's eyes it's the story, framing, lighting that really matters not pixel peeps. here's my latest video shot in London with NX1