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Got myself some new glass for Christmas. I do prefer native lenses but the Sigma Speedbooster combo works really well! Screengrabs from GH5 + Speedbooxter XL + Sigma 35/1.4 + Black Pro Mist 1/4. Edit. Oh yeah, thanks to @jase and @kidzrevil for introducing me to Black Pro Mist, and other, filters.

Just got a Voigtlander 40mm 1.2. Haven't had a chance to test in video yet. But DAMN

I have the Panasonic 8-18, and while I do love that lens and it’s sharpness for photos, it doesn’t really have the practical advantages for video you might think. The autofocus is bad to the point where I don’t even use it for vlogging. I’ll set focus and flick the switch on the barrel to manual. It’s that bad, even in daytime sunlight. The IBIS also doesn’t play very nice with it on the wider end. There’s a lot of jello and background warp happening there. But That will likely be the case for any lens that wide. it is still one of the better options for the system, given that it has filter threads and has great image quality. Just be aware that the autofocus can be maddening and fly by wire is verrrry difficult to pull reliably and consistently. for my purposes, I still think it’s the right choice. But if you don’t mind the bulk of adapted lenses and will be doing mostly manual focusing, there are better options.

I don't appreciate this comment. And I agree with @Cinegain Less one-line URL posts to shitty clickbait news articles.... and more camera tests from YOU guys. Make your own content. If you do take time over it, you'll post less... but better quality. Just a thought.

I love Casey and I think he is a story telling genius. I had no idea about his background for love of movies. This makes sense why he is such a good story teller. This is one best things I've seen in the past month. Thanks for sharing!

@webrunner5 must be doing something right i always see him at the top of the Popular Contributors™

Need to rant. Found out the G9 uses the outdated and unpopular USB 3.0 Micro-B port. WTF? The GH5 has a USB C port and somehow Panasonic thought it was a good idea to take a step backwards? Freaking boggles my mind, these Japanese companies.

You could try the Rokinon/Samyang 12mm f2. It's small, cheap, fast, and takes filters.

So your advice is to continue the ENDLESS threads about how a Alexa is better than a Cellphone on here, and the GH5s just sucks to some, and still ending up nobody, including me post shit for movies or shorts wise. This place lately is becoming All Talk and no Action.

I just don’t get it... I have the GH5 and I was happy to learn about the GH5S. Pre-ordered immediately. Who doesn’t like options. No one is forced to buy this camera. Honesty won’t miss IBIS. A gimbal is a better solution.

Well I know he is not a lot of peoples favorite on here, but he has some damn good points in the video. https://nofilmschool.com/2018/01/powerful-4-minute-lesson-filmmaking-casey-neistat

I saw it with a LG 55B6V. No idea if the tv is HLG/HDR when i watch the youtube videos but it looks great. I will try to download the file and upload it on a USB stick and watch if something changes.

Have a look at the 2nd hand market. Overseas it's much cheaper. I once bought the Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 for 99 bucks from B&H (so, US to Europe), they had re-labelled it in Germany and came to my doorstep free of additional fees. Of course, one might not always be lucky, but even through the official procedures that SLR Magic might still be cheaper with all charges. There it's 539 USD. So ~ 440 EUR. Shipping. Not sure, 30 bucks perhaps. So 25 EUR. Total value taxed is 465 EUR. Say import duties are 4.2% customs duties (I believe for optical equipment) ~ 20 EUR and 23% VAT ~ 110... handling fee about 15 more. You've got it for about 610,- EUR or 2545 PLN. - Adorama has a bundle up for sale with their vND: https://www.adorama.com/slr1021mfnd2.html

Yeah, that Canon actually performs rather well, doesn't it. Atleast in terms of detail/sharpness... might not have given it enough thought over the years, mainly because of that mount. But like you say, there are ways. Or natively again, that 9-18mm Olympus. Voigtländer seems to have a nice look to it, but not everybody is a fan of the quality. Kowa has an 8mm. And SLR Magic has a 10mm as well of course: https://www.eoshd.com/2015/01/slr-magic-10mm-t2-1-review/ For something between your both ends, 12mm is available from just about everyone. A lot of choice there, incl. Veydra.

All you have to do about no IBIS is to buy this. Problem solved! https://petapixel.com/2018/01/19/chairpod-camera-tripod-doubles-chair/

Need to buy that combo in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..

I don't think it is because they couldn't go wider readily but it would have been a lot more difficult and a lot more expensive. Nikon have had a rectilinear 13mm FF lens since 1976 but they are rare and cost a mint now. It is easier and cheaper to make a lens with more distortion now and correct it in camera I think. Another reason I love FF, just much more choice for wide angles (you can get those cheap old 19-35 Soligor's and similar for very little money and many variants of 16/17/20-35/50 type lenses). One lens I have always wanted to try on M43 is the Canon 10-18 STM (I would use it on a Kipon non focal reducer smart adapter).

Very true this...Todays "perfection" is NOT perfect imagery and cinematographic perfection - it's just action / emotion / information / entertainment, etc. Nowadays cinema screen is the smartphone or tablet...And NOONE (OK...not true, I mean 99,9 percent of young audience) cares about "color science" and 300% punch ins... Do I personally like this? For sure not...But we can't refuse to face reality...

Yeah but in 10 years, who knows, Hollywood maybe a former shell of it's self. There is no real good reason for it to exist much longer in reality. This Harvey Weinstein thing is just the tip of the Iceberg out there. Hollywood has been a Sleazy place since the beginning with the Casting Couch thing, and worse. And oh, no doubt it has been a two way street. Not every woman out there is innocent as hell past and present. I lived in Florida for 12 years, and what women did to try and find some old man to hope to marry, and hope they died in 5 years or less was crazy. In the news nearly every day down there. But in this day you know 10 years from now You Tube or Vimeo, something else will be the New Hollywood. Why does it take 200 million dollars to really make a movie in this day?? Come on. I am aware you can't do a lot of that yet at home, but hell 10 years from now I would almost bet you will be able to. Other than shooting on film almost anyone now can rent or Buy a Cine camera that can make a Big time movie. Right there tells you the end is near. An old Arri Alexa has enough DR right now to get the job done, and has been doing it. We Don't need 6k, 8k. Not that many people even go to a huge movie theater anymore. It is mostly kids, and they don't know crap about video perfection. Casey Neistat Is right. He is the future, not Harvey Weinstein and people like him! Harvey doesn't know it , but he is making it happen even faster.

I'm travelling for an indefinite period of time (at least a year), so I only carry the GH5, three lenses, and a microphone. So weight, volume, weather sealing, and the ability to easily attach and remove filters were the things that mattered the most to me. But I am doing video about 90% of the time. But like I say, if you're manually focusing anyway and don't mind a bit of extra weight, I would use something that isn't fly by wire.

Well, https://www.ukdigital.co.uk/slr-magic-8mm-f4-lens-mft.html ... (it's where my G80 and GH5 came from... and I'm EU mainland).

true that

@Riadnasla you are referring to an actual steadycam style stabilizer with vest...is this correct?....If you are, I would look at a Came TV or symilar cheap knockoff style vest arm system, and the actual mechanical "steadycam" you buy that carries the camera is where I'd spend the money....although they take practice, IMO a gimbal will never equal the beauty of footage from a good steadycam operator. As the C100 is not that heavy and gimbals are the rage now, you can probably find a glide cam or something symilar quite cheap used.

The noise is going to be really bad...almost useless. Unless you use higher end drones. Will the final footage be 4k or 1080 ? With downsampling, you probably can reduce some noise. Anything below P4P is useless. I shot Budapest at blue hour. May look passable on small iPhone screen but it's totally crap. THEN, there is the bigger issue of focusing. The focusing on these things are pain, specially in low light. So, regular P4 has a fixed focus, which is perfect for anything farther than 1-2M. But it only has the small sensor. Newer drones have a AF. But, they always hunt and it's a pain, especially the kind of shot you described where you want change your distance from your subject and elevate your position. My suggestion would be to see if you can rent a Inspire 2 with a X5r camera. This is a m4/3 camera that shoots raw. Use a m4/3 lens and set some kind of hyperlocal length manually on your focus and shoot with that. The noise is going to be really bad...almost useless. Unless you use higher end drones. Will the final footage be 4k or 1080 ? With downsampling, you probably can reduce some noise. Anything below P4P is useless. I shot Budapest at blue hour. May look passable on small iPhone screen but it's totally crap. THEN, there is the bigger issue of focusing. The focusing on these things are pain, specially in low light. So, regular P4 has a fixed focus, which is perfect for anything farther than 1-2M. But it only has the small sensor. Newer drones have a AF. But, they always hunt and it's a pain, especially the kind of shot you described where you want change your distance from your subject and elevate your position. My suggestion would be to see if you can rent a Inspire 2 with a X5r camera. This is a m4/3 camera that shoots raw. Use a m4/3 lens and set some kind of hyperlocal length manually on your focus and shoot with that. One correction! You can use P4P and set manual focus, You can also try to find some kind of a hyperlocal distance that way, but then you wont have as much low light ability as the I2/X5r

Yep, this is the problem. I love full frame. I love DPAF. I love cameras that are great in lowlight. I love great hybrids. Yesterday, I was hired to do some content for a new sports product. In the end, did more stills than video! (with a GH5!) I'm being really strict with new purchases - I willingly get another model / different camera / tool if it's ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. The GH5 is doing it's job very well for the moment.

The guy in this video is right by what he says, however there's something missing from his argument. Most gear talk and hype and all that is a waste of time and a huge distraction from the actual purpose of doing, yet there are times when camera A could offer dramatically better results than camera B with the desired job it fulfils. Some people are just really unsure, because choosing the right camera as a beginner, is overwhelming and daunting. The main message though, he's absolutely right. Yesterday i filmed a studio shoot, and straight away I realised i didn't have enough lighting, and I started adding new lights into my virtual shopping basket in my head. But i had to work with it, used the knowledge I had with lighting and cameras and delivered a decent result. With Casey, I'm not an avid follower but I enjoyed this particular video very much. The editing was clever and the message came through strongly. @webrunner5 - I think the "new topic" is justified as it's a topic that offers great discussion and debate.

I don't. No-one does. I have developed regular E-6 reversal in s8 and s16mm. If one can live with some gritt, low framerate and more gritt then s35 widescreen is very easy to shoot and develop. The camera is like $50 Starts at 0:45 ish Or if you can get your hands on a D16.. grabb it and don't let go. And that includes the Monochrome imo.

The ACES workflow in DaVinci makes matching your cameras easy as hell--as it should, since that's what it was designed for. If you haven't tried it, go give the tools a spin. You'll be stunned what you can get out of it.

heres a fun idea: ive long thought that we should have a miscellaneous thread for all *kinds* of stuff that you dont want to put in its own thread – theres things i want to share that might not deserve their own topic – and i appreciate the spirit of the voices who echo that so, if we could have a pinned thread like that, i *absolutely promise* not to post pictures like this (i made this btw) @webrunner5 (lol thats seth rich)

Punch the right search terms into Vimeo and you can see tonnes of footage from people: https://vimeo.com/search?q=tokina+panasonic It is wiiiiiiiiide! I'm a cheap bastard, and use the RJ Lens Turbo

Not really, good wireless is expensive! Be that wireless audio, or wireless video, or wireless focus pulling, or wireless whatever!

Now you see what I mean about California LoL.Yikes.

I just wish they’d make a straight forward cine cam with the X7 that doesn’t need a drone attached to it. Love that image.

I don't find it unlikely for sigma to be developing lenses for Nikon Z mount. Sigma is planning on releasing several native E mount lenses as well. It would make sense to have a common lens design that is shared across mirrorless cameras with short flange distance. Same way DSLR series exist for 3 mount systems but they are practically the same lens. This would be a golden opportunity for a lens company to enter a brand new mount system that will most definitely have very limited lens selection for the first couple of years, and it will be a good idea for Nikon as well to have plenty of choices for a new mount system.

Sounds like a plan. I don't want to piss anyone off on here. I want people to learn new stuff. We are Not the experts on everything on here. I would argue that every Video on here that shows a test of the GH5s, or a DJI drone, etc. etc. is a link to a Blog, even people that are on here all the times Blog! But I will stop, let things just go the way it has been going, and well, not sure.

Oh noes, it's the max police! Haha, nah, I mean, it's alright, everyone can do whatever they want of course. It's not my place to say what one can or can not do, just a friendly request, I just came back from being out and about and I just noticed all these new threads. One after another. Maybe a little exaggerated response from my side, but just my 2 bitcoins of course. And Andrew is under a non-disclosure agreement and he doesn't want to slip up, I bet that's all.

I keep a tab open on the main forum index, that means old topics get flushed out by new ones to the 2nd page. If we have everybody opening a topic for each article they found interesting, there's no conversation anymore. I mean, if you want to start a single blog kind collection thread where you post all the articles that you find interesting, that's cool. But likely, we all come around the rumor sites, news sites or subscribe to these channels if that had interested us already. So... when we have that out of the way, we can come here and discuss our own experiences, like you say, help and inspire eachother, you know, human interaction, rather than a flood of posted articles. And yeah, of course, what this guy says: Now I could've dropped that video in it's own topic... but I didn't.

Go outside and get some fresh air. I was being respectful and you went straight to this? Classy. I'd start with as close as possible and then modify from there if you don't get the result you want. It took me several tries to learn how to quickly match in Resolve. I do it for the likes *Hint hint.*

however I can not understand all this excitement for this stupid boy. Where I live, it is the same Italian state that publishes killings, people laughing for the dead after a tragedy, and much more, without any restraint or compassion !!! Example:

Yeah, yeah, I've seen that already. Be careful not turning this forum into a blog, yeah. We go to blogs and other outlets for that, m8.

I have the Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO which trully does a spectacular job. But it is huge and doesn't have a filter ring natively. Before I used to fly handheld gimbal stabilizers of the mechanical kind with the GH2 and the adapted Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8, but I don't find the image all that satisfying, I find the Olympus has less distortion and better sharpness. But you do need like a 3D printed accessory to be able to mount filters in front. Then more recently Laowa came out with the 7.5mm f/2 MFT rectilinear lens (which the Oly is as well, btw) and it is the perfect thing for wide angle. It's small and light (I have the lightweight version, should I decide to throw it on some aerial platform one day) and actually takes filters natively. Image quality is rather good for the size. People also used to use the Olympus 9-18mm quite a bit, might be worth having a look at. Otherwise... Gordon Laing I believe mentioned it was his favourite lens to come out last year? Just because it's so practical. But I have to agree with you on the look, nothing about these recent Panasonic Leica zooms screams that Leica look, like their primes do (most notably of course the 42.5mm f/1.2). So... dunno. For me, right now it's a mixture of convenience VS quality when I go out, so either Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO or 7.5mm f/2 MFT from Laowa.

One last thing, the down draft from the drone, will most likely ruffle the blanket and hair on your talent. So you probably wont get the shot you want. Remember these drones are very powerful to lift a few pounds into air. So there is a lot of down draft blowing under the drone and it may be distracting to the story you want to tell.

Use a crane/Jib for indoor. Drone is dangerous so close to your actress and you will get lot of wind, sound , dust and maybe blood on your take. Outside whatever drone with tiltable 3axis gimbal will do the job.

Voigtlander 40mm with Formatt Hitech Supermist Black 1/2

I don't know if it's proper etiquette to post stuff from other forums here, so please forgive / delete as appropriate if it's not the done thing. I thought this was a really good comment by a user on DVXuser (Thomas Smet) : I'm particularly excited about points 1 and 5. I've mentioned lenses before, but I'm constantly wishing I could add more diffusion to LED lights, but until now there's been too much of a loss of output.

24-35 is like having a 24-50 F2 constant on the A7R III due to Super 35mm crop mode.

It doesn’t change the situation with Pro Color because the A7R III doesn’t let you select BT.2020 with a standard gamma curve, only LOG (HLG) mode... So you can’t use it for straight out of camera colour (which is what EOSHD Pro Color is for). You need to add a LUT. In the article I say BT.2020 is developed jointly by BBC and NHK. It’s not a Sony standard but a HDR broadcast standard. Canon use it as well. S-Gammut is the Sony equivilent wide colour space. And that needs tweaking to work well and / or expert grading.

HI, Guys, i m a new user. this is a first test whit my new toys Anamorphot 2x the video is shot whit gh5 and the 25 mm leica whit the ex tele conv ON thanks for watchcing https://vimeo.com/249584580