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https://vimeo.com/208637237 https://vimeo.com/150067275 Mostly handheld, without ibis. Lenses from 12mm to 35mm on the pocket camera.

Provocative thoughts on IBIS: Terribly overrated. Nowadays no one seems to be able to conceive a shot without it. The point is that with UHD small shakes and jitters instantly reduce resolution considerably. I know. People want to be able to hold the camera body in their hands - a body that's ergonomically unfit to be held that way -, looking casually on the swing-out display. The switch from traditional camcorders (no one wants to shoot with one nowadays) to DSLRs brought the rig industry into being. Rigs never were perfect ootb. You didn't buy a rig and were ready to go. You had to adapt a rig, make it fit in size and angles to your own body and preferred way of shooting (field monitor or rather a bigger EVF?), exercise with it, buy additional parts. There was no in body image stabilization, so designing your personal setup for stabilization was top priority. Additionally, you had to train your muscles and breath (exhale while concentrating). Zen And The Art Of Body Camera Stabilization. Smart technical solutions to compensate for common problems (not enough light, no patience to focus, those things) make us lazy. I doubt very much that they contribute to better images, rather on the contrary. Like I said, deliberately provocative. You can also tell I'm considering the GH5S.

Hi guys! I am just grading my new film from expedition to Matsés tribe in Peru. I shot all with GH5 10bit 24p (+ some shots by basic dron DJI Spark and a few shots with gopro). I do not use any luts and have been trying to get the best jungle adventure look for a week but my eyes are confused and I really do not know if this is ok or not. The problem is whether the colors are rich enough and if the jungle atmosphere in picture is decent or if it is a piece of shit... Please can you take a short look to give me any advice of uninvolved person before I will grade all the hundreds shots manually? The thing is that the colors, saturation and contrast looks pretty different on my DELL UP2716D UltraSharp 27 compared to my Panasonic NEOplasma VT65 so I can not decide if to continue in Dell way or try different approach. Thank you a lot!

JVC LS300: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1096581-REG/jvc_gy_ls300_4kcam_handheld_s35mm.html

Don't know how many Swedes are on this forum except for me and Mattias so the voice over won't mean much. Hopefully the images tell their own story. Shot on Panasonic GH5 and Olympus 25/1.2 with a Tiffen Black Pro Mist 1/4. Graded with Filmconvert.

Shoot 4k. Use a fader ND. Shoot c-log. Expose to the right. I’ve found the compression is much much better wide open/nearly wide open. Maybe this is the lens, but the f11 stuff I shot came out mushy. It is good for what it is. If it had a 2.8 constant lens, this camera would be a beast.

Goes to show you how much I follow who-does-what anymore. "What We Do" blew me away. It's difficult to do a 2-minute video gag. 90 minutes? One of the best films I've seen in the past ten years. I watched it twice with my kids. One of them has probably watched it three times.

No, but I'm definitely considering 15 Stops of dynamic range. ?

OK this is a pretty good explanation about the size difference I was talking about.

If you're next to broke and can't afford another wireless, but think you might perhaps in a pinch need an extra lav then a DR10L could be good to keep in reserve. I don't. Hasn't arrived yet (well.... it might have! But I haven't been to collect my mail yet :-P ). I plan to just do an unboxing/review then sell it on to my friend at cost price because he wants one.

You didn't mention the pros of the speedbooster nor the downsides to going native as if Panasonic paid you.

If Mavic Pro 2 comes with the Phantom camera that would be awesome. Last year at a drone conference I told a DJI VP why on earth are you not releasing either a Phantom that folds like a Mavic or a bigger Mavic with Phantom's camera. I told him we are tons of videographers and photographers out there who need maximum portability (in my case mountain trekking for days) combined with maximum image quality. The Phantom form factor did not evolve since version 1, many years ago. It is not relevant anymore. He answered "we are not sure there is a market demand for that". I told him well who on earth would prefer the actual P4 Pro versus the same drone but completely foldable? Mavic Pro 2 with 1" camera and 4K60P is an INSTAN buy for me. However I am very afraid of this: They will release a Mavic Pro 2 with all advancements of Mavic Air (more avoidance sensor, gesture control, ...) + keep the better range and flight time + bump the camera to 100mbps and 4K60P which I do not care. Give me 1". Even if a bit bigger. There is a world of difference between an Mavic Pro and Phantom today in size.

A friend once remarked to me that he enjoyed reading Edgar Allan Poe because he could tell when Poe wrote one paragraph in a good mood, then the next day, he's in a crap mood, and would then write a depressing paragraph. In other words, our emotions change hourly, daily, and they will change our emotional choice in colors. So not surprised you're driving yourself crazy There is NO perfect color. LUTs are just another person's color opinion, emotion. As @hijodeibn said, calibrating your monitor is your first step. I have a ColorRite but it creates more problems than it solves for me, so I just use a color chart I find on the internet. First use your software's calibration of brightness/contrast though (gamma). If you don't know a lot about how cameras create color, I did a video on YouTube, search "Camera RAW is Color Blind". After that, try to decide on a look, create a few reference shots, and grade to them.

Hello Midloch, let me congrats you for the shoot you just did, very nice to be shooting in Peruvian forest, and my first advice, you have to grade your footage in a calibrated monitor, that`s step number one, the next step is to color correct you footage, to make it to look natural, and then you can go and apply a LUT to give to your film a special look. If you are not using a calibrated monitor you have to get one or buy a device to calibrate the one you are using.....don`t waste any time trying to do it without a calibrated monitor. The best device to calibrate a monitor in the market today is the "X-Rite i1Display Pro". Regards!

That footage could have been any of the GH cams from 4 upwards.

Agreed. And that's sort of what I meant above re: the additional features that made IBIS impossible according to Panasonic. I don't believe it's simply the slightly larger sensor; it's the delicate balance of available resources, both hardware and software, that determine the camera's capabilities. I operate under the belief that Panasonic does not artificially cripple their cameras in order to protect margins, however they may have decided that adding the feature would have cost them (and consumers) too much to be viable. There is a distinction there. Regardless, I'm excited for my camera to arrive next week

I used the PZ version 16-50 with the Pilotfly H1 (8bits) works pretty well.

I have also done some tests. However, I found that Canon L glass works quite well while shooting video as long as you are using the Metabones adapter.

XL with full frame lenses. Ultra with APS-C, otherwise on the XL + APS-C lenses you will get vignetting, regardless of IBIS.

XL was designed for GH4. Many users already had the XL and they bought the GH5, so you see the XL used more often. While XL accomplished its original mission and still did great with full frame lenses, GH5 had bigger coverage to begin with, having no 4k crop at all, and on top of that you need to give a little headroom for the IBIS to operate. You don't want an entire stripe of black to come up every now and then when you handhold (with XL and APS-C lens). If you don't want IBIS why didn't we stick with GH4? Everyone seems to be using the Sigma 18-35/1.8 and on GH5 an ULTRA is required. Of course XL if you use only full frame lenses.