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Alright, I've been unleashing my angst on here for a lot of reasons, mostly because I can't sleep, but perspective is always important, so here it goes: My elderly mother, already suffering from another disease, is self-isolated because she has the symptoms. My brother is as well. Not tested yet, happening soon. I don't know what the heck is going to happen, but before we all get way too angry and impersonal, a little empathy goes a long way --and keep your outlook healthy. Good luck out there.

Hey guys, I wanted to let everyone know my experience so far after upgrading to a Sony FS5 in 2020. With all the camera options out there is the FS5 and FS5ii still worth it in 2020? With all the options out there is the FS5 right for you? Comes down to your needs but for me it checked all my boxes. FS5 is light and portable and can be rigged.up to fly on modern gimbals easily. It also can be shoulder mounted with help of 3rd party accessories, I recommend smallrig bc of versatility and build quality, and price. Coming from A7riii the learning curve and all the buttons on side looked daunting. But I suggest getting Doug Jensens course masterclass FS5 off vimeo which took me through step by step to learn camera inside out. Plus also get his vortex media PP for straight out of camera shots. Sooc. After learning the camera and the PP and slog2, you shoot over exposed in slog so you set your zebras and your good to go. What unleashes the power of this camera is the RAW sdi output. The FS5 has 3x firmware paid upgrades. 1. Raw, 2. HFR 3. MPEG codec. Each are $500. With these upgrades installed the FS5 becomes a FS5ii, minus PP1. Which on m2 has different color science on pp1, but when you shoot slog 2 and raw or any other PP above 7, then the RAW out thru SDI is all the same. To unleash this power you must purchase the atomos shogun inferno which I did. This gives you ability to do prores raw 12 bit to an ssd. The cost of ssd have come down and 500gb cost $65. Spots as affordable medium. The reason I chose the FS5 vs a BMPCC 4k or 6k , or canon c200. Or eva1 or ursa cane down to a few reasons. 1. Price - most bang for your buck 2. Auto ND filter - is a game changer. Best thing ever. 3. IQ - with external recorder 12 bit prores raw is powerful 4. Versatility , I can go from tripod, to shoulder mount, to monopod, to gimbal 5. Battery Life, I can use BPU60 batteries to power both the FS5 and Shogun 7in at the same time and get about 2 hrs of juice. 6. E mount - I am already invested heavily in E mount glass so that played a role. 7. Speedbooster to get FF look. I can use a speedbooster to get that FF dof with any EF glass. 8. Centerscan - allows the use of my vtg som. Berthiot and bell and howell vtg lenses for video with no vignette. Also use clear image zoom in 4k mode to 1.5 zoom. No vignettes. 9. Slow motion - 2k 240fps continuous prores raw. HFR - 4k 120p 7 sec burst. 10. Professional and Outputs. XLR audio inputs and SDI outputs are professional grade. Multiple inputs for professional sound. And professional SDI output which is night and day better vs consumer HDMI.. For my situation and needs, the auto ND is only offered through Sony. The auto ND has changed everything. It allows you to shoot w an extra parameter that auto adjusts on fly realtime. No other camera offers Auto ND. Its amazing.. truly amazing.. As for anyone who says sony color science is awful. Blah blah blah.. yes if you shoot naked in pp1 or pp2 default. But you can make changes in paint menu and use Eos HD pp or Vortex media pp if you need a baked in shot. But if you got an atomos your gonna be shooting slog2 or slog2 and sony has technical luts to get the images right there w lil work in post. If you are efficient and just have a little knowledge in resolve you can make your image quality match any other camera on list above. If you are looking to buy Sony FS7 or FS5 now is the time with finding amazing deals online. Remember FS5 is same as FS5ii if it has the upgrades. Minus pp1. Which m2 has a better color science baked in for just pp1. But slog2 and slog2 and raw out all have same look. After all it's the same sensor. My experience has been pretty amazing so far. With release of fx9 and soon to be fx6. Prices will drop even farther. If your invested in sonys eco system maybe it's right for you. if your invested in Canon EF glass the fs5 allows you to use a speedbooster to turn camera into FF and gain an extra stop if light. Pretty kool. What this camera is NOT... 1. It's not the low light king. If u want low light use a A7sii or A7riii w BSI sensors or use new FX9 or FX6 when it drops. 2. Real cinema cameras dont have AF. But that's about to change. Get FX9 for eye AF if invested in E mount glass. If you got EF glass the c200 has Dual pixel AF and so does the C100 new. Version though no 4k in the c100. Also I'm told the c200 build quality is very thin cheap plastic, though I have no experience. Ultimately at the end of the day, the Atomos Shogun unlocks full potential of the FS5 and delivers prores raw to the masses in 4k DCI 12 bit raw. The newest $11k at the moment can only do UHD. As for prores raw workflows, at this time Mar 2020. Prores raw is on FCPx on mac. Windows users will need assimilate scratch 9.1 to be able to transcode on windows. Avid media composer and premiere pro both stated in Sept 2019 they will build in natively prores raw support. I know Adobe is still working on it and not available yet as if March 2020, and avid media composer I do not know if its available yet. I can confirm 100% assimilate scratch9.1 works with prores raw on windows and you can transcode from there. Da Vinci resolve does not allow prores raw but they may allow prores? I dont know I will have to 2x check that or have some1 more knowledge comment. Once its released thru adobe pp and avid that will cement prores raw for years to come as a raw format . I have only had my new camera for a few weeks but I have been tickled pink with the IQ and looks I'm getting not to mention the price I was able to get it for. The camera is a workhorse so far. Its gone above and beyond my expectations. I will continue to update my experiences but dont think bc its 5 yrs old it's not able to get the job done. With the prores raw 12bit sdi out, I would put that IQ against anything out there. If u need FF get a speedbooster and use EF glass. The prices have dropped on FS5 and FS7 but these guys hold their own even to the newest latest and greatest.

The contrast between Macron's handling of this in France yesterday and Johnson's in the UK couldn't have been more stark. While Macron offers up a €300 Billion aid package and vows that no company will be left to go bankrupt, Johnson tells everyone not to go to pubs, restaurants, theatres etc but doesn't enforce their closure thereby leaving them unable to claim on their insurance and dooming them to bankruptcy. Along with everyone over the age of 70, my mother is now confined to home for a period of 3 months from this weekend with absolutely zero plan on how food supplies and visits will be organised and managed for her and the other residents of the sheltered accomodation complex she lives in. The centre did manage to have enough of a plan to ban their bingo game in the lounge last night for contravening the social gathering restrictions though. Good luck to everyone on here, particularly those in countries without adults in charge.

@mercer thats frickin awesome!!! go get em!!!! hows the writing going, in general? definitely helps to dooo it right?? i mean i bet you can feel yourself becoming better and more confident all the time...! its tough bc its a huge investment to write anything, believe me i kno 😂 like i mentioned, im writing a spec show that ive had in the back of my head for awhile, and its going pretty well i must say...! im currently into this concept of a story circle, im sure youve heard of it, but ive basically started laying out my notes as callouts from a circle, and i rlly like it... its all there at a glance, unlike a long vertical list of stuff, u kno...? kinda kewl

my cat has alot of er... dignity not sure he'd condescend to wearing some kind of vest with a gopro and rode mic. Still rigging the cat up, could make for an interesting video in itself 😎

Although I appreciate your sentiment here, I did not take Emmanuel's comment negatively. I cannot express enough how much I despise discussing politics. It's truly a pointless endeavor that usually ends in hurt feelings with zero understanding of the other side's opinion. My point in posting in this thread was to offer an alternative viewpoint. And probably because I am a bit bored in between my writing and worrying about my fiancée. I hope your son returns home safely and healthy.

Advanced DFD doesnt sound very optimistic. I wish they would just add PDAF everyone is asking for the past 4 years.

Or 10%, -8%, 2%, 7% and then finally 5%

I’ll put something together!

Currently in the honeymoon phase with my FS5. I bought mine mid summer last year and it took a couple of months to get the images I wanted from it. Here's a mix of games I shot a few weeks ago. 10 bit 422 240fps in 1080p with no crop has been amazing. Variable ND filter is a game changer as well. FS7 dropping in price is tempting ngl, but the FS5 is so much smaller and easier to travel with. FX9 inside of an FS5 body (which is definitly possible) is my dream camera. Great DR, class leading cine cam autofocus, class leading cine cam lowlight performance with dual native iso, variable ND, great mic preamps, and a rugged body. 😵

This thread had turned into less of a discussion on the Corona Virus/Covid-19 Outbreak/Epidemic/Pandemic and more of guys having their periods (we're a hundred times worse than the women, and we don't even have biology to support our behavior). They should probably hand out male sanitary napkins along with face masks and testing kits, to help everyone calm their t!ts. I don't care about anyone whining or spewing vitriolic in disagreement with me, someone who hasn't or cannot read newspapers or watch the news and is drowned in his political bullshit of a viewpoint, or someone generally frustrated with life and everything in it. It reminds me of college when some office staff worker pushed me and I punched him in retaliation (I am very rarely provoked). I was taken to the principal who asked the guy why he was misbehaving. When he said his mother died the precious evening, I asked him why he came to work instead of being at her funeral/cremation, and there was this strange silence. He got his leave and the principal apologised to me. Long story short, if your life is completely screwed up and the world is getting screwed too, stop spreading the rabid vitriolic. Everyone already has enough on their plates. And quite frankly nobody gives a flying f that your life is sad or you're planning to jump off a 100 floor building. Right now, sensible people are keeping themselves away from infections, stocking up essentials, and having a few backup plans.

I'm in

I think you'd need to be a little oblivious of the recent news to not be aware of what @sanveer is saying? (not meaning to imply I agree with him, but I at least understand the perspective he is coming from) For instance, here are the top two results I got for "China" when I searched Google from the news just now, major headline stories from big mainstream news sites: Trump angers Beijing with 'Chinese virus' tweet https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-51928011 Trump sparks anger by calling coronavirus the 'Chinese virus' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/trump-calls-covid-19-the-chinese-virus-as-rift-with-coronavirus-beijing-escalates There are countless more like this that have been published just in the past 24hrs or so: Trump tweets about coronavirus using term 'Chinese Virus' https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/trump-tweets-about-coronavirus-using-term-chinese-virus-n1161161 Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ Tweet Adds Fuel to Fire With Beijing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-17/trump-s-chinese-virus-tweet-adds-fuel-to-fire-with-beijing China to Pompeo: Stop Calling It the ‘Wuhan Virus’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-tells-pompeo-to-stop-calling-coronavirus-covid-19-wuhan-virus Trump Roundly Condemned for Divisive ‘Chinese Virus’ Tweet https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-roundly-condemned-for-divisive-chinese-virus-tweet Trump called it the 'Wuhan coronavirus' for a legal — and commonsensical — reason https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/487931-trump-called-it-the-wuhan-coronavirus-for-a-legal-and-commonsensical

Thanks, Emmanuel. I think we all need to take a deep breath and remember that this is an online forum. I would take more offense by my own farts than I would from someone on this site. With that said, through this site I have made some life long friends and this was probably my first true interactions with you damn foreigners... lol. So I have learned a lot about people over the years thanks to this site... and I have realized that I am a bit of a misanthrope because of it... haha.

Hugging the flag right now. Maybe even doing some dirty dancing with it.

Y'all is cray cray.

Indeed. Sorry to have felt to write it : ) But I can't stand certain voices who think they are owners of something which actually belongs to many more people than they intend to : -)

No. Didn't say that nor hope for any of that. Qualified my definition of what I meant by "Failure". Do you really think I'm some sort of cartoon over here? C'mon now. I don't have a wax mustache and I'm not twirling it with a damsel tied to the railroad tracks. Okay. Okay. Maybe you got me. It's not really a damsel on the railroad tracks, it's an unborn fetus under the heel of my Birkenstock sandals. I am twirling my mustache, but only because I'm proud of it and my new arm pit hair. I was born a woman and have recently transitioned to my true orientation. The hormones are awesome and I can afford them because even though I'm of sound mind and body I'm on unemployment, disability, and food stamps. I threw away my bootstraps while on an Antifa march in Portland during Pride Week. Took me a while to make the decision to accept my real identity, but after numerous trips to my school's gender neutral bathroom and meditating to the Flying Spaghetti Monster I've come to realize that with unprotected premarital sex and a vegan diet I'm ready to take away everyone's guns and jobs. Oh, and then I'll do genocide because bad man in President chair makes me sad. That too. Oh boy. Too much? Was that too much? Curse you internet! You did it to me again!! Speaking of tracks, I've gone off the rails. Sorry about that. I better get outta here. Love you all, seriously.

In the early 2000s, the British experimental filmmaker John Smith made a series of videos made in hotel rooms, each of them shot in only one of them: He also made this brilliant 16mm film in London, in 1976:

My municipality is now in lockdown with travel restricted in and out and all bars, cafes, restaurants and leisure facilities closed. I'm pretty sure that it will last much longer than the 14 days currently decreed by the regional President and that we won't be fully back to normal for many months. Being confined to the house isn't too much of an issue for us work wise as we both work from here anyway (though boy did I get out of being a professional sports photographer at the right time as I would be fucked) but it does mean needing something else to fill up the non-working hours to stop us getting cabin fever. I'm guessing that a lot of people on here might well be about to experience similar confinement if they aren't already, so, trying to make lemonade out of lemons, what long put off projects will you be doing ? For me, aside from finishing a couple of the latter Final Fantasy games to get me sharp for the release of the VII remake next month , I think I might look at : Making a start on learning some Unreal Engine stuff Re-wiring/configuring my music studio Having a couple of lens world cup shootouts to try and thin the collection Developing a wireless interface for BM ATEM switchers Advanced urban combat tactics for hand sanitiser purchasing Be interesting to see what people are planning and seeing how those plans progress here to keep our spirits up ? Might even be a good time to have a "One Single Room In Your House Film Challenge"

That's cool. Free country so good for you! Curious though, do you think evangelicals respect science as much as people that are not evangelicals?

It's not about hate, it's about wanting competent leadership during a global pandemic the likes of which most of us have never seen in our lifetimes. Our president is an idiot. If you can't get beyond your own politics and realize that then you're the one with the problem. It is literally, in the literal sense, impossible to deal with this in any meaningful way without addressing the idiot we have as a president. His incompetence has contributed to this mess here in the US, and he has been among the leading source of disinformation. His other awful qualities really aren't relevant (like the racism) but they certainly do not help.

The GH5 is one of the best cameras released in the last 20 years? It's auto focus is leaps ahead of GH4 and has improved even more in firmware updates.

COVID-19 is an RNA based virus. That means it can mutate just like Influenza. It is very important to get a vaccine and eliminate its current form as soon as possible before it mutates. The bottom line is this: the world will never be the same again. We are very likely going to be in a situation where every flu season we will have influenza and a Coronavirus outbreak.

Not in lock down YET but since my flat is 12 steps from one end to the other (I get another couple by turning left into the bathroom), my main plan is to just go crazy!

I obviously paid attention to. Again, please don't tend to be condescending with the other side here. We have a strong and healthy community. Yeah, I am not Andrew but I know each other enough almost for a decade now to not mind he reads that I do believe he concurs, because I am sure I know what he thinks on topic and wants to his home we all share. People help each other complementing information as I did now with you. It's not important you had addressed it to someone else or not. It's the way we're used to do here in Andrew's home. Let's avoid the confrontational tone as much as possible.

China handled it very poorly in the beginning and stepped up their game in the lock-down phase. Also they built "hospitals" in two days. The US and Europe are doing better? I seriously doubt it. Again, my source was this: Do you have better information than the American Hospital Association? I would love to see it! Again, I said "less than 1 million".

Oh snap, Samsung is going to introduce a nona-cell 150mp 1" sensor for mobile phones (16mp output)! Finally! https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_is_working_on_a_massive_1_150mp_sensor_xiaomi_will_a_phone_with_it_in_q4-news-42045.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death "200 million" is an estimation over multiple waves... not all at once. That would be similar to AIDS that stretched multiple generations. Still, I think the graph helps a person visualise what's going on. When COVID-19 is all said and done, it'll only be a blip on this info-gram- probably less than 1 million deaths, but it's still too early to tell.

Thanks for the explanation. I always like how they describe a sport as "non-contact." Seems to me there is a lot of contact in "non-contact" sports.

Suggestion: remove 'De Focus' from the name

Dear Emanuel, all Italians are at home, me too. Hope we'll have some good news about it soon, I hope you're at home too, safe. I'm ok for now, I'm trying to be informed about new cameras despite COVID-19, but I know everyone having hard times in the world. In Naples there are no so many cases, instead North Italy has a more dangerous situation...

Those are some great images. I'd love to know more about your technique. Are you shooting locked down on a tripod? Are you delivering real-time game footage or just b-roll style highlight packages? Stuff like that. Just curious.

People in the world dying and there is who is interested in a pissing contest with strangers to keep insulting on internet. There are no borders, the issue crosses them. The fictional maps didn't protect anyone of international crisis before, with or without "national" media coverage, go figure today. Bubble burst. No need media or whoever to distort fact-based content. Facts remain facts.

Same as here in Italy, where this measure has been in force since 10 days with valid reasons for travel being only work, health issues, buying food and other reasons of necessity

This is not a normal flu, unfortunately, the infection power and how fast spreads is tremendously diverse of anything known to date. Without vaccine only quarantine can save lives and billions later on. A day of delay increases exponentially the number of infected. The deadline of this crisis. The amount of infected exceeds the healthcare system at a certain point they're unable to treat everyone in critical condition. The choice between who lives and they let die. This is the lesson to learn from Italian case as of now.

Call me idiot again, it's a compliment coming from someone like you. Didn't you understand it yet? ; ) Where did I speak in the name of United States? You can't, I can? C'mon... Don't you allow me to praise the country you say it's yours too?! Really? * cough cough * You're a bunch of insults bag. You disrespect the truth when you dare to say I "have very little respect of Americans" with LIES you're defied but unable to show as evidences of your argument. So weak it is. Shame on you not for that, your arrogance and falsehood anyway. Don't dare to put yourself in the same bag of good people you are NOT. There are good Americans and people like you from your input. A bit B&W your show becomes. Not Fuji's though : D Really sad to watch. Your entry CANNOT be confounded with theirs, I can assure you, I am in touch with them several times a day. It's a pity you come here thinking you represent anything. You represent yourself and is your disgrace. You can't speak on behalf of any country, not even yours, if you're not entitled to. As authority you are not, your credential's worth is null. If no one had informed you or, oh well, you didn't pay attention to. The whole point is your way of thinking and methodology don't represent anyone else except you. You in theory could speak on behalf of the planet you live because there's no authority enough on Earth to represent it nor exactly an agenda you serve for the subject matter so it would be rather pointless, but I doubt any one of us would appreciate you there. I bet not even an alien spaceship would take you if you'd ever find one in the least wild of your dreams.

I don't need to live in U.S.A. to also be based there helping the payroll of American workers among U.S. citizens many of them and contributing to your economy by the way. Without mention to help spreading the good name of America when I succeed to with my humble contribution as happens right nowadays. Really? Who else then? Some ultra like you I haven't noticed yet over here? LOL Show me. Or you infer any criticism* to the actual politics is a crime against U.S.A.? ; -) * constructive criticism BTW

It's not an obsession, don't try to diminish the other side. Pay attention to Bias : D I work and deal every day with U.S.A., to begin with. I have interests on US. You know, that stuff coming from hard work? That stuff... ; ) I was raised in the American culture. I was used to watch Bonanza, there were no even plans of your existence on this planet yet very likely, I guess, not science : ) I am not you who thinks to know everything about the other part. I have too little to speak about my own country. That's not true though. I refer my native country much more than U.S. anyway. And I NEVER write anything against US. It's a piece of shit this nonsense a few of ultras are used to imagine: You're not entitled to speak on behalf of US. Period. What have you done for your country? Are you any U.S. authority by any chance? Simply pathetic such pretentious attitude. The country doesn't belong to you if you didn't notice yet... You wish ; ) LOL The country belongs to all who can proudly be part of it! Not to a minority. This excels the beauty of what made America. Especially when you are addressing words to someone based in U.S.A. as well. With many friends much more patriotic than you who don't give to the world the worst portrait of your country. Shame on that! Is this the stuff you don't like to read from me? Is where your hate stands? This standpoint speaks volumes instead. Your sad picture, not the one you shoot before to even ask about. Clueless.

It doesn't make any sense to me your approach. Not about the content now. Ain't you a democrat (different to be a Democratic Party supporter for the matter) lover just for the record? I have nothing against your political comments. I just notice you have always something to say if you see or think someone else makes the same as you. Just sayin' but doesn't seem to me very democrat indeed. You also infer who you feel is not with you, is against you, doesn't love your beloved America. FYI I love U.S.A., I loved Reagan (well, I must confess I was his fan as cowboy even before his administration LOL) as much as Clinton. I appreciate Jimmy Carter's integrity and I have a weakness for Obama. Last but not least, I learnt to sympathize with Bush, the son. And I even defended the father also when he was accused to not behave accordingly the most conservative rules as far as the female world concerns. He was old then. So, which means we need to try to globally comprehend the whole thing. Bias like fear, is a bitch ; -)

Have you considered the 'worst case' scenario? Well it turns out that the NHS in the UK have modeled the worst case. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised Under this scenario it is assumed that 80% of the UK's population contract coronavirus over the course of the next year. According to Chris Whitty the UK's Chief Medical Officer this could lead to 7.9m people being hospitalized and 318,000 deaths. Whilst this figure sounds (and is) horrendous it needs to be put in perspective. In 2018 there were 541,000 deaths in the UK - of which cancer was the most common cause with 150,000.

Amigo, very true, oh well, me not you, he accused me of something again, this time on my totally friendly comments (as usual BTW) addressed to mercer... LOL : -)

They don't spontaneously explode?

For what? The most funny is so am I the bully and not you trying to also attract followers to your cause then?? LOL What's the name of it, humm? : X The more you post the more is possible to see how lost you invariably are about my intentions and posting or yet whatever else to be honest to you. Sad to see it. Don't think I am glad to write it if I can expect anything from you. I've always had a friendly vibe with Glenn FYI (as many others here BTW) and it is a dirty filthy job you infer something on the contrary. When do you stop this little game of revenge trying to distort and decontextualize ANY words of mine still many weeks later in a row? I'm sorry I can't help you out. Yeah, you're the ONLY one here to ask for irony (oh the sarcasm) from my side now. Wonder why? ; -)

I thought The WHO did it a week ago?

Stop to spread hate. Your issues against my persona are well known, dude. This tactic now to feed up the rumor is anything you look for but doesn't dignify you. You try, you always receive a response you don't like. How many threads you need this time? Grow up for once. Do I need to post them and embarrass you?

We shot this over a few days in Canada on the Panasonic S1 and Mavic pro 2. Honestly I can't be happier with the S1. Having shot on the A7iii and the A7sii for the past years the S1 is quite an advance in image quality. There is so much latitude in post and the dynamic range is really great in comparison.

I believe Canon will use H265 codec for 8K Nothing has being mentioned yet about Raw .

I'LL be needing a lab coat, a uv light and a reversing ring. I then plan on doing do some of my own hd macro and get some back while i torture all those nasty microbes to death 😁 all to the theme of gangstas paradise

Not only have I lost multiple jobs and screenings at this point, but my wife and I's supplemental income as landlords looks like it might be in jeopardy too, depending on what politicians do. Yikes. The US is going to get rocked hard by this all around. If we are where Italy is 2 weeks from now, it ain't likely to be pretty. My opinion is that life in the USA is pretty much random cultural nonsense anyway, with people in power operating with fear rather than our citizen's best interest. What happened yesterday at the White House was just another paper cut, just a longer stroke. "It's national emergency time all of a sudden! Pretend everything I've said over the past 4 weeks about COVID is irrelevant. And here are a bunch of corporate CEO standing behind me for some bullshit reason! I'm not responsible!" I'm pretty damn cynical about society right about now.