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You propose a star chamber of 'excellent minds' to make the right decisions on our behalf. To me this such a scary concept. It's the road totalitarianism. At what pont will the 'excellent minds' decide regular people can't be trusted with any decisions? Who would decide what an 'excellent mind' was or is? Who would watch over these superiour beings with their 'excellent minds?' What a chilling, Orwellian, nightmarish, dystopian world that would be.

I feel there are 2 main reasons to add new features to cameras down the line. The first which I feel applies to the GH5 and the initial upgrade given to the S1 was that features were added later when they had resolved any issues, adding such features would cause in the camera software. The ALL-I was added to the GH5 6 months later and probably not included on initial release as they hadn't quite finished working out some of those issues in implementing it. Other cameras get external RAW I feel for similar reasons. Otherwise why not include it on initial release. Another reason to add features is to bring a camera more in line with other newer models. The S1 got a recent upgrade no doubt to help separate it from the S5, which would otherwise have eclipse the model. I'm not sure any of this applies to the S5. Unless a cheaper fullfrane comes from Panasonic, unlikely; then there's no reason to give the ALL-I codec. Even with the GH5, we were promised ALL-I on release, even though we waited 6 months for it. No such promises have been forthcoming on the S5.

That makes sense. In that case, I don't know why people are saying the S5 is a FF GH5. 100Mbps Long-GOP < 400Mbps ALL-I, regardless of how big the sensor is. In fact, I shoot 200Mbps 1080p because I value the 10-bit 422 ALL-I more than I value 4K.

Another important, and humorous, thing to point out here: Andrew mentions over and over how terrible Patty Jenkins is for all of these perceived slights, and yet of the film's three writers, two were men (Geoff Johns, a DC veteran, and David Callaham of Expendables fame). From what I gather, Jenkins's (who brought Callaham aboard after joining Johns, who had already started writing) most specific contributions to the script were the setting of 1984 and the numerous 80s nostalgic locations in Washington, DC that she knew from her childhood. Make of that all that as you will. (this isn't letting Jenkins off the hook or anything, but she is faaaaar from the only person to deserve blame here, especially given its a DC film - the latitude for a director's creative freedom is severely limited with these types of studio films)

Yes that is true but it does look like that video has that extra tiny bit of mojo though that most other cameras cant provide. If you check comparison videos blindly, you can always pick the alexa out as nicest image. Shooting with an alexa is a bit of a nightmare if you are a solo shooter that used dslrs or smaller cinema cameras though.

I think this movie is a great example of how Hollywood just seems to be out of touch with everyone. They aren't in touch with the woke folks, not with the right side or centralists. But what can you really expect from people who pretty much live outside of the realms of the normal people they attempt to cater to. Its humorous how DC goes from something like the Joker to this.

Not very many purchased the S1 for video work. Honestly doesn't seem like many people purchased the S1H for video either. The S1H was marketed as a video camera though and has very video centric features. So you'll see better video work coming from it online. If you shot something with the S1 and S1H side by side they'd look almost identical besides maybe some very slight differences in motion cadence due to ALL-I. I think getting an external recorder for the S1 and doing prores or prores RAW is a better investment than an S1H as the internal footage on the S1 is going to be good enough for clients that can't afford something more. There's not a lot of more amateur stuff on youtube shot on an Alexa. I managed to find this video, which I think demonstrates that the camera is not going to do the work for you. Not saying the video is terrible but it definitely looks like it could have been shot on almost any camera.

I’m just here for the bronzed MILF’s.

I agree with @zerocool22 the S5 and S1H have identical sensors, LOG profiles, etc. I highly doubt in most scenarios you would be able to tell the difference. I think the reason you think the S1H is a lot better is because it is more likely that the buyers of the S1H are shooting higher end productions where they can properly light the scene, use better lenses, etc. Unless the S1H is shooting 5.9K raw (which BTW even the S5 can do now to an external recorder), the S5 and the S1H should produce nearly identical footage if all else is equal (lighting, staging, set design, lens, etc.). Of course the S1H is the better video tool due to not having recording limits, full size HDMI port, and other minor HW details; but none of that really affects the picture quality. In my opinion though, the S5 really shines as a hybrid photo/video camera which is definitely not something the S1H is known for. I don't know if any other camera out there can remotely control 4 wireless flashes using an internal transmitter, unlimited intervalometer, aspect ratio bars in camera, and some of the other S5 photography features that almost no one talks about. With the upcoming firmware update for the S1, I do think it will then become the best hybrid camera mainly due to the 1/320s flash sync speed and the full size HDMI port. Unfortunately though in my opinion the downsides to the S1 is it uses mismatched recording media, and the screen is not a full tilt flip.....however none of these features means the S1 or the S1H will produce more "cinematic" video than the S5.

I did sell one of my 512 GB SanDisk and brought a Delkin 2 TB for 880 usd. So far so good, I used a few times for over 1 TB each of 8k RAW and 4k 120fps 10bit with no issue at all. 8k RAW screen grab, 24mm at 2.8, Godox VL-200

No surprise. And thank you again Netflix for helping encourage more cameras to get TC input! Doubt the C70 would've got timecode if not for Netflix.

I am in the same boat. I need to see how 2021 develops before investing in a new camera. By the time I know if I can expect a good year in 2021, the C200 Mark ii will either be out or at least announced and I can decide between it or the C70. The smaller form factor of the C70 is nice, but the lack of RAW and EVF are annoying omissions for me. Plus I'm not a fan of being tied to SD cards only for recording internally. I've preferred CFast card recording on my Pocket. As much as I've valued the mirrorless form for my cameras, I prefer the C200 body if I'm honest over the C70.