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Yeah, sort of anyway. Again, it is all relative as the S5 is still heavier than some other FF cameras WITH a lens. It is not so heavy (or large in dimension) that i would baulk at taking it though.

The s5 is low weight though, which is the reason I picked it over the s1h.

I love my S1, its quickly become my favorite camera, cant wait for this update Crazy, I never expected it to become a 6k camera. But im not complaining 🙂

Purchased a Velbon monopod. This is the most fun monopod I’ve ever had…if you can say monopods are fun. It goes from fitting in my pocket to full length in seconds. I’m 6’1” and my camera is right at eye level.

I'm sensing things here too, but it's not irony. Ah, now we've changed the game. You're saying that the resulting downscaled image will have the same reduced colour depth as the original image. This is not what you have been saying up until this point. You said that "4K has 4 times the color depth (and 4 times the bit rate) of full HD" which implies that I can film a 4K 8-bit image and get greater colour depth than FHD 8-bit, but now you're saying that the resulting downscale to FHD will have the same limitations to colour depth, which completely disagrees with your original statement. Correct. Which is why "4K has 4 times the color depth (and 4 times the bit rate) of full HD" is a fundamentally incorrect statement. I shoot with 8-bit, I get colour banding. I shoot with 10-bit, I don't get colour banding. Seems like it has everything to do with the colour depth of the resulting image. Please provide links to any articles or definitions (or anything at all) that talks about how colour depth is different to bit depth, because I have looked and I can't find a single reference where someone has made the distinction except you, who it seems suspiciously like you're changing the definition just to avoid being called out for posting BS online. Then explain it simply. I have asked you lots of times to do so. The really sad thing is that there is some basis to this (and thus why Andrew and others have reported on it) and there are some situations where downscaling does in fact have a similar effect to having shot in an increased bit-depth, but you are not explaining how to tell when these situations are and when they are not likely. Making assertions that resolution can increase bit-depth but then saying that banding will still occur is simply disagreeing with yourself. For those having to read this, firstly, I'm sorry that discussions like this happen and that it is so difficult to call someone out on them posting BS misleading generic statements. The reason I do this is because as I've learned more about film-making and the tech behind it, the more I've realised that so many of the things people say on forums like these is just factually incorrect. This would be fine, and I'm not someone who is fact-checking 4chan or anything, but people make decisions and spend their limited funds on the basis of BS like this, so I feel that we should do our best to call it out when we see it, so that people are better off, rather than worse off after reading these things.

You're really not getting this.... Let's revisit your original statement: So, if 4K has 4 times the colour depth, then downscaled to FHD it should be equivalent to FHD 10-bit. When I shoot a 4K 8-bit image and get banding in it, and downscale it to FHD, why does the banding remain? If I took the same shot in FHD 10-bit, there is no banding, so why doesn't the banding get eliminated like you've claimed in your original statement?

There are too many m43 lenses around to let the format just die..I doubt Panasonic will make more money from their full frame mount, which until now semi-fails to make a stronghold in the market. Also, Olympus is not quite dead yet, there have been some recent releases on lenses (?) I believe and some plans for a camera release. When the tiny sensors are OK for most people in the world (phones/, I see that there is potential for the much bigger m43 one. A video workhorse GH-6 with less mass and weight for 1.999€ maybe is what most people need at the moment. I still see people using professionally their GH5 around. I can see a future for m43, a pro level camera every 5 years and a new cheap model every 2and a half (and keep just 3 product lines, very cheap - 599$ new, 999$ middle level, and 1599$ - 1.999$ pro level, depending the extras such e-ND, audio ports, e.t.c). It is a good platform and unlimited cheap lenses around.

I don't know if you noticed @Lux Shots but there's banding in your picture? A big grey bar right through the centre. Or should that be gray and center? Anyway, I spotted it.

Probably just interpret as PQ/LINEAR in fcpx or Premiere. Dynamic range is exactly the same in ProRes Raw/Braw vs internal. Only benefits are: - no chroma denoising - 12 bit 444