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Saw Soderbergh's Presence the other day. Immediately noticed it was shot on mirrorless with gimbal, and turns out its the A9iii with Sony FE 14mm F1.8 GM. Interesting choice for a full-feature, it makes sense since the POV is a floating ghost inside a house: "We shot this on the [Sony Alpha 9 III], which is, as you know, a digital [mirrorless] camera. Its primary mode is as a still camera, but it also shoots really good video. It’s small, and this new version has a sensor that was never used in [this kind of camera] before. I did experiments with all the digital cameras that I’d worked with before and ones I hadn’t. I stripped them down as much as I could, then put them on the smallest stabilization rig that would support them. What I discovered was that there was just a couple of pounds’ difference between the camera I could use and stabilize and be able to back into any space I wanted to, and the next step up made that impossible because of the weight. We did all these tests with the Sony and this one rig. And I’m like, 'This’ll work. It’s not heavy.'"

They don't call it creative accounting for nothing

Now with the ZF 85, generic focal reducer, OM1, video mode, c4k 30p, 10 bit HLG H265, I set the ibis focal length at 60mm, sensor shift and digital, +1. The footage is very usable, much better than EM-5 at 50 mm. If I hold my body and arms tight, I guess that the results will be very close to be tripod like or at least mono pod like. C4K 30p is good enough for slow moving subject tracking, like a rowing man. C4K 30p has more details than C4K 60p. Good for landscape. I guess that if I skip the generic focal reducer, the results will be even better. Not to say the unique 120p photo burst mode. Two thumbs up to OM1. I think it is the best deal today for hybrid cams.

I'll be honest, when I saw your topic title, I was legitimately hopeful that it was actually good, because as much as I dislike Disney, I am all for any movie being enjoyable. Now I'm sad. However, I read the comments on the trailer, and they got me smiling again, so there's that.

The only way they could have improved upon this would have been having the artist formerly known as Ridley Scott, at the helm.

From dpreview's video test chart, OM-1 vs G9ii (both at 24p/25p/30p) - they are very close on resolution/sharpness: ....but on OM-1 is 50p/60p much softer than 24p/25p/30p - note the softness of the middle bar at 60p vs 24p/25p/30p : Those test results match what I've found when using the OM-1 for real-world video.

You've got to hand it to these corporate suits, they know how to make art. It's the one thing they spend all their time at Harvard and Yale dreaming about. And the creativity you need to complete an MBA... Mindblowing. I dare say these folk are born into art, consumed by it at an early age thanks to their investment banking parents. And it takes BALLS, big brave BALLS to make a movie like this, standing up to Twitter and focus groups and telling them NO. IT WILL HAVE SMALL MAGIC PEOPLE IN IT.

Am sure this is the first and last time I'll ever see rifles being used to construct a diff frame! As on the weekend I was working on a friend's little short film, he was the Director / DoP / Writer / Editor / Gaffer / DIT / 1st AC / "Everything" (even acting in some of it!), except for Sound (which I of course did. Although I helped out a little teeny bit sometimes in other areas too, such as lighting). Due to the nature of the shoot (almost no crew, basically no budget, and out in the middle of nowhere) we had very limited amounts of gear at our disposal. So while a couple of combo stands with a proper diff frame was constructed for the first scenes of this film we shot down at the beach (which even that took a fair bit of hiking through the bush to get to), later on when we went further up the hill/cliff, then the heavier stuff was ditched. As wasn't viable to keep on carrying everything with us (and even a little dangerous? A little further on up from here is where one of our actors ragdolled their way down when they slipped and fell. Luckily they're still ok! Pity that moment wasn't caught on camera). Thus you see the improvised situation here! Making the best out of what we had at hand in the moment.

What's the issue with adapter performance? I have the Sigma MC21 and Fotodiox Vizelux EF-L and I haven't had any real issues with either.