Andrew Reid

Before the 14bit RAW with ML was pixel binned 1080p This is like cropping a full res RAW still, 1:1 pixel readout It is not just going to step up the sharpness and detail.... The dynamic range and noise performance should improve as well. Astounding work.

That frame I could have sworn was from a Hollywood movie but it's actually just somewhere in England isn't it Well it demonstrates everything I love about 5D Mark III 14bit colour. Is there any reason why you're shooting in 2x crop 3K and not the 1.5x crop UHD? The 5D MK IV would actually be rather tricky as these ML modes work from a crop of the sensor. Rather crop 3K and 4K from a 22MP sensor than a 30MP one. Canon should make an official ML special edition 5D3 and they'd sell a boat load and share the profits with a1ex.

That's right they did the same thing with the crop mode feature. I love how none of the usual blogs like c5d have run the story because they lack the capacity to figure things out... non-users will have a hard time believing this for a few days. Try the 3840 x 1600! 1.5x crop is much easier to work with than 2x crop on EF mount as you can use the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 for wide angle duties. None of the higher resolution modes above 1080p do Canon live-view, so it will be a low frame rate B/w image. I will be reunited with my 5D Mark III on Thursday, until then hopefully we can answer these questions on the forum.

I'm not a huge fan of the Tokina 11-16 either. Sigma 20mm F1.4 ART is your friend Closest you can get to 28mm equivalent for 4K 1.5x crop without losing 'the full frame wide angle look'. I'm kinda interested in the new 1080/60p mode - quality a big step up from earlier with 3x3 binning, right? And how about the 14bit JPEG lossless compression mode? In 4K are people finding that they have to drop to 10bit / 12bit from 14bit to get the data rate under the card limits? A lot of stuff to experiment with and plenty of ways to get the data rate down... I like it. Did they bust through the earlier 90Mb/s limit with the new faster CF cards or did the card controller stop at 100?

Yep clarified, that's how it works. Crazy I know.

What about the HDMI output? Does that offer a workable preview while the camera records 4K?

Yeah same as for GH4. Code comes printed on a card inside a box like before the internet even existed

An inverse April Fools is ingenious. Got to love ML Unfortunately my 5D3 is not with me at the moment... will have to go and grab it pronto. Is this shot at 14bit or 10bit?

What's Canon even been doing??

*Sound of stampede of people going to eBay and buying 5D Mark III* Well done Magic Lantern.... Mind is still spinning, cannot quite get my head around it. Anyone comment on rolling shutter in the 3K and UHD crop modes at 24p? Is it much worse than 1080p?

More dumb rumours. It has nowhere near been long enough after the original FS5 to consider replacing it even by Sony standards. Pro stuff is on much longer cycles than consumer... 3 years minimum usually.

Yes it is another level entirely. So much stronger signal from the sensor, less noise pollution = better colour. They have 3D colour processing onboard as well which is usually something you only find on a high-end colourist's GPU

Well exciting though such a firmware update would be... 1. There's very little chance of it being real 2. It's still not got all the features of the GH5 or 5 axis IBIS 3. No articulated screen and no EVF 4. Worse rolling shutter. But hey. Canon badge.

It would be unprecedented for Canon to buck the video standards with 1080/75p. That part of the rumour seems made up. Could even be an attempt to make people reconsider their move to Sony or their GH5 order and wait for NAB. Unless the 75fps is part of a variable-frame-rate mode with in-camera conform to 24p then I just can't see it happening and the crop is not just a software / firmware thing - the hardware needs to be capable of that 5K readout as well.

Here is the source for the full interview with Panasonic at CES regarding restructuring. Source: AV Watch, Japan. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fav.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fdocs%2Fseries%2Fce%2F1037593.html By dismantling they mean taking the good bits (GH5) and putting them under the umbrella of the black-goods division which makes TVs, etc. I won't miss the compacts and camcorders and it was inevitable that Panasonic would scale back production of these given the current market. Micro Four Thirds lives on and continues to grow in sales.

It's not news. It might just be made up. Canon rumors guy says it's a new source. Sounds too good to be true. I hope it is though. It would solve the problem of Canon and poor DSLR video in a stroke. I wouldn't like to see the rolling shutter skew on the 5K readout, as it is already pretty extreme with just the centre crop at 4K.

How about clean 3200 and an extra stop from the speed booster = clean ISO 6400 in reality compared to a 1D X Mark II that does the same but for $4000 more. The people who complain about the GH5's footage haven't used one yet... The footage out there has been mainly poor and very compressed / 8 bit in feel The files straight off the card are not like that. They are mega chunky and astoundingly solid without a hint of compression, banding, mud or noise. I will upload some ProRes By the way you will need to transcode the files with this camera... EditReady does a superb job. Adobe did a really terrible job on the other hand. Editing native 10bit h.264 should be doable in 2017. By the way Eno thanks for posting a link on Vitaliy's forum to the Panasonic article... He is always critical of my knowledge but when I am clearly right and even backed-up by the company's official statements, he never has the balls to say so. I am still wrong. I'd hate to have him as a parent... Rather have darth vader...Maybe Putin's dad was like this?

I agree the colours are stunning. They have a really advanced 3D colour science engine in there with a huge pop. All the footage I've shot so far I've not even felt the need to grade it or tweak in post, it's just super crisp and rich. Feels chunky and deep like a full frame Nikon still. Dual Pixel AF is the only thing it lacks. This will be a camera that makes a lot of people very happy but obviously it cannot please everyone. Yes it would be nice to have reliable and fast AF for video but we've coped with manual focus for a long long time. The issue is that to do contrast detect AF you need 240fps+ refresh rate for speed and obviously 4K at 240fps is not doable yet and you can't do a separate low-res window of the sensor to perform AF while doing a 24fps full pixel readout, so it slows down compared to photos / live-view.

Here's what's really going on - http://www.eoshd.com/2017/03/panasonic-will-accelerate-lumix-project-new-structure/ It's good stuff and very positive for cameras like the GH5. The frenzy of speculation as usual comes from a lot of lazy internet journalism where sites like 43rumors look at one word in one article at Nikkei and base the headline on it, when a bit of research back just 2 months would have found the managers at Panasonic explaining in depth exactly what was planned! Ridiculous!

Reports in the media suggest Panasonic are dismantling the 'digital camera' division with some even speculating that Panasonic will pull out of the camera market like Samsung. In fact according to Yosuke Yamane of Panasonic, the company is re-doubling their focus on cameras like the GH5 and planning more releases in 2017. Read the full blog

Shot with it yesterday and it's impressive. Colour is much better, you can tell it is 4:2:2 and 10bit. You've all been looking at badly graded V-LOG on YouTube at tiny bitrates compressed to 8bit 4:2:0. The only downside of the 10bit files is they are hard to edit natively. I can see a lot of transcoding to ProRes ahead. ProRes would have been a much more suitable codec than H.264 on a camera with the GH5's performance... But the quality is there in spades. Amazing saturation and realism, super smooth feel to the files. I'm just shooting on Standard BTW.

You cannot claim a camera that shoots clean ISO 3200 at F0.7 is 'not that great in low light' F1.2 on the Speed Booster XL = F0.768 Sensor dynamic range in the RAW files is around 13 stops, so same as the 1D X Mark II full frame 20MP sensor. So not sure why you think DR is less due to the sensor size. It's only a bridge too far if it kills low light and dynamic range. It hasn't. Yes it does. 300mm F2.8 hardly a must-have lens for filmmaking. Bird watching and plane spotting maybe. The GH5 actually excels at telephoto because you can easily attain the equivalent of 800mm on full frame. 800mm! (with the relatively small Panasonic-Leica 100-400mm) I do miss the old body size and ergonomics haven't exactly progressed much but it's still a small camera and the extra features have to go somewhere. You're welcome to have your opinion but there's not much of a factual basis for it.

Yeah it's only really about 1 stop behind a full frame camera, as long as you don't fuck up exposure. Although the A7S II is a bit more, 2-3 stops. I have no problem with what the GH5 is doing at ISO 6400 with the gain from the Speed Booster XL and a fast EF lens... I call that low light performance to compete with the 1D X Mark II ISO 12,800 & F1.4... The A7R II without speed booster in full frame isn't very nice even at ISO 1600. In crop mode a different matter and acceptable at ISO 12,800.

2 years. Is your screen broken? What Panasonic should do is implement a 'light' LOG profile like Canon LOG or the Nikon Flat profile which is dead easy to grade... because V-LOG is dangerously flat like S-LOG 3 and mashes too much too close together. The 'flat' profiles are a compromise between dynamic range and nice colour, easy to grade. CineLikeD was not it on the GH4... Maybe they have improved it on the GH5? I'll give it a spin.

Not much point thinking in crop factor when you can use aspect ratio and understand immediately how that changes the picture For me a 2x crop sensor will be a 2x crop sensor And 2.35:1 is 2.35:1 not 2.5x crop, which would be confusing and pointless