Andrew Reid

I would happily do that to some internet users.

  It will probably ship with the two giant audio meters disabled or something :)

I'm not sure, sorry, how you can really compare slow-mo from a small sensor without interchangeable lenses, to the look of a large sensor with interchangeable lens. They will look completely different.

It came out.

Yes indeed.   Look - a sickly plastic texture to fine detail and a general lack of it. Looks like 720p!

Yes. But it still looks like digital puke to me.   No offense to the crew they did a good job making it look much better than it should be, but had they shot it on the 5D Mark III it'd have looked better especially in raw.

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Can we get this straight please? D4S image quality in full frame video mode is a disaster. It is not an accurate video. They used the crop mode which is very sharp but only uses a 2.7x crop of the full frame sensor. Why spend $6k on this? Great stills camera, not great for video.

Looks like something is off in your render there.   Maybe do another test but with them both set to 25p rather than the A6000 at 50p, as the codec gets pretty soft at that setting.

  Pocket was included in my studio test scene video with the GH4 here 

  Frank has the camera at the moment for a Red Bull shoot but when we next meet up I'll check this. It's on my list!

Clearly a lot of that is shot in 2.7x crop mode which is a 1:1 crop of the full frame sensor and very sharp, but you lose the full frame look and a bundle of low light performance.   There's also some timelapse compiled from 16MP stills in there too.   So be careful what you're looking at when looking at a marketing video.

  There is the Olympus OM-D style curve adjustment in-camera yes. Haven't tried it yet on the GH4 but you're not wrong, it's there.

  You're right on close inspection it does not quite have the resolving power of the GH2 in 1080p.   And yes there is still some moire.   But it has a raft of other nice stuff that the GH2 doesn't have.   Final review coming soon.

  The GH3 doesn't have a full 16MP raw output on the electronic shutter.   So much better.   Since GX7 and GM1 Panasonic have had the full pixel readout for stills without mechanical shutter.

  I think I will give one of these a go. Problem is some EF glass like the 85mm F1.2L needs active mount even to focus and of course IS needs an active mount too.   For shooting wide open on the others, I'll consider it but I'm not sure the optics will be up to Caldwell (metabones) standard on it?

The Odyssey 7Q doesn't have a 4K HDMI input and you don't need it to record 10bit out of the GH4. I'll try the 10bit 1080p to my Blackmagic Hyperdeck Shuttle and see what it looks like.   Atomos Shogun will be necessary for the 10bit 4K, or the YAGH box with Odyssey 7Q via HD SDI.

All tests based on pre-production model Here we come to some areas which aren't perfect on the GH4, but which nevertheless are both a step forward from the GH3. I like what Panasonic have started here with 96fps slow-mo. This is the first consumer camera to deviate from the video standard of 60p to give us a genuinely useful creative tool which sets the ball rolling for improvements in future models. Read the full article here

  Not dumped. It isn't in the output video frame rate specs, it is part of the Variable Frame Rate menus.

Get a used Canon 80-200mm F2.8L. Same beautiful look as the newer ones and as sharp, but can be had on eBay for around $600.

I don't mind poorly researched lazy comments. It is the poorly researched lazy RUDE comments which have nothing to do with cameras that I am trying to moderate the best I can, being the only guy running the entire site.

The Atomos guys did actually show the Shogun with the GH4 and talked about it, but again easy to miss because the editorial priorities of the other sites were mainly on other things, for some reason.   Atomos reached out to me during the show and were really nice. They are definitely keen to work with Panasonic and are already doing so, providing their ProRes implementation for the VariCam. So although the Shogun was developed with Sony, they are just as interested in the GH4.

 

News Shooter did actually cover the GH4 and had Illya Friedman on the Teradek show. However I noticed it was rushed and about 7 minutes long, very minimal time give to that camera compared to other less significant products at NAB. Call me paranoid but it almost seemed that whenever a GH4 was mentioned in one of the live panels, the subject was batted away.

Yep I think he was misunderstood. Sorry FilmBrute!