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I'm not seeing a GH5 before next Photokina.

It looks amazing, but out of my budget range - for the new sensor and a good set-up, they're asking for close to FS7 money.

We all understand your point and have heard it many times before. In the context of this thread it's an off-topic rant.

Okay? What's the point of this? The guy posted on a forum about equipment asking what a good 4K camera was (GH4 is great for me, but maybe G7 is better for travel) and your response is 'you don't need it, art isn't about equipment'.

No, I'm pretty happy with good 1080p, like what you get out of A7s. Unfortunately the 1080p you generally get out of stills cameras tends to be quite soft and lacking in fine detail. On the other hand, I'm always pleased with the level of detail when I watch a 1080p video created from 4K source footage. What is the National Geographic clip meant to prove? That was shot in the SD era. It was shot with 480i televisions in mind. The footage riogrande100 is shooting is going to be viewed on screens that can display much more detail than there is in a standard DSLR/mirrorless '1080p' file. There is, as you say, virtue in working with what you have, and it does save a lot of money. But maybe the OP thinks the 4K acquisition format is worthwhile for their purposes? It's not as though it's without benefits. He already stated in the OP that he likes wide shots with a lot of small moving details.

I think if you're primarily shooting landscapes 4K has a lot of benefits. The '1080p' out of DSLRs really falls apart on wide shots with a lot of details.

Sounds like amazing Elswitt stuff, BrooklynDan...that was a great mini-review. Definitely going to check it out now! For the technical aspects, but also to have fun watching Tom Cruise running really fast and shooting people.

I think the delay is that Panasonic are waiting for the DVX200 to ship before letting the cheaper camera get it. On B&H the ship date for the DVX200 is listed as October. I also take this as a sign that the GH5 is still a long way off. We're not even hearing rumours about it yet.

I think raw is more likely for the GH5.

​That's already in A7s.

Super fuzzy high ISO + imprecise ultra shallow DOF = ow, my eyes!

​'Saying something' doesn't mean talking down to the audience to impart a message. 'Saying something' means having something new and original to share, that the creator(s) really needed to get out. Star Wars said something new. Kung Fury didn't. A lot of the defence of the film around here seems to revolve around 'you want all movies to be high art/you think every movie needs to have a big message/you're just a pretentious snob who only approves of what the critics think is great'. To that I would say that the best movie I saw in the past two weeks was Last Action Hero, a movie that's certainly not profound, but is extremely fun, and in my mind definitely 'said something'.

​From the creators of Danger 5!

Danger 5, people.

With the exception of the gun being fired down the phone (stolen from Danger 5, a much better low budget retro-genre inspired work about cheesy heroes fighting Hitler, and it has dinosaur-headed people too), all the best gags in Kung Fury fit in the initial 2 minute trailer. And they worked much better in that context. Kung Fury is nothing more than a technical showpiece. The script is built on the premise that gore, swearing and pop-cultural pastiche is endlessly amusing. If you told me this was written by Seth MacFarlane, I'd have believed it. I suppose Kung Fury could be thought to have a more realised world than Fury Road if by 'more realised' you mean, 'more locations', but that's about it. The attention to detail and art direction in that film brought a believable and genuinely original vision to the screen. Kung Fury is an amalgam of the last decade of 80s parodies, thrown into an ultra ironic 'anything can happen!' universe. There's no real narrative to ground the nonsense (unlike Danger 5), and genuine wit is almost entirely absent. Better characters? What characters? There is no humanity to anyone. The characters have so few distinguishing features that they aren't even clearly defined as comic archetypes. Kung Fury is lazy, coasting by on its concept. Fury Road is one of the most brilliant pieces of fantasy filmmaking to make it to the screen in the past decade. One is seeing a brief burst of viral interest, and the other is going to be talked about for many years to come.

The narration would have been better if it actually sounded like things Herzog would say. Or sounded like him. Or was funny.

No, he really did criticise the RED One. Heavily. He called it 'terrible'. He shoot Queen of the Desert with the Epic, a much better camera.

Thread title got me excited. Herzog had some harsh words about the Red One MX when he shot with it, so I was interested to hear what he felt about the Bolex, especially as someone with extensive experience with 16mm and documentary shooting.

​The A7 series are too small for a lot of full frame glass. Sony prioritised making something attention grabbing over something practical.

I don't see the point of the poll here. Better low light vs internal 4K is the big call for GH4/A7s consumers, but it's a no brainer that the two cameras the poll is about can have both. The predecessors already have a megapixel count above 4K, and it won't be necessary to sacrifice that in improving the low light performance.

​If you liked the film, it's good. Who cares how closely it does or doesn't follow conventions?

After the needlessly twisty plot and exposition dumps that filled the space between set pieces in Avengers: Age of Ultron, I found the lean, efficient storytelling that told us only what we needed to progress to the next point in the story while giving the necessary character detail to be immensely refreshing. I thought the film got better as it went on, and the payoff for all the visual and thematic elements established during the first hour was terrific. The action scenes themselves are of course, amazing. For my money, this was easily the best action blockbuster of the past 10 years. On the subject of this video, it's a bit of a shame that they tried to use the Olympus cameras for the IS and instead had to resort to 5Ds when the footage wasn't up to the technical standard the post guys wanted. If Fury Road was being shot today, I wonder if they'd be using A7s, GH4s and BMPCCs.

The GH3/4 batteries are the best. They last for ages on the GH4 and even longer on the GH3.

I'm getting suspicious too. This profile was first demonstrated four months ago. How long does it really take to develop? What's the hold-up? V-Log feels like empty hype right now. If it turns out that it's not coming to GH4, Panasonic have lost me as a customer.

Come the fuck on, Panasonic.