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- manual focus is a pain - electronic aperture kind of a pain - distortions electronically corrected + sharp + fast + stabilizer On a GH3 it´s fine, but wouldn´t recommend it for BMPCC use only.

  remember indiana jones?

They´re both excellent cameras. I´d say if price is no matter, the Mark III wins for achieving a beautiful look with lesser effort.   The one thing that really stands out on the GH3 (I don´t think the Mark III has it?) is the extended tele mode. Unbelievable useful. put on the superb panasonic 12-35 and with two tabs on the monitor you got 28.8-84mm from the same lens by maintaining image quality (though you don´t get the lens characteristic of a true tele of course)... saved me lots of times already. The GH3 is very fast to use if you know it. Bevor recording I switch to autofocus, camera does the work, back to manuel mode, record. takes no more than two seconds and you´re always there.   I´d say the Mark III´s advantage is Magic Lantern support, the full frame wiith it´s shallow depth of field and the EF mount. I know you can put on anything on the GH3 but who really wants a full frame 24mm lens instead of the voigtländer or the slr magic? So once you buy yourself into mft lenses you can only hope that there will always be some outstanding mft cameras... while EF lenses, well... you can use them on any sensor size, and any brand.   The GH3 is cheap but needs expensive lenses to really shine while the Mark III is expensive but can achieve a more pleasing result out of cheap lenses... but then again... better burn money on lenses than bodies, their worth will always be high.   In lowlight the GH3 will need fast lenses, for I wouldn´t go further than 800 ISO, 1600 is ok too if you got something like neat video. The noise looks acutally very nice, but it´s not for every project... The canon compensates its inability to manage focus on fast lenses with higher ISO and higher f#.   so... basically, you´re good whatever you take :)

It´s not the cards, it´s the camera...   30min recording went fine... It did make 4files and it´s super creepy to watch me sitting in front of the computer.

I´m running video right now :)   could the answer be: 29m59s displayed for Europe GH3s, and whatever possible displayed for everyone else? That would make some sort of sense...   ah.. don´t explains why card should be full...

  both no. I´ll try that... 

    you´re making me nervous...      I used it recently for an image film job and recorded 32.2 gb... so about 60min of film... all on that card. it never said, card full or anything       edit:   OK, I now checked every card I have and it´s always max R 29m 59s, regardless of codec or bitrate or whatever. Except of course, there is not enough space to write 30min onto the card, like san disc extreme 16gb with 72mb all I codec you get like 28m something s

guess because the camera cannot record more than 30min... I have a 64gb San Disc Extreme and my GH3 always tells me R 29m 59s... but of course I can shoot aslong as there´s space on the card... so actually, this info tells us nothing :/     edit: good question actually, how do I know how much space is left on the card? it works with pictures though... if it´s empty it says 2193, going down with each foto... movie mode: always 29m 59s

and hopefully the 4k will have the same organic feeling... incredible..   on vimeo he says he used the sigma 8-16, canon 24-70 and canon 70-200 lenses... 

depth of field is pretty much non existant   here´s a calculator: http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

question is, if you want the look of a 24mm full frame, why not go 24mm full frame?

not every 16mm lens covers the super 16mm circle... for example the above mentioned 12-120 Angenieux will vignette at 15mm here´s a nice list I have found, but it only mentions the expensive cinema stuff: http://www.cinematechnic.com/resources/optics_for_super-16.html

a prime lens with three focal positions, say 24, 35 and 50mm :)

10 bit is the magic word. I too own the GH3 and love it, upgrading will take a while, but when... I´ll never go with an 8 bit codec. Be quick, first one takes it all.   btw. long time lurkers first post