jonpais

I've got to say that a newbie verbally attacking forum members for offering advice is a new low.

Maybe you two should PM one another. ?

@John Brawley Really beautiful work.

I don't own the GX85, but on the G85, you can go into the custom menu (or hit Display button), select Fn, then assign EC to any one of the function buttons.

Good question!

not in my case.

@deezid First of all, can't wait to see the finished film. I've often repeated that the X-T2 would be great for narrative films, but haven't seen much yet. Since I just picked up an external recorder, I've been curious how F-log looks. I'll have to give it a shot sometime this week. The f/2 lenses are superb, especially the 50mm, and they're light enough to allow flying the camera on a small gimbal. There isn't a dud among the lenses I own, but the 90mm f/2 and 50-140mm f/2.8 are among my favorites. Thinking of getting the 16mm f/1.4 if I ever start using the camera again. BTW, battery life is abysmal, get yourself the vertical power booster.

Here's another great exercise.

@AaronChicago Looking real good.

I'm using a 'ribbon' HDMI cable that's about as thin as a sheet of paper, and with the clamp on my Tuba PA-1 cage, I can't see it ever being an issue. The connection is solid, snug as all heck. I'm not sure I know what BM Film Log is.

I'm scared of RAW because of the file sizes and the workflow. Plus, I'm no good at color correction, and I'm afraid it would be a disaster.

I've watched videos by Dave Dugdale shot with the Canon T2i or T3i from seven years ago and it's debatable whether they're any worse than the ones he's shooting now with his Sonys. It really all comes down to your own skills.

My only reservation at this point is YT. When I uploaded my test a few days ago of the Blackmagic Video Assist 4:2:2 ProRes 1080p files, the compression artifacts were just plain awful. Then, I went ahead and uploaded the finished video to YT, expecting the worst, and miraculously, it looked 'fine' (my favorite ambiguous word now!), and the highest resolution offered was now 1440p. If only I could be certain the YT would always process my 1080p clips at the highest possible quality (aside from corporate accounts or whatever, I researched this, but wasn't able to obtain any information), I love working with the ProRes files from BM. Edit: If I wasn't so damned lazy, I'd like to do a comparison between the GM1 and the BMD Video Assist ProRes 1080p from the G85. Only problem for me is, the GM1 doesn't offer Cinelike D...

Fair enough. I suppose if I'm pixel peeping a film at the movie theater, the movie must be pretty awful.

Thanks, @kidzrevil. First, I should say for those who don't already know, this was shot with the G85, not the GH5, and when I shoot at the post office, I use the same custom white balance for all shots at all times of day^^. Impossible to white balance each and every shot individually, and when I tried using AWB, the colors would keep changing in the middle of a clip. But no matter how great I think I've balanced the color, the Leeming LUT usually (99% of the time anyhow) makes them look better. I should also add for newbies that I am not a professional colorist, and I already realize my CC pretty much sucks.

Here are two screen grabs from a shoot this afternoon, ISO 400, Sharpening -5, NR -5, Saturation -2. Second picture is SOOC, first is with the Leeming LUT and super minor CC.

Does Natural really have nicer color and rolloff? Because in my tests, Natural has a strong reddish cast and harsh contrast when compared to Cinelike D... just wondering.

But on my G85, when selecting Direct Focus Area, you lose the other functionalities of the four way cursor buttons, including white balance and ISO, which may or may not be more inconvenient than the tiny focus target on the LCD.

Recently, he's also recommending reducing saturation by -2.

While I respect THpriest's opinion, I've read this a few times already in the forums, which is why I had to test it for myself - shooting in daylight, in the shade, under tungsten and fluorescent lighting - and sometimes all the above - and I never had anything go orange, unless my white balance was off to begin with. A little underexposure is no big deal, as THpriest says. Anyhow, you'll want to use the same profile for all your shots to avoid a nightmare of color correction. I've shot up to ISO 800 with good results. Be sure to set sharpening at -5, or it will only aggravate noise problems at higher ISOs. And absolutely no need to shoot a color card.

2K looks fine in the theater.

My dream lens would be a 12-75mm f/2 zoom that had the build quality of the Noktons and the beautiful rendering of the Leica wide and the Olympus telephoto throughout the entire range. Or a set of four compact Sigma cine lenses built specifically for the micro 43 mount, like the Veydras. Or a Veydra anamorphic lens. Or practically any one of my Fujinon lenses with a micro 43 mount.

@Márcio Kabke Pinheiro cinelike d is fine in all situations with the GX85. Camera settings: sharpening -5, noise reduction -5, saturation -2. Use a white balance target wherever possible and WB using the camera's built-in custom white balance feature. Get yourself the Leeming LUT. There is no complicated post processing. Just drop the LUT on your footage and tweak.

In any case, for $2,000, there's no way I'd choose this over a comparably priced X-T2 or GH5, let alone the Sony a6500.

From mirror lesson's comparison: The X-T2 has a few additional advantages in comparison to the X-T20 if you are looking for more options and control: you can set the audio input volume in 20 steps instead of 4 you can choose which card slot to record the video files to ISO values can be changed while recording it has a 3.5mm jack mic input and you get a headphone output with the optional battery grip it can extend the recording time from 10min (4K) or 15min (1080p) to 30min with the optional battery grip According to them, the X-T20 also suffers more from rolling shutter and the image is not as crisp . If I were looking for a camera for shooting family events, I'd take the G80 or G85 any day of the week. It has better ergonomics (a beefy handgrip), a 3.5mm microphone input (the Fuji sports a useless 2.5mm jack), a flat profile (Cinelike D), a much better remote app that allows shooting 4K video (the X-T20 can only shoot 720p with the Fuji app), weather sealing, a more useful articulating touch screen, the tripod mount screw is decentered on the X-T20, making changing batteries while mounted on a monopod or tripod cumbersome, whereas the tripod thread is centered on the Panasonic, and for those who rely on zebras for exposure as I do, the X-T20 lacks them. For the casual shooter who wants to use moderate tele lenses, the Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7 and Olympus 75mm f/1.8 are much more compact than their APS-C equivalents. And if you don't mind jittery video, yes, you can shoot the Fuji handheld. If you don't want to use warp stabilizer in post, go for the Panasonic. Edit: Oscar Franzen says he regrets the lack of IBIS in the X-T20, so I guess the camera shake bothers the author of the video himself.