jonpais

I've got to admit, selecting native lenses for the X-T2 was a whole lot easier than for micro four thirds - I just purchased 1/4 of their system. ?

and your point is?

lenstip's review copy of the Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 was also decentered, but to the best of my knowledge, they are manufactured by Panasonic, so...

Just thought I'd get back with you on this... yes, the image is downscaled to 1080p in camera.

sounds like an evening of rapture to me.

I was under the impression that the clients of most members here weren't demanding 4K anyhow. Or am I mistaken?

Your links don't work anymore.

I'm from Detroit. Does that count?

The Nocticron is a beast, that's for sure! Solidly built. I just read about the motors in a review of the SLR Magic, it didn't seem to make sense to me either, but heh... maybe they were just referring to zoom lenses... that must be it. Your footage looks great - I wasn't pixel peeping, since an adapter is going to degrade the image from a clinical point of view anyhow. I'd like to see more from you with those blue streaks and some smeared bokeh balls when you've got the chance.

IBIS helps make the clip smoother when flying on a gimbal.

DSLR Video Shooter has lots of good info about gear, particularly for the budget-minded. Most recently, Caleb compared 9 different monitors under $200. I stopped watching Dave Dugdale ages ago myself. You can pick up something like the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 quite inexpensively, and when used with a focal reducer, it can still give you a 16mm full frame equivalent field of view or thereabouts. I still prefer native lenses, though. Several Olympus lenses have the manual clutch mechanism, including the overpriced 25mm f/1.2, but it's still fly by wire AFAIK.

Do you think the Leica's focusing motors might be stressed with such a heavy adapter hanging off the front of the lens?

And here's a monitor for under $200 that does anamorphic desqueeze.

@meanwhile You must have some idea what it is that you want to shoot... sports? weddings? nature and wildlife? food? anyhow, it sounds like you're spending a lot of time reading... my advice would be to just go out and shoot... Be sure to pick up a white balance target and WB using the camera's custom white balance feature. Shutter speed isn't written in stone, but generally, you'll want to use 1/50th sec. if you're shooting 23.98 with the GX80. I would strongly advise hacking the camera for Cinelike D, it's a much nicer profile than Natural IMO. NR and Sharpening at -5 is a great idea on your camera with the lenses you'll be using. Unfortunately, if you plan on manually focusing, the lenses you're intending to use are far from ideal. You'd be better off picking up some inexpensive cine lenses from Samyang/Rokinon if you plan on using a follow focus. You can learn about inexpensive LED lights over at DSLR Video Shooter. com.

what's the point of pushing the files around a bit more? what is it you're trying to achieve? waiting around for the next great camera sounds like just a weak excuse not to go out and shoot. why can't they build a full frame camera with 4k 240fps, no crop, no aliasing, 1000 bit, 4:4:4 for $100.00?

@meanwhile Whati is it you're intending to shoot?

@Mattias Burling Sorry, Mattias, but if you don't think IBIS is that big of a deal, how can you even give advice to someone who considers it crucially important? It's as though I were to recommend a stick shift automobile to someone, saying, just try it, you'll love it, when all along they've been telling me they prefer an automatic. Edit: I wasn't talking about the X-T2 being unbalanced, but since you mention it, it feels perfectly balanced to me with the vertical power booster, which is almost a necessity for video. Edit II: for those who haven't seen the video I'm referring to, here's the link:

I had a chance to hold the X-T20 in my hands this afternoon. It's a beautiful little camera, and from what we've seen, it shoots nice 4K as well. Price is right, too. But as we've already seen in a family video posted earlier in the forum, without some means of support (a monopod, tripod, gimbal, or shoulder mount), all that footage is going to have to be warp stabilized in post. So although one might think the X-T20 is ideal for the casual shooter, for video it's going to be a big headache when compared to say, the G80/85. i love my X-T2 to death, and the half dozen lenses I bought for it, too - they're insanely well-built - but it doesn't go anywhere because of the lack of IBIS (and for a number of other reasons, like the poor remote app that won't allow you to record 4K, the lack of zebras for checking exposure, etc.). Even on the Zhiyun Crane, without IBIS, it would help to add some stabilization in post. On the other hand, if I were doing narrative work, I'd consider the X-T2 for sure. A tripod, a monopod, a brushless gimbal, mounted on a shoulder mount, or even on a slider or a crane - it would be awesome. A final consideration is the XT-20's small footprint - if you want to use one of the marvelous f/2 lenses - the 23mm, 35mm or 50mm - it's all well and good, but the minute you start looking at any other lenses, it's unbalanced, and because the lens diameter is so large, now you're suddenly looking at trying to find solutions for mounting the camera, which isn't an insurmountable problem, but just one more thing to consider.

But Glenn says he needs IBIS.

Like Yedlin rightfully says, it won't be long before all the tested cameras are obsolete. ? More interesting to me than the resolution tests themselves was how well they were able to match the footage from all these cameras and the discussion of how the entire pipeline, from acquisition to post to delivery, to how viewers consume the finished product affects perceived image quality. Yedlin's test has already sparked wars on social media, with 90% completely misunderstanding what he's done, for example: What the fuck do I care what Steve Yedlin prefers, these are all within subjectivity and what you personally prefer. But at least one commentor was astute enough to observe that crafting stories is the most important part of the pipeline. Here's an interview with Yedlin from American Cinematographer.

@Dustin Not sure if it's the same one, but nearly 80% of 161 reviewers give it a 5-star rating over at Amazon.

@mercer The IBIS is amazing, if anything, I think it's even steadier with the cage and monitor. It is heavy though, and I shot many of the clips with the cage resting on my lap. I don't really own a lot of micro 43 glass, I've never used either of those two lenses. I've got the Nokton 17.5mm, but I've hardly shot with it at all, since it is so difficult to focus. That's the reason I picked up the monitor/recorder.

@mercer I'm not really sure about that. I can say you could burn through cards with this, set at regular ProRes, it uses up about one GB/minute, but you probably think that's nothing. ? My iMac churns through the 1080 ProRes files like butter. The YT upload turned out better than I thought it would, the test I uploaded last night looked pretty awful. Not sure why...

Thanks, Glenn! I sent 4K from the G85 to the BMD Video Assist, ProRes 4:2:2 1080p.

The Alexa 65 is the shit.