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What exactly does serious video use mean? Blurry, contrasty, poorly exposed, grainy, poorly color corrected BMX videos?

Beautiful colors. Great to see real solid, human looking skin tones instead of the blown out pinkish colors I see in so many wedding shots.

Where are the MF pancakes lenses by any mirrorless manufacturer? I don't believe there are any.

He says you get a 5-year warranty if you preorder. Wonder if that's applicable in all countries, and what that warranty actually covers. Is there any other manufacturer offering a 5-year warranty on their cameras? When he's testing the tracking AF in video mode, the image in the LCD is blurry, but he keeps exclaiming, 'absolutely brilliant'. If he was side-lit and wearing earrings, he might have stayed in focus.

I don't know about you, but this guy could sell me any camera, I'd buy it cash money on the spot.

I thought you might enjoy that. On the GH5, you can turn sharpening down to -6, so there's still hope!

I didn't download the files, but the reason the X-T2 images are so dark is because of all the manufacturers, Fuji must overstate sensitivity the most (ISO 1600 isn't ISO 1600 and so on...). There are no fewer than three different methods Japanese camera manufacturers use to calculate ISO, it's not really standardized at all. I'm guessing Gordon left the camera settings of all cameras at default, but yes, the dynamic range on the X-T2 is much better when shadows are at -2, highlights -2, but he wanted a level playing field.

Maybe it's got to do with how they're viewing the videos? I use a 27" iMac, maybe it's not so bothersome on a 75" backlit OLED HDR television?

There are some adhesive things you can use that add a bit of depth - sorry, I don't know what they're called or who sells them, but another forum member can probably suggest something.

Not possible, unfortunately.

Sorry to disagree with you, though your point is well taken. I do believe however, that three weeks or so from release, from viewing dozens of videos and tests, and from long experience with Panasonic cameras, as well as side by side tests I've done with the G85, in addition to comparing my own X-T2 footage with that of various reviewers and Panasonic ambassadors, not to mention the advantages of sensor size, that I can make a reasonable assessment of the image quality. Which is to say that the GH5 released at the end of this month will not differ radically from the one in reviewers' hands today. To say that I should completely disregard this experience or the numerous videos posted online by people as talented as James Miller or Mr. Neumann... well, you didn't say I should disregard anything, but actually, I don't buy the 'let's wait and see, maybe it will turn out much better than my wildest dreams' is just not my style. Illogical or not. And no, I'm not saying my footage is better than Mr. Neumann's, he rocks , I'm merely talking about image quality. Agreed, the rolling shutter rules on the GH5, and if I ever made fast camera movements, which I don't, I'd be sure to use the GH5. Disagree about DR, but in a polite and good-humored way. Just looking at the clips from my X-T2, the extra stop or so of DR is pretty darn noticeable. @no_connection I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but what cameras do you own that you can even make such a statement?

Just like to know, why don't you use the regular shutter release button? Are you shooting stills and video? It's a problem with many manufacturers that lots of the buttons are too flush with the body. From what I've read, Olympus is one of the few that's gotten most of that right, with chunkier dials and buttons. I hate trying to push the ISO and WB buttons on my G85, they're so shallow. How much trouble would it have been to have them raised a bit more? I always set my camera to manual and press the AF/AE lock button to BBF, it works pretty well most of the time. You've got to go into the menus and select the function though. You go into the menu, select the Custom tab, then AF/AE Lock and choose your settings. As you probably already know, there is something you can put on top of the record button to make it easier to engage. I've never done it, but I met someone here who had put these adhesive thingamabobs on every button of his X-T1 to make them easier to press. There is no way to use the AF/AE button to start and stop recording, either in video mode or in stills mode. Why would you want to do that anyhow?

How about if I rephrase that then? Is there anybody here in the forums who owns an X-T2 that truly believes that the GH5 footage they've seen online, be it good, bad or otherwise, trounces or is in any way superior to the Fuji? I'm not into gear wars, don't care to engage in any, but several forum members seem to be highly skeptical that the Fuji has more dynamic range and detail. Is that acceptable to you?

@Phil A I thought the same as you. Using Google translate, the SlashCAM review says, In all video modes, only an estimated 4768 horizontal pixels are used, which corresponds to a crop factor of 2.26. This is true for full, 4K-UHD as well as for Cine4K formats. Unexpected exception is slow motion (see below). Other stuff I found along the way, they also recommend dialing sharpening down as far as it will go, and note that it is possible to reduce sharpening a bit more than with the GH4. Oversharpening is something I've remarked in a number of videos we've already seen online. They also observe that the base ISO is 400, not only in V-log, but also in Standard Picture Profile. They seem quite impressed with the camera.

If you haven't shot with the X-T2, we've got nothing further to say to one another.

No need to get nasty.

I already qualified my statement by saying, 'from what I've seen so far of the GH5'. Please read my post.

V-log aside, several forum members here are questioning the superior dynamic range of the Fuji X-T2 over the Panasonic GH5, which is preposterous, for lack of a better word. I am brand agnostic - I've got nothing to gain from acknowledging that camera A has better picture quality than camera B. I've shot with Panasonics since before Andrew convinced me to get the GH3: I've shot with the GM1, the GH4 and the G85, and I've preordered the GH5, so nobody could accuse me of fanboyism. I've got nothing against Panasonic. I shoot with Panasonic nearly every day. Have you ever even shot with an X-T2? Have you had a chance to test a Panasonic camera side-by-side with a Fuji? I have. Have you ever even handled a Fuji camera? I have, and not only does it better the dynamic range of what I've seen so far of the GH5, it also has crisper 4K and much more pleasing color rendition, and I'm not just talking about skin tones. It also has less noise and is cleaner at higher ISOs. If you've shot with both Fuji and Panasonic, I'd love to hear you out. Go ahead, if you've shot with both and can honestly say that the image quality of the Lumix trounces the Fuji, I can respect that. If not, you're just going by lab tests, camera reviewers who know absolutely nothing about photography, hearsay, or lousy footage you've seen online.

When they told me this I thought exactly like you - the Nocticron costs $1,600.00, it must be ten times better than lenses costing 1/4 of the price. Of course, that's only partially true! ?

At a Black Magic party in Ho Chi Minh I attended last month, the company representative from Singapore was saying one of Black Magic's chief obstacles to being adopted by professionals here was their low price (the perception that less money = lower quality). Has anyone ever heard this before?

Image quality doesn't exist in a vacuum: we just want the camera to get out of our way so we can take pictures. With the Lumix cameras, I can shoot and the camera is like an extension of myself. The Fuji's kind of a hassle: I've got to drag along a tripod, or only use small lenses on a gimbal, and at the moment, I've only got one small lens, the 35mm f/2. We should all be focussing more on our craft, and less on gear. Or at least not attacking somebody because they use Canon or Sony or Nikon or whatever. I stopped going to Cinema 5D for information a while back, and if it weren't for Andrew's post, I would never have read them again. I often asked myself why I'm listening to certain online reviewers talking about lighting or sound or photography, when meanwhile, the lighting and sound of some of those videos is atrocious. I'm a video shooter, I don't know of any video shooters I admire posting free online tutorials, so I've been watching a lot of Jason Lanier's videos, pretty inspirational.

As have a million other people in the comments section over at their website. And this is true not only for this review, but for practically every other one they've ever conducted.

I'm not taking sides on this one, I've owned several Panasonic bodies, I have the GH5 on preorder as well: however, it's pretty clear to me that both the Fuji X-T2 and the Sony a7sII surpass the Panasonic in dynamic range and low light performance; the X-T2 has crisper 4K and more pleasing colors; and if Sony or Fuji upped their game in the video department as far as usability goes, I'd probably stop buying Panasonic. And if you check out my YouTube channel, you'll notice I've uploaded way more Panasonic videos than Fuji - not because the image quality of the G85 is better, but because it is so much easier to just pick up and start shooting video.

I admire anybody who can shoot automobiles. I worked for a photo studio after finishing college, and those car shoots were demanding as hell, grueling hours, and we were shooting stills.

Was this shot wide open?