jonpais

If you’re really constrained budget-wise, the Feiyu footage looks okay with compact cameras. However, it might be practicing false economy when you consider that for only $50 more, you can purchase a proven gimbal like the Zhiyun Crane in new condition that can handle double the payload for use with heavier lenses, or when you upgrade the camera.

It will likely not be a fully articulating screen if the reveals are any indication.

Maybe so. But when asked if it were possible to use a larger capacity battery, three different people tell me the Pocket uses thermoelectric cooling, which was confusing: after all, what did that have anything to do with using a larger capacity battery? Then I realized they were all hearing something like “why can’t the Pocket 4K run for 3 hours on a single battery like Lumix”? Which is not what I was asking at all. Sorry for the confusion! Additionally, pointing out opportunities like a smartphone app for the P4K (which I’m assuming it doesn’t have), is not the same as trashing the camera. But some here think I’m a fanboy and hear what they want to hear.

That’s why I switched to Sony’s 8-bit 100Mbps: the GH5’s 10-bit was shiite. ? Do you have actual footage to share shot with the GH5, @interceptor121 ?

+1.

And just what is my camera of choice, since you are all-seeing and all-knowing, my friend? Incidentally, batcam is affectionate.

I highly doubt that.

I've heard many dispute his claims as well. Like I said, that technical stuff's way over my head!

I appreciate the explanation, John, but there's no need to attack me personally. Also, I never said that the camera is bad, or that it should last for 3 hours on one battery. I only asked if it was possible to employ a larger capacity battery. Many others besides myself have also wondered the same. Have a good day.

The menu button to the left of the EVF on the a7 III drives me nuts.

Most of the articles and videos I’ve seen have tended to confirm your findings that 10-bit 150Mbps is to be avoided. According to an article written by wolfcrow before the GH5 firmware update, 10-bit 4:2:2 150Mbps only contains 10% more data than 8-bit 4:2:0 100Mbps, not nearly enough to realize a difference in quality. He further calculated that 10-bit 4:2:2 would require 560Mbps just to be better than 8-bit 4:2:0 100Mbps. Yet when he made a video about the GH5 after firmware update v2.1, he recommended shooting 400Mbps internally and not using the Inferno (I think he claimed to see artifacts when recording externally). At the same time (I’m relying on my memory here) I seem to recall some people saying that 10-bit 150Mbps did offer a real advantage over 8-bit in that V-log footage was no longer plagued with banding artifacts. I never shoot 8-bit or V-log, so I can’t say - and that technical stuff is way over my head - but in my limited experience, HLG 10-bit 400Mbps can be manipulated in post quite nicely.

Thanks for clarifying. I was not comparing the batcam to Lumix. I merely asked whether it might have been capable of using a longer life battery, similar to what Sony and Panasonic have done.

After downloading the tether app, I connected my GH5 to a Mac by USB-C once - but for my needs, a smartphone is good enough. I’ve really got to look into a fog machine - maybe tomorrow.

I sure hope the $2,500 version loses the PASM lock!

So you're saying it was impossible to have a longer life battery like the Panasonic? (asking for clarification)

I was going to throw this in the C200 thread but thought it deserved its own topic. There’s a wonderful BTS after the short. @kye might be interested in the $4,000 monitoring setup. ? Anyhow, perhaps inspirational for those looking to make their own short films.

Do you work for Blackmagic, too? It was my understanding that if they used a battery similar to that in Panasonic’s GH5, battery life would be much improved. I do have a question for anyone who knows: don’t cameras with heavily compressed codecs get hotter than those that do not? And just how do you know whether BMD did a cost/benefit analysis of AF-C in the batcam? Anyhow, why state the obvious? Of course it’s expensive! However, unlike BMD, Sony and Canon already have a lens lineup optimized for their AF. Blackmagic does not.

I would use the term YouTubers instead, since to me, vlogging implies recording a sort of video diary of your life - though everyone's definition will of course be different! And if I were making talking head videos of myself with the batcam for one of the video hosting websites, a fully functioning smartphone app would be more useful to me than an articulating screen. Some of the solutions to the limitations make me think of someone looking at a room to rent with no bath. The landlord starts saying how you can attach rings to a metal rod, suspend it from the ceiling, hang a curtain, connect a hose to the sink and use it as a shower!

And I'd be willing to wager that just as many held off purchasing the original Pocket, returned it or simply no longer use it because of design issues.

I don’t know anything about doubling sales, but a longer life battery would most certainly be welcome - manufacturers of everything from cellphones to laptops to you name it realize the importance of battery life. Nowhere is it written in stone that you should spend upwards of $300 for a solution to a problem that need not exist in the first place.

This, from an interview with Arri, published back in 2013 by THR: Arri's Managing Director: HD Is 'Dumbed Down' to Make 4K Look Good Arri's managing director Franz Kraus has called into question the industry's inexorable push toward 4K by suggesting that HD content displayed on HD screens at equipment trade shows is not being shown at its optimum quality in order to compare unfavorably with 4K displays. “What annoys me, more than being asked about whether we are launching a 4K camera, is that at trade shows, HD quality is often being dumbed down, or not presented to its optimum quality, in order to make Ultra HD 4K look good,” Kraus said. “This is a bad trick because consumers will buy 4K displays based on the false expectation that the image is really that superior to HD.” He argued, “The perception of picture quality has a lot to do with the physical performance of the display. For example, a 2K image displayed on an HD OLED monitor looks incredible because the active light source shows far higher contrast ratios in the picture.” end quote Unlike 4K, HDR is actually an even bigger deal, because it yields real improvements in local contrast, dynamic range and color.

That’s been my experience with the X-T2 as well, which is why I don’t find the AF suitable for video.

I do not monetize my videos, but I certainly have an audience, however small. Why don’t you shut up, Glenn?

You’re gaslighting. I never described my audience as the LCD. wtf?