Fritz Pierre

Agreed Jonpais!...he all did a slow mo test you may find interesting as you and I both find him a valuable information source... just pre-ordered mine today...won't get it till end May early June, but very happy that the whole process has started. @Fredrik Lyhne...would very much appreciate a few words of your impression of the Leica 12-60 when you've had some time with it...I already have the 12-60 but in the US where my camera will come from, they don't offer the Kit you bought...won't have my GH5 for another couple of months but bought this lens specially for the GH5...thanks in advance and feel free to PM if you prefer...

Yes...I seriously considered an F35...to my eye the most beautiful image out there!...but in the end I feared the "death by a thousand cuts" scenario, and as I live in an area where you don't just ship your gear in for service, plus the replacement parts for the F35 were still those that came from a nearly $200,000 camera when new, I chickened out...plus I love panasonic cameras...the color....the reliability and even in their hybrids, the form factor compared to other DSLR cameras...Best thing in all of this, no shortage of cameras to keep the subjectivity of individuals satisfied!...we have long ago run out of excuses to not shoot beautiful stuff...what a terrifying state of affairs!

Yeah...I really love the ergonomics of this camera....as you can see from my picture...building out to this kind of form factor was my goal...even if it does not match this, the large Camcorder format is still and always will be desirable...the GH5 is unique IMO though, in that you can handhold it in a small space, and get a shot that looks locked off (I'm of the personal style philosophy that you move the camera as little as possible and if you do, with a dolly grip on a dolly)...that makes the GH5 a perfect B cam for me...I'm trying tp raise funding for a feature and would acquire a Varicam LT for that, with the GH5 as the perfect match. Anyway a follow up to the AF-100 would have been great!...perhaps the money just wasn't in it for Panasonic!

No I agree with you completely!...is that an AF100?...this particular setup gives the operator good access to the menu wheels....quite easy once you get muscle memory...and the big screen is much needed for my eyes to see focus...I also record proress to SSD's and this rig is strictly on sticks...that still does not put it in the same league as your AF100 in terms of form factor...it's not!...my AF100 question came, as I was always a bit curious as to why there was no successor to it....always liked the AF 100...the camera is in there LOL....just posted a bad angle

Although your point is understood, I think differently about it...the GH5 or 4 or a6500 is just the negative...inside a box...with the bits and pieces I need, to turn into a camera that can survive the rigors of being in the field...and if I do need a shot from inside a car or where space is limited, I can use a second body to reduce the size or take it out of whatever rig I'm using...but I'm used to large cumbersome cameras and like the mass??...once the image quality got to a certain point, rigging with rails, follow focus, external recorders and proper viewfinder for shooting outside made sense...for my sets of lenses and rigging and external gear, the only thing changing is the brain I'm using for capturing the image...my stealth set up LOL...goofy maybe?... but a pleasure to work with?? l

Though I don't have my GH 5 yet, I remember the Barry Green book I bought with my Panasonic HVX200....on the very first page of The HVX Handbook were the words "that noise you hear inside the camera when you move it and it's turned off, is normal"..,my guess would be it's the stabilizer in the GH5.

What does this even mean? In it's current form the GH5 is already eating up 1.5 gig per min...that's before the FW upgrade...how many will be able to to afford a computer and data storage to accommodate raw?...it would be a disastrous business decision for Panny on a camera that's $2000...I for one am glad they are making smart choices....look at the GH5 they gave us...I remember many months ago all the various items people listed as their "wish list"...then Panasonic comes along and completely blows past it...of course for RAW they offer the Varicam 35 & LT....and they have to protect that line too...perfectly reasonable to me it seems....

Liked the Khoi footage a lot!!...Interesting how the stabilization reacts when the camera's moved rapidly...looks like the movement of a really heavy shoulder mount camera....that kind smooth handheld that only seems to come from a lot of weight...rolling shutter or complete lack thereof is fantastic...grade is beautiful....really beautiful stuff!...

@AaronChicago....I remember your early stuff you shot on the GH4 and you seemed to have no problem making beautiful work with it (in VLog!)...I still have one GH2 lol...I love my Gh4's too...never did get the 3 though and excited about 5!

Thank dog I'm blind...I find the shot and grade of her lovely...but you know that's my criteria...once I'm satisfied with the image, it can get out of the way of the story!

Hehe...I'm in no denial myself!...I know I'll get one...own 26 lenses already (yikes!) and just bought the Panny/Leica 12-60 especially to go with the GH5...really glad I did judging by the clip by Richard today though...

Happy you have this Andrew...won't get mine till August or so...looking forward in the meantime to your thoughts on this little beast of a camera!

Shot 10bit Internal handheld on Panny-Leica 12-60...at least I already have the lens Hardly a review though...just wanted to post the clip.

Very easy in that rare case where it's relevant, to diminish the DR of the scene, using a couple of lights...as it is 11 to 12 stops are quite respectable Actually if you were shooting a Hollywood feature film the DR would be more than adequate, as you would have lights and Grips and Gaffers...but they would also insist that you shoot on an Alexa! ...and I agree with you about DR...

Have to wait months for my GH5...I got the Leica 12-60 last night though!...I have much more of a lens than camera problem!!...for a metal body the Leica is unbelievably light! @Philip Lipetz...as you have the kit lens also, I thought I'd ask...I'm thinking of getting the G85 as a walk around camera too, because my GH5 will go into a rig...the Panny 12-60 is offered as a kit with the G85...without the 12-60 kit lens, the body is only $100 less...the Leica will have to earn it's keep, so strictly for work use...would you say as a family movies/travel lens the Panny 12-60 is a no brainer to go with the G85?...I have the 14-140 but never really go longer than 60mm anyway, because without a tripod I can't hold a lens that long still...

@jonpais Great idea Jonpais!!...trees and lamp posts and bicycle racks don't require sandbags!

Great article!...and you're right about stills of course...as well as the GH5 being loaded with features for shooting video, that may be of little benefit for purely still photographers...unless they are considering a transition into video too...that's when the GH5 stills capability may come into play...can't beat a FF sensor with M4/3 for stills...but for some use you may get close enough...

Well you've experienced it!...the first time A FF DP sits down for dailies after a long day's shoot and 30 to 40% is out of focus or soft, is the last time that DP is on that shoot...Ridley Scot's DP....Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner and on and on, shoots no wider open than 4.0 on S35 with good reason...HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FILM! For a product shot on a commercial or a "reveal" in something narrative, this is a great tool!

Agreed...and if one was shooting an interior scene with daylight flooding in the window and you fogged the room with atmosphere and had a lighting crew and grip department and art department and wardrobe like you would with the Alexas or Arriflexes I would bet the GH5 image would look nothing like the samples we see of it today...I think if you could not shoot a beautiful feature film with this camera, you probably can't do it on an Alexa either...and for the full frame crowd who advocates that the GH5 sensor is too small...can any of them name 10 feature films shot on full frame last year?...just want to see how well they did with keeping up focus for a feature length film...and if full frame is the holy grail, finding 10 films shot on full frame out of the some 600 films produced per year in the US alone, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, should be a piece of cake Never cared one iota about the transitions...or how the clip was shot....camera movement etc....only posted it for the image from the camera which I liked...

I can't get mine till at least August otherwise I'd already have one...but then I saw enough for what I need early on...and a lot of videos regarding other features don't affect my decision one way or another...I will say though, that it takes me a while to "learn" about a camera...and I don't judge anything seriously from somebody posting something from a camera they've had for only a few days...with incomplete FW...all I need to see initially is the potential for my needs...as I come from a production design background, an important aspect of an image one admires, produced by an Alexa or a Red or a Sony F35, is that every aspect of that image has been designed to produce that lovely look...nothing has been left to chance...I simply can't dismiss this camera for myself, based on what I've seen online...of course all our needs are different

Probably because the only light was his work light and the arc from the welder?...really bothered by the blown out highlights though!!! (sorry...could not resist!)

More GH5 revealed!

Don't know about other countries but I don't believe the GH5 will be available in any kit form in the US...as per a conversation with B&H last week....maybe after they sell 200, 000 of them in New York alone Panny will change that?

No question that shooting in 4K and downscaling to 1080 produces rich "thick" looking (for want of a better term) 1080 footage!

Looking forward to you getting this camera Andrew and also the EOSHD Pro Color & Shooters Guide!....LOL between you and Leeming and Luke I will have quite the collection of profiles for this Bad Boy!