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With his current two lenses (because they're both FF. How did you exist with nothing wider than 24mm on APS-C?? :-o ) he could very easily transition from the D7000 to a D750.

Why not start now? ;-)

If Panasonic includes in their warranty a promise I'll never buy another camera for five more years then I'll buy this camera for sure!

It is for life. I will never stop! But then again I have no choice. Why cook three times when once is enough? I started this diet prior to the paleo etc craze catching on. So was quite interesting seeing this rise in popularity for something which I'm already doing. (As paleo and LCHF can be very very similar) Indeed, when people hear the word "diet" they think of it as a short term thing which lasts a few weeks. Maybe a few months. WRONG! It should be much longer than that, a diet is about how you live your life. For me, the decision to do LCHF had 0% to do with weight loss. Although this turned out to be a nice side bonus benefit of the diet. As prior to the diet I was somewhat way overweight at 95kgs (but I am 6' 3"). Then quickly lost weight once on my diet.

Fantastic! I hope you stick with it. Have been doing strict LCHF myself since 2011, with only one meal per day usually. Best.Thing.Ever.

I'm hopeful that $199 is a sustainable price point they can offer again in the future (or at least $250). As I have my fingers crossed that VR will take off for me in 2017, and if it does I'd love to build up a 360VR E1 rig.

Or is it with "everyone" else?

And then all the Canon fanboys will be explaining away why over 2x crop really isn't so bad after all! When they've been laughing and hating upon MFT users for years...

But is the camera "sold out" at the low low prices we have seen before?! Because if the stock has run low enough then they might not bother to ever put it on sale again.

Then nix the idea and find another script. The easiest and cheapest cost savings can be done during the script writing phase! Such as abandoning it entirely. 40 minutes for a narrative scripted film is smack bang in the middle of no man's land. **OR:** Turn it into a web series, if it can be easily sliced up into fairly self contained chunks. This. Haha! Great quote. It does seem to be a commo flaw of amateurs/students that they take on far to ambitious projects. When a shorter piece would have come out as much more high quality, & with less pain in the process.

Oh drat

Do you lean more towards stills or video? If video: then get a Panasonic G85 (still a very capable stills camera) If stills (also by far the cheapest option, spend the spare cash then on also getting the ultra portable Sony RX100 pocket camera): then stick with Nikon and get a D7100 (much improved video over the D7000, read what Andrew Reid as said about the D5200. It applies to the D7100 sensor too). Or get the newer D500 or D7500 if you really want that 4K life.

Let's ruthlessly dissect and analyze Neumann's first comment of 2018: First of all, let's look into his first sentence, why did he write "Happy New Years" and not the more common "Happy New Year". Or the more grammatical correct "Happy New Year's Day"?! What deeper meaning can we mine from this? & why did he next say "everyone", does this hint at a well rounded GH5s being a camera for "everyone"? Suitable for wedding videographers, news reporters, film students, doco shooters, Bollywood and Hollywood big productions too?

Yeah I drastically disagree with that article, as a medium length one won't help your career much more than making a short would (unlike a feature film), yet is nearly as much effort and cost as to make a feature film! The one exception: if you're making a doco for TV distribution and needs to fit in the standard one hour slot. (Minus adverts!)

I have a few redheads, a PAR light, a bunch of teeny LED lights, C stand, reflectors/diffusers, blackwrap, and just yesterday I ordered a much bigger LED panel from B&H on sale. But also I failed at my goal not to buy more cameras And purchased the Z Cam E1 on sale for US$199. Oh well, oops!

Oh dear that is awful how they're using those lights!! But then again I suppose smartphones are shit at lowlight.

The "YT Culture" side of things has sh*t quality on average (but arguably that *works in their favor*, as it makes their videos feel "more real") but knows what buttons to press to reel people in and then to subscribe

Agreed, but if you know the quirks of that particular focusing peaking, and you don't set your DoF too shallow, then focus peaking can be a very usable asset. However generally I find the likes of say SmallHD is doing better focus peaking on their monitors than some of the camera manufacturers are. The Olympus 15mm f8 body cap lens? It is rather "heavy" at 22gms (about 0.78 oz), but maybe you might manage to get away with it? Oh weight (wait?), we're forgetting the extra weight of the MicroSD card, that might tip it over the edge! lol SLR Magic lenses are quite heavy, not a bad thing though, as it gives them a nice solid construction feeling! :-) But not the ideal choice if you want EXTREME lightweight. B&H says the weight is 3.88 oz (110 g). https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1322738-REG/slr_magic_slr8m4_8mm_f_4_lens.html?sts=pi

Welcome back! :-) Have anything to share that has been made with your gear?

Oh darn, lacks that does it? Oh well. Still a great price!

Doubtful, maybe the biggest of big GoPro gimbals?!?! Most GoPro gimbals don't have much spare capacity. Lack of IBIS is a bummer (but the GM1 doesn't have it either... or even 4K). I guess I kinda see the core competitors of the E1 is: Yi M1 or a secondhand Panasonic G7. The likes of a Panasonic GH5 or G85 would be absolutely fantastic, but they're in a totally different price category!

Or just get a T0.95 lens!

You can very clearly see the BMD camera being used here at two and half minute in (not sure if they ever used footage from it, or if was only for VFX positional data):

Naaahhhhh.... I believe it is real, and they found the world's smallest Sumo wrestler for the photo!