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Exactly what I mean when I say a "locking MFT" mount! Like the Sony FZ mount, or the new E mount on the FS7 mk2. A Panasonic EVA1 MFT would allow you to do all that, **and** give you the additional options of gaining a stop of light with a FF FoV with your lenses if using a focal reducer. *And* let you use MFT lenses too, if you ever changed your mind and went down that path in the future (or sold your EVA1 MFT in the future to a MFT shooter then they could buy it from you).

Thought so. Still a much better mid range codec option at launch than the C200.

So a lot of people strangely seem to argue in defense of Panasonic! :-/

EVA1 does 4K 24 10bit out of the box? & I know about the C200 firmware update sometime next year. But by that time happens it could be a completely different camera market! FS7 might be slashed in price. FS5 mk2 might be out? EVA1/LS300/etc could have got surprise firmware updates. A cheap 5" 4K 60fps recorder monitor might be released. Who knows what BMD might release. Or Kinefinity. Or someone else we have never even heard of yet.

Yes that is obvious, but it really isn't a reason why Panasonic had to go EF with the EVA1

C200 completely lacks an everyday middle ground codec. For many people this is NEEDED as it is 95% of their bread and butter jobs. This is the key way Canon crippled the C200 vs C300 mk2

Video cameras never need the long flange distance, as they don't ever use a mirror. Exactly! Buy Nikon over Canon lenses.

Well that SUCKS! Boo them. That indeed sounds like what it is.

Which means it will be 2050 by the time he is done with his third film. Which is sad. People should already have thoughts about their NEXT film while shooting the current film. And be making moves to get it shooting while in post of the previous one.

I'm pretty sure this has been around for years and years, decades! The doing pre announcements that is.

Oh wow, why is that?

Go for Zoom F4 or MixPre6 instead, as they're a big leap forward over the MixPre3. I'd probably rather pick up a Tascam DR70D for next to nothing, than buy a MixPre3. http://ironfilm.co.nz/which-sound-recorder-to-buy-a-guide-to-various-indie-priced-sound-recorders-in-2017/ There are powerbanks which have a solar charger integrated into it! My iPhone for work has a waterproof case with an integrated battery case, that also has a solar charger too! :-D This is what I have for my iPhone SE: https://www.snowlizardproducts.com/products/waterproof-iphone-5-slxtreme-rugged-battery-case?variant=749212631 I have a lightweight travel tripod which allows one leg to be screwed off to be used as a monopod, two in one combo! Go for Sony UWP-D11 The power output is not much. While I agree about getting them. I'd also at least grab 1x Aputure LS-mini20 + 1x Aputure LS C120d + 1x Aputure LS1/2w. Plus of course a stack of V mount batteries. However that might be blowing up your space/budget?! And depends on your needs, and what you're trying to achieve.

Do you get a large chunk of your income from stills shooting? Then you need to at least own the likes of a Canon 5D mk3 / Nikon D750 / Nikon D500 / etc However.... unless you are the rare 0.00000001% of pro sports photographers, do you do not NEED the 1D X mk2 for stills. So get a much cheaper DSLR for your stills on the side (or even skip it entirely and use your iPhone, if it is only for super casual personal use and you're very tight for money) and get an actual cinema camera instead (although I'm not a fan of the C200. Go for Panasonic EVA1 or Sony FS7 or URSA Mini Pro instead).

Wish I could like this more than once! :-(

I used to read No Film School everyday! And soak up everything they had to share. Haven't done that for a number of years now.

How are you finding it, now you've been shooting with it for a while?

The base mount itself would not add any extra cost. Yes, the main mount that then gets sold with it on top of the base mount would then cost extra in this scenario, but how much would it really add to the cost? At the moment third party adapters range from twenty bucks or so, up to a thousand dollars or so. But due to bundling it up, and vast economies of scales, they would cost much much less to produce in terms of how much it would add to the final price of an EVA1 MFT,

If you only stick with what has gone before then Ford never would have made a Model T, and instead would have just made a "better" horse pulled carriage. MFT is Panasonic's best selling mount. Sigma, Rokinon, Samyang, and Veydra MFT glass all covers S35. You can have a locking MFT mount, just like the FS7 mk2 did for E mount. See my point above about making carriages, rather than cars. It is easy to get mislead with market research if you don't really think about what you're doing. They probably went out and asked a bunch of ex C300 shooters what they wanted, rather than asking any up and coming GH5 owners who are moving up. Flexibility is why! Want to go ultra light, small, and compact? Then bring along a few MFT lenses! Want to use PL lenses? You can do that too! Want to have a Vistavision field of view? You can do that too! Want to use a speedbooster? You can do that too! However... the Panasonic EVA1 EF can do NONE OF THAT! :-( Don't mix up its popularity due to being a JVC camera vs being an innovative MFT/S35 camera. Being a JVC product it was always going to struggle for sales. Thus the question you have to ask, is if being MFT/S35 gain it more or less sales? I feel undoubtedly JVC got more sales due to being a MFT/S35 camera! Just look at how we are still talking about it years later in late 2017!! Clearly it made a notable impact, that wouldn't have happened to the same extent it if was just another EF camera. I'd LOVE that!

D500 is the same price as the GH5, and if you look around you can find the D500 for hundreds of dollars cheaper. And if you need the high end stills capacity of the D500, then the D500 looks like an extremely good value buy compared to the GH5! And now there is the D7500, that probably by the end of the year will be going for close to half of what the GH5 goes for. So while I think the GH5 is absolutely fantastic camera, I think a strong argument can still be made for a Nikon being right for some people's needs.

If those are all you can afford, then I recommend sticking with your D5200. Keep saving up! Or spend it on some other area of film gear. As it is best (as a rough rule of thumb) to at least skip one generation ahead, when upgrading. So going D5200 to D5300 doesn't make much sense. It makes more sense to instead to upgrade to D500 or D7500 (or maybe a D5700 when it comes out?? If it gains 4K too), however you've said they're outside your price range.

Yup, I bet there is tonnes of lenses that were cheap in "pre-mirrorless" days, but now would be very very hard to find at those same prices.

False, nope, as nope I don't buy that for a second.

Arri isn't offering it, but Sony is..... grab a F65 perhaps for a free weekend rental? ;-)

4yrs later and we are still waiting for something better! (aside from the Micro, which was a step forward refinement) I even was filming today with my BMPCC I got from the half off sale.

Are we going on a double date? Anyway, I agree such discussions and not terribly practical! But they are FUN :-D Plus sometimes interesting and practical points do arise naturally from such discussions.