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I would not mind at all if Panasonic releases it with a MFT sensor, *if* that means the camera can hit a very low price point such as say US$3.5K?? Who wouldn't want a GH5 with built in NDs, SDI out, TC, and XLR for US$3.5K!

You can never record at a higher quality than at what is outputted. I don't care if your recorder can do 128bit deep 16x16x16 color space at one Terrabyte per millisecond! It still won't do better than whatever the camera is outputting it at, that is the limit.

It is a dangerous loop to argue that because Canon cameras were used in Sundance thus Canon is a good choice. I bet many times in those instances a Canon was not chosen for technical reasons (or only weak reasons), but just simply because Canon is the common/"standard" choice they've seen many people go with. Thus it is a self reinforcing loop you're buying into here, that feeds and allows Canon to cruise along doing nothing much.

Agreed, it is silly to go overboard deleting things. I hate when that happens.

Agreed, wait a few days and see what Panasonic announces! Will hopefully give you the best of both worlds. JVC LS300 or Sony FS700 would also make interesting worthwhile supplementary cameras to your C100 But a C200 / C100 mk3 probably will lack TC or SDI. Will only get FHD 120fps if we're lucky, or maybe do something twisted like 120fps but in 720P. Will have 4K, but will be 4K 24p / UHD 30p and be 8bit 420 (maybe it will even be cropped like on the 5D mk4?? Kinda doubt it, but no kind of crippling Canon does would surprise me....) All for a price even higher than the current C100 mk2!

Only ten pages worth.... ! :-P

Noooo..... Don't even joke about spreading nasty rumors like that!

I strongly doubt it. G85 is half the price of a GH5! Which will make it an attractive purchase for many people.

B&H occasionally has a few weird glitches when they mark something as discontinued when they just mean out of stock. Plus the G7 would get discontinued before the G85....

4fps away from the magic number ;-)

Oh sh*t, that Kangaroo must be annoying! Try a different cable perhaps? You might just be unlucky with that. (had a similar issue with my F3+Samurai, until I swapped it out)

I think now with the Atomos having a new recorder to do 4K 60fps and even their oldest 4K recorder the Shogun being able to do FS raw, it makes the FS700 still quite attractive even another year later in 2017!

Blackmagic Design is a bit of an oddball here in terms of what they offer. So you can't expect Panasonic to give them much thought in terms of competition, they probably think of BMD as even less competition than JVC is?!?! (Which would be wrong to do so. But it would not surprise me if that is the way Panasonic thinks about it) Panasonic will regard Canon and Sony as their main competition to beat. Of course they'll beat Canon in terms of value for money, that shouldn't be hard to do! (Only thing Canon has got going for them is their "colors", & autofocus. Panasonic should be able to beat/meet one of those, and if we're very lucky they'll manage both.) And Panasonic will "beat" (in their minds at least) Sony in features for your buck. That doesn't however mean it will be better than the FS5 in terms of EVERY spec point! So yeah, zero surprise here if Panasonic skips external raw. Nope

If you are a one man crew then I think it is an even stronger argument not to shoot raw. You don't want to be fluffing around with AC or DIT duties.

Almost for certain I'd go for ProRes or some other similar but high quality compressed codec (such as AVC Intra). Had exactly this discussion too with a director that I was going to shoot a feature with (although that sadly hasn't happened yet, as his life went through a few upheavals out of the blue that he had to focus on first), he is a diehard raw fan! But when you are so very constrained with resources when it comes to time/money/people, then that little extra 1% gain from raw is just not worth it. So ProRes HQ it is! (was going to be shot with a mix of Sony PMW-F3 / BMPCC / BMCC, although we did for a little while have access to an F5 too) Although we did kinda come to a compromise that on very very very rare occasions then we might shoot specific shots in raw instead, where we/he thought it would really benefit from raw for that shot.

Exactly, and if "13 Reasons" is not shooting raw then I also don't have to always shoot raw.

Surely leaving the fan running on 100% of the time is just crazy overkill??? Not even REDs do that! (but then again their fans are a lot noisier....) Oh and this guy is very obviously a blatant spammer! Perhaps a mod wants to take care of him....

Ohhh... didn't know it only went up to 3! Was used to the 43rumors and sonyalpharumors sites which both go up to 5, thus a 3 rating is nothing much.

If you're a small indie production then you have an even smaller post production budget than the big boys.... so raw makes even less sense! I dunno, these cheap chinese tripod seems pretty good: https://www.came-tv.com/collections/video-tripod

Is only a CR3 rumor rating however

Travel days means half days (which get charged at roughly two thirds rate of your daily rate). Plus of course they cover traveling expenses.

When even multimillion dollar productions are not shooting in raw, I don't believe it to be a big deal breaker at all if it is missing out on raw from the new lower priced Varicam. So long as there is from the Varicam sensor an internal 4K 422 10bit and 2K 444 internal as well, then we should all be very happy indeed! :-)

SxS and P2 are both used still often enough on many many sets. I used SxS very recently, & I think next weekend's shoot will use P2. Wait and see what the specs are of the Panasonic. For all we know, it too might have: adaptable mount, high FPS modes, variable ND, 10bit internal, raw output, etc But even if it doesn't.... wouldn't you rather have the dual ISO and colors of the Varicam over the FS5's limitations? Because only the small oddball outsiders like Blackmagic Design and Kinefinity are letting you use off the shelf consumer SSDs. All the big established players are insisting you use typical media formats like in the rest of their cameras. Which is why I'd be very surprised to see a Varicam that let you record straight to an off the shelf consumer SSD. Going from GH5 to a7S mk3 would be a strange sideways "upgrade". Anyone doing that is probably suffering from gear addiction syndrome..... and needs to slow down! I suspect the price gap between an FS5 and this new Varicam will probably be small enough that it won't be the biggest factor when people are choosing which camera to go with. No thanks, 80D would be a massive downgrade from a G85 And it is just a momentary blip in time that there is a large price and feature gap between the G85 and GH5, because the GH5 just came out. Very soon enough if we are just patient and wait, the G90 will come out which will close down the gap with the GH5. And we'll probably see a successor of the G90 to come out as well before a GH6 arrives, further reducing the gap between the GH and G line ups (even catching up and exceeding the GH5! Like happened with the GH4 and GH3 before it).

Ahhhh....... heaps better!

It seems so damn obvious to bring it out with a locking MFT mount! But companies often do strange and silly things instead.... so I won't count on it having a locking MFT mount :-( SSDs will not happen. It will be SD cards, or P2 cards of some sort (I hope not.... I'd rather XQD or CFast, but this is Panasonic so they'll prefer their own P2 system of cards). The fastest SD cards are damn fast now, so I think it is very sensible indeed for a camera at this price point to use SD cards. Well, I'm the soundie on the project not in the camera department. But I'll give what feedback I can :-) As I'll be working somewhat closely with it.