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No price yet. I am guessing more than Sony's 18-105mm f4, but less than their 28-135mm f4

Little known fun fact: the Zoom F4 can also record to Blu-ray disks as well as SD cards! ;-) As the new Zoom F4 is "#1 New Release in Blu-ray Recorders" on Amazon, that is a new feature we didn't hear about from Zoom... that it can record not just to SD cards but to Blu-rays as well! ;-) ha That isn't even the oddest thing about this Amazon listing, it indicates the RRP is $799 and won't ship until November 30th! :-o Yet Zoom has stated pricing of $650 and shipping in October ( B&H Photo Video Pro Audio has expected availability of October 11th), thus I'm guessing that is two more things Amazon got wrong. https://www.amazon.com/Zoom-F4-Input-Multitrack-Recorder/dp/B01LOR91FC/

It is a confirmed they've shipped a few units to their chinese customers, I guess they're just big boy commercial customers who are to bother to give us interesting tests to geek over. Anyway, is just the 6K version which is shipping at the moment.

The F4 is massively more bag friendly than the DR100 series The H5/H6 was a big leap forward in pre amps over the popular old H4n, and the F8/F4 is an improvement over the H5/H6. The F4 is using a hirose connection for external power, massively preferable over USB!!! I've used both hirose and USB myself with sound recorders. ( http://ironfilm.co.nz/firmware-update-for-tascam-dr-60d-mk1-fixes-recording-interruptions-when-running-on-external-usb-power-packs/ )

The specs are listed on the product page. And if you check out reviews people are happily comparing it next to their Sound Devices equipment.

Ty Harper, the H4n had shit shit pre amps. But the H5/H6 pre amps are a leap forward. And the F8 preamps are better than anything Zoom has ever made before! And the F4 pre amps are the same as the F8.

They show their F4 with a a terabyte of storage in it!! :-o Holy crap.

My blog post on this news: http://ironfilm.co.nz/news-leak-zoom-f4-with-six-inputs-and-eight-tracks-is-like-a-new-low-priced-zoom-f8/ (some of it repeated below) News got leaked accidentally by B&H that a new Zoom F4 is coming. I think the Zoom F8 when it was announced was a groundbreaking new recorder in what it brought to a new low price point for soundies. Now the F4 is even cheaper ($650 vs $1K), and has nearly everything the F8 has! Except for most notably the lack of extra XLR inputs (8 vs 4, thus the names: F8 vs F4. The "F" = field recorder, "H" = handheld recorder such as H1/H4n/H5/H6) and the lack of an app for the F4 to mix on a tablet like you can with the F8. Oh, and in a more minor point the F4 has a monochrome screen vs the 4 color screen of the F8. But everything else (such as pre amps, and time code) is basically exactly the same as the F8! Here is the blurb and specs list from B&H (page is currently down, you need to use Google cache to view it):

That is the one I also really REALLY want! :-D Anyone heard of any overheating issues with it?

Yup true, should've mentioned the D5500 as well.

Nikon D3300?? Video quality is on the same level, but is very cheap, and lighter/smaller than the D7100. It would be a rather painless transition from a D7100 for you, and it would be a perfect match for each other when you want to do multi cam shooting.

My suggestion of cheap but good monitors from a very low price to somewhat more: Feelworld FW759 => Aputure VS-2 FineHD => Lilliput Q5 => Neway CK550S => Blackmagic Design Video Assist => Feelworld G55 / G70 => SmallHD 502

Thank you!! Hope you're also lobbying them for an URSA Mini 4K MFT?? :-D :-D

So? What does a short shot with one camera say about another different camera? Not much, if anything at all. I think you are seriously overrating the one feature of the BMCC (2.5K raw), and radically underrate the lengthy list of pros of a BMPCC/BMMCC. For example size, if you actually shoot with each other them you'll appreciate how much just that one factor can impact your shooting. Especially when shooting ultra low budget productions with a skeleton crew, then extra camera weight/size can truly limit yourself. You need a totally different level of support gear and more when it comes to tripod/monopod/gimbal/steadicam/car-rig/sliders/etc. & that is just one example (slow motion, electronic mount, and lower costs, are just a few of the others) Anyway, go ahead and get a BMCC MFT (****NOT**** an EF mount!!!) if you must, is still a damn fine camera

Kinda strange neither F5, FS5, or FS700 raw is on that list! RED MX cameras are also not listed.

Video shot with a Nikon D5 (a BTS of a D500 photoshoot):

Seriously enny?? That is an incredibly clueless statement to shit on Arri cameras because of their resolution. Maybe Kino is from Egypt?

Not really, no. Yes perhaps you can pick it out sometimes in side by side tests but practically speaking that never happens in reality. So in real life usage it would be almost close to impossible to tell the difference. And ditto there is no real notable difference between the two in terms of control over DoF.

Personally I feel the sensor size (especially once combined with a focal reducer) and resolution between a BMCC and BMPCC/BMMCC is so minimumal it is not worth giving up all the benefits of a smaller size AND paying more for a BMCC! It is a lose-lose proposition.

He is referring to the future G80 not the GX85

Look into replacing the H6 with a DR70D, heaps cheaper and I prefer it. Replace the GH2 with a G7, great camera that can be found for very cheap

Why 2.5K raw? It is a very oddball number! What lenses do you have currently?

A JVC LS500 with 10bit internal & FS5 size would be smashing!

Or this.

Why not an a7S for video and an a7R for stills? That way you have two bodies, but get to share the same lenses.