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Just look at the prices for an adapter to control aperture for Canon EF vs Nikon F, heaps more! In fact for Sony FZ mount it is prohibitively expensive on a budget. For RED One MX and Samsung NX it is nonexistent. But for all it is cheap and easy to use my Nikon F mount lenses on them.

I like that Nikon F mount lenses are more easy / cheaper to adapt than anything else. Venus Imaging is bringing out a 17mm f4 TS for Nikon very soon.

Ah my bad, it does have CF. Dug a little bit more into it, 7D isn't quite as bad as I might have thought with ML raw, still quite bad though. Certainly couldn't do 2.5K raw continuous. You'll need a much lower resolution. And 5x crop is a hell of a crop to have to deal with! And you can run into other issues too so you need to double check stuff. Not a camera I'd want to use in a production environment. 5Dmk3 ML raw or BMMCC is still streets ahead of it.

BMD can't make them fast enough to keep up with demand!! That doesn't sound like "not selling many". And as others said, display store demos are damaged all the freaking time :-/

No problem anyway if it is still an issue as you like to claim, just have a videographer' version: "GH5R", with unlimited run length, no mechanical shutter, & built in ND filters. Just like there is separate 1D C and 1D X

The big big BIG problem is the 7D uses SD cards. And Canon pinches pennies by putting in the cheapest shittest SD controllers into their cameras. So ML raw is crippled. Unless... you use CF cards. Such as the 5Dmk3 uses.

It was never a group, it was just one guy: VK. After VK hacked, then others released various different flavors of patches. But they never did the core hack work themselves. And for many many years since then VK has done nothing. So it is 100% reasonable to expect we will not see another Panasonic camera hacked again :-/ :-(

Panasonic has *nothing* priced under the Varicam LT as an ILC to protect at all. Unlike Canon, or Sony (but Sony often ignores "protecting" their higher end gear, the FS7 is one classic case). The FS5 and GH5 are from different companies! Is complete bonkers of Chris to think Panasonic wouldn't put something in the GH5 because Panasonic fears taking away sales fron the FS5??!?!

I don't see what is so special about Canon lenses at all. Nikon makes great lenses too! So does Sony and Panasonic and Olympus. And now so does Sigma/Tamron/Tokina/etc

Use a focal reducer and you'll get near APS-C/S35 FoV/bokeh. And the low light will improve nearly ish two stops!! And use a fast zoom like a Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 and 50-100mm f1.8 and you'll be sorted! As the BMMCC is already a solid enough lowlight camera by cinema class standards (such as vs F35 or RED MX etc) From a filmmakers' perspective, how do the Nikon D5200, D5300, & D5500 differ from each other? As I've got (thanks to Andrew Reid's great review of it!) and like the D5200 but never thought it is worth upgrading to one of the newer bodies, other than for 1080 60p.

Nope, Panasonic doesn't have Canon's knack or track record of such epic level let downs.

7D with ML raw is shit. 5Dmk3 with ML raw is great. I'd also suggest BMMCC or secondhand BMPCC. Or maybe even BMCC MFT if you don't care about the weight. FS5 / KineMINI / Terra / UM4.6K / FS700 / etc are all good as well if your budget stretches up that high.

Just go look at local rental prices and you can see for yourself. A C300II is not at RED/Arri price levels to rent (unless you live in LA perhaps? Which have an over supply of REDs! And seem to be rediculously cheap to rent over there from what I hear). A C300II is only a little bit more expensive to rent than an FS7. And the C300 mk1 being everywhere and FS7 only for slow motion I see as being a little incorrect, an FS7 offers so so much more than the C300 mk1!! That was true in the old days pre FS7, when every man and his dog had and used a C300 mk1, and the Sony FS700 was just got in for slow motion usage on the cheap ("poor man's Phantom").

I think the recent big price drop on the C300 mk2 has helped a lot in peak interest in it again. Also here in NZ they've got very generous finance terms & package offered with it as well (Sony NZ doesn't seem to have that for theirs that is as generous) Before the price drop I'd never seen a C300 mk2, but since then I've got a couple of friends in Auckland seriously talking about buying it, and I did (I was sound) a short film recently with the C300 mk2 that a production house had just purchased (and you guessed it... their previous one was a C300 mk1!)

If people buy their own instead of going to the rental house then instead of selling 100 to the rental house they'll sell thousands to individuals!

It isn't an easy addition if the processor already can only barely do the poor MJPEG compression. Which seems to be the case.

http://blog.planet5d.com/2016/08/rant-the-canon-eos-5d-mark-iv-doesnt-have/ "Canon has designed a DSLR that does what 80-90% of the market needs. I’ve said this before until i’m blue in the face too: Not everyone needs 4k! 4k video is still such a small hunk of the market. Growing but Canon’s growing into that market too" Wow, he basically outright admits the 5Dmk4 is **NOT** a 4K camera! Ha Fair enough, I could probably agree with that as an honest assessment of the 5Dmk4. But that is not what Canon is trying to spin it as! And as a camera that will have 4+ years on the marketplace as one of their leading products, that is a very sad situation by Canon.

I'd seriously consider the Panasonic G7 in 4K, plus GX80, and the Sony A6000 (& if budget can stretch... the a63000). Or secondhand BMPCC (but no 60p, and a new BMMCC with 60p costs quite a bit more). Otherwise nope, I think there is not many other solid good alternatives. Waiting a little while for the Panasonic G80 to be announced might be a smart move.

It *could* be done, I'm just pointing out reasons why I personally feel that is unlikely.

If you're seriously considering the C300 mk1 then get the Sony PMW-F3 instead. As it is a superior camera over the C300 but can be got for a fraction of the cost. If serious run and gun is your thing and you want the C100 mk2 instead then spend a little bit more and get the vastly superior Sony FS5 instead.

But none, not even one, or the mirrorless Sony cameras have the "CineAlta" badge.

Errr.... if the Canon C300 mk2 is $3K then that is an absolute easy no brainer insta buy for many many MANY people! I'd beg/borrow/steal the funds needed ASAP if I could get a C300mk2 for that price. I've done a multi day shoot with the C300 mk2 (although as the soundie, but kinda an AC ish role too), and while it has some very very weird restrictions going on with what monitoring outputs work and when you can use them, at US$3K there would be NOTHING that comes even close to the capabilities of a C300 mk2.

Pick up a 5Dmk3 soon ish for stills on the cheap? And ML raw with it would be fun to play around with. I think sell the 1D C for as much as you can, but don't be in a rush, be happy to hold out a month or two for the buyer with the best price to come along.

If Nikon can release a D750 successor that has no crop with its 4K then Nikon has a good shot at stealing away a healthy sized chunk of the market from Canon.

I'd assume they're still banned. Can't imagine the situation would've changed in less than a few days!