IronFilm

Seems you @Super8 have a real obsession with super shallow DoF. Some of us went through that fad back during the early 5D HDSLR days many years ago, then left that phase behind when we grew up. But if you want to obsessively focus on this narrow aspect, then may I introduce to you the right lenses to use wide open with your GH5/P4K: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Mirrorless-Lenses/ci/17912/phd/4291123839/cp/15293%2B15492%2B17912?filters=fct_lens-mount_3442%3Amicro-four-thirds

I still want a GM5 myself! And I'd get one if only its price wasn't so high on eBay. But it is high exactly because so many people still want a GM5, even in 2020.

Depends on what is meant by "run and gun", some people think it means running around at a wedding filming like a maniac (and yes, you can use a P4K for that! And people do. Although I'd rather take a GH5) and it could also mean a small crew of just five people going at a fast pace knocking out a dozen pages a day (and yes, the P4K can be great for that too). Or "run and gun" could mean many other things to the user.

No, it is not just on the telephoto end. For instance one of my favorite lenses is a SLR Magic 8mm f4, and no way a FF lens could be as small as that teeny tiny lens! This is great for vlogging/travel, or if you want to use a MFT camera as a higher end replacement for a GoPro in a dynamic shot.

Olympus isn't dead to me yet! I just purchased an Olympus lens yesterday: Is my first ever Olympus lens too. (if you don't count my Olympus bodycap lens)

Then how come... they are unable to do something as simple as selecting close to the right lens for a shot, as you said so yourself earlier: If a DoP doesn't have a basic grasp on sensor size, then they shouldn't really be a professional DoP

A battery change shouldn't necessarily requiring re-balancing it every time. Plus they (the Sony and the Fuji) can be USB powered. You could buy the original Pocket for cheap on eBay

They'll feel like the fool when they try to "upgrade" to the EOS RP and discover none of their lenses work on the EOS RP! Not even in crop mode.

I'd be very strongly tempted to buy a Blackmagic Pocket 2.5K MFT for $599 (I think $999 is too close in pricing to the Pocket 4K to be a success) or Pocket 6K MFT for $1999 with an identical feature set/body as the current Pocket 4K/6K body design.

Absolutely, that would have been a better camera! And they could probably have priced it more aggressively too than the G100?

You'd 100% want a vest too. Not unless you're doing the shortest of shots, and only on an infrequent basis. I've had my F3 on a steadicam before (not me though, had a steadicam op), and yeah, it's not something to be handled lightly. (ha!) It is weird. Put a timecode box and a wireless RX on it for scratch. Pick any two (although all three is ideal, or in a pinch, just one) of: 1) wireless camera hop 2) timecode box 3) any SDC, or a very short shotgun (such as Sanken CS1e / CS-1M, Rode NTG5, Deity S-Mic 2S)

Maybe you need to hire non-incompetent DoPs?!

Never heard of RED before eh? 😉

I suspect that was largely intentional, so that they didn't too directly attack each, but instead helped build out a well rounded system to attract users. Medium format cameras do have a slower refresh rate with their models, and there are less of them. So it doesn't surprise me to see a MF camera from 2016 or even 2014 in the top ten on DXOmark I suspect JIP will do the same with the Olympus camera division as they did with the Olympus mobile phone division. Edit: https://www.industryweek.com/finance/article/21958034/olympus-sells-mobile-phone-unit Ah, I see they were just a mobile phone retailer, Olympus never made phones themselves?

I wonder if/when they'll put this S35 6K sensor in the URSA Mini Pro G3

True, we're living in the "VR Winter" right now. Nobody is splashing around big dollars on VR projects so you can be recuperating your pricey investment. Best stick with the Zoom H3-VR!

Nah! This is the only true pocket Fiat500:

Don't judge the pocket size on my cargo pants! That's Grip Dept shaming.

The URSA series still has their place on set for "better workflow" than a Pocket camera. Plus just simply to make the producer/client feel like they're "getting their money's worth". (not so much the case with a pocket....)

Yeah, my super old and dirt cheap Nikon D5200 still has a close to identical performance as the best Nikon DX cameras in terms of pure image quality from the sensor itself. This is why I tell people to not bother too much about looking at the photo capabilities of cameras, they've basically stalled out in terms of progress, but the video tech they can record with is still improving. (but that is slowing down too I feel....) THIS! x10000 People sometimes only see their own little world. We're all guilty of that. Although I haven't worked on a Marvel set, I have worked on the Avatar set, and on Netflix shows too. However, the vast bulk of my experience is on Indie Film Sets or Corporate Shoots or Doco/Reality TV, so I definitely have a strong bias in that direction. If a person earns a living income from filmmaking, and gets regular credits as "DoP" then I'm happy to call them a "professional DoP". Am super disappointed Panasonic never ever made an AF100 mk2! Or released the DVX200 with a MFT mount. Or the EVA1 with a MFT mount. Or Blackmagic with an URSA Mini 4K MFT! Wonder if 20yrs from now we'll be talking about FF (folks "looking down at it") like we do now with MFT? Because MF Mirrorless has become "mainstream" and cheap. I'd hold off and saying they've started to shift over! Maybe not just yet. I'd say people are more dabbling/experimenting with larger sensor cinema cameras. S35 still reigns strong as #1 by a very very very large margin.

Get yourself a Zoom F8n (and an Ambisonics mic) then you can be BOTH lazy and record the raw as well for later on.

Oh man, with all of what you said about the GH5, I hope nobody has ever used something older and worse..... like the GH4! https://web.archive.org/web/20180907094729/https://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/news-features/better-call-saul-formats-framing-and-film-noir-influences-series-608600 Oops, did a Panasonic GH4 get used heaps on the hit show "Better Call Saul"?? Yes. Yes it did. Is that not screened on Broadcast TV too? Are the people who work on that not professionals?

Why do you think that? I know of people who purchased new URSAs during the last couple of years. As for the P6K, I thought they're using an identical sensor to the P4K but just a bigger cut of it? So a 4K crop of the P6K should be identical to the P4K?

Get the Zoom H1n just simply for the better design to protect the mic capsules (mine on the original H1 got damaged!). The H1n has a few other tricks up its sleeve over the H1, such as the H1n can be a USB mic as well. I'd say the MixPre3 & Zoom F6 is already really cheap! But if that is outside your budget range, then just get a Tascam DR60D/DR70D. Problem solved. You could cross you fingers and dream of a Tascam DR60D slashed in half (a DR30D?) with just a single XLR input and is half the height. But don't hold your breath. That has no phantom power. No recording. No LED display. I'd recommend the Tascam DR60D/DR70D over a JuicedLink RA 202. (plus of course JuicedLink doesn't exist now! Because Zaxcom's lawyers killed JuicedLink) No, Zoom can not. You wanted a XLR input (which is kinda pointless without P48), that means bigger size/costs. Also we're talking about a far more niche item than a Zoom H1n, I'd expect it would have much lower sales so less units to spread over the fixed costs such as R&D. Expect that to perhaps add on an extra twenty bucks to the final RRP.

If you're converting it in post, then record in A Format