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Price is $1699.99 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (1299pound) What a price for such an amazing camera !!! wow..

S-log2 is cool :)

Yep but I don't mind for the fps .. ;) just want FF stills quality for portrait and landscape, and GH3 like video quality. Just hope the price is under 2k...

Did you look at the 5000iso footage ???! sooo clean ! Looks moiré free, sharp and clean.... Personally I don't care about 4K. 1080p full pixel readout full frame at 50mbps is perfect for me. With an amazing sensor for stills as well... Can't wait for the summer. Disappointed that they did not give a precise date.. gonna be late like august or something, and no price :(.

You are definitely right. But since two years, I have been switching between 5DII, Fuji X, GH3, EM1, Nikon and more and could not find what suited me (a compact body with excellent video and stills quality, by this I mean fuji Xpro 1 size with GH3-4 video and 5D stills...). Well it appears Sony brings it now. During those years I have always been waiting and watching rumors and saying yeah cool a GH3, lets see the test first blablabla. At the end I found out to be never happy with my gear, and spend more time looking for rumors and test than taking pictures. A shame. So just to say, there is a point you just need to grab something that suits you and stick with it and enjoy it. I really hope Sunday is my answer. ;)

"M43 didn't suck for landscape" It does. Look at my video : you will see after the beginning a timelapse (so stills..) with the Nikon D5200 of the golden gate (with red colours in the sky) and right after one with the GH3 of the same golden gate, I took it myself, and edited it myself as well. As you can see the gate looks 10 times cleaner with the bigger sensor ... GH3 can't hold up. This is only an exemple, I experienced this since years with all my camera. See for yourself medium format pictures, and 1" sensor pictures... Definitely never the same look even without regarding DoF. .......

12mp = 8mpx in 16/9 = 4K full sensor read out = amazing low light for stills = amazing high FPS for stills = amazing still quality (see D700 12mpx pictures, 6years old camera...) = smaller files to work with = finally the first world camera with no compromise : 4K + FF stills in a compact body. What I have been waiting.... Yesterday I had a 2h conversation with a friend about how should we do with GH4 because it sucks in stills (I had 5D2, Fuji Xpro, XE1, GH3, Olympus EM1 ... I know what I talk about : M43 sucks for landscape as it has very poor colour depth and DR, go on 500px.com and compare shots done with 5DIII, D800 and EM1 (wich is a pro body as well) ) so we were wondering what to do as we are 50% in video and photo. Sony .... Please don't disappoint with any major issue, and take my money. RIP GH4

Sony A7S is gonna have 12mpx. Its gonna be a serial killer.... http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-sony-a7s-has-12-megapixel-full-frame-sensor/

CONFIRMED !!!!!!! IT will be 4K !!!!! absolutely awesome !!!!! Imagine A6000 video features (zebra peaking 60fps) with A7 photo quality, and 4K video !!!!! Finally a compact camera with awesome video quality and stills ! it is gonna be awesome, thanks Sony. Take my cash. 2 years I wait this ....

Andrew, what about the speed booster you talk about ? EF mount ? How is the autofocus doing then ?

Not only because of video processing, but because they don't have raw.... look how Raw video improve DR on the 5D3 for instance. But even with RAW video on the GH3, the quality is nothing to compare with RAW Stills of 5D3, or this RED. Probably because it is 1080P... The 5D3 would film in RAW 6K, the video quality would be as good as a Raw picture you take which the 5D3, which is amazing. The Red is the first to do that, and this is crazy.

This Red Dragon is the best news I have ever read in my all life, for video ...... If you read carefully, the Red does 19mpx (6K) in RAW, with 100fps. This means, that with one second of video, you get 100 RAW images of 19mpx, which quality is BETTER THAN ON A D800 (according to DXO) this is absolutely fantastic for photographer (JUST IMAGINE ON A SPORT EVENT !!!!! you make a 10 seconds movie of a jump and you get 1000 pictures of 19mpx with best quality in the world !). And this means, that the video quality of the Red is better than the STILLS quality of a D800 (because video of the Red = Raw = actually a lot of "raw stills" put together at either 24fps or 30 or more, which is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE for videographer. This also means, that we can do absolutely what we want in prod with the videos of the Red, like we would do on a picture. For exemple, on a GH3, you can't recover highlights, push the shadows, and push the colors to get an image like this (it's my image): http://500px.com/photo/58968152 If you see the actual original shot from above, it is pretty disgusting. I would have film it with the GH3 = disgusting. Now with Raw on the Red, and with amazing sensor quality and 19mpx, we can get those images in a video .... I am blown away. And the best thing ....... This is a 30K usd camera, but it means in 5 years we ALL have in our pocket FINALLY a compact camera like a Sony A7R, 5 axis IBIS, and RAW in 6-8 k (>19mpx) with video quality exceeding stills quality we get from a D800. For a few xxx dollars. Futur is in front of us .... I can't wait. EDIT : bonus : awesome how he pushes shadows, highlights and so on... : And this one as well ... crazy :

Shit..... if only panasonic could have put 5axis IBIS inside !!!!!!! Each time I read a news about a new product, we get something super nice. But it is always in a different body ! Will we ever get a whole package which does GH4 quality (with good codec and bitrate + 24p 60p) + IBIS + good stills quality ? Next hope I have : future Sony FF dslr .... which should have IBIS and hopefully a better thing than their awful AVCHD... Why is it too much asking this in 2014 ? The camera manufacturers don't want to make money or what ? I don't understand. Really.

If the E-M1 has better video quality (high bitrate) which meets panasonic video quality AND 60p, I buy one immediately.

"the Toshiba sensor in the D5300" Yep its a sony sensor, not toshiba ;)

Andrew, you are at the Sony event for wining a FS700, can you not tell them that we want video like GH3 (decent codec and bitrate) ? The new sony A77 is probably gonna get 5 axis stab from Olympus, but come on if it gets the same video mode as the NEX 6 - 7 it's gonna be such a shame. If not, then we finally have a camera with 5 axis, good stills quality (better than EM-1) and 60 and 24 fps (better than EM-1) with good video. Then we just miss the small body size. Again, dream would be a Sony A7R still image quality and body size with at least 5DIII video quality + 60fps + 5 axis stab. That would be the best camera ever for me and many other I guess !!

Surprised as well for 5DIII h264 > GH3

Hi, Thanks for your answers. Fly-Catchers : no, my phantom is inside the canyon with the gopro, down in the hill ....

Hi, I am a student, but when I sign up, they ask for my course name and my tutor ? Do I have to study something in "film" industry, or as a business student I can be part of it ? Thanks

Hi, thanks a lot. I corrected the distortion, but more would affect the image quality. Also, the youtube compression is awful. The video result on my computer is insanely better, even the compressed output from Premiere Pro. But then after the upload it looks bad. Any suggestion ?

Hi ! I wanted to share with you my video done with a GH3, a D5200, a Dji Phantom 2 drone and a GoPro 3. I hope you dream and travel with me trough these images

Your test is a bit unfair. I got the EM1 for 3 weeks and the GH3. First of all we clearly see on your images that the GH3 is way more sharp, and I saw this in all my footages. The post sharpening is not cool, and alter the quality. On the portrait image you have done, sorry but the image quality on the guy face almost looks like on my iPhone. I get better result with the GH3. Secondly, you forgot that the GH3 has 60fps which is as important as stabilisation for me. Thirdly the cost, I bought my GH3 new, at 806USD including taxes 1 month ago. Finally, you say ergonomic is better on the EM1. Sorry but I was before a canon user, I got the EM1 and was lost, and then the GH3 everything was amazing and better than canon and olympus. I way prefer the ergonomic on the GH3, so this is something personal, but they are on the same level anyway. Except something you forgot again to mention, is that the GH3 has a screen that can turn in every way and this is absolutely fantastic and changed my life when shooting ! So on my side I wait for the new alpha sony cameras (which will probably get good video and 5 axis stab but unfortunately big DSLR body) or that finaly a brand can gives us GH3 video quality (with .mov for friendly editing + 60fps) + sony A7 still quality + EM1 stabilisation in a compact body and at a decent price (1500 usd max). If this comes out one day ..... my dream will become true.

Great post Andrew, I agree 100% with all your points. So pissed about how brands are doing not well with video !!! Unbelivieable that in 2013 we still don't have a Good still/video camera in a compact body ! Like a OLY EM-1 with good video (Prores,60fps..) or A7R with stabilisation + Prores and full read out pixel ... Pissed pissed pissed.

Lol, they are ridiculous ...

video sample for sony A7 looks not good :/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuSvnhcATUE     and RX10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPu-q6N9Y0   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTmI2x0FO8