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Use your right eye to view the EVF. Viewfinder positions generally favour right-eye dominant shooters...

It's a great phone. Once the Note 4 is out the price of the 3 should drop. And you won't be missing much, I think!

If there's a remote jack, you can always plug in an intervalometer. I still prefer taking full-res photos for timelapses.

Ooo, it's the wishful thinking thread! 200/2.8 for me please. Panasonic were so close with that 150/2.8. If you believe the murmurings, Panasonic apparently had that 100-300/4 but killed its development.

Yea, was afraid of that. Finding the original OEM means I can buy direct from China and skip the shipping fees from USA.

Uh, yes, phones are overpriced. Did you just find out about that recently? An iPhone goes for about US$700+ off contract to about US$1k for the new iPhone 6 Plus 32GB. The Samsung Galaxy S and Notes are also around the same price. For two-thirds the price I can buy a telephony-enabled tablet with similar specs. How odd that a larger screen and bigger battery somehow costs less...

As Cinegain says, you actually need the ND filter even MORE for videography. You can use 1/4000 for stills, not so for videos unless you want some radical new look.

It won't. Leica are a luxury brand, the reality distortion field is actually even stronger than Apple's. Please, I implore everyone, even if it's £100, it's still £100 you can spend elsewhere: Groceries, petrol/diesel, a health checkup, toilet paper...

Can you do that with the Canon? I thought you still need to engage the AF to drive the lens that way.

So you want to spend US$300 on Lightroom when it only costs U$150? Mind, at least the premium isn't double this time...

*sigh* I've had the Galaxy Note since the first version, all of them fit in my pockets. And this... this is an incredibly sexist remark bordering on misogyny.

That's not what he meant. Here's the quote again: I think you should apply your advice to yourself.

You know what'd be great on that? One of Sony's QX cameras, if Sony had the foresight to freaking place a HDMI port and remote jack on it. The Snapdragon 800 is more than decent. It just about blows away every other SoC on the market. Not too long ago the famed Nokia N95 was 21mm thick. Didn't stop Nokia from selling a ton of them. And that's why some of us won't touch an iPhone. ;)

Isn't Bower one of those labels that just slap their name? This could be any number of East Asia OEMs then.

Gah, because if you crop you toss pixels. In a MAR you will keep roughly the same amount of pixels regardless of the aspect ratio used.

*facepalm* He's talking about lenses, not the camera.

A tilting screen would have been nice, as well as a few more buttons (so I can turn on direct AF control without losing functions), but I think it's still pretty decent. I'm not a fan of the manual controls though.

Whoa whoa whoa, steady there. While I am a big fan of the Micro Four Thirds system there is no way the GH4's stills will equal the A7S's. Not to say they will be bad, but it's a bit like 35mm and 120 film; the 120 will always win, but you compromised in image quality with 35mm to gain in other areas. For me it's the size and quality of the native lenses, together with the video capability of the Panasonic GH line. You need to make sure you know you know what the tradeoffs are and that you will be happy to make them.

The lens doesn't cover the full sensor, so you can change the aspect ratio properly vs just cropping.

First the GH4, now this. I don't think I can afford them all...

Typical of demo videos to be a little oversharpened, but I viewed it at 1440p on my 2.5K monitor and yes, it looked decent. Not much moire if at all; maybe slight nervousness at the vines. But shit me this is only making me want a GH4 more, even if I don't need it.

Even for stills I'm not that impressed. Tethering is neat, but that's about it.

If it's not even a stop it's not a clear enough distinction. Also the smaller pixels on the Samsung sensor are still much bigger than the ones in the Sony's 1" sensor. Samsung's lenses are generally good, the E-mount lenses, on the other hand, are not so great. Save for a few lenses (the Zeiss 24/1.8) they usually suffer from poor corners. Maybe they might not matter so much for video, but they're not so nice for use in stills.

BSI helps the most with small pixel pitches, so I'm not expecting a miracle. 25-40% is not even a stop, so that's rather marginal to me. MF is definitely going to be by wire, so... One slight downside is that the NX mount flange distance is the longest of all mirrorless systems, so adapting M mount lenses is tricky. However since most use DSLR lenses it should not be an issue for many. Is there a Speedbooster for the NX mount?

HDMI is 4:2:2 8-bit. ISO performance is unlikely to outperform the best 24MP sensors, so I expect usable 6400 images with 12800 as an emergency option. If the AF is like the NX30 it will be plenty competent. Not sure how it will do in video, or whether it will have the Olympus E-M1's issue. I'm having a good laugh at the control layout though - it reminds me of both Canon and Nikon.