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I'd be up for a A7000 with GH4/NX1 form factor that just nails it.

The matrix Reloaded.

I'm just curious to find out how exactly 'single handle operation' would look like.

Nah, it doesn't change sensor performance, the change is that signal data gets mapped in a more logical way (don't mind the pun). You have some more useful information in the ranges it counts (and losing some less important information where it counts less), that gives for more forgiving post processing. Not sure why that would effect sharpness, but tonality in general for sure, so: color and brightness levels.

Yeah, I guess that's true. Just with al the Mark IIs, S-versions, R-versions etc, I'm kind of in the mindset that additions to the models mean some upped specs, not just included FW versions. Anyways. Let's be honest, developping VLOG takes quite the resources I bet. And people who buy a camera, don't want to pay for features they have no use/not asked for. So somehow it kinda makes sense that they'd charge you for getting VLOG. And if you're in a position that you could benefit from it, you just spend a couple of bucks and you're good to go. What I'm afraid of... is that they won't even give us the paid firmware upgrade now, out of being scared that it can be cracked and shared amongst eachother... we'd have to actually sell the GH4 and get the GH4R?

Could it have some of the GX8 tech, though? Don't see the point of bringing out a new camera package if it's just a firmware thing... they've been handing out V-LOG firmware for GH4 users to test already, so that should already work, no need to bring it out as a new camera unless there's some actual change in hardware, I'd say.

Nice find! Most projects I had seen before were way to clunky, going to be way expensive and eventually abandoned. Glad to see there's still being looked into it. I don't like the word 'gamechanger' that much, but something like this that works well and is prices quite nicely, could be just that.

I'm with you guys. Not really blown away either. I know it's Leica and it's expensive, but that doesn't justify getting a wow from me. They've put a whole shooting team on that and that's what the best you can get out of the camera? Not so sure then... yeah, you get nice sharp subjects against a creamy flowy backdrop, but other than that there's hardly more charm to that footage than something RAW shot with a 5DmkIII or so.

Well, not for your enthusiast soccor mom/dad, the traveller and the streetphotog that want a somewhat compact all-in-one solution. Besides, they make for great secondary cams as well?

Or you are. Sometimes clients can be a bit demanding. They hire you, but then seem to forget why exactly and it ends up a little something like this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell . I mean, you can resort to any motivated method that helps telling your story better. But the other way around, creating the story around some technical ideas like having loads of lensflares and stuff just for the sake of it... might not always be the best way to go. In the end... is content king... or is the client?

Gizmos are all cool 'n stuff, but remember: be careful people!

The app said some things might not be working properly with my phone, but it seemed to work just okay. The focus assist is a pretty cool feature. Will give it a spin in the afternoon tomorrow, see if I get similar results. Still not sure about intercutting with other footage and if it looks 'filmic'. But it seems great quality for standalone projects and bits.

I have a Kalart Victorscope 2x with Vid-Atlantic clamp set for use with the HELIOS 44M-4 58mm f/2. But yeah, it's a bit too cumbersome if I'm being honest. Indeed not a big fan of the elaborate setup either. It's a bit unrealistic to expect a pick-up-and-shoot experience, but I can't put myself to the paces of setting it up every time and getting proficient enough with it to be satisfied with the results as I know I have no patience, time and energy for such thing whatsoever. Same kinda goes for flying a glidecam I guess. Something like the Optek/Century/SLR Magic focus-through-lens anamorphic solution sounds pretty great, but I feel like anamorphic might just be too big for me to meddle with after all anyways. Can't tell you much about it. There's tons of stuff here of course though: http://www.eoshd.com/comments/forum/5-anamorphic/ .

Think they made it clear they want the E-M1 to be the photography flagship. Didn't even get 24p/25p. Instead, they brought out a E-M5II for the naysayers that's all about 'cinema-quality movies', 'Top-class movie performance', 'all at top-class level', 'Advanced movie features for professional level movie making', 'professional level movie editing', 'professional level movies making' and 'Functions that go beyond flagship models'. So, no, I'm not expecting the E-M1II to have 4K video or be as videocentric as the E-M5II. The E-M5III might be, but by that time they've probably hooked off anyways and leave video be to Panasonic, Sony and BlackMagic.

Yay. I was right. I mean, not left. So... right indeed. But not like in the test right. Maybe I should've left this alone, right?

I've been looking forward to the A6100/A7000 for a while now. My problem with M43 lies with the crop sensor that makes it struggle to get: great lowlight performance, shallow depth of field and wide angle of view. I wish we could just set the ISO to 3200 or 6400 and not worry about any significant degradation whatsoever. That's not an insane need. Demanding great 102400 is. I wish we didn't have to resort to focal reducers, or f/0.95 glass that's soft wide open, even though they do an awesome job. On another note... not the greatest for photography/hybrid use. My problem with fullframe lies with the fact you need your glass to cover it. That means: big chunky lenses. It's that fullframe is the priciest way to go (except for cinema line cameras). Sure you could use your fullframe exclusively in APS-C mode... but then you might as well get an APS-C camera... Now the NX1 is APS-C sized and is great, but the native offering and lens adaptability doesn't blow me away. The NX1 is really the first thing from Samsung where they're really managing to pull it of... but since it's more or less the first... and the first one to do H265... it's a little too experimental/immature for my taste. Sony has come a long way with the NEX and then the Alphas. The Nikon D5300/D5500 are great APS-C choices as well... but in 2015 I just don't want to work with an optical viewfinder and mirror anymore... it's terrible for a hybrid shooter wanting to work in liveview. The Alpha line gives you all the mirrorless bells and whistles with that 24MP sensor (which is quite a pleasant step up from the 16MP 43rds sensor). Great liveview experience... peaking... etc. Not to mention you can use the viewfinder for recording. The Alphas have a decent native offering, but mostly great lens adaptability. The APS-C sized sensor is a great middle ground when looking for something that's compact and flexible, still has great performance and offers great value/is priced attractively. S35 is something we're all used to seeing to begin with. It really seems the ideal pick. Just... the A5100/A6000 weren't quite there yet. Cameras like the GH4 and G7 still give them a run for their money when it comes to video features. But... if they take some of the features of the new RX100IV, RX10M2 and A7RII without being afraid of hurting their sales, to put features like it in a APS-C mirrorless, would just be golden. Compact. Affordable. Feature rich. I would love when they had something mirrorless APS-C. Perhaps even a little heftier body than we're used to from a Sony Alpha, but for that giving us: internal 4K, HFR, great codec and features... intuitive menu structure... great sensor performance at ISO6400? With in-body stabilization ((cine)primes, third party lenses with dummy adapters)? Vari-angle touch display (that's quite a biggie for me)? Complete audio interface? Dual cardslot? Awesome battery life? But there's a lot of speculation out there. God knows what they'll actually come up with. But might be a lot of folks with a GH4/BMPCC background (myself for example), that would jump aboard the APS-C Sony train if they manage to pull off something competitive like that. Sure the GH5 could come around at some point... but it will be hard to beat a Sony APS-C camera given the sensor advantage. Anyways. Best not to get too excited yet. Time will tell.

Yeah, then it's not so much lenses as it is just shooting with anamorphic glass/adapters. But actually, Alan covers that as well: http://www.vintagelensesforvideo.com/ . Sankor, Optex/Century, Proskar. Or... you could go with panties for a dreamy soft look and put some fishing line in front and behind the lens, make sure you have a lot of light pointing directly into the camera, but they might question your methods on set...

Pretty sure the Olympus stabilization is still unbeaten, so... that answers that for me. Also, Gordon Laing actually confirmed my suspicion in a recent interview. But yeah, without a definit answer, it's all just guesstimating.

Agreed! Alan is a great guy and really knows his character lenses! He even gives some away to his following, really awesome. Tons of stuff on that website mercer mentioned already as well as the YouTube channel that goes along with it that shows of the lenses he talks about: https://www.youtube.com/user/alanbesedin . Great source, really. In agreement with the others as well. Basically anything Russian will have tons of character. Zenit HELIOS, JUPITER, INDUSTAR, MIR, TAIR, Zenitar, Vega... crazy bokeh, flares, great built and optics, really fun stuff. I myself have the HELIOS 44M-4 58mm f/2, MIR-1B 37mm f/2.8, INDUSTAR-61 L/Z 50mm f/2.8, INDUSTAR-50-2 50mm f/3.5, JUPITER-9 85mm f/2 & TAIR-11A 135mm f/2.8. If you want a new lens with similar oddball character, try the newly released Zenit MC HELIOS 40-2 85mm f/1.5 (availlable in different mounts) as well as Zhongyi's Mitakons perhaps. If you're really up for a challenge, I dare you to get these and report to us how you like 'em: http://shop.zenit-foto.ru/kinoob-ektivy . Not sure about adaptability though, I suppose you could use 'em on the BMPCC? Hey, I'm calling it a challenge for a reason. Oh... and of course, maybe you can get Rich (@richg101 hey, see you're not going by 'Dogschidt' anymore!) to come up with something unique for you. The FF stands for Flare Factory, so that should give you some indication of where that's going. Check it out over at http://www.richardgaleoptics.uk/ , https://www.facebook.com/DogSchidtOptiks & https://vimeo.com/meltingbloke . Still thinking about asking him to put me together one similar to the one used on the next piece, as it just looks dropdead gorgeous:

If you can, wait for the A6100/A7000. With the recent aggressive moves from Sony, only a similar APS-C camera is missing from them (4K, HFR, S-LOG, XAVCS? Perhaps even in-body stabilization?). The GX8 and E-M5II weren't it for me personally and the GH5 is still far away. The BMPCC is awesome, but unless you need the flat footage and look it isn't as flexible in other areas (crop, framerates, etc). The GH4 is still awesome of course, first thing next month we'll know more about VLOG rolling out. The NX1 is very impressive, but I'm not a fan of the mount/native offering. Wouldn't go with the A7II personally. It's not really for video production. The A6000 seems a great option, but like I said, I'm pretty sure in autumn they'll announce the A6100/A7000, which might be their video central APS-C mirrorless go-to cam. In your hands when Christmas comes around? If you don't see the point in waiting and want to create already, you can't really go wrong with any camera out there already. I'd say though, the GH4 still holds decent cards.

Kind of reminds me of the latest CorridorDigital clip : On a totally unrelated note, talking about those guys, I loved this other vid they did the other day:

Hum, interesting. Thanks for the share. I will try to see if this works with my Nubia Z9. I'm afraid that it will and consequently make me want to shoot a project with just my phone.

Totally with you on that one. It's heading in the right direction, but I think you can still see the sensing -> processing -> adjusting back in the footage. It seems a little too corrected and not yet as organic and flowy as I'd like (and have seen before with the 8-bit H1) which is why, quote: I'll hold of on buying a pistol grip gimbal stabilizer for now. Have seen a couple of projects working on 4 axis stabilizers, to counteract the bouncing, but didn't seem more than some prototypes turning into abandoned concepts. My comment on a DrewNetwork video several months ago:

Yeah, I had already posted a bit about this over here: http://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/3293-3-axis-camera-stabilizing-systems-–-overview/?do=findComment&comment=99388 . Definitly keep up with them over at their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pilotflytech and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Yanherlin/videos . Encoders on these things seem the next evolution to really take it to pick-up and go. And with great in-body stabilization playing its part, it seems we've come a long way from tweaking around with the Nebula 4000. But I liked Dave's argument to still go with the H1+ over the one with the encoders. Light and low profile. Can't shake the feeling however that I like the footage from the 8-bit H1 better than the 32-bit H1+ for some reason... more organic/flowy. As I can wait, I'll hold of on buying a pistol grip gimbal stabilizer for now. I hope the A6100/A7000 will make an appearance soon and I hope it as well features in-body stabilization. That would be wicked.

Anyone that went from the FZ1000 to RX10M2? I'm using the FZ1000 as a trip cam, but I could see me using the RX10M2 a whole lot more for different stuff as well.