Shirozina

What environment are you shooting in and what head are you using and how are you using it? For a static shot inside anything will work but outside in windy conditions, with long lenses and doing smooth pans on a good high friction fluid head then you will need something very sturdy and $500 is unlikely to be enough unless you get a used bargin.

Fair points but are you looking for a singe camera to replace your existing one (GH5) as I was certainly not. For me the P4k just adds capability to my existing GH5 setup - 4k60p, high ISO/low light performance, RAW and extra DR. It won't replace my GH5 but the ludicrous low price it is too good a deal to pass on. If it was more money I'd probably hesitate even with more features but I reckon for and EVF, tilting screen , IBS and bigger battery you would be looking at a lot more than double the price.

Very interesting....

I wish it were S35 as well! but the P4k is actually not that far off S35 if you add a speedbooster as the 19x10mm sensor is longer and thinner than the stock 17.3 x13mm M43 sensor.

Have you used the latest version of Resolve? They have been gradually ironing out the performance issues and bugs with every new update. Yes 2 1070's would be good if you want to spread the cost. Better still a 1070 now and add a 1080ti to it later!

Who's to say the won't at some point in the future? and come to think of it why can't they put a FF sensor in the same body and sell it for £5000? The really should get their act together - who wants an M43 sensor camera with dual ISO, ProRes, RAW and Resolve Studio for 1350€ anyway..........?

Such as?

Well I wouldn't be interested if it was twice the price as i don't mind the compromises and no you didn't request my buying advice but I'm giving it to you again anyway - if this camera doesn't meet your needs then don't buy it!

They are even calling them 'cinema' cameras and not 'run and gun' cameras - truly sickening.......

I must be mistaken on this one then. Sorry Andrew - you are right and a flip out screen is a serious omission they could have implemented without much effort or cost.

As I said they get hot just sitting there with the power on not recording anything - I'm sure you know best though and BM just did it to wind you and others up......

Sorry I missed that option. When you have full control of the lighting in the scene you adjust that to best fit the DR of your chosen camera with no need to compromise on anything!

I had an XC10 and did like the form factor a lot. Never understood why Canon didn't do more with it other than it would have taken sales away from the C line of cameras. I think this is BM's thinking as well. I think BM's strategy was to put a M43 sensor and 5" screen in the smallest cheapest body possible and this they did very well. We always want more and indeed BM offer you more with their other cameras like the Ursa!

They do and they don't. On a zoom where you maintain camera to subject distance and zoom to maintain the same FOV they do. On a fixed focal length lens where the FOV changes and you change your camera to subject distance to compensate then no.

Tilt screen - see my previous post about heat. Also if you keep the 5" screen and a XC design with rotating handle it would be a lot bigger (and more expensive) just like their higher up models. Bigger battery = more size again. I like the size and form factor and wouldn't want it any bigger. If it's not the camera for you then don't buy it.

No the best practice is to relate the brightness range of your scene to DR of the camera and make any necessary compromises to areas that fall outside it with regards to highlight clipping and /or noise floor. You can use ETTR, histogram, false colour etc or all of them. ETTR or 'exposing for the subject' are not correct for every scenario.

No - it should have a MF sensor. FF is not cinematic enough these days.....

But It doesn't cost £5k to process and store unless you are starting video from scratch but then you can say you need to spend extra to buy an editing machine and storage space for any camera you buy.

Have you used an external monitor/recorder? They have fans and get very hot even when not recording and you are just using the display. I've got a VideoDevices 5" monitor and it gets very hot.

I use this app https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ No idea why it works better than in-camera formating though?

They are not that heavy ( you get 3 options) and what ton of hardware does he mean?. Any rig that can handle 4k high compression video files should be able to handle RAW and even the camera media is dirt cheap if you use an ext SSD esp when compared to internal cards needed for other cameras. Also you are not forced to use RAW as it's an option.

If your budget is stretched I'd go for 32g RAM and a 1080 rather than 64g Ram and a 1070.

The GH5 needs V60 or V90 for 400Mbps codec so it's no wonder a V30 didn't work. For the OP a V30 (30MB/s sustained write) card should work for 200Mbps as it's 25MB/s but brands do seem to differ as I have an ADATA V90 card that won't write 400Mbp/s on my GH5 without external formatting. Read the reviews before you buy is my advice and don't go on even the V rating specs alone.

The only issue is you can't export ProRes as a finnished file but it can read and process them fine.

BMPCC 4k Shooting ProRes will be less CPU intensive than the xt3.