Shirozina

I'm still waiting to see the evidence of this 'strong sharpening and NR'. What exactly is your clip showing?

and I'm saying ( from the experience of actually owning a P4k) that there is no more DR in RAW than ProRes.

Well if you use REC709 then yes you may have clipped highlights but who has this setting if you are shooting RAW?. Again I've not seen any hidden DR above clipping in RAW. Highlight recovery is a bodge to clean up highlights when one channel has clipped.

You are saying that if there is clipping at the sensor level with RAW then you can fix this in Resolve? This would be highly worthy of posted examples.

Can you post some side by side examples as this has not been my experience unless the Resolve has misinterpreted ProRes as Video range and clipped the highlights. Can you post some side by side examples of this as I've not seen it in my tests.

I tested ProRes vs CDNG when I first got my P4k last year and I could see no DR advantage to RAW. Infact unless you used NR in resolve the usable DR on RAW was less. Other differences between RAW and Pro Res exist and have been debated at length but both codecs get the the full DR from the sensor.

Same here and with the previous BMPCC. Some subjects may show it but for most it's a non issue and is easily fixed with an IR cut filter. There is no more DR shooting RAW over ProRes - the P4k simply has more DR than the GH5.

If the final output requires high quality color fidelity then the first place to start is to use a better camera. Nothing wrong with the GH5 but it's not the best in terms of accurate colour or even 'high fidelity' colour. For a start I'd use HLG and not 'Natural' as a profile as this is a recognised gamut and gamma that can be interpreted more easily by a good NLE. If you are going to stick with the GH5 then again it just doesn't need to be that complicated - custom WB before each take.

Sounds unnecessarily complicated. Just custom WB before each shot at your shooting exposure using a grey card or expo disk. ND, vario nd and lenses all can have different colour casts so this will level the playing field but Vario ND filters because they are polarising will have a much greater influence on the look of the image esp skin texture than any colour cast.

You can easily add a protective anti glare cover to the screen. The DR specs for the pocket and Ursa are not a secret so why is this a surprise and also the sensor size is not a mystery so again why is this an unexpected problem? If you are experiencing a noisy image it would suggest your exposure is not optimal - how are you exposing the P4k?

My old Sony PCM-D50 audio recorder used dual recording tracks at different levels as a soft clipping solution and it worked very well. Isn't it a bit like the dual ISO feature in ML for the Canon where it records at 2 ISO's at the same time to increase DR. As knight's fan says the limitation then becomes the DR of the microphone. Also it's great to see all these features but how good does it sound as all digital recorders are not equal in their sound quality primarily in the mic pre amps.

Sorry you need to render out the clip and not just save it.

As with when you need the better stabilization in Premier - just import the clip, process, save and reimport into Resolve.

Digital Audio is a much more mature tech than photo/video so development has leveled out. Microphones have hardly changed in a long long time with the latest designs being with ambisonics rather than single mics. Digital recorders are already very good and it's as much about form factor and features as it is about the sound quality (although there are differences if you have a 'good ear')

You still need to set the input level to the A/D and you can still overpower it - after that 32bit just means you can digitally add gain to the data to normalise it without it falling apart. The controls on the front are faders and not analog gain. Does it have an analog input gain control?

I'm holding out for a fairly stable version to be released before I upgrade from 15 which is now quite stable. Can't understand why a Beta version (which is by definition is test software) can't be run at the same time as a stable release version. One issue I have always had with Resolve vs PP is that if you start a project in PP you can quite easily 'round-trip' it to resolve to do some grading which is where Resolve has always been superior. However if you start a project in Resolve and try to round trip it to PP and use what I consider to be far better audio tools via Audition it never works properly.

I'm not aware of any inherent issues with using a dummy battery adapter. I've got both external systems and the problem with the 12v input is that the cable out of the side is much more vulnerable than the cable to the battery sled, you need a more expensive sled with a step up voltage transformer and special connector, the battery doesn't last as long and you don't get any battery level indication ( it just says AC).

Battery sleds with dummy batteries are dirt cheap - no excuse for not carrying a spare ( or even 2 spares as they are that cheap) on an important shoot.

I get 2.5 hours on an NPF on an external sled which costs way less and is a lot smaller - that's a big unit for not much capacity.

That form factor may be to small to cool the internals enough for RAW and internal 60p.

The GH5 is an all round better camera than the A7s but for low light the A7s was ( and is ) in a different league and that’s why it can deliver the results in difficult circumstances. Oh and pair it with an ext recorder and you still have a competitive image with all the benefits off a full frame. Sometimes wish I’d kept mine....

I was genuinely interested in the internals. We could then see what design decisions BM made regarding things like bigger internal batteries, articulated screens and integrated EVF's. Did they not include these to deliberatley annoy people and deny them their perfect camera or were they inevitable design decisions based on internal space and cooling?

Can you share some pictures as I'd like to make a DIY hinge mechanism.

Have you dismantled your camera to see how the screen is integrated with the rest of the camera internals to confirm this ?

The features you and others want are not going to come in for such a small price premium.