The Chris

What's the shoulder pad you're using?

That spec is total clickbait- 43rumors gets crazy traffic from all the GH5 rumors.

Now it's more 'punch me in the balls' expensive. Media costs are keeping this one out of reach. GoPro, are you listening? Bring us a Cineform drone.

I'm aware that there's nothing below the Varicam, point being all the crap people are talking about as possible spec isn't happening on a $1500 camera. Thats a $3-4000 body, easy. And it would sell at that price.

So Panasonic is going to crush the everything they sell under $25,000 at the three year old GH4's price? SMH. Anyone expecting the spec bouncing around this thread at the GH4's price is delusional. So let me get this straight, Panny is going to release a camera that kills the FS5, C100 and pretty much everything under $5000, and they're going to sell it for $1500? Instead of selling it for $5000? Jeezus this board doesn't live in the real world, might as well bring Ebrahim back to tell tall tales about Canon colors.

The overhype machine is churning at full speed. Prepare to be letdown. 10-bit 4:2:2 and IBIS in a $1500 body ain't happening. That's a $3000 camera, if not a $5000 camera. Prepare for 5d4 levels of disappointment.

I'm pretty sure most of the shooters on this forum aren't buying camera bodies that run $25k+ used, so we're looking for the best IQ bang for the buck. So what you consider "meaningless and inconsequential" is meaningful to others. But yes, please play the douchebag "content" card in a gear discussion just to make your post a little more condescending.

I don't begrudge anyone for getting paid, if someone is willing to write the check take it. Everyone here would take $60m to slough it through shit like Fast and Furious, anyone saying they wouldn't is flat out lying, because you would then have the freedom to do pretty much any project you want. Hats off to The Rock for becoming the most bankable star on the planet right now. Tentpole movies aren't bad because they're made by Americans, they're bad because the major movie studios are all owned by giant conglomerates like Disney, Sony and Viacom. All they care about is keeping shareholders happy, and safe movies with a built in audience does just that. As long as people eat up numb nut Star Wars crap and various cinematic universes, it's not going to change. Just look at the he slate of tentpoles over the next three years - an endless barrage of Marvel/DC/Transformers/Star Wars movies And remember, most of a blockbusters' gross comes from markets outside the U.S., cars blowing up and dudes in tights are easy to translate.

Geez, that's a lot of stuff to store. Most of my projects will fit on a 64 or 128gb flash drive - which is my preferred archival medium. I'm not into endlessly replacing spinning platters, but much like Axel, I really don't have many pieces I have to keep forever. I have a bunch of stock footage type b-roll, but little else. I do have a safe deposit box with a growing number of thumb drives though. I've read some photographers say they never delete any raw file. I really don't see the point as I'm always generating enough new content that I'll never re-edit old files. One I finish an edit I'm happy with, it goes to the cloud, into a finished folder on my external array and the current archival drive. Some get printed, the rest are forgotten in folders on my drives that I rarely go back to. Seems silly at times. It a viscous cycle.

Bollocks, the a7rII doesn't overheat at all. Not in 4k and certainly not in 1080p.

Rolling shutter at about :07 makes the rocks looks like there's an earthquake. I'd be surprised if its any better than the a6300's RS number.

If the GH5 is as loaded as speculated, I bet its closer to $2000.

That is good news. Thanks.

What I meant was IBIS + internal ND filters no. Agree all signs point to IBIS after the GX80/5

Well the NX1 didn't sell like hotcakes, if it were a Canon it would certainly sell better. But still... 10-bit internal and a ND/IBIS combo seem highly unlikely. 4k60 and 240fps will have major heat issues, IMO those are unlikely as well. We'll see soon.

Canon has clearly closed the gap, this sample below includes the D810 and A7rII down sampled to match the file size of the 1dxII - which improves noise. It holds up well against the D750 and the D810. The 5d4 should be even better.

Agreed. Everything Sony has dropped since the hack a couple years ago completely caught everyone (rumor sites) off guard. They shut the lid on all leaks, many recent announcements got zero advance notice via rumor sites - we just woke up to new camera news. I'd be more surprised if we didn't get something big from Sony.

I'd take the a6300 + Zihyun Crane over the XT2 since they cost the same and 4k from Fuji is looking completely uninspiring. The XT2 required the grip for extended recording as well. Plus you don't have any of the Xtrans watercolor issues with stills on the a6300 - which are still present on the 24mp sensor. Wish Fuji would dump that and just go bayer. Will be interesting to see what Olympus and Panasonic do with the GH5 and EM1mkII. 43rumors keeps saying Oly worked to reduce RS in the new EM1. Then again they also say the LX200 may be released at Photokina, but there's no confirmation, no known name and no specs - in other words they don't actually know anything. At this point reality is anybody's guess as it appears most of the content on that side is just fabricated clickbait. PADF seems unlikely on the GH5, especially if it uses the Sony sensor. Among other places:http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Fujifilm_XT2/

Nikon's own 28-70 is sharper than the Tokina/Angineux, just sold my ATX pro because of the softness/glow wide open. Focus throw is ridiculously short too, not sure it'll be any better than what the OP has. Contax/Zeiss zooms are really nice, but most are one touch, which works for some, they don't work for me. Leica R is another option. I'm now searching for a Nikon 28-70/2.8.

If you don't know how to expose or grade slog properly, use Cine 2 and 4, or don't use any of the PP's and shoot something like Autumn Leaves at -3, 0, -3. This is the most user friendly slog setting I've used. http://similaar.com/foto/flaat-a7s/index.html There's a great thread of settings on dvxuser.

DPAF and the pimpy touch focus pulls along with 5-axis. A faster lens with less reach would be welcome - something like a 24-105 f/1.8-2.8, or even something a wider like the Nikon DL's 18-50. XC15 instead of XC10mkII makes me think its a second XC camera to sell alongside the XC10, not a replacement.

I can only speak from my experience, I notice a significant difference in speed from my previous 6-core trashcan mac pro, and I'm not editing PIP multiple HQ444 clips or raw anything. Everything is faster, with an hour of footage on the timeline comprised of a few hundred clips, transitions, color correction and so on I can scrub through everything with no hangups, transcoding to prores is faster, exporting is faster, etc. With the trashcan I only had a 256gb SSD, so I was editing off an external drive, the whole process was slower and noisier thanks to spinning drives. My drive may be way too small for your needs, but its great for what I do, but finished pieces for me are rarely longer than 20 minutes, most are in the 3-5 minute range. I have over 800gb in free space, plenty of room for hours of 4k footage or a few hundred thousand photos. I edit on the SSD, move finished projects to external storage and clear everything off the SSD for the next project, so I can take advantage of the speed - which (along with the screen) is the whole point of me dumping the Mac pro for an iMac. As always, YMMV. That PCIe 3.0 really raised the bar. I was astounded at those numbers too since I was getting around 700MB from the trashcan, which itself was fast.

Sounds like he's already shot with one. Geez, he's polluting other forums with his BS.

I dump all my footage to the SSD and edit, then move finished projects to external drives. I don't save unedited footage, just high quality versions of the finished piece or clips trimmed down for B-roll if I need to repurpose. I have about 800gb of free space on my 1tb drive, that's usually more than enough for what I do.

What about Sony not putting a touchscreen on the A7rII or a6300? Or only offering 8-bit 4:2:0 internal? Or not using UHS-II? Or not allowing users to assign a custom button for FF/APS-c mode or formatting a card? Or not resetting all video file numbers to 0000 with a card swap, so if you use three cards you have three files numbered 0001, 0002 and so on? I have a number of other gripes about my A7rII, but that's for another thread. Many Sony complaints fall into your line of code bitch slap logic, they fix bugs (sometimes), but I'd hardly call them responsive to customers demands. The grass isn't always greener.