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The natural history museum video was shot using shutter priority mode with the shutter fixed at 1/60th. I used AWB - within a scene the light was never changing, and AWB did a good job in dealing with the different lighting across rooms, with enough time to adjust. As a consequence of shooting in S, no ISO or aperture settings were reported by the camera (a "feature" common to all Panasonic G cameras in Creative Movie mode when using any mode but full Manual). So I do not know what the ISO's were. I rode ev to obtain the exposure in camera that made what I was seeing in the viewfinder look like what I was seeing with my eyes (if not that of the reptile). I shot using Standard, with NR at -2. I have plenty of experience with grading RAW (BMPCC) and Slog2 (RX100 IV), and my choice of this setting was based on getting realistic colors without the need to twist around 8-bit, highly compressed video, as I had no intention of creating a film-look or a stylized report in this case. In post I tweaked some clips - lifting shadows here and there, altering luminance here and there, and in one clip color corrected based, again, on matching what I had seen in terms of color and light. I shot with the *intent* of not needing to change anything in post. What I saw in the viewfinder was what the clips looked like when reviewed. So mostly what is seen in the video was what the camera produced, given my selection of camera settings.

I shot this 4K video handheld using the 25mm f1.7 lens on the GX85, to assess its performance using IBIS and in dim light. This is possibly the worst-lit museum in the world, with dark rooms and glowing walls and mixed lighting. The only well-lit room is the souvenir shop!

I only shoot video, but you can get nice stills from the 4K frames: Here is the GX85 video that is from:

Most museums do not allow tripods, monopods or gimbals (or selfie sticks). So camera/lens stabilization is essential. A museum video captures the experience of being at a museum - you see the exhibits, the space itself, and the people. Getting the colors right, for the art, is also essential. So, a good test for a camera. One oddity here is that the space was sunlit from above (skylights), and the sun was moving in and out of clouds - so the light changes in some shots. It's not the camera. Part of the true experience.

The "toy" kit, with super performance:

Toy feel or not, it is likely sharper than your 14-140 at all focal lengths, gives you a slightly wider view on the short end, and makes the GX85 a carry-around everywhere camera, unlike with the big 14-140mm. The "toy" lens also makes use of dual-IS. With the toy 35-100mm lens in addition (also dual IS), you have almost the full range of the 14-140mm with better sharpness and the two lenses together I think weigh less than the 14-140mm. The 14-140 II does also make use of dual IS, with a firmware upgrade.

A test 4K video using the tiny 35-100 f4-5.6 zoom. Shot in Standard, -2 NR only, to see what the camera puts out. Also tests the audio, as there is a jazz group playing unamplified. All handheld.

Windows 10 plays H265 files natively with the default player. Also H265 thumbnails are created with no intervention needed. The latest Intel chips decode H265 in hardware also.

Anyway good - when I went to the site it was completely gone. Back now. I am still waiting for 4K RAW, affordable and not gigantic. I liked the experience with the BMPCC.

Try the link. It is dead. No support page, nothing. all gone. Not even the thank you is left. Not like Samsung at all, which still provides firmware updates and full support. Or am I missing something?

The Panasonic GH4 mirrorless camera has a free three-year warranty. In fact, all the Panasonic "consumer" digital cameras have this three-year warranty. This suggests their failures rates are lower than that of other cameras (or this would be very expensive for Panasonic). Just sayin...

The Sony X1000 has the best image quality, comparing 4K.

Ok, I have an RX100 iv, have used it for seven months. I have shot scores of hours of 4K video, 120 fps video, 240 fps video, in six different countries and I have never had it freeze, jam or need a battery pull. I also occasionally stress the lens using a magfilter and Raynox 250D, with no consequences. Have not used it yet in freezing temperatures, though. I am confident the bad experience is not user error. Bad copy or these are also symptoms of a bad sd card (My GoPro would freeze and require a battery pull often until I used a different sd card). Anyway, jamming and freezing for the RX100 iv ain't normal. Mine does get a heat warning every once in a while though. That does not cause the camera to stop working.

For the purpose you specify - sports at a long distance, your best alternative is the RX10 iii. It has exactly the same high-speed quality as the RX100 IV and you get 25-600mm! I have the NX1, and its 1080120p is inferior to that from the Sony RX100 IV, RX10 II and III in what I see, and it is not improved by upping the bitrate. I shoot lots of slo mo, and sports (especially baseball and softball). Plus the Sony 240 fps is really good - just perfect for a slo-mo of a pitch or a swing in baseball, not to mention the pivot in a double play (and you cannot miss given the shoot-after-the play mode (constant buffer). The RX/RX100 cameras have the best 240 fps quality. I also do not see that a big sensor is an advantage for shooting sports, it make getting the focus right more difficult.

Easy. The RX100 IV (and the RX10 II, III) have the best 1080 120 and 240 fps. I think most reviews confirm this. Example of 1080 120 and 240: Select 1080 to play if you want to see the quality.. Test video 1080 120: You can download the original 1080 uploads to play and avoid streaming compression.

No. Sony Vegas does not rely on Quicktime to play back non-Quicktime H264/MP4 video and "other material". I uninstalled Quicktime a while ago and I happily use Sony Vegas Pro to edit and play MP4, H264 video files.

You do not have to have a 4K-capable viewer to see the benefits of 4K. Viewed at 1080, 4K original footage quite easily has higher resolution, streamed or not. This erroneous point about needing to have 4K viewers to see 4K benefits seems to be made by people who want to rationalize why they have not made the investment in shooting 4K. And, no, I do not believe that resolution is the only thing or even the most important, but I am not in denial that the benefits of 4K are not visible unless you have some special "capability" to view 4K. It's not a joke, or a delusion unless you only shoot close ups of flowers where 3/4 of the frame is bokeh.

Then the new Panasonic ZS100 might be considered - it has "excellent 4k, good Image Stabilisation, built-in time-lapse and decent HD at 50fps" plus a touch screen, much better autofocus (new technology) than the LX100 (or RX100 IV), and of course a 25-250mm lens. Like the LX100, it crops in 4K, so you get 34-340mm! You give up a bright lens, but you get a lot more versatility and better performance (focus).

Or the Sony RX100 IV, unless you do not want "topnotch quality" :).

Sorry, this is not about contrast, it is about exposure. The example you give above has a gigantic hot spot - the big square sign. That is ugly video. All that is going on in that video is that the exposure is too high, hence the blown signage and blotchy detail in the road. In the videos I posted, there are no blown highlights or swatches of noise. It was exposed to reproduce what the eye sees at night or in a dark room. Black is black, dark is dark, lights have colors. A real person cannot see details on unlit streets at night. That person, however does not see white signs when there are full colors. The purpose of night videos in what I shoot is not to turn night into day, it is to convey what one would see at night.

Here are two low light videos from the Samsung Galaxy S7:

UHD 30p is in crop mode, and indeed the RS is lower (as is the resolution) compared with the 24P and 25P modes.

OIS works in 4K, but no digital assist. It just is very difficult to hold steady given its slim, light form. The wind also really affects the stability. You will note the indoor shots are much more stable. I will experiment with the app.

The latest 4K camera offering from Samsung has a new hybrid focusing system, in-body stabilization, a 5.1" AMOLED Quad HD display, is waterproof, has built-in GPS and wifi, and can stream live video to the internet. Takes calls. This 4K video was shot handheld in Brighton, now a traditional setting for testing out new cameras. But this was shot in daylight, and graded in Sony Vegas Pro to emulate the look of video: The original UHD video is downloadable.

Sorry, I was being too polite. The difference between PP or CS is not arbitrary, without meaning. Creative Styles have completely different - much more limited - controls over picture quality than do the Picture Profiles. There is no choice of black level, black gamma, overall gamma, color gamuts, knee settings, color phase, etc. controls in Creative Styles. And sharpness has at least 4 parameters in PP's, not just a slider. PP's are for video; Creative Styles are for P&S cameras. This does not mean that one cannot prefer a particular Creative Style or that there is no interest in seeing examples. But 0,-3, +2 has no meaning whatsoever in Picture Profiles.