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That one's been tempting! There are other examples out there for like 200 more with the viewfinder too

The arri log is quite a nice surprise!! I am excited to see this camera come out and hope we get another, smaller m43 body soon with this sensor. That said, I actually bought a gh6 last week as it was being sold on clearance at a price I could not resist. It's even cheaper this week with the official gh7 launch. I got an open box gh6 with the 12-60mm 2.8-4 for $925 last week on best buy's website. It's even cheaper now, but they don't appear to have any left in my area. It may be worth checking in your area as a new gh6 with 12-60 will cost you all of $701 dollars, and if they have any open box ones, you can get one for under $550!!!! With the lens!! Wild times. Won't prevent me from adding a g9 ii or gh7 at some point, but man, cheap thrills.

Love the look and size of the camera, but yeah, seems to be quite a few compromises up front. and that pancake makes me feel great about snagging an open box nikon z 26mm 2.8 for $325 this week.

It's definitely a super brittle codec/bit rate combo. There is little to no leeway with the files. There is a hack to bump the bitrate to 100 mbps but I have never done that. The good things about the light codec is a 256 microSD card will record for hours and hours. The LCD is a whopping 320 x 240 rear screen. Not entirely useless, but a good way there. The thing that's really helpful is it connects to your mobile phone with an app like a gopro would that allows you to monitor remotely, change settings and modes, as well as trigger recording.

There's definitely a few gotchas on the E1, like using microSD cards and low bitrate. It does have autofocus, but it's really not great. I tend to use it with a wide lens as a plant camera, again mainly for live theater productions where it can be hidden or discretely capturing the band or some other element we can dedicate the camera to capturing. I typically use it with either the olympus 9-18mm or the panasonic 14mm, often with a sony wide angle adapter on the front to get a wider image out of the 14mm. The size is awesome, but definitely does carry it's own set of issues, for example the camera is insane looking on a typical sized manfrotto 501 QR plate. Still a very worthwhile camera to have in the bag and one that can be had pretty cheap. I originally picked mine up for the $200 camera challenge we did on here a few years ago and have been using it on a few gigs a year ever since.

Ah nice, I used B&H specs as the basis for my comment, I can weigh mine when I get home, but it's super tiny and super light. E shutter only, but pretty great video features and connects and is as controllable with a phone as a gopro is. Definitely a better camera for video than stills, but has some fun action cam esque features. It's a really fun camera that truly sits as a 16mp m43 camera is a gopro shell. I've really enjoyed having mine.

A big difference from the rest of the crowd, but the z cam e1 is 252 grams with battery. I've loved having the e1 in my kit. It's been brilliant for plant/crash cams and for hiding it on stage for theatrical recordings.

I'm definitely tempted by the 12-60 2.8-4 a lot and may end up snagging one if I get a gh6 kit or something. They can be pretty pricey used, but it's a very nice lens. I wanted to super zoom of the 14-140 to try on my BMPC but have ended up using it on my g9 a bit too.

It's true, the lenses are where MFT really sticks out. I've gotten one of the Panasonic 14-140's recently to pair with the OG BMPC but it really is a valuable lens on any MFT camera. I got the second version which is a better rated lens. It's also really cheap if you wait and find a good deal.

I have the v1 of the adapter already and it works pretty well on the z5, but man, it WOULD look good on that ZF

Also just realized how cool this camera will be with the Techart PRO TZM-02 leica M autofocus adapter.

I have been using the gx85 for awhile hooked up through an aver media live gamer 2 plus for video and a shotgun mic through a scarlet audio interface. I had the scarlet audio interface and acquired the live gamer during covid. It's a nice set up, but if I were buying today I'd get something like the roland UVC-02 to have both audio and video through one interface. I'm using the audio technica at-875r for audio and it's way overkill, but sounds great and is tiny. the gx85 has been way overkill too, but looks great I mainly have the 20mm 1.7 parked on there to get a bit more separation.

I have a copy of the non-SE. They're the same optically, just slightly different exterior aesthetics

This is one area I think Nikon really deserves some credit for their approach with releases the 1.8 S primes first and building out from there. They're all pretty affordable, uniform, and of great quality. Still not a 135mm or 28mm 1.8 primes, but the rest of the line up is filled out. Panasonic has done the same approach. Canon seems to be on a different orbit entirely.

I really like the 28mm 2.8, the 40mm is just OK, or at least my copy is. The 50mm 1.8 Z is spectacular. I'll most likely grab a ZF at some point because I've already began investing in the system a few years ago when I grabbed a $999 z5. I'm pretty excited to pair the ZF with some contax G lenses and may end up buying a few of the smaller sony primes with an adapter too.