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Have been using mine the fourth day in the row now. Having a blast. It's a very pure experience, having to be set with four puny batteries, which last for about 30 to 35min of footage. Today I was using the 12-32 zoom, on the first three days a 25mm C-mount lens, the latter with a 360 shutter unfortunately! Not using Nds at all is a pretty big confession to choosing a desired depth of field. It provides me with some challenges I have to master and which make me reflect a good deal about my framing and sujet. Handheld panning and tilting with the 25mm is quiete an exercise as well.

None of the youtube personalities made me buy anything. I assume!:) Their thumbnails are hard on my eyes and the violet led tristesse of a youtube studio is hard on my soul. I don't watch them anymore at all. I bought most of my stuff based on footage and comments and of course this forum! Still a bad choice to watch or read anything to find an exuse to buy stuff you don't NEED.:) Gerald has developed his successful formula and he has a great voice. I assume he could comment on anything like cars, computers. A good part of his income is generated from purchases. His reviews are balanced and he supports people in making an informed purchase and to keep them up to date with the pro(sumer) tech. He is not a filmmaker nor is he a nerd of filmmaking. His target audience seems to be mostly youtubers, tech fans, event filmers. Gerald enables them to buy the item of their choice, not to hinder them to buy anything. I would watch his reviews if I was to buy a new camera and to choose between a Z9, an upcoming S1HII or a S9II with hotshoe, mechanical shutter and EVF:)

All good, though I personally would love to see some 5D3 prowess and some Komodo in the wild:) Now, how we gonna start it anyway?:)

I remember you doing visually very sophisticated and engaging work such as music videos, f.i. with the 1DC. @Dave Maze Despite not doing shorts and films anymore, do you still do personal pieces besides videos of your loved ones, such as cinema verité of daily life vignettes, essayistic work or visual poems? I 've seen quiet a few talented people who even have turned away completely from the moving image, unfortunately. About the S9, do you know if the downsampled open gate 4K mode will come to the other S line models as well, maybe even the older ones? Will there be another flavour of it with a higher bit rate than 50 Mbps? How is battery life? No mechanical shutter nor hot shoe is a shame. That was not a question, I know. Sorry:) Last but not least, great to see you, Dave.😊 best and cheers

The three of us are a good start. Let's get @mercer enthused to be the first four afficiandos with a great mix of cameras, GX85, F3, both in 8bit goodness plus Komodo Redcode prowess and 5D3 ML glorious 14bit Raw . That should sparkle some further enthusiasm to maybe get someone to film simultaneously with a S5II and S1H each in one hand or to use a Sony EX1 with a 35mm adapter and a nanoflash recorder...:) The latter would be the perfect setup to make camera nerd friends overseas. @IronFilm 🙂

I would be happy to have a GH5 II image and codecs in a LX or GX camera. Fun fact, a S16 width variante of the G9II sensor with 4 to 3 aspect ratio would still sport more than 12 MP and more slightly more than 4096 px width. A LX100 body with the lens mechanism of the LX10 would be perfect for that and the monitor of the LX10 or GX80. Perfectly dreaming.:)

I went for a walk with my og Bmpcc yesterday, mounted with a 25mm lens. Handheld shooting without rigging was quiete a challenge and a lot of fun. Color response in grading is still impressive. I imagine the 5D3 to be on par with it. In that case I would prefer it over any Sony or Pana dslm in regards of sheer beauty under natural light or 5600K fixtures. S1 and S1H impressed me in lit scenarios though under tungsten btw. I bought a 5D3 1.5 years ago and it's waiting for party time.

Who are you talking about? Always grateful for your recommendations and point of view. Phil Ohs looks very interesting btw.

The mju 2 sports a 35mm f2.8 lens, Canon AF has a 38mm f2.8, both AF full frame with lenses so tiny and great image quality, many more in the form of compacts of the 80ies and nineties, Oly AF a predecessor of the Mju, Nikon AG, manual focus miniature gems such the Olympus XA or a Ricoh FF. How a Pana representative gives ungraceful exuses is beyond good will to smile away. I am stunned as you about tha silly statement. @John Matthews Don't envy btw, to own a red GM5 is discouraging to take pictures because they are too pretty and too delicate to take a risk of roughing up the pretty faux-leather.😂 No hotshoe, no evf, no mechanical shutter is so stupid. Instead of making the GM1 of L mount full frame, they could have done the GM5. Would be nice if Panasonic adds the 3840 x 2560 open gate mode to the other S cameras as well and to give them an additional option for the 150mbit h264 422 codec in that mode.

That's the one I got last summer!😂 @John Matthews It came with the 12-32 lens, two batteries, a 32GB card, a roughed up original faux-leather case, all for around 240 Eur iirc. It has a hot shoe and came with a flash too, a feature which Panny full frame S9 users have to miss out on.:) I only did a test walk with it so far though. My LX15 going too strong as my carry around camera, even making my GX85 collect dust.

The orange S9 will effect second market prizes for my GM5 to either go up or sink into pennies lane. Either way it might be time to sell it.😄 MP Lite is kinda interesting, 4k open gate video in 3840 x 2560, 10 bit 420. Combine that with an evf, internal flash / hot shoe and mechanical shutter plus headphone jack it's a winner. A MP Lite variante in 422 would be a great feature for future firmware updates and cameras.

@jase Didn't you also use to own a GX85 and a GM1 as well?:) I remember a beautiful GM1 nature video. I loved the colour signature of the GM1. It had some of the nicest 8bit lumix images i've seen on the web. I got myself a GM5 last year but I have not really used it unfortunately.

Great, you guys! The newly sparkled enthusiams could be channeled into an Eoshd filming challenge. Last one was five years ago:) @kyewould be in and put his GX85 up against the Blackmagic Full Frame Raw Cine Beast. My camera of choice for that would be the classic Cinealta F3 in 8bit Slog internal mode to contribute some additional spiceyness. What do you think? Some Magic Lantern goodness in the mix or some Z9 mayhem or some Canon Ti 8bit mastery... Let's get rollin!😊

I love the look of the video and it has a few hundred views already. So there is hope.:) @kye I still have the 420 8bit Slog files which came with the SDX cards of my F3 and they grade like a charme. I think the F3 only looks good in Slog though, judging footage on the web. Unfortunately I have not been in the filming mood for months now. But a "challenge" with a few Eoshd friends could change that. Kye and Panny are in!:)

More Cinealta F3 goodness. Something about the footage that dslms are lacking. There is just something magical about textures and hues. Anyone up for an 8bit "challenge"? We could do an 8bit cinema beast challenge with 8bit heavyweights like F3, C100, C300, AF100, DVX200, JVC LS300 and so on. Open weight class with some heavy hitters like a S1H in 200mbit 8bit S35 HD mode competing with a modest G7.😊

I second that notion, leaving these rumor sites outside the activity of Panny staff. I have been an admirer of the GX85, the usuabiltiy, the strong 8bit 4k codec in sufficient light and the great colour science for color work in Davinci Resolve. I also like the tactility. The GX8 is a pretty camera to hold and to look at, seemingly the true m43 leica whereas the GX85 is compromized by its size in that regard and in comparison. I only had a chance to play with someones camera for a few minutes but it was very enyoyable. On a sidenote, when I was checking out the classy GX7 in a store about eleven years ago, it was the prettiest of all digital cameras in my eyes but with a big design flaw. The grip heigth was too much shortened so that my fingers got easily in the way of the AF light. The succeeding GX8 solved that issue but lost some of the sheer beauty in appearance. I also love the GF1, though very slippery. The GX1, a more modern version and true successor, much more than the GF2 ever was, has the much better 16 MP sensor that's also inside the G3, GX7, GM1/5, G6/7, GH3, GH4, GX85... Still a nice sensor capable of stunning color and results. The GF1 12 MP sensor was a bit of shyte even in 2013 when I bought mine.:) Still got an Olympus EPl1 and EP2 with the same sensor. You know what, talking about sensors, I never owned a GH2. Wondering how that sensor would fare me for photography. Too bad flickr is not any fun anymore to browse through.

The leaked images look a bit ugly as well. Maybe the released camera is much prettier. No mechanical shutter? Yikes. That and no evf are very unappealing to me. GX8 has a great design. It should be big enough to house a full frame camera inside.

S5 (2) without the hump and no evf? No, thank you. Clickbaiter getting infos from Panny before release of the camera? Please, no!

The 300w leds are great to have, of which I've used only the Aperture fixtures though. The 600D has a big footprint. Rather use a 2.5K HMI instead. But of course the Aperture is much lighter to rig and much less power draw and easily powered by regular circuits. Anyhow, 300w spot leds would be it on the top spots of the list. I also like the 100w amarans. Lightmats and tubes are super neat and easy to use. The amarans come in stronger versions now too. Havent tested them but seem to be great bang for the buck regarding light quality and usuability.

I know what antics make me begin to shy away from posting on this forum. For sure we are not a pro forum per se but pro answers have been given to us by our forum members and friends over the course of over a decade! Some of kyes post are indeed pro territory and are very worth of reading, even for people who know already one thing or two about some of his topics. In that the info is not only relevant but also very approachable. I remember the times, when I was just reading the awesome content of this place and I remember the great joy it gave me when I have finally become a member. I was very grateful. Just lately I have begun to lose my temper about some of the nonsense and attitude presented here. For sure we are not a pro forum, but on a "real" pro forum like cinematography.com ever repeating same questions by would result in a rather spicy and well deserved reply. @mercer I also like the grade and I found the grade to the point, being natural and not drawing attention to itself but showing the quality of the footage. @ac6000cw I find your example very harsh in contrast relations of certain tones and also in regard of saturation relations between some of the tones, like they are emitting light themselves. Just saying:)

I agree. His Sony work does not respond to me, neither in the edit, premise, lengthyness, choice of focal lengths, camera movement nor framing nor color palette and contrast. @mercer That Sigma 30mm is a thing I had been keeping in my mind. I am a sucker for 28mm on S35. Kendys Canon work was magic, his Sony uploads on his channel are video imo. Besides colour, movement, framing and lensing are not in the same league as his Canon library imho. I can relate to the impact of a camera on freewheeling video essay work. I still hold a G70 in high regard for the mojo it has in HD 24p. The only two pieces I shot with it are still oozing color magic and forced me to design my shots and movements instead of gimbleing through the world rather effortlessly. No effort means no magic in most of the instances.

I got two Micro Cine Cameras and one Pocket OG. And the best thing is, I have hardly shot with them. So I feel every day like a kid in the toy store! The panel looks super exiting. How about a whole lotta love for it! 🙂

I want that Dave Altizer back in this forum!😂 Like many other friends of the peek times of this forum! @mercer

The thumbnail of the XH2s and the profile picture of the guy look IR heavy indeed. It seems like he actually likes this look.😊

I've been mentioning this before,that I found the GH5 much easier to grade than the S series. It has 709 as colour space vs V-Gamut on the S cameras, also two to 2.5 stops less dynamic range. For lit scenarios I was very fine with the full curve and gamut as contrast and color was much more stylized and designed. The GH5 in MK II alteration is still a camera I wanna check out with its creamy high resolution image. It's more classic and organic compared to the crispier image of the MK I. I have only seen one person ever with the MKII. It has 10bit in 60p 4K as well. And from the Mark I the beloved S16 crop or optional 2/3" mode via 2x digizoom. Is the latter without heavy aliasing and moiré on the GH5? @kye