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There had been a tapeless recording option planned in form of an additional board. The fact that these plans never materialized makes this camera much easier to resist.:) Another interesting info on the F35 and SRW9000, it's 444 12bit vs 444 10bit afaik. But is the 3CCD block in the SRW9000 block the same as in the F23? The sensor in the S35 version is from the F35. Btw F23 and F35, great naming convention regarding sensor gate.:) It took Arri many years to get back to that. They only dared to do so with their majestic Alexa35.:) F35 is offering Cine 2K as well? The SRW is an HD camera afaik. That Lenovo deal is isane. @IronFilm I just got myself a 17" sixcore with a rtx2070 for 250 Eu, due to a reddish spot on the display, which is only visible against a black background. Seller offered me 200 Euro off his original selling price of 450 when he discovered it and emailed me beforehand. Crazy. I hope it will work fine. That is so cool! @Emanuel 🤗 Was that show recorded or streamed or even a live broadcast? I am asking because the mini hdmi would make the latter two a technical achievement in its own right. What color temperature were you using? It's a strong testimony to the humble G7. So cool!

This demands a hugging emoji!🤗

I like the look and Fov of the 42mm lens on my Oly 35 RC photofilm camera. I wanted that look on my G6 back then when I started my journey with larger sensor cameras. I already had a handful of vintage photo lenses besides some fixed lens cameras. But my first manual lens for video was a Canon nFD 28mm F2.8. My essential lens purchase, which started it all. A year later I coupled it with a focal reducer and since then I began to think in S35 terms quiet often. F2.8 on S35 is shallow enough for me. I also enjoyed F8 a good deal when doing 3min micro shorts very quickly. I could replicate and came to love that look on my LX10 when in 4K crop at F2.8 throughout its zoom range. I have used a Canon nFD 28mm F2 wide open on my S1 on wide shots. I enjoyed that look as well. But I enjoy the image as a whole, not just the shallow Dof by itself. A vintage 3 CCD 1/3" with F1.4 at the wider end and 720p would do the job. I'm not a fan of the HVX200 though.

I saw a used S5 for 650EU. Now, that is tons of camera for the buck. It's like a mini Varicam and a Nikon 750D in one solid and ergonomic body. The 150mbit codec is amazing. My suggestion for serious video and photo starters, if much cheaper is needed, a used G85. I experienced the exitement of an enthusiastic starter doing his first shortfilm three months ago. He felt blown away by the image quality of a G85. It reminded me of my first shots with my G6. I didnt care too much for other cameras for a while. Unfortunately that started to change two years later. The Nikon Z6III is indeed not a beginners camera but very compelling nevertheless for full frame 4k60 raw and prores fans. The skating video which kye posted looks fantastic in the outside parts, high end cine cam look. Interviews looked ok with dubious quality of the highlights imo.

Thank you very much for your kind words, guys! @Emanuel @PPNS It feels very special to participate in a lively moment through the process of filmmaking and it can be even moreso satisfying to me in these little etudes and micro shorts. Last year I was testing the LX10. In 4K it's a 2/3" camera because of the extra crop. I had been ignoring it when I got it two and a half years ago because I found colour to be awful. Then I saw a few video poems by Harrison Kraft who filmed in Vivid profile. Now I find it to be a Rec709 marvel with sometimes harsh highlights but with legit and effectively involving color after color grading. It's a quirky camera too but a marvel on its own right, with a beautiful lens infront of it.

The Sony SRW900 comes in two variantes, one with the F35 sensor and a version with a 3 2/3" CCD sensor block. Is the latter a F23 in a shoulder mount body? @IronFilm Btw the S35 version was on sale on ebay Germany, with the 444 board, 50p 422, viewfinder and tapes, all for 2500 Euro, five or so years ago. Never found one for a price close to that again. Happy though that I did not feel tempted enough to spend my savings on it.:) Still got my G7 which I only used two or three times. Lovely HD, best in M43 land imho after GH5, rather average codec in lower light regarding macro blocks, otherwise fantastic image. I would even rather love to see some of your 4 x G7 videos than from your FF Blackmagic 6K. @Emanuel 😂 Nerdom.:) I absolutely love the form factor of the Panasonic NV DX1, another mini DV cult classic. It has 3 1/3" CCD sensors iirc. I would adore a 1080p or even 720p 8bit 422 version of it. The Panasonic HVX200 provides that afaik. I never had a chance to use a HVX, but it seems much bigger, close to EX1 territory.

That's pure awesomeness! I will sit there with scrambled eggs and coffee and read and read and reread your article! I have been thinking about the 10bit Panny HPX 250 once every couple months. For me it is coming closest to the mysterious DVX100 Andromeda, with its 720p uncompressed hack. The DVX100 has an older 4 to 3 cousine, the Panny DX1, which has lotta mojo too. Love the body and the huge eye cup and the 3CCD magic, not the interlacing and tape workflow though. Here is a video I did with some friends. I had 70min material of sun flooded autumn leaves, benches, a compelling actress and four friends running into eachothers shots. I still enjoy how the edit turned out. Happy times. Oh, Canon XL1, Panny DX1, G6 and Canon 700D in the mix:)

You naughty professor of camera setups! Don't make us feel tempted!😂

Thank you for sharing! @kye That 45 - 150 is very intriguing and tiny! I've been owning one for years now when it came with my Lumix G7 and I still haven't ever used it. It is time to change that! As two of my friends here on Eoshd already know, I have been out filming with my Bmpcc lately. I could write a longer paragrsph about it. No ibis, coupled with a 25mm lens felt challenging but also very freeing from perfectionism and especially rewarding. Four internal batteries lasted for 30min of material so I came to appreciate every time I pressed the recording button. In the edit I was grateful for every stable shot that DID get recorded and not screwed up by an empty battery. I got "full" four batteries waiting to fool me again. Maybe tonight. Last weeks magical night during blue hour with the Bmpcc and a Zeiss Tevidon 25mm:

We shall let go and let people have their opinions and estimations. Back to GH7, Prores Raw Cine 4K is slightly smaller than S16. Dedicated S16, 16 and 2/3 modes would be nice for the future, with full widths and various ratios. Footage so far looks fine regarding textures but otherwise rather dull.

This paragraph! It would be so magical if I only understood what you meant. Sometimes you make my head feel heavy, very heavy!😂 @Emanuel I hope you don't mind me whimsically smiling with a tear of joy in my eye.:)

Meeting great and kind people in the field, also less known ones as well of course, has been a blessing to the heart, mind and soul. I am also grateful to the many of them who still share knowledge and generousity with their time and kind hearts. I once had the chance to chat 2min with Michael Chapman at a film festival. I asked him the right question too. A moment and his answer I will never forget. Thank you for sharing your feelings and insights! @Emanuel

A nerve wrecking affair extra ordinaire.😂 I would pee horrified Smileys into the sand afterwards. @kye

Best Ibis from a full frame camera, S5II. I have not tested it but youtube shows plenty examples. I find Ibis on the GH5 and GX85 more reliable than on my S1/H. It works very well most of the times on the latter but sometimes, possibly with adapted stabilized lenses such as the Canon 24-105, it can unexpectedly feel a bit too jittery. S1/H stabilized a 200mm very well for my needs when panning a protagonist handheld, to answer your question. Do you have a dslm camera with ibis? If not, GX85 from my experience is a good starter or Olympus EM10III.

Producing art of our penises or with our penises? It's been not too long, when I peed a Smiley into the snow. I didn't even take a Selfie of me and my happy snowface though. At the moment I disguise working in a crew, maybe never really will again. @PPNS I created my own recreational filming challenge which I have been doing for six days in a row until last week. @eatstoomuchjam has asked me what kinda "challenge" we could do when I was suggesting to do one. As being too picky about thinking of something exiting for everyone and myself I just created one for myself: unrigged og Bmpcc, with four internal batteries, 25mm Tevidon or boosted 28mm Pentax F2 non Hollywood. Tell you what, art happened infront and with my camera whenever the battery quit working.😊

How does it handle MF for video work? This thing is tiny and they make you pay more for less.😊

I have some Dvds which look fantastic on my HD TV, not too far off from Bluray, even though Blurays offer 5 times as many pixels as Dvds. 8K TVs offer the same pixel number in height / y-axis as the Gh7 in 5.7K open gate mode btw.:) Width is 1.32 of the GH7 pixel count.

Afaik adapting a SLR pancake makes it still stick out more than the native 14mm pancake on MFT fi. @bjohn So I would love some native pancakes. Options of lenses with unmotorized MF and AF would greatly add to the pocket fun on the S9. Leica M39 and M-mount is another interesting route for adapting some small lenses, of course, as shown before by @BTM_Pix on various occasions of our search for small lenses.:)

Puny Alexa:) I sense a puny tendency to impress wholeheartedly with inviting manners. Let's make that tendency impressively overwhelming just like the og Alexa still is. Why not, we all deserve to. I find calling names to be unnecessarily unpleasant. "Nonsense" as a statement did not seed any more sense into a friendly exchange. It made it nonsensically difficult to feel at ease and welcome. When Laxton talked about the Alexa LF he did not talk about S35 eq of 35mm to 50mm on the LF. He talked about liking his 50 and having THAT 50 show him more of the image than it does on S35, larger fov, if one wants to put it less poetically. Anyways, Laxton and Yedlin would get along fine, I imagine.

The Tokina 25-50 F4 zoom and the Canon FD 35-70 F4 are tiny and optically nice zoom lenses for video. I own both. The former was a recommendation by our friend Andy Lee btw. The latter has the typical problem of ageing Fd lenses with dissolving rubber ball bearings, unfortunately. Both are nice and fun for video. Without mount adapters they would look tiny and tidy on the S9 or on any S camera.

Should equal or better the GH5S all in all but especially how it holds onto resolution and colour in lowlight. There is a comparison between GH6 and GH5s demonstrating an advantage for the GH6, though possibly demonstrating more luma noise but less mush and preserving more visual information. @Aaron Smith

Moving the camera towards a tasty cocktail would merely give us the viewpoint of a drunk fly drooling over alcohol soaked cherries and mango.😊

After Moonlight James Laxton was again Dop for Barry Jenkins. He photographed "Beale Street", which was filmed with an Alexa 65. He must love the look of a 50mm lens on a larger format.:) There are some desired qualities of larger formats for the look beyond the logic of focal length and f-stop equivalence.

Looking forward to seeing both, Gh6 and Bmmcc put to action by you. @TomTheDP I've been using my og Bmpcc for six days in a row last week just for relaxation and fun. So much fun, had it coupled with a 25mm Tevidon and some other times with a 0.7 speedboosted Pentax M 28mm F2 non Hollywood version. Colours are magical. During daytime beyond diffraction limit.:)

If Panasonic or anyone from the L-mount would put out any F2.8 pancakes, then we would be talking! 28, 50, 80mm! The true Pocket FF.😊 @Emanuel