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Totally. It´s a certain shooting style these cmounts go along well with. A nice 25mm cmount lens seems to be a must for any m43 lens lover. The artist of this piece has also really nailed it shooting wise.

@kidzrevil, what are you doing! Now I am starting to lust for these Nikon lenses!:) I really think your footage in portrait mode has awesome colors. What settings were you using? Is this out of cam? Looking natural, cinematic, looking boss!

Looking fantastic. I don´t mean to come across like a smartass: We will have to wait and see. Seriously there has not been anything of that caliber shot with a GH5 and then posted on Eoshd yet. As people on Eoshd like to say: footage looks thick.:) Thanks for showing.

A nice piece showing off the GX85 in combination with a 25mm CCTV lens. I enjoyed this very much and really like the colors.

Nice edit and footage. So the Nocti is the pricey but exellent 42.5mm 1.2 Pana Leica lens? I couldnt hear your voice well, due to the louder background music. Footage of the racing track and the racing kid looks especially nice. The framing on the womans face put her eyebrows and her lips too close towards the upper and lower edges, in my opinion. Nice achievement and showcase for your lens combos and GH5s image quality.

Hey Kidz! Just keep the different image circles in mind. Tevidons above 16mm should be fine, the 10 and 16mm are tricky for the G85, as I´ve been posting a few days ago in this thread. Glenns Fujinon 12.5mm seems one of the nicest lens gems in C-mount. I am glad he shared his knowledge about it on this forum. For the Tevidons I wouldnt pay more than 100 USD though, as some sellers really push the prices too much. I paid around 30USD for my Tevidon 16mm 1.8, which is still waiting for an adapter. Tevidons need a special Tevidon to either cmount or m43 adapter.

@meanwhile with GX85, manual focus is the best. AF does not compare to the AF beasts for video. Mercer also owns a Tokina 25-50 F4, which is my favorite lens for handheld shooting and manual focussing without focussing gear. Couple this bargain lens with a cheap focal reducer and you have a nice lens with 2.8 light gathering and S35 cinema standard image and exellent ergos for manual handheld shooting. Add a small cage later on, once you can find one for cheap. I got a "Rolleiflex 4K" cage for around 40USD. Usually they range around 200 bucks. Another favorite of mine is the Canon FD 28mm F2.8 in combination with a cheap focal reducer, bargain quality lens. Maybe still my number one. The EVF on the GX85 is not nice on the shooters eyes, so one would depend on the LCD. Shoot that little guy in 4K, because the HD is not as nice as it used to be with the Panasonic Lumix cams.

Hallo Teemu, one thing ahead: your other video is really dope. My compliments. This is one to me seems a little loose on the narrative string, different locations, moods, visual styles, some of them very nicely done indeed, but to me they are not seemlessly fitting with one another. The Teaser shot is gorgeous and so is your other video. My two cents.

Glenn, you made me check out Edward G. Robinsion. Nice find! That Netflix mogul in Edward G. Robinson impression is a great idea for a little scene itself!

@jcs and @HockeyFan12, you guys confuse me. Maybe it´s my lackful English. Maybe it is your English, you guys are able to express all this knowledge with. Will try to understand that interesting stuff some day. Astonishing! Wow! @mercer Glenn, Mr. Netflix might reply: If your GH5 only had Olympus colors, I´d give you green light for your not horrible film, that you pitched oh so well:)

Or if only the GH5 had the price of a BMPCC

No, no, not spending your money my friend!:) It becomes a 2x1.4=2.8 crop like the one on the BMPCC. If the Kern works well on the the BMPCC it would with the 4K 1.4 crop of the GH5. This mode is called 4K Extra Tele alias EX Tele mode. http://www.newsshooter.com/2017/03/28/gh5-extra-tele-conversion/ Keep your money in your pockets, under your pillow, how would I know where!:) Btw, this little bad boy works nicely on the pocket. Looking pretty sharp to me:

Good one!:)

Great thing about s16 lenses is they would love the 1.4 crop mode of the GH5, which is still 4K and should give pixel perfect downscaled HD. Makes the GH5 a nice stabilized s16 cinema camera, the GHMCC, GHMagicCinemaCamera:)

That´s right. It´s going to be shot at the end of August. It´s gonna be a fun experience. This time with usable dialogue sound, though not in English:) My bet for your camera would be: A6000 or G85 or EM10 II. Oly EM10 II has the 72mbps ALL Intra, has 3 axis IBIS, does not have Flat profile. For the Oly 5 n 10 II, do they have mic input? All in all the Olys seem pricey, but your choice by heart. So, maybe Oly E M10 II could be it, if audio and battery solution is nice. EDIT: Hoppla, thought you meant my lil project, conceided me. But of course, hopin too that Mattias gets to shoot his film. Sorry about the mistake at the beginning of my post.

Hey Glenn, thank you for posting that link! That´s a lens I´ve been thinking about for quiete a while now. I just purchased a SLR Magic 12mm so I should be happy. But still wanna try this lens out some day. About the Tevidon 16mm check this out, cropping into m43 and still creeping into UHD a little bit at F1.8, perfect for BMPCC though: http://lenscraze.blogspot.de/2015/05/tevidon-16-1-8.html I have the Tevidon 16 but need to purchase an adapter for it some time, actually two adapters, one from tevidon to cmount plus a cmount adapter.

Hallo Jase, I would go for the 4K. It crops a little bit off of that fishey effect too:) The downscaled 4K is a much better image than the internal 1080p, which is not close to the very nice HD quality in the GHs, G6 and G7 cameras. So overall image should be better. Why don´t you do a quick test in the basement? Shouldnt take more than 15mins. I don´t mean to be a smartass, but that would give you 1st hand info, as lowlight with a 3.5 lens might deserve a special test due to the various variables it accounts to.

with clean 4K 60p the GH5 should be able to give us pixel perfect 120fps in HD. Unfortunately it doesn´t. Perfect HD up to 60p, still nice up to 75fps HFR mode, from there on it´s not getting better: https://www.slashcam.de/artikel/Test/Panasonic-GH5-Sensor-Verhalten---Aufloesung--Slowmo--Rolling-Shutter---Slow-Motion.html#Slow_

Andy Lee has been too busy unfortunately to share some of his great findings about lenses lately. Would be awesome, if Rich could chime in on this topic and the case of maintaining and servicing Lomo Cine optics. So, @richg101, @andy lee, calling you a second time in this thread. By the way, Andy, any teaser footage of your film "Pandora"?

That legendary "mercers 12.5mm Fujinon"! No need for me to hunt for it anymore, since I bought the SLRMagic 12mm. Or am I at the beginning of a 12mm GAS now?:) I found different lenses of a Fujinon 12.5mm lens on ebay, some made in China, some in Bangladesh, looking pretty different from one another. Could you post a link to the right version? I remember you wrote that optical quality is very good. Do you still have it? If so, I would definately support your choice of a MFT camera as your second cam. This video gives a good idea regarding Tevidon lenses and their coverage of m43 image circle. The 25mm looking pretty good, the 16mm not fully covering:

I second that completely!

Awesome look! Keep us posted about the video!

Hey @kidzrevil and you other kids!:) I know we are all grownups, so no offense, but when it comes to lenses we are all kids:) The 10mm Tevidon does not cover full m43 image circle. It covers s16 when cropped from top and down to 1:2.35 ration. The 25mm covers even full m43 sensor though with only the slightest darkening of corners as this video shows: Also, Tevidon seekers might wanna check out these two articles, giving a well rounded look into the odd characteristics of Tevidon lenses, at least when it comes to the 10mm and the 16mm. I own the 16mm but don´t have an adapter yet. Charateristics regarding uneven focussing plane, and soft wide shots are to considered when going for the 10 and 16mm Tevidons. And, don´t pay more than 150 USD please, better not more than 80! So here are the nice reads about Tevidon character for the 10 and 16 mills. http://lenscraze.blogspot.de/2015/04/tevidon-10-2-c-mount.html http://lenscraze.blogspot.de/2015/05/tevidon-16-1-8.html Glenn, my vote would be E M5 II plus slr magic 17mm 1.6, if you can get the lens for around 300. Or the G85, which has nice colors too and classic Panasonic 1080p besides its obvious UHD mode. G85 might be the same price as the EM5II. So, unless you assume some better color magic, you might go for the G85. Though Oly color seems tempting. Panny IPB codec with 24mbps for 24p HD holds up pretty well too. A7 video looks gruesome:) Weak codec and aliasing nightmare. A7II might be interesting with its 50mbps codec, still not cheap though. Or maybe consider the A6000 instead of that, which can be found for 400USD and has a gotten an update for 50mbit codec. Check out Matt Kieleys A6000 birthday vid, not only a beautiful shortfilm but also showcase for A6000 colors and HD image.

Now that Canon sounds interesting for quick scenic projects. Does it cover full m43 sensor? cheers

I only read about the regular SLR Magic 17mm T1.6, a regular M43 lens, covering m43 sensor. Didnt know there was a special one for the BMPCC. This is the lens I read about: http://www.thephoblographer.com/2014/02/03/review-slrmagic-17mm-t1-6-micro-four-thirds/ An interesting lens for shooting letterboxed 1:2.35 with the BMPCC is the Mir 11m: