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A wired boom is a lot more reliable than wireless. Even if I have 5-6 wireless, I always boom for safety.

With that setup, when you have dropouts, you will have dropouts in sound. This is a 1ch true diversity receiver. If you connect 2ch, then none is true diversity, so when one of the 2 antennas are not working properly, you will have issues on that said antenna (and the specific channel). Share your experiences as soon as you got them!

Yep, highly recomended. The sale has to do with the frequencies I guess. I am getting the lower end (470-530 something) just in case, but the 566-608 will be sufficient I guess. Better options cost to the thousands per ch. so that is an amazing deal for most people.

Samsung had only 1 professional camera, and 7 months later had another consumer camera, and then nothing. They just didn't believe that market was profitable enough, and they fold early. They did the cynic thing, which my cynic side - not my romantic one - believes that it was the most appropriate and profitable for them. Sony on the other side, released almost a dozen pro bodies (including their dSLR range), and they are trying hard to overcome the more established players, and still haven't succeed completely. Still Canon is number 1, Nikon has a chance or 2 to save the game, in some markets Olympus is number 1, Panasonic produces excellent - full of features a la Samsung - hybrids and Fuji is the dark horse, but with a few chips that play well. I won't be sorry when the trip ends, I am happy for the ride, and I am still going strong. I have everything I need for photography for the next few years, and for most video jobs, why do I have to feel sorry about it? One day, an active adapter between NX and my next system would be great. I am sure that will be a market for NX glass, even after all the cameras are obsolete, some of the NX lenses will still be classic, and there are going to be a lot of those on eBay. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

@Matthew Hartman very well said. when I was searching a small mirrorless camera for everyday use with a good pancake, a cheap uwz, and the ability to adapt my old lenses, I went with the NX300, and I loved it, except the terrible video of that camera, the menu system, wireless and full touch screen implementation, was better than anything else. The brown/silver design was so retro/modern-cool! The build quality -except the program dial, was stelar. When I wanted to get a more modern camera, with very good video features after my early Canon years, NX1 was so much better than anything else, that wasn't even close. I like them so much, that I have 2 NX1/1 NX500 and 1 NX3000. The money I spent are less than what a A7Rii cost back then, and all the native lenses I have (7-8) are almost as expensive as the Sony 24-70. Ergonomically, the NX1 is the best camera I have ever used. I am working with a lot of cameras, and is a pity that people will never know that once was such a camera on production.

I do not know either, but you certainly have to pay for it!

502 is full HD panel, Focus is 720 (441 vs 294 ppi), obviously it has a more expensive panel (there are also oled monitors if you look higher). It is built by rubberized aluminum, the other obvious things you mentioned. There is the 501 also which is very close to the Focus. If you add one, two, three things, it makes them more expensive, naturally. Videoassist is bulky, indeed.

There is nothing magic to it. Better processors, better sensors, better and faster pipeline will produce better photos in the future. iPhone has nothing to do to it, and usually Apple is late, or last, to the game, so nothing really to see here. I know X is the most exciting Apple product the last few (a lot) years, well done for them, bravo, that doesn't diminish the fact that usually they are 2 or 3 years behind the technological frontiers. It took some of my friends 3 years and a lot of thousands of euros, to match my Chinese mobile specification, that I had bought for 225 euros. The X in my country costs 1199 euros (I know, not even 1200) and the higher version 1499 euros. It better take good photos, because my slightly thin editing laptop with i7/GTX1060 6GB/16GB RAM/SSD+HDD cost 1298euros, and the iPhone certainly isn't editing 4K multicam projects. Back then I bought, new, body only, my beloved NX1 for less than 1199euros, so put those numbers in perspective. The revolution would be if the X cost 699euros, and offered 1" sensor. Take your examples for the legends of the auto industry. Iconic cars like the Beetle and mini, the 500 and 2CV, were revolutionary, because with little, they could do much. Today's Mini, is just an extremely expensive very small car, that brakes often. It isn't a legend, and it won't be. iPhone X will not be written in history, it is just one of the most expensive phones, that in a few months Samsung will surpass it, easily. In a way, that is why Samsung NX1 is kind of classic, because for so little money, does so many things good, and ergonomically, is probably the best camera ever made. There is no way that pro, or prosumer, photo/video equipment will vanish. It is different to replace a compact camera with your phone, and different to try to make a living out of it.

Focus isn't the cheap brand, it is the cheap model! SmallHD 502 is 2 times the price of Focus, and a little bit more. Professional monitoring is very expensive, on the studio, or on the field (for some similar, and some different reasons). I have ordered the Focus, because I believe it would be fine for low dSLR/mirrorless jobs for the next couple of years, and the price is right, and seemingly, the size/weight too. More, and different technologies are coming, and other solutions (and resolutions!) will be the norm a few years from now. I am already waiting for a kickstarter thingy that turns mobile phones into monitors (it is on hold at the moment, I hope they will deliver February/before Eastern). New mobile phone SoC and operating systems have better imaging and viewing capabilities, with wider gamuts and super extra sharp OLED and IPS screens, and definitely have the processing power to do what modern monitors do, on a fraction of the cost. I can imagine an S9 will be enough to power and process not only monitoring, but also recording, etc etc If you have access to a shop, go see a couple of those, especially check the size. I always thought that a 7" is a must have, but after I did some very demanding, but with small crew jobs the last couple of years, I am still on the search of a 5" (actually, the perfect for me is 5.5", like my phones!), and Focus is the closest so far. I was considering this for some year, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073FDDDPP/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1 what stopped me was the FP batteries, I didn't want another kind of batteries on my workflow!

I say try for yourself. For me a 7" monitor for a dSLR/mirrorless rig is overkill. Even on a smaller C100/FS5/JVC LS300 setup 7" is overkill. If you have a bigger camera/production, then a Feelworld monitor is silly. Imagine Feelworld quality when I did that documentary, when the camera and lenses were more than 100.000euros. I was the one linked the F550/F570 monitors, but just if anyone needs absolutely the minimum, on the other hand, it is just a good (or bad) old Feelworld, on a better chassis. One way or another, cheap monitors will disappoint you. Ask the people here how many Freeworld/Lilliput/Whatnot have on their closets. I am waiting for my Focus, and because, that too, is a cheap monitor will disappoint me in the end, I just believe it will be alright for a couple of years. Monitors are like tripods. In the end, you will pay for them!

Fail. That will hurt their GH5 sales for sure, no way I am getting a GH5, if I was in the market for one, knowing that that will be an announcement on a month exactly. This gives time to other competitors to make - or brake - their own announcements just after Christmass. I guess 2018 it will be the decisive year. Everyone seem to have a competitive mirrorless on the market. Panasonic and Sony are leading the way so far, but this is the last change for Nikon, and one of the last chances for Olympus, then Fuji, and to a lesser degree, Canon. @Cinegain sorry to bring that up, but that APS-C camera exists, and I do have most. It is called Samsung NX1, and except 4K/60p has everything the G9 has and more. Including the battery grip was always less expensive than the G9. oh, and also has this little screen on top that a lot of people made fun of 3 years ago!

@Kevin Kwok impressive at least! maybe the 180 is pushing your SD cards a bit. A little less should be absolutely stable. As you know, the PZ isn't the greatest NX lens, if you could replace (at least for "important" shoots) with the S, you could have full NX power. Especially with out of focus areas and (micro-)contrast, the PZ is an excellent lens for what it is (especially if you compare with other similar lenses that are completely junk). To be honest I have a problem identify details in youtube. Let's say, the scene where the girl runs in the forest in 1:24, is the PZ there? I can see busy and weird shaped bokeh at the trees, while the highlights are absolute (in a bad way). In night shots also, how high you went with ISO? I little to the mushy side, 1# NX issue (NX500 has similar performance anyway). Just pixel peeping, really. If it wasn't for the low ISO performance, and could zoom in (for focus) while recording, I would keep those cameras for ever (I have 4 NX). Now, GH5 has better performance than NX in high ISO, BUT, the NX has less noise in lower ISO than GH5 (the paradoxes of modern cameras!). Congrats, excellent job, in producing, editing, and your actors too. Bravo! I do not agree that we are going down. We own and use amazing tools that others in mirrorless land are still hoping. People that left NX scared of the consequences, are still searching for their system, and go from m43 to Sony, to Eos M, to dSLR, to Fuji, back to m43, and maybe, Sony too. I seriously believe that we saved a lot of money and stress, staying put!

I think this is that post! I wanted to write "..for some time, now." !

have nothing to do with anything, just wanted to post it somewhere for some time know!

@IronFilm Amen to that! Still waiting for that Canon C100mkIII! I am not sure of what prime vs zoom, you are talking about, but for run and gun video workhorses, a zoom (or 2) is a must. That is why I found the Fujinon MK18-55 and 50-135mm T2.9 (7800$ for both), and the Canon 18-80 and 70-200 T4.4 (11000 for both, including the extra servo motor handle. The lenses already have the servo motor in build though) as exciting as most people here found a new camera body. Most people do not know, or have forgotten how much easier our life can be with a moving image optimized lens. The Canon 18-80 with the servo and image stabilization, coupled with the incredible Canon dual pixel AF is an unbeatable combo at the moment. Not a true cine lens per se, but it is coming closer. Just the C200 is a bit out of place right now, both financially and (lack of-) feature wise. A C100mkIII with touch focus and the 18-80, match made in Heaven! In the last documentary I did focus pulling, we had a bag full of Zeiss lenses and an Arri Alura 18-80 T2.6 https://www.ducloslenses.com/products/arri-18-80mm-t2-6-alura Can you guess which one (the bag or the zoom!) we used 9/10? Only for very shallow depth, wider, or more tele we used the primes, and the Alura wide open was already very sharp, and had all the depth of field and more. After a day testing and siting down with the director and producers we couldn't really fault the zoom at any way. Oh, and guess who is making them (Fujinon!). By the way, those S35 lenses are native ones, so not cropped lenses, no different angles therefor. People are forgetting that S35 is a real format. The 5D revolution created a lot of confusion, especially for younger people. I do not thing there is a debate here, different tools for different jobs. This Fuji sounds quite underwhelming though, Fuji offers features drop by drop, and if the new Panasonic is true, I do not see them stay in the industry for long. Except a stop and a half better low light performance, the current Fuji's are far behind Samsung, 3 years later, and a lot of $$ more. And NX has DIS+OIS, while the 16-50 Fuji has not OIS, and certainly do not have DIS! Just saying. You lucky I do not live in East Asia/Oceania!

Bill Viola has done unlimited such stuff. http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/bill-viola-cameras-are-keepers-souls EDIT: never heard of that band either. Must be some of the iPad-making music crowd.

I have used those 3 cameras, and the GH5 extensively for video work (even for TV shows). I would take the NX1 any day of the week. It is amazing how NX1 is still one of the best hybrids in the market, in my opinion, the best HYBRID (a camera 50% for photos and 50% for video), as A7r cameras are photo orientated, A7s video, Sony APS-C lack pro body and features, Fuji is still mostly photo orientated (they are missing a ton of video features vs the NX1), GH5 is obviously video centric etc etc Also, there is a tendency for higher and higher prices, that makes me reluctant to invest to more hardware right now. The big changes will come with the adaptation of the HDR standard in the next few years, but right now the industry has competing standards and technology, so I wouldn't worry about that, yet. As I have said already many times, no one ever has asked me for 4K delivery, which isn't the same as HDR delivery, but you can imagine that HDR - which is brand new, will take a few good years to be the norm in video productions. The only issue I face, is the fact that Samsung is not a player in the industry, so I have to work with a lot of different brands, and I can't "sell" my equipment for jobs or projects with other people directing/producing. Funny thing: in early summer, a camera operator (he uses only Canon D5 and series Cameras) did 3rd camera on a performance coverage I produced, and I gave him the NX1. I explained a few things, and he did his job. He called a couple of weeks ago and asked for the camera because "I liked that little GH4 a lot"! He didn't even understood it was a Samsung, after me mentioned it 4-5 times!

If you go for cheap. There is also a F570. A monitor is a must, even more so with the dimming Sony cameras, but in general, 3" is too small for accurate monitoring and focusing.

I can't stand any more misery. The worst I do currently is "Vikings" and "The Walking Dead" (=it is been terrible so far!), and sometimes "Curb your enthusiasm" can be really cruel! I didn't even watch "Mindhunter". If you want to see human's darker tendencies try early Haneke.

I am using https://mpc-hc.org/ which is an open source media player, which I found excellent. I haven't used any VLC since going to Windows 10. How's the Aero by the way? I am reading excellent reviews, but I just bought (in the summer, actually) an Asus GL502, as the Aero series wasn't even available in my country.

That is why the Focus is a brilliant option. It is meant to be used by single shooters. Not only that, but from its own battery, you can power your camera (there are dedicated bundles officially, by SmallHD for most cameras. I have ordered the GH5 one, even though I do not have one, everyone around me seems to getting, or have one, so there are plenty of cases that this may help somehow, and it is only 100$ more). Blackmagic Video assist 5" is 143x90x30.5 and 362and the Focus is 133x83x19mm and 106gr, do you get the point here? As about the focusing, people were focusing without Canon Dual Pixel for 100 years, and they did fine. I am a big fun of Canon, and nothing is even close right now, but you can do great things manual, that not even Canon can. Recently I was doing focus pulling on a feature documentary, Canon C300mkII and Zeiss/Arri lenses, most of the times I was doing everything by the eye looking through a TV Logic 7" on the camera rig, which is worst in daylight than the Focus (and cost a few times more). The problem here, is most people using photographic lenses, which are not right for our job. That is another issue though.

I have used a lot of cameras since the 90's, and the NX1 is the best ergonomically, XT2 doesn't even have touch screen. No crop on any mode or 120fps on NX1 also.

Ok!I saw the Antos video I guessed it was the same! Well, someone must have a 7" monitor for you to try. Everyone has one! For me it isn't (and not "ain't") even close. 5"! When I am working with bigger cameras/rigs, the C300mkII usually, a 7" is alright, but for C100mkII/mirrorless/dSLR the 5" is perfect. Actually a 5.5" would be ideal (I like this dimension for mobile phones). When you have a worst monitor, then the inches play some role (visibility purposes), but with a better 5" that is not the case. Anyway, that is a personal preference.

Fuji is rumored to have a video dedicated new camera soon also, maybe Panasonic is rushing things because a 2000$ APS-C camera, with a lot of native lenses (+recently released cheap cine lenses) and IBIS will compete with their GH5 really soon, rather than a double price-full frame camera from Sony. Buy a GH5 and a couple of lenses, or three, for 3000$, that ain't even the body of the Sony, and then you have to spend two times more for a couple of Sony lenses. I do not believe that a new A7s, that will be close to 4000$, will be the main competitor of the GH5. I am not even sure that Sony can implement 10 bit internal on that camera, but we will see. I do not believe that Casey, or Andrew, or me, have to tell Panasonic about their AF. Do you think they do not test other people's cameras? or do not really hear the market? They can't just do everything at once, it is an evolution progress, and Panasonic invested on other things, that their cameras excel (like heat dissipation, continuous video recording, advanced codecs and formats etc). It took almost half a dozen years for Sony to put a bigger battery on their cameras, which wasn't that groundbreaking to start with, that grip was mainly empty anyway. Canon C100mkII is still my most beloved tool, and Samsung NX1 second, an ancient one and a forgotten one. They both do the job 9/10 for me.

@IronFilm why do you want a receiver that it only has antenna diversity when 2ch are connected, and true diversity only when one is? I wouldn't trust anything with antenna diversity in this time of age. What I said about the Deity is that it not only tried to mimic what the 416 does (for me, and other people at JWS, especially the experienced Pet Verrando, it obviously is a lesser option), but also tried to mimic the shape and design of it! What was the need to copy exactly the shape and design of another product? Rode didn't copy the Sennheiser design. My opinion is that the NTG3 is a more reliable, and better acoustically mic than the Deity too, but you will let us know of its longevity, as I do not own one, but the 416s and NTG3s are still going strong, after so many years. Anyway, I criticized the lack of originality, it is a completely different mic inside, but outside is the same, go figure. I am not sure if I could have any use of it, I really doubt if it is much better than the MKE600 to be honest, and that mic can be more versatile in specific situations (especially with the battery, when you want to save on phantom power). Here, the basic version (without the Rycote and the windjammer) is almost 500euros, if it was a similar price to the MKE600, including the extras, then maybe I would have consider it, but now, the NTG3 and the 416 are very close to that price (the NTG3 obviously closer). The battery compartment on the Sonys can fail after heavy use. We already have a few that sprang out (if this is a word!) on their own, actually I had more instances of having issues with the little plastic things jump around on set than interferences (which is great). Obviously is a better design that to have to open a whole door to change batteries, but unfortunately it ain't a bulletproof design. Lectrosonics is more accurate with their battery compartments! I got the impression that @salim ain't a sound man, for a lot of cameramen, doing a bit of sound (especially sit down interviews, or static stuff), a very affordable Rode set can be enough, and better than the Saramonic's and Bayou's (or whatever they called. Someone brought me some on a set for me to use. I almost freaked out, but I just laughed!) of this world. Rode here is 40% of the price of Sony's by the way.