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What Pinto said! It is "non destructive editing" for a reason! Ask your sound man, I usually prefer the boom mic, like 90%, but sometimes there is something you have missed, or another issue. There is also ADR.

True Story: In 1998, our Pro Tools tutor in my Sound Engineering degree, talked about Mac superiority for 10-15 minutes, then his Mac freezed! That was my first serious integration with Apple computers. In reality, back then, Apple computers were truly far away ahead of Windows ones, so for Pro Tools, and later on Final Cut, it was really one way. True Story 2: In 2005, I bought an Acer laptop, to take it with me abroad to study on a film school, a really expensive machine so I could edit on Premiere with it. Back then Acer laptops were destined to die. I was so sure it could die to me, that it was the only time I insured a machine for 5 years time (then it would have depreciate so much that it wouldn't worth an insurance). This laptop still works, and with only three changes of of thermal paste through the years. Now it serves as a desktop replacement on my home town. True Story 3: My 5 years old Xeon is still run strong, and I am expecting to buy a 1070 GTX soon, to see how relative it still is. Intel have been really lazy since 2012. My SSD's from that year are working constantly, have edited a few big projects, and smaller ones. I almost never shut down my PC. Just a few days per year, when in summer holidays usually, but recently got no time even for that. True Story 4: Never had a virus since my 5.25 floppy disks. I am not extra careful, just careful. If you are not a profit organization or a political party, you don't really have to be afraid of much. Just do not give your data to strangers, like if someone ask you for your credit card and password in the street. If you do demanding things with your computer, it has to be a desktop. Heat is the number one problem for modern equipment (or else we would have already quantum computers the size of a coin). A laptop can only be a secondary -and mobile - choice. I was entertained the idea of having a surface for basic editing and mobility, but no, we are not there yet. True Story 5: my 3D editing roommate from uni, had to change 3 higher end iMacs between 2006-2008 for various reasons. He tried to cover it up, because I was always making fun of how much he was spending for his machines. True story 6: An middling iMac from that same period is still working on a company I work some times. Just a couple of burned hard drives, but it is still working. The same company, their last 2 editing machines are PCs.

I am an NX user, my NX1/NX500/NX3000 cover ALL my needs (except lower to middle, and upper video jobs that I use video orientated cameras, and like Arikhan's friend, I believe that having a dedicated video camera is much more productive than a photo optimized one.); he lenses are exactly the ones I need, and a couple have no equivalent in any other APS-C system (excellent fish eye and 2-2.8f 16-50 workhorse), and even though I can adapt whatever I want, I don't, and the main issue here, is that a camera of 2014 is better in most aspects than a camera that isn't out yet. That is the sad thing about Nikon, CAN'T compete with a 2014 camera, and if you can't compete with an older one, how are you going to compete with the newer generation of cameras that are going to arrive this year, and the next? I do not see a lot of people selling their 7200 to buy into this one, and I better spend more for the D500 (but of course, I won't, because I have spent less for a much better HYBRID camera already). This camera will be a flop, and Nikon has a few already these last couple of years, while the market is like wild wild west right now. There will be blood!

Yeah, I didn't misunderstand you, I got your point, I agreed and just enhanced that view. I have put lavs a few thousand times myself. You never forget the lav, you constantly monitor and it is very stressful, especially if you have more than 10, as I was doing political talk shows and I had 10-15 people miked at all time (the good thing is I didn't have to hide them, that is always a plus). As good as you have place it, there is always a chance to something go wrong, and you need only 1 second of bad sound to ruin the take/interview/scene etc. 1 mistake is too much, while an experienced booman can always perform 100% right. This is my 19 years sound experience. Most people believe that a lav is the only think they need for sound. That is not the fact.

No sound man in his senses would prefer a lav to a properly positioned normal form factored mike. If you think that "you just "mike the guy" and forget about it", you haven't miked a few people on a very important shooting or TV series/Film. Why? Mostly physics. 1) size. There is so much you can do to a wee tiny capsule to achieve great sound. The good ones, are really expensive (DPA are my favorite) 2) Placement takes time, huge amounts of experience, and always, some luck. 3) Cloth/hair/movement noises 4) wireless have frequency issues from wi fi/mobile phones/whatever - cable is limiting and can be the worst solution of the 3 (boom/wireless lav/cabled lav) 5) change of sound depending of the talents movement

Another lost opportunity for Nikon. That seems like a downgrade from the 7200 which was the best crop camera in DxO listings. Smaller pixel count (it is 2017, we expect a bit better than 20), 1 less card slot, same AF (I would expect something better here, again, it is 2017, we are in the middle of the AF war!), worst battery life. 4K, barely and heavy cropped (x2.25?). 8 fps (NX1 in 2014 had 15). If the next mirrorless from Nikon is a similar disappointment, I do not see Nikon coming back from these. Sad..

As you already have invested on a system (Nikon) I wouldn't suggest another one (as usually, even without really need, you will eventually buy more lenses, accessories, etc. It happens all the time with me!). One little camera I really enjoyed was the LX100. Super pocket able, has most things you will ever need, nice sized sensor for a compact, good lens, and in general an excellent buy. Especially if you can spot one with a real low price. The only downside is that it will eventually be replaced, but the new one will be very expensive, and of course we don't know when it will arrive.

Panasonic cameras are very cheap, and offer the world! In a sense, Sony cameras have all the specs too (though, do not exactly deliver). I am not sure that your statement stands, NX1 had the same price as all the competitors back then (even though vast better performance, of course), but in 2017, I do not see what a NX2 would have against the GH5, it would be close to 2000 for sure, and I don't think it could possible had 10 bit, even though it would have IBIS and the rest. NX1 became cheap, because end of 2015 it was obvious that Samsung is leaving the market, not because it was super cheap in 2014 and 2015. It is a pity though, let's keep the spirit alive, and someone pull a magic lantern raw out of this camera!

I couldn't find the ebay listing, but there is this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/JVC-LS300-CHE-/132148473346?hash=item1ec4a9ae02:g:zoEAAOSwjDZYliPT Spain is just a few hours away from France, and it has a lens and a stabilizing system, just do a quite small offer (something like 1999euros!) and wait to see if you can grab a bargain. In most cases ebay is very protective with buyers, but you always have to be careful on line.

@sondreg What do you mean "the NX1 doesn't record a clean 1080p image", its 1080p is just fine, better than most. Have you seen the soft Canon 1080p (with no 4K option anyway), GH4 (which is similar to NX1), the terrible a6300/a6500? Plus, it has the lowest possible rolling shutter of any of those cameras. Filming performances, 1080p of NX1/NX500 are better than a lot of other cameras I have used, and it is not possible for me to have 5-8 4K cameras for 200 minutes of show, I would need a house of hard drives only for the footage and a backup.

@webrunner5 I think they are the same batteries, but GH5 has more resources to cope with, so needs more power. I believe I read(heard/saw) something like half, but I am not sure.

@Davey 99% is quite a big amount of people, for you to know their wishes and needs. I wouldn't say no (I do care more for a robust 10 bit file than 4K/60p), but I do not see hordes of people buying the GH5 any time soon. I am pretty confident that Canon M can sell as good as Panasonic this year, with soft 1080p. @webrunner5 I am reading that the battery life isn't like GH4, if anyone can confirm about battery life, please do. The camera is extremely cheap for what it offers, I still can't believe all the specs, and you know that GH5 will be a workhorse, reliable and productive, unlike some other brand's models.

What happened to yours Mattias, still using it? Have any advice about J-log? Still can't make it work, too much noise on the dark areas, even with 400ISO

What you do with the HDMI port of the NX500?

I just post to overcome my 666 posts, and move from the demonic side of this forum towards the light (the opposite of high ISO)! I was editing a multi camera project these last days, and a lot of times I was considering giving some more light to specific cameras, in the end I just kept the atmosphere the way it was, because I had a very dark scene, the solution is not 1983754298 ISO because the scene is dark, if there is no light source on my scene, why to try to make it like it is? Now I understand why people are obsessed with high ISO (because they are shooting "night for day"!), and I comprehended why I do not have such problems (because I shoot "night for night"!). Even in real cinematography, you just do not randomly light a scene, you have objective or subjective light sources..

I am sure there will be myriad of Hi Fi forums discussing what headphones are best for Jazz, Blues, Classical or hip hop, but monitoring and mixing are completely different animals, especially for video. You want them flat, to know what are you doing (like your monitors to be calibrated), using standard equipment helps with what to expect in certain situations (that goes with microphones as well). Depending what is the purpose of my video I listen my projects a) on a TV b) on a Hi Fi system c) on a desktop's cheap Logitech speakers, but you never mix for the worst situation, you just listen in case some frequencies are out of these devices range. Never listen laptop speakers, most of them are too bad for anything, you can't degrade your job that much, and I do not care about other headphones as I do videos that aren't social media friendly, big corporates or paid jobs are usually watched on TVs or big computer screens, so no headphones friendly, and then, every modern mobile phone includes some kind of headphones, and some of them sell millions, which one are you going to compare, and with what?

@markr041 if you didn't do any locationing, have no budget, no production "values", no time, do not know how to light, or do not want to; sorry to say that, but no camera can save your life.

This is kind of serious for a camera that costs 12.000euros or more in Europe. I thought it was an excellent camera, but with a similar to the XC10 issue?!

In general, I really admire young kids openness and creativity, but as always, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Education and experience must have a balance, and just watching youtube videos is not exactly education. Also, as I say in Greek "είναι τέχνη και τεχνική" = "it is both, art and technic". In Greek, the word "art" has an Indo-European root, and it means "ξυλουργώ", meaning "woodwork" or "carpentry", "woodcraft" or "woodworking". Where artistic starts, or where technical ends, is really vague. The first religious woodcrafts, totems or statues were artistic inspirations but very technical to made with limited tools. My second interpretation is that it is just a phase of the turn of our epoch. Everything right now is forming the next age, it is something after the social media, but we are not exactly sure what is going to be. Do not forget, after the Athenian democracy, the only democracy ever, probably, we had more than 1500 years of autocracy, Kings and Queens, and a 1000 years middle age in Europe, probably the darkest period in humanity. You can always can go forward, but also can go backwards, now we are somehow in the middle, it seems that we are going backwards, just before World War 1 or 2, we will see what is going to happen. A more simpler and plain explanation is that this is reality YouTube, remember when reality TV was the bees knees? Now it is happening on the internet. Younger generations have been used to "share" their life on the internet, I remember people where having status updates on their facebook accounts every 3 minutes (I don't have one, but I see people doing it all the time). "Now I read", "now I have a cup of coffee", "now I go to the toilet - I am having number 2 " etc etc At some point, privacy will come back to reality and people will start thinking about their own lives. Also, there are people that would be always interested in other people's lives, because their own are not satisfactory. These people used to consume drags and be self destructive, now consume reality TV and videos, same thing, different substance. The most scary stuff is young kids, communicate entirely with emoticons and sound messages on Viber, absolutely lack of written words. My nieces had a table for a young age, but with very limited use and not allowed to have mobile phones, and they do not ask for one. Again, experience is great, but to face the world sufficiently and with respect to the vast differences of our planetic village, we have to comprehend the basic human condition, concentrate on the similarities, and build a better world. @Jim Giberti Yesterday, I was watching the last episode of Walking Dead, not very good. GOT some times is so predictable and boring, great production, but I came to the conclusion that one very good feature film, can shape a whole culture. Production values isn't the best. I have a lot of box sets of TV series, I haven't even put one for a second time, not even once, except "Garth Marenghi's Dark Place" and the "Nathan Barley"! My favorite right now is "The Expanse", let's see where it goes!

Working only with headphones is very bad for your hearing, all professionals of sound are a bit deaf(!). Better buy low-middle (150-200$ each) speakers as monitors, but you certainly needs a good pair of headphones (sometimes to hear closely details later on) for recording as well. I use mostly Sony MDR7506/Sennheiser HD 25 and I was considering buying the aforementioned Audio Technica ATH M50 or Beyer Dynamic 770 pro or something similar, but I decided to invest later on the best monitors possible under 400$ (each). I would say, that the "easier" headphones for an average use would be the Audio Technica, after for many years using Beyer Dynamic (the old rectangular DTs were a charm!)/Sennheiser and Sony, I am used of their sound, but most people are more enthusiastic with the ATs. Honestly, do not find it necessary to pay more than 200$ for headphones.

Apple's systems are elitistic, closed and esoteric, and you can see the "defense" of the system from their Zealots reach middle ages proportions. This closeness and lack of choices are not for me. There are thousands of different components you can put on a PC and build it on your own with just minimal knowledge of hardware and software, I found this more liberating than just buying something that others have choose for me, and make me pay 2 or 3 times the price for the same components, that I know how they cost, as they are the same ones I use for my PCs!! I just wish Linux was a bit better, it is good enough for most things right now, but not so for our specialized work. There will be other manufacturers and OSes down the line, I want to see this debate in 40 years, will any of those still be relevant?! "Since 2013, devices running Android have been selling more than Windows, iOS and macOS devices combined." Mobile devices: Android 87,8% - IOS 11,5% Almost 88% of the mobile devices users are stupid and brutes. We get it. Desktop Gaming: 95,4% PC - 3.55% MacOS. Yes, just stupid, because game industry isn't like the biggest entertainment industry on the planet already. No, just primates play computer games. I agree. Desktop/Laptop operating system browsing statistics: MacOS 11.20%, Linix 1.55%. What the rest of humanity use? Who cares? They are not MacOS users, burn in hell. Apple is just an option. Choose whatever makes your life better, because most people's on the planet, ain't Apple. Oh, but maybe we are just so poor, we can't afford an iPhone, or iShit, so go look at my first sentence then, and read again.

With 8megapixels won't be a hybrid camera, even though we know that megapixels don't mean a thing, 8 is too little for most serious users, and less serious users, won't be able to pay for a "low light monster". I just hope it will have ISO 435908209358270 because I am trying to expose Batman and I need a few millions billions more ISO sensitivity for the Batcave.

Isn't the slow motion heavily cropped?

@Justin Bacle I was exaggerating of course! Also there its slow motion capabilities are almost a joke (this is the main disadvantage), but it is a 2986euros (including 24% Vat) in my country and the FS7ii is 12.300euros, FS5 is 6700euros double the price and some.. After a couple of substantial firmware upgrades this little camera is worth to be considered in many peoples buying lists.