Dimitris Stasinos

I am a big fan of BM's image. Indeed, nice colors & DR on that video. I hope we can get something close to this in camera through h264 one day... Will gh5 be that tool after Summer's firmware updates? I wish....400 Mbps h264 is indeed a killer spec.

Of course and I am sure they will do this. i consider Sony slog2/3 as "Extreme". Sony has an exaggerated perception of what "flat" means. Slog3 is inarguably an overkill and I don't know if even 10bits are enough. What other companies call flat, Sony calls it standard. It took me over a month to built a "Canon like" ,or "Non zombie" profile on my FS700 and this with extreme settings...Of course 8 bit is not enough for this. I am only playing with cine gammas and have found the sweet spot between DR and codec efficiency.

I think the reason people are asking for 10 bit in the next A7 series is just because Pana gave it In GH5. It is the "take that" factor of the prosumer market. That doesn't necessarily means that A7S need absolutely 10 bit to be a fine all around camera. No one asked for it before gh5's announcement. But people asked for other thinks, like better economics, usable screen and better autofocus for gimbal work. As Axel said XAVC codec is badass and the only reason for a prosumer camera to have 10 bit codec is to have room in post for correcting color issues. You can easily correct the "zombie" effect on the skin tones that a7 series give in post, but good luck with orange flat skin tones of a g7 ( this is exactly where a 10 bit codec shines). Overall I think that in this specific market it is wiser to provide a nice 8bit codec with pleasing skin tones than a 10 bit codec to save your camera's bad rendition of color. How many of the Pana fanboys out there have actually tried to work on a 10bit file really? I wouldn't be so excited, especially after trying to work with Luke's files on an IMac.....(dude THANKS for these...). Don't get me wrong, I am really considering gh5, but dear Pana...fix those colors please, cause everything else is perfect....

I really liked his point of view and couldn't agree more. Yes, cameras have evolved since then and high noise issues gradually get off our way. But it's not always a matter of perspective or philosophy. From my point of view, A7S has raised the bar so much and opened new creative possibilities that are hard to ignore when an m43 camera with a good lens is getting really close to it´s price...I really liked "The Rock" by the way, but it is not that simple as "it was good for them back then, so stop asking for better SN ratio and do your job", because I personally have not a lighting crew with a van full of lighting gear to save my shot every time my camera tends to screw it...So if you ask me, yes the A7S has more than enough DR and low light capabilities, at least for me, but gh4 would ruin my day. And as for gh5 I am hoping for a usable 3200 iso, which I consider as "a very BASIC feature" for a camera which is 2x the price of a6300.

I can see only 2 dark spots regarding this camera till now. One is the auto focus performance, as mentioned above, and the other is what panasonic calls Three-Dimensional Color Control. If AF is indeed 2 times faster than gh4 and 3DCC actually helps the user to get rid off that ugly orange skintones, even with tweaking, this will be a dream video camera. Again, fingers crossed....

I consider G7's footage acceptable at both iso 800 & 1600. What i am waiting for is a m43 camera with acceptable performance at 3200 iso. And as many here have already mentioned not every pro shooter uses lights.

Which version of FCPX are you using? Your disk's speed doesn't affect render times, only editing speed. Rendering is mainly a processor task. Also I saw a massive boost in render times when I updated my FCPX in 10.2.3 version. If you are running an older version try this.

I was on the same train... I calibrated my screen 2 years ago and it seemed ok. Until I saw a (paid) work of mine on an average pc monitor and freaked out! All colors where washed out like semi slog2 footage..lol. Nor that the specific pc monitor is a solid reference but THAT difference was huge. Also, i did notice that every time I am calibrating my imac screen the outcome is different. Different ambient lighting , screen brightness and some times the eye fatigue factor makes this process quite subjective...

Thanks for your feedback! I tried holding alt but doesn't change anything. I did run the process many times and the final result is miles away from any average monitor. I made a custom HDR profile and still when i am using complicated masks in FCPX, i need to see the footage to another monitor to spot imperfections in the shadows. Also there is a big amount of vibrance which i can't get rid off. Thanks for the suggestion, i may go with X-rite afterall.

Hello guys! I need your help here. My screen (imac 27 late 2012) is totally off and Yosemite's calibration process seems like a total mess. I am sure many off you have tried all these fancy stuff from x-rite and other companies. Can you suggest me a cost effective calibration tool please?

Nice piece of work! Excellent color, framing & editing. I will agree with bunk though regarding audio. I have a pair of near field studio monitors in front of me & can't hear what she is saying. Music is too loud and her voice needs more aggresive compression and volume to cut through. Cheers!

The a6500 will definitely loose 1/3 of it's current price anyway, just as a6300 did. By the time GH5 is out (Feb-March maybe?), Sony will have the a6700 (or something like that) ready for production. This has nothing to do with gh5 or what the average consumer wants. It's just Sony's strategy. When something new pops up from their R&D departments, it's instantly incorporated into the next design in a 6 month cycle, just the opposite from what Canon does. This leads to innovative BUT immature & untested products & brings huge sales after targeted marketing campaigns. This is how Sony choosed to move on, sadly. A side effect to this strategy is the shrinking value of these products, every time the next model is out (which is 6 months from now). Panasonic doesn't do this, nor Canon, nor Fuji, nor Nikon. This is why SONY SUCKS and not because of their skintones which i personally like :).

So according to Max and in a few words, this is a sony a6300 with great IBIS and unusable screen in outdoor conditions. Touch functionality is there just to fill the specs and it still overheats (there is again that random QC thing so let's say that if i order one and i am not Philip Bloom it will overheat....right?). All these in a camera body that here in Europe will start selling at 1700 euros (1800 usd)....I don't get it... Panasonic must unleash that thing quickly (but they have no reason to be in rush, do they?).

So, after seeing that video it's an easy decision for me...The "camera IQ pixel peeping" thing has no point when "one" of the compared devices doesn't work as advertised. GoPro will probably adress some of these bugs through firmware updates but you can't turn a potato into a strawberry with software quirks... The bad thing though, that makes me kinda sad, is that there is still no company that can compete with DJI. Monopoly is never a "good" thing. When software updates will get messy in many ways (as it happened many many times before with Phantoms), which company will give us an alternative?

I believe that a 1/2.3 sensor can produce pleasing images if you bump up the datarate to at least 100 mbps. I can understand the reason why dji doesn't do this, obviously to protect it's more expensive solutions (even X5 has a ridiculous bitrate, to force you buy x5r if you want a grade friendly image but in a ridiculous price...). What has GoPro to protect? And how we can find the latest IMX sensors on bloody smartphones like Google Pixel XL and the latest GoPro, a "dedicated video device" has an older sensor? Have you seen footage from Pixel XL (i think the latest one on YT are legit)? Is this the way for them to recover? Voice commands, cmon really? And that "improved encoding algorithm" fairytale is getting old now... Another paradox: Dji's drones with tiny 1/2.3 sensors have cameras for precision indoor flying.....Indoors.....with a 1/2.3 sensor.....And more expensive platforms have MFT sensors but not VPS...These things could replace cranes in many many scenarios if they had tripod mode and VPS. This reminds me Sony's marketing. You purchase a 8000 e. camera and 6 months later, a 1000 e. consumer piece of s..t comes up with Slog, 6k oversampling and slow motion....

Linear mode on Hero5 is a defished medium FOV, so expect slighty smaller FOV than medium. Maybe close to 30 mm focal length? I am guessing here...

I wanted to like Karma more than Mavic, but i am not seeing any IQ superiority in that video in comparison to what i have seen from mavic so far. It' s typical GoPro outcome, exactly on par with Hero 4 camera. I can't say its worse than mavic's camera but it's not better either. In terms of sharpness i think they are equal (look at 1:19, Phantom 4 would have nailed that shot....) The edges are super soft and linear mode seems to make things worse. In terms of colour i am seeing here the same magenta swift in shadows, exactly like mavic (kinda ugly, but fixable in post) On the other hand, besides mavic's camera being advertised as faster i think that the first shot would have crashed shadows if it was shot with mavic's camera. Don't get me wrong, mavic may have the faster lens they advertise but it's internal processing seems to ripple it's dynamic range. Am i the only one who sees this?

I have a simple question to a6300 users, since i am considering a6500 and iq wise they are pretty equal. I know that hd mode on a6300 is day & night in comparison with 4k, BUT do you consider it's hd image as acceptable? I know, acceptable is just a word, but will a6300 hd image be on par with, let's say, 5d mark iii 1080p h264 image? I searched the web for a proper detail comparison with 5d but almost everybody uses the sony in 4K mode.

Actually this is the best footage i have seen so far from the mavic pro. These images have the right amount of sharpness to my eyes. Also in the statue shot we can finally see the advantage of bigger focal length / shallower depth of field, as selective focus is not an option for a P4 owner. This is an example of how an experienced user can show the true potential of a product.

The mavic's video is unfocused. This was mentioned many many times on every other forum and YT video. And no the mavic has NOT smaller sensor. It is the exact same size as P4's. Where did you read this?

It says "5 axis". Can a 5 axis stabilization system be digital? I thought digital stabilization works on x & y axis? No?

These guys are fast! Where is the catch?

I know the feeling...If the price is on par with X-T2 and it doesn't overheat, it will be a real bargain.

Tha last video kinda sold me too (kinda). BUT...The first comparison is a joke..He compares a camera with fixed focus to infinity with a camera with adjustable focus on a subject that's 50-70cm away...There is no way that this is not stupid...Actually it is stupid enough for someone to stop the video and wait for the next one to make conclusions...Also, if the footage is legit, mavic's image quality is fine for dayshots but very weak at nightshots. P4 seems to give a more pleasing image at those nightshots with slightly better DR and less noise. Overall, mavic is starting to gain some ground and its totally DJI's fault that it lost its popularity last week. When you produce groundbraking products like this you just don't send the prototypes to fools and if you do, at least try to include a brochure with BIG black letters in a sentence like "tap to focus..."

They seem to have a small difference though. P4's sensor effective pixels=12.4 M. Mavic's sensor effective pixels=12.35....It seems that Mavic has the new IMX377 sensor...So we have 4 scenarios: A) Same sensor but different image processing .B) Different sensors & immature image processing on the mavic's side....C) Different quality optics, which i personally doubt. D) That focus thing which i also doubt (you must try really hard to be out of focus with these things or....sorry...you must be a total idiot...).