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Well my first wife that died of cancer was a total wiz at history, had almost total recall, and traveled all over the world to experience places first hand. She had lots of degrees in it, and her conclusion, my experience in real life, was that there are really only 2 reasons wars are ever started, is because of Money or Religion. And a hell of a lot of them were because of both causes. And the 3 "encounters" I was involved in were because of those 2 reasons like I stated above. You can go back nearly to the beginning of time, and examine history and those two reasons stand out like a sore thumb. So what i am saying is Religion is more of a damn problem than a cure. Like it or not it is the evil that it is trying to rid the other evil of. Don't drink the Kool Aide I guess is what I am saying. I will not say anymore good or bad about this subject. It comes to no good in the end. The old, do not discuss Religion or Politics applies for a reason... Oh if we all could live a life where others feeling were paramount to our own, what a wonderful world it would be. I look back at my life then and now, and well, can't think of too many things I have done that has advanced society, unburdened others suffering, basically amounted to crap in the scheme of things. But that is what 98% of most people have to write home to mother about in the end. Not much to be proud of other than maybe our very close family. Not too many Mother Theresa's in this world sad to say, but we all suffer the same fate. We are programed to look out for ourselves and those close to us we hopefully love. And it is what it is. Not going to change anytime soon sad to say, I doubt ever.

Hmm, really?? If we are going to turn this in to some Bible Packing, finger waving, my religion is better than yours crap, I hope this does not continue. I have been involved in a couple of stupid ass religious bullshit wars, and one all about the money, that I don't need to see anymore horseshit, ergo people dying, happening in my lifetime. People tend to die in those for, no we are right, no you are wrong stuff, oh and it is all in the name of "our" God, How f-ing convenient!. Nobody really knows who is right or wrong. We may find that out when we die, but then I doubt even then. I tend to think the vast majority of religion is just a way to control humanity. No God would let shit happen that I have seen and done in the name of God and country!! And that continues to this day, and will continue, because like I have said, there is some EVIL ass people in this world, has been, and will be.. I go by the old saying ,treat others like You would like to be treated. That is all the damn "religion" you ever need. But religions are are part of life all around the world, nothing wrong with videos that show Church's, crosses, people participating,. It is reality. Just don't make it a way to convert people to what you believe is all I am asking. I am not too big on any of it anymore.

Yeah Casey Neistat has done pretty well using AF! Maybe we can get Tim Sewell with his Canon C100 mkII to shoot a wedding in AF with it. He might be able to answer how good the AF Realy is?? I don't think he has had it too long now though.

Well I would almost bet you could do it on a Canon C100 mkII. You have to do test footage with a video camera to see it's good and bad points. Shooting a wedding right out of the box, well NO! I would never trust doing it on MF either. You Need to have a nearly continuous video going all the time, You can't have a bunch of cuts going on all the time to MF on stuff. And you can't have a bunch of back and forth, trying to get in in focus crap in it either. No way you are going to record 3, 4 hours of Wedding, Reception in MF without it looking like you were drunk LoL. I have shot 100's of weddings in the day, but that was before anyone used video in it, unless you were a Kennedy or something shooting it with 35mm film! I don't know yet how good the AF is on the GH5, I doubt like hell it is as good as DPAF Canon has. But we are not too many years away from having great AF in Video Cameras I bet.

Oh I can damn near see a Wedding being shot all using AF. Not as the only one there. With the main person shooting stills, I could see it happening. But you are correct. Most of newer cameras are really set up to focus on people. People's faces. Like you said what happens when there are no people to shoot? I know for damn sure in low light, sucky contrast situations, well hold your ass if it will focus. But the touch focus does mostly work in that situation. But at my age I Need a larger screen to do manual focus. Like a 7" one! But so many of these newer lenses have no aperture rings, and what rings they do have a all fly by wire. It just is expensive as hell to have all the gear you need to do video lets face it. The camera on average is the cheap part compared to the rest of the stuff!! It seems to never end the money you need to spend.

This newbie has been around the block before!

Glad to see someones opinion as a end user. GAS on that part. I found it pretty hard to tell much difference myself on the video. But i am sure you are seeing it differently than are. How well does center scan work at wide angles?? I would think it would not work as well as clearzoom mode? I was sort of waiting for the 70mm part to happen to be honest also. Yeah APS-C mode appears to works better on the A7rII also. Not surprisingly across all of them.

Yeah I use his stuff all the time. Leeming on my Gh2, Gh3, and now my G7. I have found he is just about the best guy consistently to use. He has that stuff figured out! It is not worth the effort to bother unless you are shooting something really difficult not to have his LuTs. And he seems like a really nice person on the Forum. And I follow Barry Green with his book and comments on DVXuser for my AF100A. Guy is scary good. This forum Andrew has here, and DVXuser to me, are 2 of the best learning Forums on the web for, eh "normal" people. By that I mean people that don't own top end gear, but aspire top end stuff maybe in the long run. You can't start at the top unless you are rich. and You, in this day and age, really don't even Need top end gear. But oh boy, fun to dream about it LoL. I am not in the market at all for the GH5, but wow this thing seems ALL over the place on good and bad. I can see a few firmware updates Panasonic had not planned on. But I have faith in them to get it right. They have been to a few Rodeo's as they say!

Wow that guy does some magic stuff with his LuTs. And he is claiming 2 stops in Vlog over Cine D, wow that is pretty crazy if true!! Kind of hard to believe though? But he is seeing the ghosting in low light issue also. So I guess it is a problem Panasonic is going to Have to sort out, and quick.

Wow, that LuT is a Big improvement color wise. Maybe you are a touch on the darker side, but better safe than sorry on that part. Well done. Glad you are able to take advantage of his LuT. That guy is a real asset on that site. He is a wiz kid I guess LoL. Really nice to see your neighborhood. DVXuser is a killer place for information. A lot of talented people on that site. And I have never seen a angry post on there. Pretty amazing for that alone.

I will give you that for sure. Panasonic did well with that feature. But the Sony can go to 2x which is a pretty big advantage. But the bigger the worse it can be at times, just like 2x physical ones behind lenses are.

Wow that has Not been my experience on 3 different A7.. cameras, and even on my VG 20, and VG 30. I think Sony has done a great job developing it. I know that a reasonable amount of people use it even on the FS5. We are talking FF sensors with the A7's they have a lot of pixels to deal with compared to say a m4/3. Heck 100% view in Photoshop, with my A7r, looks damn near as clean as the normal 17% you view. Heck if you can use it taking Photos, Video well hell that is hardly any strain on it with 1080p.You only need 2mp. Even 4k is only 8.3. Yeah maybe on the A7s 4k might be a bit of a stretch, but 24, 36, 42mp versions, piece of cake.

Ah I would not dismiss any of Reds claims. They are pretty much top of the list. 18 stops can be done. Hell Canon has hit 20 stops using 2 F65's side by side using a prism. One set for shadows, one set for highlights, and combining them in to one signal. Probably a early test of 3D output truth be known.

Make it So, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard used to say. Cool Beans! Here is a pretty good list of DR on Video cameras toward the bottom of the article. 5D mkIII not doing so good. http://wolfcrow.com/blog/where-cameras-stand-in-dynamic-range-film-vs-digital/ But with Raw he states 3 to 4 stop upgrade on say the Canon's. That is a hell of a lot!! http://wolfcrow.com/blog/dynamic-range-comparison-of-raw-vs-video-mode-on-the-canon-550d/

I am a Big Casey Neistat fan. I know, I am a old Turd. Why?? Well he can light a fire under peoples ass, he makes stuff happen, and that is a good thing, and, and I think this video I have linked might light a fire under my ass, and well some other peoples asses, is that a word??, well I enjoyed it, and I am old, if you are young, hell you ought to enjoy it even More!! It Makes me think, hell is it good because I am shooting it on a Arri Alexa, or is it good because I shot it on a Go Pro, strapped to my crotch, and it is a view no one has ever seen! Well maybe that is a gasp, BAD example! You get what i mean. Hell making movies or videos, what ever we want to call it is suppose to draw the audience into it. Cry, smile, laugh howl, cower, boo, you name it. Do they really give a rats ass if it was shot on a Sony F55 or a Panasonic GH1. WE need to just go out and make stuff happen, be it with a $10,000.00 camera or a 150 dollar one. I don't think the people that are going to look at it really care. These YouTubers are really where it is at right now. And they ain't going away. And they are NOT using Arri Alexia's!!

Yeah, there IS a reason Smartphones are so popular!!

He is not kidding about that. I have NEVER seen a camera, or video camera as easy to MF than a A7 series camera. They are scary easy to do it with, and fast as hell to make it happen. You can do it damn near as fast as AF could, they are that good. Now I never used a Sony F55 or a Arri Alexa, but...

Yeah your "I thought that referred to splotchy patches of color (red/magenta) showing up in footage" is what I equate chroma smearing to also? Especially on peoples face.

Hell on my monitor it looks great at 100%. Well now Jon, not so great. For some reason the Red disappears when I blow it up here, but on YouTube it is too Red. But I just don't see the chroma smearing you are talking about?? I mean yeah the curtains behind him maybe what you are talking about, they look more OOF than smeared? This link shows for a GH4 at least, that a good LuT can change it tremendously from not so hot to holly shit! Christ those women in the feather things are well, GREAT! http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?340808-Leeming-LUT-One-%96-the-best-LUT-for-the-Panasonic-GH4/page52 I don't think we ought to be blaming cameras as much as we ought to be blaming the LuTs in them we use!! Not counting not doing WB, BB, wrong exposure, on and on.

Yeah we all want better Video cameras, but the better they are the harder it is to shoot with them! There are 20 things you NEED to check before you even push the button. And then if you change location, lighting changes, well here we go again! At times you sort of wish you were in pure auto mode using a old P&S LoL. I ain't easy to get everything right, and if you are in a hurry, well it almost always bites you in the ass.

Yeah sort of a auto mode which is good. One less thing you forget to check before you shot!

Actually 4k is Only 8.3mp. So Any old lens is able to resolve that many MP. 1080p is only 2mp. We are not talking serious amounts of data needed here.

It is almost a miracle how good the BMPCC, BMCC are for the money they cost. Damn they have a great look to them.

I understand on average, for people on here, we Need a better video head than the one I suggested. But I will stand by my statement. I have even used it with my AF100A and a 19x B4 Lens hanging off it! Was it desirable, well no, but it balanced, and the movements were smooth. It is a hell of a good head for smaller DSLRs and Mirrorless, and the price is right. There is no need that you always have to have a 15 pound tripod all the time. People do bicycle, and backpack, go on vacation at times. This thing works. Is it the Only tripod you need no, but everyone probably needs more than one outfit. I have my eye on a Vinten Vision 8 to use for my ENG stuff. But that would be sort of overkill for my G7 and a small prime lens. And the Vinten cost a thousand dollars!

I have this head use for my Panny G7 and I Highly recommend it. It gets the job done for the money. I don't think it can be beat for the price. And if you look at the reviews on it @ B&H I am not alone on my opinion! https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/553886-REG/Manfrotto_128RC_128RC_QR_Micro_Fluid.html