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For his NTG2s that he was going to use it with I meant. As a matter of interest, can the F4 provide phantom power through the EXH6?

My reading of it is that purely as a lav recorder the Tascam edges it because of the size, single battery and dual recording. The F1 can be a bit more of a swiss army knife and do things the Tascam can't but the Tascam is the better knife.

Yes, I thought you were using it with NTG2's so you wouldn't need the phantom power. But I may have dreamt that.

I first saw The Damned in 1977. Most of us will be amazed its even in colour let alone anything else.

The upside to the F1 is that the 10 pin port doesn't only take their microphones (which aren't exactly stellar lets be honest) but it also takes the EXH6 module which will give you 2 XLR inputs. Thats a big differentiator here. It also acts as a USB audio interface as well which means that you could have better mic inputs to your computer or tablet should you need them. That makes it a very neat modular little system to me that offers more versatility than the Tascam. However..... If all you want is the lav recorder aspect then the Tascam is smaller but crucially also offers the dual level recording function that the Zoom doesn't. That final part could swing it if you are working on your own and trying to work fast.

Pages 200-499 will be devoted exclusively to discussions about it missing its release date.

Not all shoots have a script though. Even if you are just going out to shoot stock footage, you'll still have a list of shots you need to get and a schedule. Ditto any event work.

As per the other thread, here's a sneak peek

Sneak peek

When this camera arrives there will be no more rain Jon. There'll only be sunshine and nice things for everyone.

You'd laugh if I told you how easy it was to find that ! I'm not worth suing !

Oh...hello...what do we have here

He had me at gaffa tape.

Always trying to avoid buying their expensive ones you mean

Aside from the 4k60p external upgrade, the last firmware update (4.0) also gave it 4:2:2 internal 4K, although only 8 bit. It was from June/July 2017 so might be worth comparing with older footage to see if its improved any in that regard. I only really use it for live ENG streaming so haven't done too much with any of the new features.

Oddly enough, I've just posted a new thread about the LS300. Very intrigued why a major UK dealer is making a new promo film about them ! It has a doubler in it so its a choice of using that and losing some light or use the VSM on the LS300 to alter the image size. In HD, the extra reach from the prime zoom goes to the rocker of the LS300 so you have huge zoom on the lens and then you can carry on with the internal zoom! It makes the camera pretty long so if you haven't got it on a tripod and use a shoulder mount then you have to use an additional EVF mounted quite far forward. Which, considering how bad the EVF is on the LS300, is pretty much a given anyway. At the end of the day, I'm going to say its probably the best 15x par focal servo zoom with a constant f1.7 aperture in M4/3 mount for circa £250 on the market at the moment

Quite surprised to see one of the UK's leading photo/video retailers producing a brand new (and pretty comprehensive) video about the LS300 this late in the game. Its a very decent run through though for anyone who hasn't really taken a detailed look at its array of tricks (and foibles) before. I'd expect to see bundles with this probably around the £3K mark when the Ninja V comes out as the last firmware update gave the LS300 4K60p to external recorders. Used, I've seen them go for £1500-1800. I can't really see it making some sort of miraculous comeback as there are tons of other options out there now compared to when it was released. Having said that, sometimes for certain jobs you just need a camcorder and at the prices they are getting to used there aren't many offering more bang for the buck than this one does. Budget for an EVF though.

Its for the LS300 really but I thought "Micro 4/3 mount....might as well have a go on the GX80 as well"

In ETC mode you'd just about get away with it with a small crop. If the OP wanted servo zoom as he's described though, he'd have to go for old B4 ENG lenses with an outboard 12V supply to drive it. You'd have to be quite mad to do something like that though. Like this weirdo attaching an Angenieux ENG lens to his GX80 and lashing a Sony battery to it. Oh hang on..... Thats mine

When I first read this I was wondering whether it might have to do with having the HDMI record trigger set to ON but, nope, its the same with it ON or OFF. That is not cool at all. Also, while you can monitor (for what thats worth) on the camera while recording externally you can't play anything back on it until you unplug the external monitor.

Right, after battering away at this thing all day from numerous different angles, I now remember why I put it on the back burner in the first place ! When you try and put cinelike d or v on it, it responds in exactly the opposite way you want it to and puts a ton of contrast into the image with a saturation boost just for good measure. The histogram looks like a truck has driven right through the middle of it and pushed everything to the shadows and highlights. And not a small truck either. A big fat one. Possibly with a sidecar attached as well. On both sides. Trying to correct this in camera with exposure compensation and highlight/shadow curves made a difference but still nothing even approaching usable. One interesting thing (well, interesting is all relative but after hours of fucking about with this you take your pleasure where you can) is that there is the expected colour response difference between the cinelike d and cinelike v so it knows what its supposed to be doing but this is also accompanied by a hue change. Again, trying to correct this with hue adjustment commands wasn't exactly a roaring success. What I suspect is going on is the other two cameras that share the same guts, the GH4 and the HVX200, have exposed (if you pardon the pun) controls for hue, levels (i.e. 0-255) and master pedestal and its a combo of these that the LX100 just falls apart on when it receives the cinelike command. The HVX200 is the only one that has an app (iOS only which makes it trickier though not impossible to harvest commands from) that can access those functions remotely so there is no chance of me finding anyone with that combo to have a look it. The camera I do have that has these functions is the FZ2000 but its all done in camera rather than via the app so no chance of harvesting the commands that way either. So, sadly, no cinelike for the LX100. Which is all the more reason to give EOS HD pro colour a whirl on it

I think you'll be disappointed with the AF performance of the Canon with the metabones. With regard to the Lumix lens, its not going to get wide enough I wouldn't imagine for what you're after. If you're looking for the facilities that you are used to from the camcorder but in a handheld form factor then I'd recommend you have a look at something like the FZ2000/2500. Its a 1" sensor so its the same as the UX180, in built NDs, 20x zoom (with external LANC controller for the zoom if you need it too), VLOG if you want it, 5 axis OIS etc. Where it falls down for you might be the lack of higher frame rates at 4K (though it does 120 in 1080). The GH5 is a very, very nice camera indeed but as an overall package with the lenses you've listed based on what you are doing and how you are used to working, I think you might find it gets a bit unwieldly juggling it.

Yeah, I meant the blanking while scrolling through selections was a nitpick. The other thing is....well....erm....unusual shall we say. Going back to the nit pick one though, these mini reboots as it changes what it is doing when its reconfiguring the HDMI port are quite intriguing. As I said in the other post, if ever there was going to be a dark horse about who could enable ProResRaw on an HDMI port as a firmware update....

I might have another tinker with it over the next few days regarding what happens when I was trying to put cinelike d on it. Its been sat on the naughty step for a few months because I never got back round to trying to probe it a bit more.

They could do with getting on with it. This still isn't there for the longer lenses but for everything else these things are getting better with each version.