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If I ever remember the rationale for this I'll pop back into this thread and update it. For now, all I've come up with was it being related to heavy medication.

If only you had a DeLorean that could hit 88mph and could get back to 2015 with this sage wisdom about unknown future products and save me from buying it....

I think I must've meant 18-200 So we can downgrade that to merely massive and very very expensive! I did actually have some rational basis for how that could be achieved but I'm fucked if I can remember what it is now.

I have the MS-1. The best thing about it is that its just about heavy enough to really give yourself an effective enough beating around the head to punish yourself for buying such a piece of shit without actually killing yourself. So, it's very well balanced. Unlike any camera that I've ever tried putting on it.

I've ordered the Ninja Inferno. Expect some flog to be making an appearance here soon...

Pretty much sums up what I do myself on a holiday to be fair

Its funny, Canon get a lot of flack for drip feeding features or crippling them for various ends but Panasonic are just as bad in this particular sector of the market. I have the LX100, the GX80 and the G7 and between them they've got all the features that I want for a small travel camera but none of them have got it all. LX100 - Big plus point is the lens. 1.7 at the wide end, 2.8 at the long end and used sparingly the digital extender gives it a good overall range. But no articulating screen at all, no cinelike D and worst of all no mic input. GX80 - IBIS is brilliant, the collapsible kit lens is better than you'd think if you only want a small footprint, that auto function to do simulated slider moves is very useful and of course access to a billion lenses. But the screen has limited movement, no cinelike D and, yes, worst of all no mic input. G7 - At last, a mic input and cinelike d !! Plus a fully articulating screen which is incredibly useful for travel and especially vlogging. But no IBIS and the form factor just looks like a small dslr so it doesn't fit in your pocket but also isn't very discreet. No one cares if they see you snatching a few shots with the a pocket compact but they do if they think its a dslr. I'm going on a trip tomorrow where I want to record some vlogging type stuff and I've been torturing myself about which compromise to make. I used the G7 a couple of weeks ago for it and that was OK but the IBIS and the discretion/size thing will rule it out. I thought it might be the LX100 that made it but again the IBIS issue was a flaw and much as I like the built in lens, I'm going to have a need for the 45mm 1.8 and that rules it out. So the compromise is the GX80 with the collapsible kit lens, the 20mm 1.7 and 45mm 1.8 for lower light and better reach. I'm going to have to use an iPhone to compensate for the screen not fully articulating (which is OK because it does offer other advantages) and a little zoom H1 for recording audio and hope that I remember to hit record on both! As a result, I'm now going to have to carry far more than I wanted and jump through more hoops than I wanted because I've got the audacity to want to record a bit of audio to go with my pictures. Years ago someone would have cracked open the case of an LX100 or GX80 and be offering a mod to put a mic input on them but now we just settle for waiting for the next instalment of the drip feed from the manufacturers. I think I'm going to bite the bullet when I get back and chop them all in for a G80/85. Form factor isn't ideal but its got the other key features. I'll just have to get combat pants. Better the slight inconvenience to have decent audio and steady shots.

I've only been looking at it today so have only had a limited amount of time to play. Workflow is to use camera settings as described in Andrew's guide, apply the LUT in your NLE (or through EditReady if you are transcoding first) then apply any shot correction as usual for exposure and balance and then add another LUT for a particular style if you like. I was only messing about doing some stuff of my niece and nephew at the beach so it was hardly a scientific test so take this with a grain of salt until everyone else chimes in. I was on auto white balance and did have the orange cast that @jase reports but went into the CC on FCPX and pulled the orange down by about 22% and that re-balanced it. The CrumplePop AutoWhiteBalance plug in that I'm evaluating at the moment also removed it in one click. Like I say, I'll reserve judgement until I test it properly but I got an end result that, for me, was significantly better than I've been able to create through manually setting profiles and correcting it myself and certainly a hell of a lot faster so again, for me, even if I had to build that 22% cut into a saved composite effect with the LUT so I can apply in one hit then the end would justify the means based on my very limited testing. But your mileage may well vary, especially if you are more skilled at colouring than I am. *And in general, most people that are less skilled than me probably have a guide dog to help them. Probably best check out the pinned thread for other's experiences who've tested it more extensively and critically than I have.

Have either of you tried Andrew's EOSHD Colour with the GX80/85? I've been experimenting with it today and its very interesting indeed.

Just my 2 cents but I'd be inclined to think that for the circa £1600 for the GH5, I'd be looking at spreading that money in different areas. I'd be thinking say a BM Video Assist 4K at £700 which will give your X-T2 a huge boost in terms of better monitoring and exposure tools, FLOG recording, unlimited recording, edit ready Pro Res etc. This will also add functionality to your other cameras as well, so its a big win all round. The other £900 would get you an X-T20 for vlogging and/or when you need a more compact X-T2 and/or being able to do two camera shoots with some change left over for a Zhongyi Lens Turbo to use some old Nikon or Canon glass. Or the £900 could be used to flesh out your lens collection with the excellent 10-24mm f4 or 14mm f2.8 with enough change left over, if you shop around, for the 1.4x convertor which will I've you extra reach with your 50-140 with more or less zero impact on IQ or AF. *Apologies for teaching you to suck eggs if you've already got the 1.4!! Or the £900 could be used for the Edelkrone Slider One and Motion module with enough change left over for more lights or audio gear, of which none of us can ever have enough! When you add any of those combos to what you've already got, I think they are going to yield more return in terms of what you want to get to the screen than a camera body alone, especially as you've already got the Zhiyun Crane to soften the lack of IBIS pain. Have a look and see if you can live with some of the functional compromises the X-T20 has versus the X-T2 as you are getting the IQ with enough change left over to get a couple of the f2 primes. The touch focus of the X-T20 might be something that might interest you as its slowish performance in terms of transition can produce a nice looking pull ! It might well be that there are too many compromises (FLOG being one, although thats going to cost you a LOT more to utilise on the X-T2 anyway) but its worth considering if you can live with them.

Its around €3200 here in Spain but if you're in France and fancy a trip across the border to Switzerland then its on offer at a lot of places for that €2800 ish price https://en.toppreise.ch/prod_439166.html

I think I hear the sound of the X-T20 whispering in your ear!

Im sat here doing some tests with the X-T2 and the GX85 with these old Contax lenses. The GX85 feels like you're on a safari straining to try spot animals lurking in the bush. The X-T2 is like being in the zoo!

I think at best it might be quirky (aka a potential bug). I had to go in and come back out again twice before it worked at all. If I turn the barrel I get magnification and peaking but if I just use the command dial then I only get magnification. But nothing in video unless I'm in MF mode

I might have misunderstood what you meant I think Jon. Are you asking for a quick way to invoke the MF assist zoom display when in AF mode rather than quickly changing its functionality? If thats what you're after then if you have AF+MF in the AF menu set to ON then if you keep the shutter half pressed, turning the focus barrel on the lens will bring up the MF assist zoomed display and dismiss it again when you let go of the shutter. Alternatively, like it behaves when you have manual lenses on it, push in the rear command dial wheel and this should bring it up as well. SPOILER ALERT !!! Unless you're in video mode, in which case you have to be in manual focus mode and then it will invoke automatically when you turn the barrel. Or via the rear command dial if you are using manual lenses. So, no AF with MF in video mode is another one on to their list.

Like a few other functions (locking images being one for me that is its achilles heel for my work) Fuji don't have all them to be mappable. The best you can do is use the MyMenu function at put it at the top of the list, that way its always the first item when you press the Menu button. Annoyingly though, the should be the option to map MyMenu to a function button as well as if you ARE using it then every time you press the Menu button you generally have to navigate a few clicks up to get away from it as often as not what you want to fiddle with is in another sub menu higher up. They could do with the custom C setups which even cheap cameras from Panasonic etc have or at least just two sets that are automatically activated when you switch between stills and video mode. I shoot JPEG for work and remembering to change the highlight/shadow/sharpness etc back doesn't always happen with my ageing grey matter! The AF is locked to 91 points in video mode, irrespective of HD,4K AF-C or AF-S combos that you have active as far as I can see. They definitely need to tidy a few things up video wise in the next firmware. A custom settings function, changeable focus points, internal FLOG, FLOG in HD internal AND External should be looked at in my opinion. I'd also say face detection only in HD and not in 4K is an anomaly that they could address but after seeing whats going on with Panasonic then I reckon Fuji won't want to touch that with a bargepole!!

I'm glad he's waded into this with his no nonsense Yorkshire man approach. I remember his earlier one with the immortal line about Panasonic claiming he had to send his original defective GH5 to a service centre to be repaired instead of them replacing it - "So I told the Panasonic rep you can fuck off". Such a refreshing change to see someone who's just putting the camera on and giving his thoughts instead of trying to go for the big production look bigging himself up. Maybe one day we can look forward to him teaming up with three other Yorkshire camera users in a few years to reminisce about how they had to make films without functioning face detection, or auto focus, or lenses or cameras.

Great that Jon

The Fuji GFX50s does HD but god knows what it looks like because oddly enough this is about the ONLY piece of footage anyone has uploaded from it. I think I'd have to see a bit more to get the credit card out on that one

Nice shot. I was thinking about running a few more tests at different apertures with the 35mm lenses but to be honest its shown me enough to think that the Sigma is only going to be making an appearance with the speedbooster attached when I need a 24mm that can see in the dark with the DOF of a cigarette paper.

YouTube being YouTube there's bound to be a conspiracy nut preparing a "They're both double agent Sony shills playing a long game to promote the A6500" response video already. I might even do it myself !

This video is a great illustration of binaural for music application and illustrates it by starting off in mono and then transitioning into binaural. Without wishing to sound too fanciful, that transition when the sound opens up and envelops you is actually very uplifting and moving.

Proper soap opera this now

I had an involvement with Soundfield many years ago and it was one of those products that everybody loved the idea of but couldn't match it to an application that would justify the cost of it. Despite it being reasonable when you considered it was 4 high quality microphones, people couldn't cope with the sticker shock of it being all in one go ! But it looks like its time has now come and with them being bought by Rode, it would hint at a trickle down of the technology at a more favourable price. In a similar if less sophisticated and certainly less expensive vein for more immersive audio capture, I'm interested in these Roland binaural earphone/microphone combo. Although they seem to have gained a cult following with an interesting if niche band of YoutTubers who make videos of themselves whispering and stroking different textures for the aural (and I suspect 'other') pleasures of their viewers, there are also some quite impressive demos of it being used for more mainstream recording. Have you tried them by any chance? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/687077-REG/Roland_CS_10EM_CS_10EM_Binaural_Microphones_Earphones.html

Just to clarify this again, I'm not advocating mixing on phone headphones or speakers but as a reference check against what someone might be listening to the end product on. It doesn't have to be literal either but just a typical representation. No one had Auratone 5Cs in their car or transistor radio and no one had Yamaha NS10s on their hifi (literally, as it was in this original incarnation that it was a monumental massively criticised flop) but both proved themselves a reliable representation of an average. So, whether its an iPhone or a Galaxy or a £30 eBay special, it won't be far off for the same purpose. And it does bring up an interesting point regarding listening for pleasure in that if the goal is to hear it exactly as the artist, producer and engineer intended it then for a period of about 15-20 years, most enthusiasts could have saved themselves a fortune on by buying a pair of £250 NS10s and a similarly priced amp as thats exactly what most of their records were being mixed on as the tail started wagging the dog and it was the big monitors that were being used more as the confidence check.