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Even when stopped down quite a bit the sony lens is not as sharp as the sigma wide open. For a first do it all lens with almost half the price of the sony lens, the sigma is great. He can also buy his mum a konica hexanon 50 mm f 1.7 with an adaptor and have a great fast lens for portraits and videography.. She can also play around with shallow Dof to her heart's content.. Konica glass is magical even compared to much mpore expensive zeiss solutions on sony e-mount . I have played around with all three on my a6000 and own the sigma and the konica which are the more astute choises in my opinion. The kit lens in its middle range is not that bad either . The camera produces good video with proper lighting (not to pro standard-let's keep this in context) and the resulting x-avcs 50 mbps files can be imported directly to a premiere/resolve timeline. It will take quite some time for his mum to learn and enjoy the whole workflow so I think it makes more sense to go for something cheaper than the whole of his budget for the first time around . Good glass, you always keep. Sony menu's are a bit of a dog's dinner but with some customisation they can be worked around for easy access to basic functions. P.S Get her some proper ND filters even if their price seems disproportionate. In a larger size perhaps and some step up rings..

I hear you about the ergonomics of the a6000, that menu is not very user friendly although you can assign lots of things to the fn button and set some prepared video modes/settings to the MR settings .. Canon dual pixel has had some good reviews but a) lot's of marketing b) the bar for af in video is quite low.. It would definitely be useful in a talking head scenario with a background that will not distract the AF, but affordable 4K Canon gear? To their utter shame it is not going to happen easily, although the 1080p coming even from the base C100 is way better than the paper specs imply...

stick to manual mate.. We would all love proper AF but we are probably quite some time away of it being dependable even in such a simple shot.. Nice colours though!! How do you find the G85 in use? Happy with it?

A sony a6000/6300 is a great choice that will work fairly well in low light much better than m43 counterparts. I would pair it with a sigma 30mm f 2.8 for a sharper lens than the sony one unless you really need the mediocre sony oss. A used a6000 in great condition and a brand new sigma will eat up half of your budget along with extra batteries etc. As a proper cinematographer, do get her a tripod . 30-35 mm apc lens (45-50mm FF equivalent) is a great, do it all lens . The notion of un lady like camera designs is silly...

Having seen most, if not all of the available material for the GH5 I think Panasonic is to be applauded for what they created. They threw in the kitchen sink as far as specs are concerned and paired it with an espresso machine to boot. I don't think many people expected so high specs in an industry whose larger players are reluctant to innovate in the consumer sector and are saved by their established colour science. I cannot possibly agree with Andrew that it is controversial that later firmware will enable more options/capabilities. Software always takes more time to catch up to hardware capabilities and this is not a practice individual to the GH5 camera . I would rather have some aggressive software development going on during the lifetime of the product. They also have to make sure that future sd card technology can keep up in writing the amount of data required. In essence, they have to wait for it as well.. I do not like the price tag of the camera which I find too opportunistic for a M43 sensor, and not including vlog in the price tag. Hopefully competition from the other players in the following months will drive the price down.

A red and an ursa 4.6k are not remotely in the same price range as a GH5 .. I personally think it is too much money for a M43 camera and probably more than the casual videographer would want to pay. You know, the one that will go to jessops and go away with either an 80d or an A7 ii (not s) "because it is full frame sir".. Or one of the lesser and much cheaper panasonics.. No this camera is overpriced and it will be interesting to see what Sony and BM come up with and at what price point ..Canon is of course increasingly irrelevant at the straight from the box, 2k price point

Hi guys, holly thread resurrection Batman!! I am on the fence between getting a blackmagic cine micro or a 5d mk iii to shoot raw with ML. I was thinking of getting an a7 ii with an atomos blade and use the eoshd cine settings with it , but i saw the raw footage from the blackmagic super 16 sensors on vimeo and my jaw dropped . I cannot afford the a7s ii but even if i could the raw colours , clarity and that cinematic feeling are unbelievable to my amateur eyes, even in compressed vimeo format. (Not interested in a gh4) I thus have these questions for the canon owning people, how much time can the 5d mk iii record in 1080p raw?? Is it a matter of until the card runs out of space? And secondly how much painful have you found it to cut and process the resulting footage compared to your normal workflow or compared to blackmagic derived footage. Do the cheaper focal reducers work without trouble with canon fd glass on the blackmagic or am I going to have soft-focus/out of focus video ? At the end of the day , from people that have worked with both and taking into account the loss of shallow DOF etc, what would you recommend at the end of 2016? I am looking towards the blackmagic micro at the moment but needing new glass plus focal reducers is a minus Thanks in advance for all thoughts