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Yeah, when I was looking at cameras the Fuji lens system wasn't as appealing as the MFT system, partly because I already had some MFT lenses, but also because I use MF and the decent selection of Panny/Oly lenses combined with the huge range of third party lenses spanning all areas across the cine / super-fast / vintage / adapter / Frankenstein territory was a real draw-card.
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Z-CAM quietly announce 8k and 6k FULL FRAME cameras - no joke!
kye replied to Oliver Daniel's topic in Cameras
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Cool shot... This thread might be of interest...
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It sounds like you are very sensitive to colour rendition, I can understand because you're using colour more as a scientific instrument rather than aesthetic for entertainment. In this case, I'd be worried that changing camera would change the colours - camera brands have colour differences much greater than individual lenses. Maybe try to rent the camera bodies before you commit to buying - it would be better to find out if they're going to work before you pay retail price for one!
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You're looking at spending thousands of dollars to use your existing lenses instead of spending a thousand or less getting the right lens for your GH5s. I would question the logic of that decision. There are wide and fast lenses available for MFT, people don't talk about them much because they're expensive, but they're cheaper than buying a brand new flagship camera body. Plus they'll hold their value longer. What are your specific needs? You talk about "best color HD" because you "lose angle in my lenses". It sounds like you just need a wide designed for MFT with little CA to match your APO lenses.
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Not until you're delivering in 4K. Seriously, as the owner of a 4K monitor the only uses for it are delivering in 4K or as a tool to reduce time spent on story and increase time spent pixel peeping. I guess you could also argue that 4K monitor is useful to have a 1080 window with room for a GUI in your NLE, that's useful too.
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I'm not surprised. The P4K has great colour science, but zebras have no colour so they're not compatible. I think to shoot zebras you have to be a black-and-white thinker. Maybe having a DPreview account would help?
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I saw that one. It's a pretty fragile effect, you'd have to be careful applying it otherwise you're likely to get a hard edge and artefacting. They apply it pretty non-carefully in the video and it's bordering on breaking the image.
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Hilarious! Well done Andrew!!
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Surely a curved sensor for all lenses would be a better fit on average than having a flat sensor for all lenses?
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+1 for the advice from @Nikkor to shoot test stills to check if it's the lens or the camera. If it's the camera it might be a setting changed, like the Sharpening or other adjustment?
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I always thought that they removed the Star in order to force people to buy the larger (more expensive) recorders and that they could do that because they were really the only game in town for RAW/prores at this price point, and that anyone who wanted those codecs would want them badly enough to just go along with it. However, now there are lots of cameras doing these things internally they have less of a monopoly on these maybe there will be some incentive for them to re-release that lower-end option. I know it would make a bunch of people happy.
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And don't forget that Panasonic have a history of adding modes and unlocking things with firmware updates...
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That wasn't on your list!
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It will be a while, so buy a temporary camera to use in the meantime. Make sure its well specc'd and robust so it lasts long enough to fill that gap.
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+1 for there being limitations to focal lengths, or at least if you're using them to look at things that are far away. I started having difficulties around 1000mm equivalent, so similar experience. This may or may not apply to the OPs situation..
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Depending on what camera you're using, some modern lenses act like they're parfocal because the camera compensates throughout the range. The XC10 is like this and it works quite well as long as you're zooming slowly. If you do anything fast then it struggles to keep up.
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Budget Video Camera for 13-year-old son (and wife's vacation)?
kye replied to Mark Romero 2's topic in Cameras
Absolutely agree. The one thing I've learned from shooting family videos is that the moments you're after happen without warning and tend to be interactions between the kids and the outside world. This means that you need to always be rolling, and need to be filming everything so you can get the action/reaction shot sequences. From that point of view...... TAKE MY MONEY!!!! -
Is that where the majority of ARRI footage ends up? Genuine question - not trying to be rude or anything - I don't have any visibility of this part of the industry. I would have thought that Alexas were too expensive for 'free' distribution unless it was advertising materials, and that they'd mostly be used for movies and TV behind paywalls or at least licensed by broadcasters who pay with advertising revenues. These cameras sure seem expensive to me!
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Cool! So is this a DIY rig then? I watch lots of 'maker' youtubers and I think this might be the first intersection of CAD and cameras I've seen
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Interesting. I watched some of the wolfcrow review of the LF (I know some people here don't like him, but he has more experience of the industry than I do) and he said that the feedback from rental houses was that the cameras with larger than S35 sensors just aren't that popular. He suggested that the manufacturers might have overestimated lots of people would be coming from FF DSLR revolution to cinema cameras, but who knows.
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That's a pretty tidy setup considering how many things are there.. cool
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Ok, here's a quick comparison. I didn't do spot WB or metering, but it was in Aperture priority mode, manual WB, and nearly identical framing with no backlighting, so this is probably a reasonable test. I compared it to the Super Takumar as it has a similar FOV and aperture range. For reference, the focus was in the middle of the frame, which is the grass seed just above the lip of the glass on the left. I have essentially cropped off the bottom and right of the frame in order to give a complete diagonal from centre-to-corner, although in this case there probably wasn't much point as there's nothing in focus in that part of the frame. Anyway, the grass seed in the top-left is more than half-way to the edge of the frame.
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Budget Video Camera for 13-year-old son (and wife's vacation)?
kye replied to Mark Romero 2's topic in Cameras
360 video is shoot-now-frame-later but is low quality, so it depends on your style. I'm interested in shoot-now-frame-later but the quality isn't there.. yet. It's about film-making style.