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I'd heard that it exists but I've never watched it or heard what it's about. The entire Jussie Smollet case is extremely frustrating. Hate crimes against African Americans and the LGBT communities are on the rise, and yet this greedy person tried to use that to get fame and a raise? All he did was hurt those communities, given people ammunition to pretend that hate crimes aren't happening, and distracted the media from more important stories, like the Coast Guard official arrested planning terrorist attacks and assassinations against liberal people and candidates.

That's really why Fuji has my attention. I think in the next couple of years we'll see a Fuji that's on the same level as the Panasonic GH series, and maybe even better overall in all the features. It really depends how much they're looking to cater to video shooters; indicators look promising! When you say sharpness, do you mean too sharp or not sharp enough? Because I too have found times when the GH5 is almost too sharp for me and I'll dial down the sharpness in camera or fix it in post.

I understand. I think the colors out of the GH5 have improved greatly since the GH3. That was one of the major things we saw first with the GH4 and later with the GH5, where it got even better, and GH5s which is the best color I've seen out of these Panasonic cameras. I usually do little, if any, tweaking with the footage I get unless I'm going for a specific look or absolutely need to. Even though it's a 2 year old camera it's not completely fair to hold that against it. It still does stuff that other cameras don't, and there's still no camera in its price range that matches all of its features. The Panasonic GH5 was so ahead that it took 2 years for everyone else to catch up, and even so they haven't completely. Plus they're still releasing firmware updates to improve performance

Okay so then Fuji is an option! I still lean towards the GH5 personally because it has all the pro features you could want outside of the weaker AF. Fuji I'm looking at very closely though to see what the future holds. The advances they've made in video in such a short period is fantastic! They really could entice me to switch soon with the right camera!

One question I have, and it might have been asked already, but do you need a camera that doesn't have recording limits? Are you okay with 29:59 recording limits?

The GH5 is a great option. Using tap to focus works really well unless you're in terrible conditions. The auto focus performance really depends on which settings you use. I find it quite usable in one area and pinpoint AF. Also coming from the GH3 you'll have the focus assist features with the GH5 that make manual focus very easy. You can rent one for fairly cheap these days, maybe try it out? You might be surprised!

G85 has unlimited recording, while the G7 has a work around (I've never used one though so I don't know for sure.) I'd recommend the G85 over the GH4 because of the better low light performance and IBIS, unless you need the advanced features of the GH4. For event shooting the IBIS is a life saver. You can get really stable shots even hand held. Use a monopod or some other stabilizer and it can almost feel gimbal like. Biggest downside to the G85 is the 4K crop and the comparatively weak 1080p codec, but the 1080p is still fine, I feel, especially for web delivery. The GH4 though, if you want a compact mirrorless camera with cinema camera features, is one of the best deals out there these days. Some of the eBay prices I've seen are straight up bargains. One of my friends works for a production company that still uses GH4's and plans to continue to do so for a while. They're work horses and only feel "old" because of how incredible the GH5 is. They very much were cutting edge and game changers 5 years ago.

Hmm. Can you give us an idea on shooting conditions? The Sony AX53 and AX33 are both decent camcorder options. If going the camcorder route I'd probably stick with Sony as it's been my experience that they get better low light and battery life than Canon. It might be different with 4K but my old Sony 1080p handy cams would go about 4 hours on the largest aftermarket battery available. As far as mirrorless goes, the G85 with kit lens might be a good option but the auto focus might be a weakness that you don't want to deal with, depending on what you're shooting / situation is. The benefit of a camcorder is that you can pretty much hand one off to anyone and they're able to get pretty good results regardless of their experience. You can do that with mirrorless cameras, too, but they're better for more manual control.

I'm guessing most of the major companies don't want to pay the Apple licensing fee. I imagine Sony or Panasonic would have to pay substantially more than Blackmagic, Atomos, and the others that have adopted it so far. I can also see them not wanting to give Apple that kind of leverage.

The thing about trying to appeal to shooters on a budget is that there are a lot of affordable options to compete with. Are they as good as an Atomos monitor? No, but there are quite a few sub-$200 that are "good enough" when you factor in price. So much competition out there that I don't really see the point in this. As others have said, I'd just throw down the extra $200 or whatever to get the recorder if I'm spending more than $200-250 on a monitor. This will be true if more cameras begin to shoot in ProRes and/or RAW, but I think there will always be a market for external recorders until that happens.

GH5= Higher bit rates/more bit rate options, no tax to enable 10 bit, no recording limit in 4K 60p (big deal for me), flip out screen, near perfect size, (probably) better IBIS, etc. I get the that right now, technologically, there may be limitations that prevent the S1 from doing all that. But it's still what I want out of a full frame camera. Things like better low light and DR don't really woo me when that's to be expected from full frame cameras in general. Add the price of the body and lenses, too, and it it just kinda turns me off. With the GH5 it honestly felt like a bargain when I factored in everything that the camera was giving me for my $2,000 and I guess the S1 just isn't giving me that feeling, especially with the paid upgrades factored in.

I can't get anything in Fusion to look nearly as good as what I'm able to do in After Effects, which really annoys me. Meanwhile I've been able to get over the Resolve learning curve and edit pretty efficiently. I don't find I'm missing Premiere much at all, outside of some video codec compatability (Resolve for instance doesn't support QuickTime PNG videos, which is what exported a lot of After Effects work I've done over the years in.)

There was a bit that I disagreed with Tony's video about and a few things I do agree with. To me, the lens pricing is inexcusable regardless of Sigma's plans to release all their art lenses in the L mount and the ability to adapt. They're asking people to join a completely new ecosystem and aren't making it easy to do. Road maps are great, but you're asking me to pay $2500 for the body alone and then just as much for lenses. This is exactly the same thing most, if not all, of us faulted Sony for doing. It's insane not to think that will scare off a significant number of users. All the video features are nice, but the codec, the recording limits in some modes, the paid upgrades (if it's $100 like the V-log upgrade that's fine), etc. are negatives, even if they aren't deal breakers for a lot of people. There is very little about this camera, outside of it being full frame, that makes me want to "upgrade" from my GH5. Even if I was enticed enough by this camera I'd still hold out to see what they have in store with the GH6. What they needed to do, to get me and a lot of others, is to have come out with a full frame GH5 and this just isn't it. I'm sure they're working on a video focused full frame camera, so we'll see how that goes.

This is getting old. I don't know who to be more annoyed with, Canon or myself for expecting them to come to their senses. We should all know better by now.

I love the BMPCC. I still have mine, though I don't really use it anymore. Once I got the GH5 it just became too much of a hassle to rig it up with an external battery and monitor. But the image and colors, they are wonderful. And it also looks very good upscaled to 2K, maybe even 4K. We used mine as a b-cam for a friend's BMCC and he was able to mix them together perfectly. I dunno about using it on weddings though! It's not great for low light and while there are no recording limits it gets warm real quick.

Tom Antos did a video comparing cheaper to more expensive gear. Hopefully this helps at least a little. It's unlikely you'll find anything cheap with zero latency. Even more expensive wired HDMI monitors have a little latency.

Not so much to create another camera angle as much having the option to re-frame if necessary, though sometimes it's used as an extra camera angle.

For me it depends on the project. For events I usually shoot 1080p unless I have to deliver in 4K. Because I'll have coverage from multiple cameras I rarely ever feel like I wish I had the extra resolution to crop in. For music video or narrative work I'll usually shoot in 4K even if I am delivering 1080p. Even though I'm a big proponent of shooting it right, there are enough times where I'm glad I had that extra resolution to crop in that it's worth shooting it in 4K. For creative projects like that the more options the better.

I wouldn't sell my EF lenses too quickly given they have those EF to RF adapters that are pretty nifty and from what friends say do a real good job.

In some ways the G85 doesn't need a successor yet. It'd be nice, obviously, but it's still such a great budget camera even today and I still recommend it to people on a budget. It still kinda blows my mind that they released such a feature rich camera so shortly before launching the GH5. Panasonic had a lot of swagger from 2014 to 2017!

I just hope that whatever Card slots they use that they're both the same. Not a fan of one being SD and the other being XQD. I'd also absolutely LOVE being able to record to an SSD. That'd make my life a million times easier when I'm shooting long events.

I'd be surprised if the GH6 isn't announced by early next year. I think the S1 factors very little in Panasonic's GH plans. I'm guessing we won't see a video focused full frame camera announced from Panasonic until mid to late 2020 at the earliest. The GH line is their bread and butter right now, as it should be. It'd make no sense for them to prioritize the S series over the GH series until there's reason to.

I think he was paying something like $340 a month for a fully furnished apartment. I think he does alright though, between his two channels. He's moving back to Canada this month, I think. He's apparently pretty well known among the vegan YouTube community, though he is currently not a practicing vegan. He cracks me up. I think he reads this forum.

I'll have to check when I get home, but it wouldn't sync multiple camera angles.

Yeah, I think a lot of people make a big deal out of rolling shutter when it should only be a problem for action and sports shooters. For most other stuff it can be minimized with steadier camera movement. Not that they shouldn't keep trying to improve it, especially on larger sensors, but I always kinda chuckle when people talk about needing global shutter cameras when no one should really need it unless they're shooting fighter jets or something.