Video Hummus

I don't have this lens but my Dad does on his Olympus. It's probably the best travel lens ever made imho.

This is a hard one Geoff. I would at least wait to see if Fuji has an announcement of the XH2 in September. I really think they are going to pivot that camera to be video centric in nature. Ive heard Fuji glass doesn’t have the best video AF performance (focus noise). Maybe someone can chime in on that and debunk it. I would say keep the Z6. Buy the new BM 7” Video Assist for it. You would get external recording (ProRes RAW someday...) and the 7” model has some serious preamps in the unit. So you could have it record and bake in the audio.

No, next generation hybrids will have dilemma about wether to allow RAW sensor output through an external port such as HDMI or SDI. The external recorders will transform it to BRAW or ProRes. Maybe someday we will see internal RAW on most cameras.

This Quora answer will probably help: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-HDMI-succeed-where-HD-SDI-didnt Basically, money and ease of development. Big surprise.... As far as data rates compared to the SDI-12G HDMI 1.4 is up to 10Gbps HDMI 2.0 is out to 18Gbps

Obstructionist asshole. Obstructing asshole. An Osshole. You're welcome.

Sure. But I won’t walk out of a Apple store and film what I saw in some of the promos. It’s a bit of a misrepresentation. I know it sells phones but I would think people would be more interested in how well it can film their kids or their dog in the heat of the moment.

Maybe the next EOSHD camera challenge should be: Make a video with your smartphone (have a list of approved phones; several generations of android and iPhone). For example, no models lower than an iPhone 7. Make it as cinematic as possible. Make another video with the camera you own with a cap of nothing more expensive than say $2500. Don’t tell people what the videos where filmed on then ask them to guess: phone or DSLR? Have a vote ranking for each. Not sure what the prizes should be. Pretty sure I saw a picturing showing they filmed some of these promos with a wonkier cinema lens setup hooked up to an iPhone and said it was filmed on an iPhone. ?

Setup details: you can indeed live on one kidney. I’m joking of course. I’m a one screen loser.

I won’t judge, but if that is what you are in need of and will trade for, I’ll trade for it ?

I think it’s a highly specialized proof of concept that they might use in the 2020 Olympics just to have a foot in the game. Most likely won’t see mass production in a non-prototype camera.

I don’t regret my purchase. There are a few quirks that bother me though. There is weird horizontal noise pattern on certain VFR combinations in VLOG and Cinelike D. Don’t expect to shoot at 6400 ISO 120fps without this weird noise pattern. Panasonic has released a fix for it but it’s still an issue. The dual gain circuit has some weird quirks at certain ISOs. If noise is an issue in the shot and you don’t require the optimal DR (night time street or scenes with a lot of shadows) I’ve found ISO 1600 and 6400 have the least noise (extra internal noise reduction I’m guessing). The native ISOs tend to have more noise in shadows but offer best DR when you have enough light. Just requires extra forethought and maybe shooting at a higher ISO, say 6400, when a lower ISO will suffice for exposure but doesn’t for noise performance. I’ve shot in candle light no problem with a f2.8 lens at 6400 and 8000 ISO. Video AF is ever so slightly better than GH5, especially at 60fps. HLG as a log capture format is quite awesome and, I have heard, gives better DR. In practice, the difference is so slight it’s a mute point. It does have better noise performance in the shadows though so I use it over vlogl. It has a 14-bit sensor and a ever so slightly weighter image than the GH5. It’s surprisingly a good stills camera as well with 14-bit RAW and impressive burst rates with 12fps in single shot and 8fps continuous AF. All with that dual gain ISO. I’ve printed an 8x10 photo and you can’t tell. Would be more than enough for web and Instagram as well. It’s great that it has a 1.8x crop when shooting 16:9 video. Attach a 0.64x speed booster and you basically have a full frame field of view at 1.1x Attach an external recorder and the images coming out of it with something like ProRes HQ are nothing to sneeze at. With a speed booster and a good full frame lens it runs with the big boys, no problem. In my opinion it’s an under rated camera that is often overlooked because Panasonic didn’t do enough to educate people about it. Too many people compared it to GH5 and said, NO IBIS no good. The size of the sensor is misquoted on every single photo store. If IBIS isn’t essential or if you see yourself mounting it on a gimbal anyway (because IBIS won’t be enough) or 5K anamorphic isn’t high on your list then it’s clearly the better camera than the GH5 if you shoot a lot of video. Would love for Panasonic to shoot it some love. I just have a feeling it can do a bit more.

It sounds like they need a “profile” of the sensor to “tune” BRAW for the camera and to have RAW sensor data. Hence, also why we are probably seeing a Nikon hardware upgrade to enable it. Or so I gathered from BMs product announcement video when he was talking about support for EVA1 and Canon C300mkii. I really, really wish and hope we see something like this come to GH5(S). Would be such a nice package. But I’m guessing we won’t see it until GH6 because it has so be designed for it from the get go. I would happily pay a few hundred dollars to Panasonic to send my camera in for cleaning and to have it upgrades to have this capability. Would breathe a bit more life into the models. Having the hassle of a external recorder for ProRes 422 HQ is really not worth it. Getting BRAW...totally worth it. The new 5” Video Assist HDR is the perfect match. Plus you get a great audio recorder too! Not to mention being able to record to the excellent and cheap T5 SSD.

I think focus pullers are crapping their pants. A few more generations and we will have advanced tracking of multiple subjects with focus pulls and continuous AF all with a touch of a button.

Isn’t DaVinci Resolves superscale feature already amazingly awesome?

So a small update. After having played around with the lens on firmware 1.2 and now after updating to 1.3 I honestly think there has been an AF performance regression with 1.3. I was getting acceptable AF performance at 4K 24p prior to 1.3, now its noticeably non responsive in the same shooting scenario (5 mins apart). When shooting 60p, however, the AF is very snappy and accurate—more so than I remembered. DfD really likes a higher sample rate. On first impression the lens is great, like many have said. I can definitely hear and feel the AF motors compared to some other lenses. The parfocal-ness claims I’ve seen are strange. It doesn’t hold focus when zooming in or out at all. Focus breathing is non-existent however. Hoping to put together a video soon.

Yes, I know. I’m glad to see that HDMI raw output is not capped at 4K 60p. The 5.9K 30p competes with the P6K internal BRAW.

Isn’t the OS similar to what’s on the P4K? I was in the market for the Ninja V but the new 5” video assist is clearly the better buy. The video assists also have great third party record triggering support. Hopefully that all carried over.

5.9K 30fps ProRes RAW not bad, not bad at all.

The start of the RAW war.

The monitors are sweet. Eva1 support for BRAw but now GH5S? Booo.

Those are solid choices. For the budget side, K&F is not bad for $50. I wouldn't recommended the Tiffen at all. Horrible blue cast at all settings. I would get the polar pro's but $300 is hard to swallow, especially when there is finally some innovation in the space. The drop-in filters that sit very close to the sensor are a neat idea. I wish they could somehow make them variable. I just think we are going to see some long term, solid solutions soon.

Just arrived. Going to test it out this evening after work and when I get some free time. First thing I noticed after snapping it on to my GH5S...its so wide that my 82mm Nd filter (with a 77mm to 82mm step-up ring) heavily vignettes at anything below 12mm. Bummer. Also, the 50-200 has better build quality. They really tried to control the weight of this lens. Which, btw, is nicely balanced on my GH5S with cage.

1.33x for €500 is not terrible. The Vazen 1.8x 40mm T2 is more interesting though for MFT users.

My bad. It is! Still a nice setup.

Hopefully a software issue and not a sensor problem.