Video Hummus

I have a GH5S, so no IBIS, and I just received my shiny new Pana-Leica 50-200mm f2.8-4. The OIS on this lens is pretty insane. I didn’t expect I could hand hold it at 200mm and get rock solid video of birds in flight. I deliberated between this lens and the Olympus 40-150 f2.8 but finally settled on the 50-200 because of the OIS. So glad I did. The variable aperture is not a problem with the GH5S as I can easily shoot up to 8000 ISO before I need to do some noise reduction in post. Especially if I’m downsampling 4K footage into a 2K delivery. Cant wait to start shooting some projects I’ve had on my list.

Seems like anything with a sensor smaller than full frame is fighting an up hill battle in the industry. It’s full frame hysteria going on right now in the industry. And everybody will migrate to full frame with big cameras with IBIS and monster telephoto lenses. Then software will catch up and make DOF an afterthought. A post processing, creative option with a checkbox and a slider. I really like the trade off MFT makes with regards to size and image quality, if you consider DOF as image quality and not a creative choice. I think shallow DOF is almost a fad now. Like you can’t have cinematic footage that doesn’t have it. Which is totally rubbish. Framing and composition is where it’s at. Shallow depth of field on every shot to make it feel “cinematic” has is a YouTube fad and just a type of laziness. I am afraid resources will be taken away from developing new and improved MFT sensors that offer improved dynamic range and color rendition. MFT gets shat on all the time now. Except it pioneered the mirrorless revolution we are seeing today. Everybody wants to be smaller and faster with amazing digital EVFs. But I’m just one of those illogical MFT shooters. So take with a grain of salt.

Looks really nice. But it hasn't been released yet?

I think your questions pretty clearly point you to the EOS R.

2200 nits minimum for direct sunlight usage. 1500 nits is easily doable with a hood or avoiding direct sunlight on screen.

The prices of phones are getting crazy. Just suck your attention and time away.

People say he ascended to HLG.

Rumor is that the PL 10-25mm f1.7 is going to be released at $2500. Which is....kinda unfortunate. $1800-2000 and I would consider it. The P4K shots were tasty.

Thank you for looking out for other members of this board. A 1x crop @ 4K on the EOS R is too good to be true...or is it? There is a reason Canon put the multi Touch Bar on the camera.

Scan the code and find out.

I heard If you swipe left-right-left-left-right-left on the multi function bar and then immediately take a picture of this QR code you will unlock 4K without a crop! Tried it and it works. Finally!

This. It’s a race as much with the CPUs in the cameras as much as the sensor now. Especially with all this “AI” aka machine learning features and tracking algorithms. Tomorrow it will be simulated depth of field. Only advantage left for dedicated cameras is their focal range abilities and well “look and feel”.

YouTube is the ultimate brain hack. It’s been weaponized to feed us corporate products and ideas through personalities. I mean, we all knew it from day one but we still want to watch our favorite people. I’ve learned a lot of concepts off YouTube. So I guess it’s a fair trade?

If I had a YouTube channel I would be making as many resolve tutorial videos as possible right now. There will be a demand for it soon I think.

It is a shame Pany didn’t improve DfD with the release of the S1 or didn’t go all-in for a phase detect system. But I would say if AF is number one on your list then you should just buy canon and take the canon cripple hit for other features. Just don’t buy this 50mm for video. Thanks Andrew. Is the EM-1X review up next?

This was a strange interview. I lightly know the backstory here but it’s was unprofessional. I was under the impression that BRAW needed in camera hardware as it was doing something special in camera before outputting it? I also did some research and found out RED has a broad patent claim on compressed raw, WTF. That would be like issuing a patent to Budweiser for fermentation.

I wish it was smaller but it looks really solid.

Yes, who needs an expensive large sensor camera with gigantic telephotos when you can just shoot with a m4/3 camera with a compact 400mm telephoto at F4 and just click a button for that sweet f1.2 bokeh. Lol Resolve 16 should scare Adobe a bit. I wouldn’t be surprised if apple drops FCPX in the near future.

Yes, I can see the cut page being used, to well, make your cuts and then the edit page to dice it up more finely.

So, its no larger than 90MB/s (720 Mb/s) H.265 for the bitrate. Well, it would be less than 90 in the real world.

I would hate to deal with 8K H.265 files with CFast2 media. Shit would get expensive fast.

The Honda commercial set changing was crazy!

But it doesn’t have good autofocus /s.

As long as you aren’t required to carry a license to do the professional work you do then what’s the difference? Anybody can “take” your job if they are smart and motivated enough. Wether that is photography or videography or selling shoes or they are a painter, landscaper, etc... Now if someone setup shop next door to your PT office and offered PT work and they didn’t have a license then that’s different and against the law.