currensheldon

BATTERY JAM I read this yesterday and have not had any issues with the battery jamming for the two weeks I've had the camera. But last night, on the first real shoot that I've really used it on, the battery jams! And I couldn't get it out (battery also randomly died when it said 85%!) and missed some of the action. Luckily, I still had the GH5 and quickly swapped over my lenses and microphone and kept shooting. But man, not cool. Not when I was thinking of making this my A-Cam for all one-man-band documentary or lower budget commercial work. Battery is still stuck in the compartment. Andrew - seen any videos or reports of how to get the battery out once it is jammed in there? Definitely getting external power (the Tilta cages + power look fantastic), but still need the LP-E6 batteries to work. Obviously.

I wonder with a small adapter for the Inspire 2 SSD and some processing power, if the Ronin-S handle has the power to use the X5s - similar to the block that was in the X5r. Would be a good move for DJI because existing Inspire 2, Ronin-S, and X5s owners would benefit and they would also sell both more Ronin-S-s (for people who already have Inspire 2s and want the Osmo option) and more Inspire 2s and X5s cameras for people who already have the Ronin-S and want a super small and light gimbal package. Also the Ronin focus wheel that works pretty great with the GH5 would be huge here, since the X5s autofocus isn't great. Seem to make sense to me. Make the Ronin-S handle the high-end Osmo.

Don't get my hopes up But man, an X-T3 collection of features + IBIS + electronic ND + some sort of xlr-adapter would be my dream camera. Even make it the same size as the GFX-50, and that'd be fine.

This is all I am hoping for. An XC10/15 style body with a modern mirrorless mount (preferably X-Mount from Fuji or RF-Mount from Canon) and a Super35/APS-C sensor. For video users, making it a little bigger isn't that big of a deal because I just want something much smaller than my C200. Once you rig up a mirrorless cameras with audio and NDs and everything else you need to make it function like a video camera, it's quite a bit more unwieldy than an XC10 anyway. In my opinion, it is close to the perfect size and weight and modularity. It's like a mini C100. Here's hoping Canon rights a lot of their recent wrongs with an APS-C XC20 with RF Mount + e-ND... Or Fuji steps in instead.

Honestly, I'd love to use smaller cameras with IBIS for all my work. But still end up using Canon C100/200/300 because of internal NDs and high-quality audio. It just doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to add NDs into mirrorless cameras (look at what the FS5/7 can do). if the GH6 (or my hope, the X-H2) did add NDs + have a slightly higher quality XLR adapter, it would be a no brainer. Sony and Canon are a bit hamstrung because of their cinema lines, but Fuji is free to do whatever they want there (with the best Super35mm lenses in the business and linear focusing to boot). Panasonic also seem to be willing because they'll throw everything they can into a product. The best thing the EOS R has going for it, in my opinion, is that variable ND adapter - really cool solution if you want to use EF lenses (which you kind of have to at this point still).

It seems to me that the last big frontiers for mirrorless cameras and small-ish video cameras are internal NDs, IBIS, and quality audio. It would make a lot of sense for both Sony and Fuji, who have dedicated "video" cameras (A7sII + X-H1) to lean all in. Canon could also do this by making their XC-10/15 have interchangeable lenses and an APS-C sensor. My dream: - A Fuji X-H2 that is slightly larger (10-20%) to allow for internal ND (even a drop-in filter like Canon's EOS R adapter) + the XT3's upgrades (codec and AF) with A high-quality XLR breakout like the XC-15 (both Sony and Panasonic's aren't great for professional use). Or even the Pocket 4K's solution of a mini-XLR + 3.5mm and two-channel audio. That would be it. I'd go all-in with Fuji if that happened - they have the best APS-C lens lineup, beautiful video quality, and my favorite color science. --- Really amazed someone hasn't put internal NDs in a small, large sensor body yet. I don't really hold out hope for Canon or Sony to do it because they are trying to protect their cinema lines, but Fuji or BlackMagic could easily (I was actually surprised the Pocket 4K didn't have it after I saw how far their mount stuck out from the sensor - looked like it was going to). If Fuji did the above, anything below $5k would be fair game, IMO.