MrSMW

Yep, it’s like blaming the child for the actions of the parent. Along with the Z9, ‘ultimate’ hybrid at this point in time for me. Time for Lumix to up their game…

Yes and this is where for me the R5 is interesting because ditch the ND’s and crank the shutter speed to say min 1/250th and then simply pull stills. I have tried with in both 4k 50p and 6k 25p mode with my Lumix cameras. Pretty decent results so I can imagine what 8k stills would be like. As a fast-paced hybrid shooter faced at any point with one or the other, it’s easy, go video because you have a chance of pulling stills from the footage but you can’t make a movie from your stills unless shooting 24/25fps! One day I need to do an entire job of exclusively not shooting any stills but pulling it all 100% from the video. Now it ‘does not’ overheat, that could be interesting with an R5…

Maybe so, but even 8 seconds is too long for my needs! But not a concern as I have no current plans to switch to any other system, - great tracking AF (or lack thereof) is the current (and only real cross) I have to bear…but even that is also a case of over-hyping YouTube drama queens 😜

A wedding, hybrid coverage. Snap snap snap snap snap photo, immediately flip to video mode, recompose if necessary, focus, press record. All. Day. Long. 20 seconds would be an absolute deal-breaker for me. Less than 2 seconds with Lumix and then the rest is up to me which is typically; <2 second flip from stills mode to video (or visa versa) + I'd estimate another <2 seconds to compose, acquire focus using AF and manually flick to manual focus, press record, so in total, a sub 4 second process, probably closer to 3 seconds. With 2x camera bodies, I'd repeat this process an average 250x per shoot as that's my ballpark number of clips I come back with. 20-25 second 'flipping' would flipping kill my approach to capturing a wedding! All hail Lumix.

I just ‘treated’ myself to another new (used) lens for my L Mount based system 🤑

My M3 is doing around 1150g but not sure what it’s operating capacity is supposed to be. I don’t think it’s really designed for this kind of weight and I have been using it for one single thing about 60 seconds at each wedding and it seems to be coping OK.

🤪 maybe?! I know the Panasonic’s are near bullet proof as they have had some really tough tests over this Summer! They can get hot, really hot, but not even a warning and if the S1H fan has ever kicked on, I haven’t heard it.

Canon really shot themself in the foot over this overheating thing… A couple of years back when it launched, on paper, it was as quite comfortably the number one contender for my needs but the sheer amount of negative press over the issue put me off. It wasn’t so much the Canon shenanigans, but more the fact I was not going to invest in something potentially so unreliable. There have been several times since when I have had my S1H sitting in direct hard sun with temps in the shade of 100f+ and it has not missed a beat and at the time thought, “ha, do that Canon!”, but actually maybe it could have done it… It’s back on the list as a contender for sure but I’m still hoping that any Panny rumors become reality over this next Winter…

All of that @Thpriest But if anything, my wishes are even more simple: S1H body, just shrunk 10%. Reliable tracking AF. DFD or phase, I don’t care, as long as it works. 30mp full frame sensor for my stills needs. Done. The S5 itself though has too many ergo, function and haptic flaws for me, ie, I personally do not consider it pro grade whereas my S1H and S1R most definitely are.

“The new S5H autofocuses like a charging male goat”. That’s the headline I want to read.

After saying I was done with gimbals, I gave my Star Wars stormtrooper white Crane 3 one final chance and for the very limited purpose I had for it, it worked OK with the S5 and kit zoom. Just. I think it’s on the limit and the motors are having to work extra hard to balance it. I went with a QR plate on the base of the gimbal itself, so 95% of the time, all 3 axis are locked and it just becomes part of the tripod. Slightiy wobbly if lightly shaken, but can’t fall over like a freestanding monopod would so a good workaround for me.

That’s the same ‘material’ again including the new highly anticipated Billy mode. I suspect it will make the camera the GOAT.

What is the aim here as in how much lighter do you want to get the thing? Other than a smaller/lighter battery, there isn't anything even remotely worthwhile. Perhaps a better weight saving solution would be a smaller/lighter lens?

Yep, that's the same rumor... "According to foreign news sources", ie, absolutely no one, - this 'news' was something lifted off a rumors site and is doing the rounds. And anyway, what's "and supports 16:9 Billy 4.8K60P video"? And what's this 15mp sensor? Sounds a bit of a weird size to me and they can forget all photo credibility if they wish to market anything like that as a genuine hybrid. Half the size of a new 30mp if anything? Not because 15mp is not enough for stills for most people most of the time, myself included, but because for marketing purposes, if you are not at least even competitive... A 15mp sensor coupled with DFD AF smells like disaster to me... But I doubt the credibility of this rumor anyway and it's far from being credible. I do believe they are working on something, but until anything comes from a reliable source or is official, I'm not going to be holding my breath. I'm all for any successor to the S5 or S1 line. In fact, I am waiting on it because until anything is confirmed (and it ticks my boxes), I am both sticking with what I am already using and have no concrete plans to switch to any other system. Thought right now, I can make arguments for; Fuji, Canon and Sony...

What have you seen? All I have seen is one highly speculative rumor from an absolute nobody that sounded more like his personal wishlist on that utterly trash L Mount Rumors site 🤪 But if there is something more substantial, I’d be interested…

Good point. My Panny's are all 150Mbps 420 10 bit and my grade is fairly mild but a lot of 50% Slow mo. I tried very briefly (once) jumping up to the 400Mbps option...but never again. I didn't see any benefit and it chewed through cards at a crazy rate. 150 therefore is Goldilocks for me.

With the big crop, that would be my go to also, - was thinking about it the other day, plus using a 'between the lens & body' VND on my S1H right now. This or the Fuji XH2s with the Tamron 17-70mm f2.8 which is now available in X mount. Not this year though and maybe never, but the two leading contenders for me right now on paper...

Mine is 1TB and way too small. My problem is I didn’t really factor in that I have a couple of trips that take in 3-5 jobs without returning to the office and each one takes up approx 500GB. Oops. I have done the first (3 jobs working away) and downloading to the 2TB Sandisk SSD was painful. Like 6-8 hours painful and when you finish late and start again mid morning… Now I can download an entire job; 5 cards and up to 5 audio devices in about 1 hour…and then overnight, can just copy the lot to the ‘old’ USB Sandisk SSD as a backup with a single click. And than might take 4+ hours but I won’t care as I will be asleep.

Being serious, I am and have always been a fan of a fairly shallow DOF in both photography and video, but my limit these days is around f1.8/2 on full frame and in reality, shoot either 2.8 as my main ‘go to’ or 4 if focus is a little more critical/subjects are not on the same plane. I actually bought a used 50mm f1.4 a couple of weeks back and whilst the files were super nice wide open, the DOF was in reality, far too shallow so I flipped back to f2.8 very quickly and then by the end of the days shoot, boxed it back up and sent it back. For the times I’d use f1.4 compared with it’s size & weight (1kg/2+lbs) err, nah. Went back to my go to f2’s and noticed the massive (less) difference in size & weight, plus much easier to focus and no real world difference in the quality of output. In fact, next job this weekend, horror of horrors, I am bringing back the highly portable/compact Sigma 28-70mm f2.8 as my principal hybrid lens. Why? Because it’s around 500g/1lb or something, does not zoom like an excitable donkey (in fact barely extends), is sharp and renders nicely plus when in 4K 60p mode, is like a 40-105mm lens and when in 5k 30p (Pixel:Pixel 2.18 crop on the S1R) mode, like a 60-150mm lens which is perfect for my mainly outdoor wedding needs. So speedboosters on M4/3 I get and maybe even on S35 (but I would not bother) but FF?

This. But most of us have done similar at some point 🤪😜

This test was downloading an SD card direct to it via the laptop. I’m sure it would be less slow writing to it compared with the new TB3 direct from the Mac HD such as rendering a video. My biggest (only really) issue with my 4 or so month old Mac is that I went with too small an internal SSD. With hindsight, a Studio would have suited my needs better, but hey ho, the new external TB3 does the job as a less than 500 euro fix.

They are all at it… Sigma did it with the FP (fella in the trailer with the specs and the Japanese kid in the shop?) and Panasonic with the S1H (Kepler something…) Great little films and to be fair, a good showcase for those that do work on such type things with a bit of a budget and crew. I’m just inspired if I can get even close as a one man band. I can’t, but as they say, shoot for the stars and you might just hit the moon… I do own a cine lens and use it on every job 😬

Sounds like a large portion of my life 🤪 I noticed it gets hot very quickly, just plugged in. At the same time, doing a project today working off the Sandisk USB external, (final time and then it becomes back up and transfer to PC duty) which barely gets even slightly warm. I would have thought it would be the other way round? I will have to Google/YouTube it… Or I will ask Gordon as it was his fancy idea in the first place.

OK, wow. I surprised myself and managed all on my own to 'build' my own external portable TB3 SSD. And it actually works. So far... I went with Gordon Laing's suggestion (but slightly different case as his one was not available) I did a download speed test this morning as I already know I can use a Sandisk 2TB 1050mpbpbbbpps external drive as a 'working' drive with my M1 Macbook Pro. I already knew however that it was sloooooooooow to download to, but did not realise how slow... 96gb download via Macbook to Sandisk USB external SSD = 42 minutes. Same download direct to Macbook SSD = 7 mins 27 seconds. Same download to external new TB3 SSD = 7 mins 27 seconds. Exactly the same as the internal drive so basically does the job I want it to and Apple won't let you, ie, increase the size of your SSD from 1TB to 3TB at much less cost than buying an upgraded SSD Mac in the first place. Just need to work on the external screen compatibility now as it's not properly working as an external working screen with Premiere Pro but will work OK in mirror format. Which is a bit odd as I had it working a few weeks back with workspace maximised on the laptop but the actual video full screen on the external monitor...