Framed_By_Dan

15mm f1.7. The Sigma is much bigger and heavier which of course can be good for stability however it suffers badly with focus breathing apparently. Plenty of reviews out there comparing the two.

Underrated, but the same type of tripod plate on each camera, with each tripod head and any type of "grip" matched with the appropriate head or clip. For instance, whilst I have a Manfrotto 501 style fluid head, I have adapted it to accept 200PL plates. Same with my gimbal. It means I can go from tripod to gimbal to handheld without faffing with plates and having to rebalance.

I definitely probably have too many cameras...if that's such a thing? 😇 For work it's the following: Lumix GH5 Lumix GH5 II (hybrid photo & video work) Lumix GH5S Lumix S1 (hybrid photo & video work) Lumix S5IIX (hybrid photo & video work) Lumix GH4 (pretty much retired and up for sale) Personal/EDC/Fun Digital: Lumix GX9 (photo & video) Lumix GH1 (the very camera which won me best image quality in a EOSHD Forum challenge) Fujifilm X-Pro 1 (photo only) Film: Canon AE-1 Program Canon EF-M (manual focus EF mount SLR - I pair with adapted Leica R glass which I often also use for video) Konica Genbakantonku 28 HG Of course there's a couple of action cams in for good measure - GoPro Hero 4 and DJI Action 2. Finally the flying camera - DJI Mini 3 Pro

10 Bit is always going to be better than 8 Bit when correcting Log. That said it is dependent on codec and bit rate too. Ive always felt a Lumix 8 Bit file, regardless whether it's H.264 or H.265 is so much thicker and easier to work with than any Sony A7 whatever rubbish. Another factor is your software of choice. Premiere Pro is not a colour grading software, Lumetri sucks. Davinci on the other hand is so much kinder to weak codecs, much less banding and colour artefacts when you try to stretch things like correcting white balance and tint. Clearly better algorithms that are much more forgiving.

Yes I'm on the latest firmware. I was very keen to see what the 6K/5.9K looked like...glorious! Anyway, yes I think bringing the highlights down might be my own undoing, thinking it's "better" in a way when it's probably not. Just knocked it back a touch to -1 to see if that helps. Boosted saturation back a touch too, I find when underexposing the colour tends to disappear so anything I can do to negate that helps. I do like Cine V, colours are nice especially skin tones, but still just a touch too punchy for my liking when I am grading on top later. I use a slightly tweaked Cine V for quick turnaround jobs where no grading is required.

Hmm, I have to disagree, I still think there's something going on with the S1 footage. I use Natural tweaked a bit and it's definitely a bit plasticy looking compared to V-Log. Skin texture doesn't shine through the same either. My settings for Natural are as follows: Contrast -5 Highlight -2 Shadow +0.5 Saturation -3 Hue -0.5 Sharpness -5 NR - 5 I definitely felt the profile out the box was much more contrasty and had increased saturation compared to the GH line and have spent a bit of time getting them to match fairly closely. One other thing I noticed significantly is the terrible highlight roll off compared to the GH5/GH5S. Perhaps I'm exposing my image wrong/overexposing more on the S1 but if the meter shows anything beyond +2/3 over the highlights clip easily. I have to be super cautious. Compare that to when I shoot my GH5/GH5S/GH5 II (GH5 II especially) I can be pretty confident going to about +1, +1 2/3 and still not having super harsh clipped highlights. Most of the time the information is still there to reign in the highlights through a curves adjustment in post but I'd rather get fairly close in camera if I can. It's just a bit off putting when filming. Am I pushing the adjustments to the profile too far? I recently shot Flat with no adjustments except sharpness and NR down and it looked great (save for the highlights still being a bit hot). Some aspects of the colour came out a bit better too, however I can't completely switch to Flat due to having a couple of the older bodies in my fleet which don't have Flat. I have thought if I replace my GH5 with an S5IIX and shoot with a baked in Rec709 conversion (I like Davinci's CST for V-Log) that could be a way round it. Trouble is minimum ISO of 640 and I don't have time to use ND on run and gun shoots such as weddings.

Anyone who’s got their hands on an S5IIX able to see if there’s improvement on the skin smoothing/noise reduction artefacts that are present in the normal S5 II in the Rec709 based profiles? Also what about highlight roll off? I have the S1 that I personally feel is a bit too smooth and has hot highlights when shooting in a Rec 709 based profile - although the information does tend to come back fairly well in post. I’d love to move on from my GH5 to something a bit better in low light and the S5IIX could be a logical option but I’ve noticed some quirks with S series cameras that I don’t get with the GH line. I appreciate any real world user experience.

Despite moving on from Canon years ago I still have a hankering for a 1DC. I have absolutely no need or place for one but having used one a couple of times and still have some 4K Log footage stored, I look at it from time to time and it still impresses me. I'd still be interested to see how a Sigma 18-35mm would fair on it, I do remember once using it paired with a Speedbooster Ultra on a GH5S making it roughly 1.27x crop with a touch of vignetting in the corners. 1.3x in DCI 4K mode on the 1DC must be do-able then!

I'm not sure. Perhaps not at the moment if it's a project he is trying to develop himself.

Just stumbled upon this on Youtube, looks very interesting. 5K Raw shooting EOS M rehoused in a 3D printed box camera style body. He says a version 2 is could be in the works using the brains of the original BMPCC, that I'd love to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF7a_DYZYho&t=889s

1DC was immediately noticeable when doing the singular comparison, it looks so organic and much less digital compared to the rest.

Interested to see some images shot with that Voigtlander 17.5mm on the Fuji...

I have rented one a few times and fell in love with the image. I barely have any EF mount lenses anymore but damn I have a lusting for one so bad.

Are you sure you're not accidentally touching the screen with your nose when using the EVF causing the focus point to jump? I always had that issue with my S1 until I switched the touch screen off. On a completely separate matter, can anyone tell me how the S1/S5 records it's 1080p mode? Is it pixel binned/line skipped or a mixture of both? Often noticed a fair bit of moire in the HD files.

Did you hack this? Footage look so good! I felt mind had terrible moire and only had to look at the footage and it looked blocky...