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GH7 is available on Amazon.

And this The main takeaway for me from this yet another launch short is that today you can do anything with any camera as long as you have budget and skill. The quality is very high now. From what you see on this short at the end they didn't even use cinema lenses but all standard Canon stuff To this if they gave it an FX3, FX5, S5 or an Alexa, the result would be indistinguishable. Bravo to the DoP and the colorist. The Creator, 100M USD budget shot all with the FX3 studied and designed by Dune DOP Greig Fraser, oscar award winner for Dune, says it all. Then you see the stuff done by Philip Chiesa with a Gh5S and you have further confirmation. Then of course everyone has their own preferences and fixations but this is the hard and pure reality. P.S. A little too orange & teal for my taste. The days of Michael Bay are gone 😄

Another level, really

I wrote "in this market range". Cinema line is another story for both Canon and Sony. R5 want to be the hero of the two worlds

Overheating has already been discussed to exhaustion, and there are two things: Panasonic is wasting time and resources on something that Canon and Sony don't give a damn about at all (in this market range). Or Panasonic is light years ahead when it comes to thermal management.

I only want to know one thing: where did they hide the cripple hammer?

On Dpreview they write that in RAW 8K and 4K the rop factor is 1:1. How is it possibile? Line skipping and column skipping?

Weeks ago we wrote about this:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-zone-of-interest-review-jonathan-glazer-1235496467/

They were so focused on the video that they forgot that there is audio and sound engineers 😄

I saw you can even change several parameters foe each voice.

IIRC GU started to give importance to overheating just recently.

https://artlist.io/voice-over Imagine the blow the voice-over community receives. Then I keep reading comments like: yes but the human voice is inimitable and there will always be room for those who want that unmistakable touch. Bullshit

GU covers you 😉

Sony practically doesn't give a shit about overheating. In fact, it is now a trademark. It seems here in Italy in the summer you can't use the camera at home.

The names of these cameras are chosen by Satan himself. Damn them!

Are these manual focus shots? 😉

I'll have a tattoo with this link 🙂

On a underwater image forum we are debating on this. On YT there are countless tutorial and examples on its use for underwater photography but zero for underwater video. So far nobody showed up with some feedback...

I see a lot of wildlife photographers use it successfully. Could you point me at some example? No polemic at all, I'm trying to understand its use underwater. I've seen some video of Mark Smith that could be nearly impossible to film without such AF. Of course none of us knows what the hit/miss ratio is...

There are some video examples too

I partially agree. As I just wrote, the difference in the very latest generations is the deep learning algorithm and the dataset it is trained with. Recognition of dogs cats trains and motorbikes has nothing to do with CDAF and PDAF. Probably Sony and Canon were more advanced in their implementations or their algorithms were better suited to work with PDAF/DPAF. Unfortunately I find very few videos on the capabilities of animal eye detection on video (not photo)

Yet there are hundreds of videos showing how animal eye AF on land works smoothly on Canon and Sony cameras. But this has nothing to do with CDAF and PDAF, it depends on the data the algorithm was trained with. AFAIK algorithm deep learning data are embedded in HW so it is not possible to improve recognition via firmware update.

One last consideration for underwater use and then I won't bother with underwater any more. I am very curious to try continuous autofocus with the PDAF in water. All these videos always refer to Face Detect (and cats dogs birds). The algorithms are trained on these subjects by machine learning. What happens with fish? There are plenty of videos on Sony, Canon and Nikon in which they use the animal eye AF function without any problems and it seems to work perfectly. but these are all photographic tests. I'm very curious to try it out on video.

The scenarios can be very different. If I have the camera on a gimbal I have always tried to be hyperfocal, never attempted to use CAF with the cameras I have had (all contrast based). There is always a moment when you can lose focus and you are screwed. Maybe with PDAF it's different and you can be safe. In other more static scenarios I have always used single AF and then worked manually with focus peaking. If you then have a manual lens with a nice soft dial, it's fun and just takes a bit of practice. In fact I hate Lumix lenses with focus by wire. Only in the latest lumix cameras and only with some lumix lenses you can set up linear rotation otherwise it's a nightmare. Underwater you work hyperfocal as much as possible or in manual via focus peaking. But the cases in which it is possible to do this are very few. Only cinema cameras and cinema housings allow you to work with manual focus reliably, but we are talking about kits that exceed 20K euros. Normally the focus ring on the housing demultiplies the revolutions of the lens focus ring. You turn the focus ring three times and the lens moves the focus by 1 cm. impossible to use it outside macro shooting.