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On my GH5 for underwater work I'm stuck with the old mediocre 14-42mm. The best current underwater wet lenses were developed around 28mm FF so the only compatible M43 lens is the 14-42mm...

https://www.43rumors.com/leaked-first-panasonic-lumix-gh7-images/ Someone say it's the same GH6 body. It could be my lucky year 🙂

I imagine some sort of enhanced battery grip with audio part embedded. Something like the old GH4 battery grip with xlr input or... an updated audio input of the current gh5 one.

Don't Pana and BM have an agreement for M43 format and also L mount? Couldn't it be BRaw? Pana has its raw format on varicams but I don't think it is compressed, right?

given the patent war what raw format can be expected?

Rumors speak about internal raw? BRaw?

Reading the news about June 5 and putting the whole S9 Gerald Undone Special Edition drama in perspective, I am left with the only real big curiosity: why they decided to introduce S9 at the last moment. What accident did they have? Because it is clear that they did not have a ready lens for the presentation. The 26mm/F8 pancake is a joke. Or was it all prepared?

Good catch!

June 5 looks like the video maker's holiday. Double announcement Pana and Canon. Rumors run wild. https://www.43rumors.com/ft3-panasonic-lumix-gh7-to-be-announced-soon/ https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-usa-to-launch-new-cinema-eos-product-on-june-5/ If a GH7 really comes out, I'll have to break my piggy bank. P.S. I wonder if Gerald will have had one of these machines on test 😉

Good catch indeed! What about from the standpoint of pure image? Is the C70 comparable to the K-X? I didn't want to use the word cinematic 😉 Yes, when run&gun meets cinematography

Ergonomics apart, how do you compare images from the two cameras? My friend was torn between the C70 and the R5C (For underwater and narrative use). Each ticked off several items on his checklist. The choice was so difficult that in the end he did not take either 🙂 Now both cameras are quite dated (not from specs pov) and a new version is around the corner so better to wait for both new and used.

Since the thread is somewhat pleasantly derailed.... I don't know if you have seen the series “Chimp Empire” on Netflix. Great cinematography made in many places of close-ups in the darkness and shadows of the forest but also of very dynamic scenes in which the two chimpanzee families give each other a hard time running through the trees. On YT there are several behind-the-scenes shots in which the video operators are seen running like crazy through the jungle. Situations you have to catch on the fly i.e. the classic “run & gun” applied to a very cinematic documentary. C300s and C70s are seen. It's been a long time since I've seen a documentary filmed with these machines. There is this very nice article about the choices the director made about the crew and equipment: https://www.televisual.com/news/how-we-made-it-james-reed-on-chimp-empire/ In another article that I cannot find now, the director related that the most beautiful scenes were shot by the guide alone (a local girl who had taken a filmmaking course) to whom the crew in the off periods had left the C70.

But no for goodness sake! Don't misunderstand me. The idea is also cute, since I fell for it. It's just that watching dozens of videos and hundreds of comments posted after GU's video I see that everyone tries to disguise the problem. then I don't know that youtuber so I couldn't appreciate his ironic streak.

Edit: I realize it was a joke (sort of). So now all these YTs are trying to reposition themselves from the GU video. I personally believe that this business model is rotten to the core, and these witty videos are not going to change the substance. I don't think it will change anything. In some time the dust will settle and the circus will resume as usual. GU only spit in the pot it was eating in because it had long since repositioned itself from pure reviews. Time will tell

From Italy, this video, after the introduction in completely blank. tested on desktop and app

And I can't believe that with my GH5 I can't do what the gopros have been doing for years which is to download the videos in lightweight format to my phone immediately to get a preview. This would be a very useful thing on a boat with the housing still wet since I can turn on the wifi from the underwater housing.

I don't know if this is one of those events that Gerald was talking about in the video. Events where he had been invited and had not produced any videos. Josh has always been nice to me because of his wacky, arty projects, and I still don't have a clear opinion about what Gerald said. However, when I hear these moral sermons and see this video from five years ago now again, I ask myself some questions. If I had been there and had a million dollars worth of equipment at my disposal for 4 days (watch to believe at minute 2'29") could I really have spoken badly of Sony? I mean, I'm not a sellout but I'm not a rude one either. Mom taught me well about education.

They seem to bet a lot on this app. The Japanese are at least 15 years behind on the subject and Panasonic has given birth to the worst apps in the history of computing. There is a special circle of hell for Panasonic developers. Every time I open the app for the GH5, a programmer, somewhere in the world, dies.

In a few hours Pana will present this new FF camera. A lot of photos leaked on the net already and an handgrip is already on Amazon. https://amzn.to/4dPNj4X I was struck by this picture. Is the hand from a dwarf or is the camera huge? M43 all the way around!

I will tell you a secret... https://phfx.com/tools/panSpeedCalc/

I absolutely agree. You buy and close a competitor company but this is not the case with Red. The whole deal only makes sense if they keep the Red brand which is their gateway to cinema.

Exactly what I was looking for. It's a shame there's not a more recent stat. Thank you

I was looking for market share data on cinema cameras but only found financial data. Instead I would be curious to know what percentage Arri, Red, Canon, Sony, Pana share of film productions. Some time ago I had seen a similar statistic restricted to Oscar films but I can't find it again.

But why, did you imagine something different? But really? There will be a mix of technologies and Nikon puts one foot, or rather two, into the cinema market. Which is the whole point of the operation.

the amount of noise in these videos and its ugliness is staggering. Especially the second one. There is no info on the ISO value but it must be exaggerated.