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i will buy an om-1 for my mf lenses handheld shooting. very possibly i will buy a gh7 for mf lenses and in camera raw. for ff experience, i will use my trusty 5d3ml and 16-35mm f4 l. mf lenses on 5d3ml requires tripods or gimbals. yeh. will wait for another 10 years to see how the paradigm shifts.

iphone 15 pro max video stabilization is excellent, at least as good as go pro 12. resolution is good enough by today's standard. af sometimes hunts in rare cases. bravo. is this a m3 equivalent? maybe. so many people have this tool now.

good for Sundance, good for me.

this is the last one. I will not post YouTube test any more. seems to my eyes, ibis wise, 1. s1h is significantly better than s5 2. surprisingly, gh5 is significantly better than s5 (gh5 ibis is really out of my expectation) 3. s5 is better than Nikon and Sony.

this guy tested s5ii using the latest firmware. his conclusion is that if the talent is just walking, s5iix ibis using e-stab high at s35 crop can be gimbal like. the footage seems smooth to my eyes. this is really good. as I remember that the steadicam can only do 50mm well, over 50mm it is hard to stabilize.

hcb used m3 and created a new area of photo journalism. I always wanted to have m3 equivalent for video news. now go pro 12, and maybe s9 are possibly the tools for this. Alexa is like lf at the time of hcb, nobody has doubt about the lf cameras. they are good for something, but new tools create new areas. exciting time.

I think you are right, in big budget feature, the established workflow is already very good. a camera with 10 bit 422 or 12 bit raw, steadicam, dolly, jib, lighting, etc are actually good enough. as the environment is controlled, I doubt that alexa35's 17 stops dr is truly essential over the 12-year old Alexa ev except the newer cameras may be less prone to onsite errors.

I do news and events. I am an one man band.

this is great. then except being small, rx100 v has not major advantage.

From a pure lab test perspective, it seems that there is no gain without pain: the new LUMIX S5 II has nice new features including solid autofocus, but unfortunately in the lab, it falls a bit behind the previous generation, the S5 – when pushed to the absolute extreme, to keep things in perspective. Not only is the rolling shutter worse (1ms more in full frame, 1.8ms more in APS-C), also the latitude result is not as good – it finishes with 7 stops of exposure latitude, mainly because of banding artifacts in the shadows and a more blotchy noise pattern which doesn’t look as pleasing to the eye. That said, the dynamic range results are very similar to the previous generation LUMIX S5. from cined test.

af, dr of gh7 is as good as fx30. kudos to gh7.

when the new generation dps grow and move up the ladder, they may prefer the latest hybrids more and more as they are used to ibis and c-af.

rx100v does not have the integrated gimbal, not sure if you can walk with it. I think rx100v is 1 inch sensor, so may be better in low light, a little bit, not much though.

the only old hybrids that are really good in image quality even by today's standards are magic lantern cameras, 5d3ml, crop mood 700d/650d/100d/eos m.

the best of the old mirrorless may have good enough resolution, but lacks in dr severely. also the evf and lcd resolution are outdated. the bes of the old cinema cameras like f35, Alexa ev, red dragon still hold their own against the latest mirrorless in terms of image quality, maybe surpass in some aspects.

om1/ii has an ibis of 7.5 stops and many customizable settings, while s9/s5ii/x has an ibis of 5 stops, a little bit worse than em1 mkii, so it is safely to say that ff the best of ff ibis is about two generations behind the best of m43 ibis. there is a possibility that ff ibis can never reach to the om1/ii level due to the sensor size.

I just figure out that this is the full frame version of go pro 12. I always like the go pro 12's stabilization and true pocket size, but go pro 12 cannot be used for low light scenarios. s9 coupled with a pancake lens like 50mm f2 may be a little bit larger than go pro 12, but not much. but s9 can have great low light performance. if I go on street or to other cities for traveling, I may just need a go pro 12 with several batteries to cover the day time, a s9 with a pancake lens to cover the night. no need for raw in this kind of scenarios.

price wise, om5/ii is $1200, s9 is $1500, not much difference. the biggest difference for operation is evf. om5/ii has an ibis of 7.5 stops, while s9 's ibis is 5 stops.

s9's ibis seems a little better than s5 ii/x. interesting. s9 coupled with small ltm or m primes seems very attractive for street and travel. no evf is a potential issue. will see how the lcd is under the direct sun.

s9 is surprisingly good at ibis and af. it is small but not evf. not sure if the lcd is bright enough in direct sun. if so, no evf seems ok for operation. I kind of think that this may be a better choice than s5ii/x and gh7.

how about put arri log c on the s5iix? then it will totally match Alexa mini lf in terms of sensor size.

interesting, bmpcc 6k/ff has gyro info for post stabilization. this is very critical. just not sure how good it is and how complicate it is.