Cheap Used Body for Video

secretworld wrote:

aliasfox wrote:

- I know for stills the GX7 has a stronger sensor, but does that matter as much in video?

Thanks!

If you shoot inside with higher then base iso, yes, but only a little.

But one disadvantage of the external audio route is that there is no way to do a quick and easy edit. You will always have to sync the imported audio. Or use the internal mic.

How about a GF2 without viewfinder....That would really be cheap.

Thanks. Indoor shooting is definitely possible and probable if I'm asked to record speeches/dances at receptions again. That said, I'm not sure I'd expect to regularly shoot above f/1.8 1/60s ISO1600 - one would hope that if the venue is dark that there would be a spotlight on the stage.

I've never planned on quick edits, I'd always hope to be able to bring stuff back home and load it into the computer.

As for a GF2 without viewfinder, that would be adequate for a tripod camera -i.e, one that I would set up to capture the whole scene, but would be deficient if I wanted to handhold and/or do manual focus pulls. I wear glasses, and I had enough trouble doing that with my EVF during the ceremony (bridesmaids walking down the aisle) with light leakage and all.

Is the video on these Panasonics noticeably better than the video on an Olympus E-M5 II? I'm hoping to get an E-M1 when the E-M1 mkII comes out, and while I know the E-M1 has video that's just as bad as my E-PM2, I'd expect the E-M1 mkII to have the E-M5 II's video features.