Exciting Pana announcements, especially for video people.

Kisaha wrote:

flip 21 wrote:

between 1000€ and 1300€. I can go 1500€, if it was the GH5, and came with the kit lens included...

If the A6500 had a a Samsung NX 500 kind of LCD screen (wich tilts 180º), shoot 4K at 60p, and had the same price (1400€), I would buy it... well I'm assuming it doesn't overheats like the A6300... right?

But right now, I'm crazy about the GH5... I just love it

I also Love my Nx500. but I'm really mad with Samsung.... Guys, it is one year, and they didn' give us any kind of explanation... you just don't do this to your consumers... namely the ones like Kisaha and Tecnoworld... they worship you

Companies are looking at the big picture flip, not what individual users wants or needs, especially what you want for that money, and I am looking for whatever best for me, and Sony, right now, isn't.

You want to pay 1000 euros less, for a camera that will be out in 4-5 months time in Portugal, it offers the most that any other camera (after the GH4, the NX1) have ever offer, for a very reasonable, if not cheap price. Do you know how silly you sound to people, not with photo and video knowledge, but with a little bit of common sense?

Have you heard about Ken Rockwell? Well, listen to him..

"Get a DSLR like the Nikons or Canons for serious shooting, or to save money.

Nikon and Canon DSLRs take better pictures, at least if you're as critical about color rendition as I am. They also handle faster, have much better battery life, and cost less for the same features. By the time you spend as much as an a6300 for a DSLR, you're getting a very fancy DSLR. A basic DSLR like the Nikon D3300 or Canon SL1 costs only one-third as much as this A6300, and takes pictures at least as good. Basic DSLRs are also not much bigger or heavier than the A6300.

The A6300 is the girl you date for fun and good times until you find something better, while a DSLR is the woman you marry for a lifetime of serious pursuits. The A6300 is easy and fun, while a DSLR makes better pictures if you're serious beyond just posting on Facebook to be forgotten in a day."

and listen to this one as well..

"Sony and Fuji are completely different from each other:

Ergonomics

Fuji's cameras are designed by and for real photographers. Fuji cameras have far superior ergonomics, with real shutter, aperture, exposure compensation and other dials.

Sony's cameras have the world's worst menu systems, and then they force you to into menus and screens to set the most basic things like ISO and shutter speeds.

Sonys are designed for and by amateurs and online tweakers who don't actually know what's important in a camera.

Quality

Fuji, like Canon, makes almost all of its cameras and lenses domestically in Japan.

Sony usually offshores its cameras — even the $3,200 made-in-Thailand A7R II — to whatever country can do it the cheapest."

I'm more of a Philip Bloom fan since I focus more on the video side of "hybrid" cameras so the 10 bit capability in the gh5 is a pretty big deal for me since I always apply color correction to my work. But he will probably side with the larger sensor and just using external recording with the a6500 I bet.

I purchased my NX1 right before the discontinued rumors started so it's been a real roller coaster ride owning the camera. I just sold it last night and got as much as I paid for it proving to me just how far ahead of its time this camera was. I was little sad selling it and well now be without a camera like it for at least a few months unless I decide to get a g85 instead of the gh5 because of cost.

Anyway, my feeling is that unlike film cameras of old, modern digital cameras with video are slaves to the march of technology until we get to some point where full sensor 4K acquisition is at a great quality spot and reasonable price. HD was in that zone for awhile just a few years ago.

Now I hope there should be a good period of time where 8K will the high end place and 4K hybrid cameras should be good enough for indie video makers who also want to shoot great stills. The GH5 gets very close to that mark and I think Samsung would already be there if they had stayed in the market. I don't know what Canon is doing but they need to put 4K in the next Ti or 90D model quickly and without handicaps like it the 5DIV has (in the dslr video market they invented in the first place.)