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Started Apr 15, 2017 | Questions thread
OP Paul Amyes Senior Member • Posts: 1,907
Re: Video AF is not stills AF!
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Rosetta wrote:

IMHO most replies above - while going to a lot of detail - are looking into the wrong direction. The OP is considering Pana for its video features. Hence what matters is also video AF performance with different lenses and this is a totally different game than AF performance for stills (which is for the most part good enough in either case).

Actually if judged on the one dozen or so posts in this forum from the last couple of days alone GH5 video AF performance leaves a few things to be desired, and this is based on tests using PL lenses. So whether Oly lenses make it much worse was not a question so far.

My advice to the OP is to think twice about whether you will actually deploy the GH5's extra capabilities in video - do you have the intent, time and infrastructure to work with 10bit 4K 60fps 400MBS material for grading before scaling it all down to a format that can be consumed today?

The GH5 is a great camera (I own it) but it may not be what gives you the biggest benefit for the money today.

Oh very serious about video. I've been a finalist in a film festival and am shooting more and more.

Trouble is I'm going round in circles. Canon has the best video AF system, best colour science, but either offer crap codecs or only 1080. Sony has the next best AF implementation but has over heating issues and colour output that can be difficult to grade. Panasonic has nice files, good codecs, but decidedly iffy AF implementation from what I've seen of the reviews of the GH5.

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