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Second camera to GH5 (for video)

Started Apr 23, 2018 | Discussions thread
JakeJY Veteran Member • Posts: 5,442
Re: Second camera to GH5 (for video)

The other main difference not pointed out is that the GH4 uses a 1.2x (horizontal) crop in UHD 4K and 1.125x in Cinema 4K, while the G85 uses 1.1x in UHD 4K and does not have a Cinema 4K mode. GH5 has no horizontal crop in 4K.

I agree with other comment that if the second camera is shooting a different angle and FOV people are unlikely to notice the difference if the colors/contrast are close enough.

However, given you have GH5 already, some ideas:

1) Try shooting some test footage in GH5 in all three modes (the 10bit v-log, GH4 equivalent 8bit v-og, and G85 equivalent 8bit Cinelike). Then try to match the footage. That will answer a lot of your questions directly without having to guess before buying a camera.

2) If it is critical that the footage much match in color, it is always an option to use the lowest common denominator (meaning shooting 8bit Vlog or 8bit Cinelike on your GH5).

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