Budget Friendly Camera with Mic Input and IBIS? (Around $400 used?)

PhotoTurtle wrote:

Off The Mark wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

Speaking of the G85...

I see it is on sale for $797 including the 12-60mm OIS Kit lens. I have a $200 credit at Adorama so that might work.

So now I have to decide if I go for the BMPCC4K as my A Cam, or for the GH5 as my A Cam and the G85 as my B cam / son's camera...

You're welcome.

It's up to you. That would still be about $200 more than you had specified. See the message from James and my reply to him. It looks like GX8 and E-M5 mark II would also be possibilities.

As for BMPCC4k vs GH5, I think it really depends on what kind of work you're hoping to do with it. The BMPCC seems more geared specifically to cinema-style video shooting, while the GH5 seems more geared to everyday, run-and-gun, documentary, etc style of video production, plus photography.

Yeah, you are right on both counts.

I am pretty undecided at the moment.

I currently shoot with sony a6500 (real estate stills and video) and I kind of hate the a6500. The usability (or lack thereof) drives me crazy. Plus the 8-bit video is in a very compressed codec and falls apart when doing basic color correction.

GH5 appeals to me for doing stills (although sony stills are excellent) and for using on a gimbal.

The BMPCC4K appeals to me for the sheer ability to recover over-exposed highlights and / or underexpose two stops and bring it up in post, even when using prores codec (if shooting at ISO 400). In real estate videos, we don't get a chance to light, so wide DR is a real problem.

Yeah, sony S Log has wide DR but it is a real pain to work with, and again, being both 8-bit AND highly compressed, it falls apart real easily unless you absolutely nail both the exposure AND the color / white balance.

The question about the budget-friendly camera is because if I move from Sony to M43, I would want an m43 camera for my son (to replace the a6000 / a5100 he uses, which are ok but not great cameras).

I probably need to think on this more...