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Is Micro Four Thirds good enough to be used to record the 320 million viewers Top gear show? Of course it is! Now let’s just hope the show will come back after a short suspension.
GH4 North American store links:
GH4 camera at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Ritz Camera and Panasonic. Price: $1,698. In Canada at Vistek.
GH4 camera with interface unit at Adorama and BHphoto. Price: $3,298
Interface unit only at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. Price: $1,998
GH4 European store links:
Germany: Wexcameras, Marcotec-shop.de.
UK at Wexphotographic, CameraWorld, UKdigital, CVP, TipTop.
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m43 fanboy: That’s because a DSLR is too big and heavy and would fall off…..
DSLR fanboy: That’s because the prices drop so fast they are disposable and when they crash they can keep buying spares cheap!
Actually, they probably can’t stand the gross inky blacks and weird gamma mess of the Canon family of HDSLRS.
Is that the Olympus 12mm strapped to the front?
certainly looks like the oly 12mm with a pretty dark ND filter. I wonder if they are using the manual snap focus and then taped it so it wouldn’t vibrate off focus?
Definitely lots of tape to stop the focus ring and any vibrations… Interesting about the ND filter, must have been a bright day.
Their shooting style is the dramatic underexposed with vignette look
I suspect polariser to kill reflection glare off the car’s bonnet.
So much for Olympus 5 Axis. This is a semi-disposable mounted to a windshield (windscreen as some call it). It likely is not used to film the show.
The wording suggest that it is used to film the entire show watched by 320 million. Where’s the proof? Certainly not this photo!
Also Is this intended as a nudge to the minions to buy the GH4 instead of OLY??
Um, they use GH2’s for drones as well:
http://www.eoshd.com/2015/03/fisticuffs-end-new-top-gear-series-how-the-bbc-risked-biggest-franchise-over-catering-fracas/
Could this also be intended to nudge minions to buy used GH2’s AS WELL?
In other news, Canon is rumored to be into making a camera to rival the GH4:
http://www.eoshd.com/2015/03/canon-exploring-4k-gh4-competitor/
Oh! That must burn Olyfanboys!
I guess reading is not your strong point.
On a Jag it’s called a windscreen.
A wind shield is a device fitted to a microphone.
It’s important not to get them confused whilst filming.
They have viewing figures to confirm 320 million worldwide
Would you have a link to that GH4 drop test? Sounds interesting.
Considering that a small, rugged compact like the Olympus TG-3 has a shockproof rating of 7ft, I doubt that a GH4 would survive a 30ft fall onto concrete. And if it does, how come Panasonic doesn’t market it as shockproof?
Yes, what’s the point of doing such drop-tests, if you’re not going to label the camera as shockproof?
Is that Test while recording or in the box during transportation?
well the camera is like any other disposable but their time is certainly not disposable
Panasonic is on to something… only they could bring out the Canon, Sony and Olympus Fanboys, with just one post!
*golf clap*
Amazing!
Being a fanboy of all kind of stuff myself i have to say i couldn’t care less what camera they use at top gear. But i sure do care a lot about the new panasonic strategy to start bringing out other manufacturers’ fanboys with just one post.
Maybe that 12mm Zuiko on the front is a message to Panasonic to start putting a method of hard stops on their lenses instead of those useless digital aperture rings for the old farts who are too stupid to realise that the dial in their grip hand already controls the aperture? 🙂
Only because videographers insist on using the wrong lenses because they do not understand their equipment. Besides the GH4 has 3 control wheels, in M one is aperture and another the shutter (and one left over), and you can programme/swap them about. If it is controlled by wifi/remote then you don’t want a manual lens.
Controls affecting the lens (aperture, zoom, focus) should be located on the lens, while controls affecting the camera (shutter speed, ISO, exposure comp.) should be located on the camera. That’s the most intuitive control layout.
Number of camera makers putting AF buttons on the lens = 0. Explain why you need two hands to operate something that can be done with your thumb on a dial?
Oh, you mean the dial, that if you turn your camera on, pull it out of your bag or pocket, you see EXACTLY where your f-stop is, and not guessing where you actually left it? THAT aperture ring?
That was one reason why I switched to Fuii for my primary kit.
Even still, I hope Panasonic continues to add the dial… it’s VERY handy.
The EVF and the rear screen is obviously not enough for goldfish
So I have to look at the rear screen, or put my eye to the EVF?
Wow… Such Perfect sense!
Your 15 minutes of fame are up.
Fake. We all know that one can’t record video without 5 axis IBIS.
rofl – thanks
Even if the codecs are still shiity?
Hey, I wonder if panasonic will recall the shiity OIS on 35-100 and 14-140? 🙂
If you bothered to follow the link you’ll see that they are using all kinds of cameras. XDCAM, Canon 1DX, etc
This is a cool setup. Looks like they using it for the B-cam stuff
https://scontent-sin.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10986895_939439939429394_9110925578489418547_o.jpg
Well the title is so missleading.. of course eventualy they use micro43 camera or gopro camera for certain scenarios.. but suggesting that the show main recording camera is a pana gh4 is just to steep
The show has been suspended. Apparently the presenter attacked the producer in an argument about the merits of using m43 for filming the show.
rofl – more like a heated argument but Clarkson was on final warning re behaviour
Clarkson argued m43 was not ‘cinematic’ enough.
The producer showed Clarkson some footage on the web shot with a metabones and a PL cinema lens… that’s when Clarkson punched him
You’re probably the only person who actually believes that nonsense.
Do you really think he believes it? Hint: Your humor detector has malfunctioned.
Thanks.
He was suspended because apparently he punched a producer for not providing dinner on time. BBC should be thankful that he did not eat the producer for dinner. 😉
That overweight motormouth has to go.
TOP GEAR (UK) is CLARKSON ( and MAY and HAMOND)—-and yes it is the only one.
the rest is booring bullshit. do ya want to looka german-carshow-where a -car-clone-idiot
looks for underneath of carpet? F U N E R A L of M I N D…
so it was a nice time… boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorhhhhh..
now the age of pisoire-cars are coming… GOOGEL-halfman-egg..
Googel: ” do i think..so do i drive…?”
Please explain!
Dr Jonathon Miller recently pointed out that the BBC is now run by Media Studies Twerps. Just because a media studies twerp does something does not mean it is good. I am not knocking the GH4 but the idea that the Beeb still represents some kind of excellence.
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