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Could it be that E-M5 II got Panasonic little worried?
It’s not a direct competitor, as the video performance isn’t in the same class. The MkII is best for those people who need extreme stabilization and don’t care as much about video pixel quality. That being said the MKII seems like a fantastic cam in many regards. The 40Mp output is a fantastic feature for product photography and static landscape and the benefit of having it available as a B-cam for creative shots could certainly be appealing to filmmakers. I’ll probably hold off for a price drop or factory refurb.
1% of the video shooters care about pixel quality. 99% of care that video is stable and content is good.
Like already AAA movie directors of photography has used Olympus cameras, while having just 30fps and much lower bitrates.
When (if) pixel peepers gets over their GAS, they will find out that largest audience doesn’t care at all is the video over 17Mbits or over 3Mbits.
It is exactly like problem with audiophiles that most people don’t care if the audio isn’t over 128Kbits and compressed other than MP3 with variable or constant bitrate, gain wrong.
It is professionals task to get video (or sound, image) that meets the requirements. Everything else is useless whining.
Skilled people know what is their end medium, they know the process what happens in each phase and what they need to get required quality.
Pixel peepers, audiophiles etc doesn’t know what they really need, they are worrying about that they ¤!”#”¤ up and they fail, believing that if they have latest toys, they can’t fail.
Like the most used movie camera in hollywood movies isn’t 4K. It is not the best in all possible ways. There are even people who want to shoot in film because digital isn’t good enough for them.
Even E-M5 and E-M1 can record acceptable video without problems, as long you shoot in areas where isn’t 50Hz electricity grid. No other problems with those cameras otherwise. There are skilled people who know how to adjust camera settings to get the result they want in the camera so close that post processing amount is very minimal. Instead they focus only the important part, camera movements, camera angles, story, lighting, sound etc. And they don’t worry. They don’t whine around “Oh, but it doesn’t have 16-bit video, I can’t do anything with it!”. That’s why they are called skilled and talented because they do, they don’t torn trousers because they don’t have latest toy.
It is like people are talking that nothing, ever, what ever Olympus does, is never good enough. And Panasonic manages to do everything perfectly, but yet not so as there is always something bad. People seems never to be happy, instead doing, they just whine about how they can’t do because they don’t have the next model what isn’t even in company R&D department.
Like to me it is even making people stupid how they negatively talk about Olympus or praise Panasonic, based videos in Youtube or Vimeo! Highly compressed, technically inferior videos. People whining how they see compression artifacts or colors are not correct etc.
Like how many has the file from camera to do own test? How many has perfectly color calibrated computer screens, video editor, color calibrated room, room painted with correct color and have the hardware from start to stop to really be able see everything as they say they need?
Look like some people judge and talk about photographs while browsing those from laptop, outdoor or indoor in uncalibrated environment?!
All these places who are so called professional or demand so much, are mostly just hypocrite because they don’t have what it needs to really even get half of the features out the cameras they are claiming is the best.
What a crock of shit. You think 17Mbps video is good enough? All you have to do is look at 1080p Canon 5D Mark ||| IPB 31Mbps video to see it can’t hold a candle to GH4 1080p 100Mbps. If 17Mbps is all that required, then why in the hell is everyone under the sun doing pro video using external recorders that are recording at +150MBps (megabytes, not megabits!!). Sony, Alexa, Red do this, and they eating bytes for the hell of it.
You obviously aren’t a video shooter because you know what real video shooters want? Dynamic Range, that’s what! That is the whole reason Blackmagic Design is so popular! They brought out a $1K camera that has great dynamic range in a RAW video format, as well as high data rate Prores video. People want stabilization also, and they can get there in a number of ways, but when you buy a cam where the codec sucks ass or the dynamic range is for shit, all you can do is pray the hardware has enough balls so that the firmware fairy can sprinkle some feature dust on your investment.
I’m a Panasonic GH4 shooter, and the stabilization of the new Olympus is hands down the absolute best I’ve seen in a camera, period. There, I said it, and my head didn’t explode. You come on here and bitch about people pissing on Oly having GAS and spectitist. Shit, this is a gearhead site, we all got GAS and spectitist! LOL! We want to get the best for our dollar, where the general public may settle for less. The manufacturers don’t need to worry, if they give a a great deal on something, we’ll just buy 2 of em!
I have never heard of anyone serious shooting anything serious in video using olympus gear. This goes both for lenses and cameras. The new stabilization system feels like a gimmick also. It does not replace a brace nor it does replace a steady / gimbal system.
So thinking that that Mk2 makes panasonic worried feels like a stretch.
What is coming is a GX8 and this is probably what makes the Panasonic wanna make space for.
Samsung is also a new kid on the block in video. They have no lenses and no video tradition.
Then you know very limited and egoistic group of people as many use Olympus cameras even in AAA movies. Why? Because you can not get steady cam or any gimbal systems to space that sensor IBIS is.
And even GH4 is in many places too big camera.
Many has said that they are interested for Olympus if it would have 24 or 25 framerate. Now it has, even much higher and better codec than most really need (others than pixel peepers) and it is a game changer.
Like so many buys GH4 just because 4K, but you can’t stabilize well enough with 4K like with IBIS, a 17Mbits is required for very high quality movies, everything else is just thrown away in post production. Only pixel peepers worry about like people would care about codecs same way, while most users care only the content, camera angles, soundtrack, scene cuts etc. Those are the things that matters and stable video without expensive or difficulty use stabilization rigs is huge benefit.
Trust me.
Olympus has never come up in any conversation as to “what small, medium or big size camera would we use for this shot” type talk.
I am sure some people you may know might be using it for video, but rest assured, those people do not make a living shooting video.
Maybe Mk2 will change something in this department but it is too early to tell. So far judging by the footage it will have a hard time putting a dent on any established brand. The BMCPocket murders it with its DR , the Lumixs do everything it does but better, don’t get me started on the Sony A7s..
So far the Mk2 is a cool option for 37 year old daddies who love macro flower photography and wanna film their daughters building sand castles on the beach. I am sure this bracket of the market the Mk2 has on lock.
One reason you may say nobody chooses Olympus for video is because this is Olympus’s first serious attempt at it and the camera isn’t available yet. And to say olympus lenses aren’t worthy either is just wrong.
It is really nobody’s fault but theirs that nobody chooses them for video. Of course not every camera brand needs to cater towards video people and I kinda found it cool that they never gave a shit about video. I respected them for that. To me a it was a photo camera. But now they are pretending they do and it is little naive to think that they are the game changer and some other nonsense.
Maybe in 3 years time, maybe after few important pieces are shot with it, maybe after it has been tested by thousands and praised by as many.
As for their lenses, I did not say they were bad. They are just like any other modern, rather tasteless, clean looking , lacking personality, plasticky in feel sharp and contrasty piece of glass, just like tens of others when mounted on a small sensor and capturing the world through the center of lens. They that type of lenses. Boring and perfect.
Old daddies is a much bigger market than filmmakers, so nothing wrong with that strategy.
I’m going to go the opposite route, and say I think that the EM5 II is going to force the GH4 down a little bit.
Video folks know and love the GH4 for video. I’m guessing that most people who needed the GH4 primarily for 4K output have probably bought theirs already. For system shooters who are still shooters first (like myself) I have been on the fence about the GH4, just because the price (for primarily a still shooting device) is a bit high comparatively to other system offerings. I have struggled with the interface and menus of the Oly cams I’ve shot, so I’m a little gun shy about buying another one, but would like weather sealing and a more robust, body.
That said, I’ve essentially been waiting to see the GH4 drop to the pricing of where the GH3 or EM1 were/are ($1000-1100 or so), so from my angle, I think that while I’m not a huge fan of Oly cams, the EM5 II has my interest peaked, and while I vastly prefer the Pana cams, their direct access via external control without having to program my camera to operate a particular way in various modes, I think this price drop might be at least, somewhat influenced by remaining stock of the GH4 being affected by new cameras, the EM5 II being one of them, sure. That, and I think it is far enough along in its life cycle that to keep selling them, they’re going to have to start some decent discounts because as has been mentioned, 4K is becoming more common so while it was somewhat revolutionary at its price point a year ago, it’s now got quite a bit more competition.
simsalabim: POINT OF SALE [ googel: ” point of sale” / modern marketing]
Nikon D3200 can be had for one quarter that price…
Samsung NX1 eating into GH4 sales -they need to get their sales before everyone else catches up; 4k normal by the end of this year
Does the NX1 put Pepsi adds into your photos?
Just picked one of these up, hope it’s a legit company!
No worries. I bought 4 months ago when they were about $1500 from this same ebayer. Very legit, excellent packaging.
Any rumours of a G7 ?
This GH4 is a bit overkill for my video needs 🙂
But at this price, kill, kill and kill again! LOL!
Not at 3 times G6’s price ( probably twice a “G7” ) as I don’t care of 4k ( files too big)
Yeah that price is high for a load fo features you might not need. I just couldn’t wait any longer. My G2 was getting so functionally dated. What are you currently using?
E-pl 5 😉
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It s painful
I m not getting anymore Olympus, I cannot stand these unpractical menus ( and lack of meaningful firmware update)
I hear ya. Though I’ve only used Olympus as a borrowed backup camera, the menus were frustrating because A) the way they just are B) I’m just not used to them.
I work as web designer with usability-centric design, and I have to say the logic in Panasonic’s system is better, but still leaves plenty of room for improvement. The biggest issue for camera software usability, is the way manufacturers keep thinking “old school” to please legacy users and those moving from DSLR to MFT. The whole approach to menu-based controls needs a rethink.
If the G7 had been around 6 months ago I would not have a GH4 now. So to those of you in the same situation, I hope you get your G7 soon. Sure would have saved me some money.
I upgraded from a G2 to the GH4, and one of the reasons I did not get a G6, is that Panasonic removed one of the physical dials (the focus mode dial) on all G models since the G2. I’m so happy to still have that extra physical control option on my GH4 (even though it’s now assigned to another function) The GH stil has more advantages over the G, not just video. There’s the battery grip option, weather sealing, build quality, function buttons. However I don’t know what the G7 will bring to the table so it might be another great camera. If we have to wait long enough it might be just as good as the GH4 and by that time the GH4 might be replaced by the GH5?
How many dix has zeikon suxed today?
What happened to Panasonic making announcements at CP+? Did the M5 mkII cause them to pull out and go back to the drawing board?
I found the old article, Panasonic announces tomorrow
For a company who relies on sensor table scraps from Sony and Panasonic, I highly doubt the new e-m5 has rattled anyone but G.A.S. afflicted consumers.
Is this “grey market” for someone living in the US? If I get this, am I still covered under the 1-year manufacturer warranty?
Drop it like it’s hot biiitches!!!!!!!