@km1001

I think the Blackmagic is a no-brainer. Even the Prores is so much better for grading than 8 bit footage.

@Cde Agreed. And saving hours on transcoding is immeasurably beneficial in so many ways.

@Cde @TrackZillas I think the clips in the John Brawley film didn't use panasonic lenses but SLR magic 25mm and 12mm lenses.

"Yeah your right the Panasonic lenses looks awesome good thing I have my 20mm Pany love that little lens."

"Wow, Panasonic lenses look great on this camera."

That is a nice image from the original 14-42 Lens!

@Cde I guess i missed that bit of info, thanks! In that case the 14-42 indeed looks pretty good, gives me high hopes for my 25mmf1.4!

I don't think john's Pocket footage is sharpened right? I know the first one wasn't.

If so you really should try and sharpen a screengrab before complaining it's soft. Cameras like the GH2 always sharpen (it actually heavily oversharpens once you hack it and you cant' disable it) so you can't directly compare it.

Remember when they said the BMPCC sensor is too small, and that it would be better to have a bigger sensor to get a 1080p image from basically the scaling down process. This little cam will be unbelievable, what are your thoughts V.K

What you want to say?

@matthere @_gl The 14 - 42 kit lens will be my go to now love the way they look on the BMPC. Nicely said "gl" I think those images jump out the screen, and the sharpness is just perfect, It's razor sharp if you ask me more than that will be over doing it.

@TrackZillas I agree, it depends on the look you want. If you like 'soft cinematic', the Pocket is very high quality straight out of the cam, and the detail is there. If you prefer sharper, a little sharpening should tighten that up nicely.

I think we'd all be shocked to see 100% unsharpened footage out of the GH2.

it wouldn't make sense that it has OIS cause none of their primes have it. BUT looking at pictures of it, it looks like I can see a switch for it, so maybe it does.

If only they put OIS on their other primes like the 14mm, 20mm or 25mm. I wonder what the future of OIS in lenses is however if they have in camera OIS.

@gl. I read back and no one said anything about the camera being soft. but if your referring to what I said I was talking about the SLR Magic lenses, which everyone knows can be soft, in fact that's why people like them. It's a personal choice.

It's a personal view of the look I want but I was at first crazy for the SLR magic lenses now I feel like the shallow soft look isn't my thing and I feel like to the casual viewer it isn't as cinematic as we think.

Again it's personal but this last footage is making me think some of the Lumix lenses are going to be great on the pocket. It's the 12-35mm I have my doubts about due to a grey cast on footage I've desensitised. sharp contrasty lenses might be what you need to cut the flat dynamic range of the BM cameras and make it pop.

John Brawley Tests PRO 1 hour ago

With regards to softness and the "softness" of this image....

Firstly, people said the same thing about the BMCC when it came out...and this is a camera with no OLPF. I think we're used to seeing very processed images, Most .264 cameras tend to add sharpening in-camera as well as other things like coring.

The BMCC and RAW way is to give you un-adulterated images. Even in ProRes. So these images haven't been sharpened or noise reduced AT ALL.

You also have to remember that there IS a difference between this camera and the BMCC...resolution. I think the softness people are seeing is more to do these two differences than the lenses. The SLR Magic, especially the 25mm is actually pretty sharp.