4:2:0 -> "nuts" (PB words for GH2) for details :-)
may because pany (+ vk hack) did some good work...

Oversampling is a great thing. ;) I've always thought that the GH2 might actually resolve a true 1080 lines under the right situations.

sry - i mean

> in post to make the conversion from 420 to 444 . . . 5DtoRGB . . . etc.<<br />
this is bullshit: 420 remain 420 forever

@DrDave: Same here! The first stuff I saw from it looked really good, but here it was rather dull to be honest.

After this I can proudly stick with my GH2. Oh and @PhilipBloom, nice to see you around this forum!

I was not suprised by the 5N. From the time I first seen its video I knew it was way off (in terms of resolution when compared to the GH-2). But the Nikon suprised the heck out of me. I thought it would have looked a whole lot better than what it did. Outside of it's known colored moire and aliasing issues I always dug its moving pictures. But in retrospect I think maybe that had more to do with the individual pieces that I seen shot and nothing to do with the camera.

The Nikon was sort of Blah--also a surprise. But the 5N, unacceptable. Dear Sony, get help.

@TrackZillas "Here is the crazy part if you shoot a movie, or music video with an F3, C300, or GH2 no one will tell the difference so I rest my case GH2 for the WIN.. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!"

+1

Is the C300 better on paper? Yes. Are the images noticeable better in reality? Nope. That's why I was so disappointed with the C300. It should have been the 18mp 7D sensor with dual DigicV's doing a proper downscale and 60fps at 4:2:2 10-bit for $4500. And that isn't crazy or exaggerated... that's a pretty reasonable spec/price list given the quality of $800 cameras these days.

I mean seriously... phones are doing 1080p video now. Anything that falls short of 10-bit 4:2:2 and 60fps for over $5000 is going to be a joke this year.

Is there anything out there now that's $5,000 that does 10 bit 422 60fps with a large sensor?

@brianluce "Is there anything out there now that's $5,000 that does 10 bit 422 60fps with a large sensor?"

Nope... not really. FS1000 is close like @EOSHD said. But there's just nothing that's going to pry $5000 out of my hands now unless it's 10bit 4:2:2 and 60fps.

@bwhitz Great point.. the image is not better, and if it's not 10bit 422 for around $5000 it's a no go lol...

@bwhitz: +1.
Love the C300. Its cosmetically awesome (to me). But i also feel the high ISO performance will be commonplace for the next gen dSLRs. Thats the selling point right now and its a short window.

@DrDave I think almost everybody correctly identified the GH2 in that comparison, because it was lightyears better than everything else. The difficulty was in deciding which of the other inferior samples was from the P&S and which were from the other DSLRs.

Guys, really, stop playing this games.
This whole shootout and games around it don't deserve even 5 seconds of your attention.
I mean the concept, not the really great work @drifftwood have done.