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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Panasonic GH4 now available with limited stock | |
HopeIsEternal wrote:
I don't really understand sensor size complaints about m4/3rds when it comes to video. In photography, limited DoF is worth a lot but for video and movie making it is rarely a good thing since almost all documentary videos needs good reasonably large DoF to fully capture unrehearsed / live events and even in movies you still want enough DoF to keep all actors in focus without requiring that they all be exactly in the same limited plane of focus. And in any case if you need limited DoF for some scenes there are very fast manual DSLR, cine and c-mount lenses that will work for you even on the smaller GH4 sensor.
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Actually, limited DOF is pretty handy in video too. That's one of the reasons that things shot on old school video cameras with small sensors (1/4-1/2") have a different look than things shot on Super35 film.
m4/3 isn't going down to the "video camera" sensor size, but it is significantly smaller than Super35 which does lead to some challenges when it comes to trying to get that "film" look. Sure, you stop down a lot to get expanded DOF to keep things in focus... but there's nothing better than nailing an interview on my C100 with a 50/1.4 at say f/2.
I'm not a huge fan of the "full frame video" look with micro-thin DOF where you're always pulling focus, but I do like me some shallow DOF for talking heads.
From what I'm seeing, m4/3 will drop about a stop's worth of DOF over Super35 (or APS-C). So the f/2.8 zooms (12-35 & 35-100) will act more like f/4 zooms do on my C100 which just isn't shallow enough DOF in a lot of cases.
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