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Who's buying it for video?

I came across an artistic film/project called Underwater Realm I looked at their behind the scene stuff, as far as the end result look, it is very refreshing, but just looking at the process makes me cringe.......I guess that's what they call pushing the envelope!

I finally finished my latest video project to pay tribute to my home state of Sabah, Malaysia. Many westerners known the place as "Borneo". The famous diving destination is Sipadan.

Detail of the equipment I used is in the Youtube description:

https://youtu.be/eoWq61ygrzQ

Alright, for years I always feel that the color from my Panasonic LX100 and GH4 come out a bit flat. Lately I was processing some timelapse photos/video, and I was scratching my head about why the photos look nice in Lightroom but when the photos get exported, and when I view the photos from ACDSee, the photos look flat. That lead me to do some research/troubleshoot and found out the concept of "color managed" photo viewer. To spare the technical and boring stuffs, my monitor was calibrated with X-rite Colormunki Display so I always thought I was seeing what it's supposed to look like until I discover the whole color managed issue.

Anyway, do yourself a favor, use Window Media Player classic (https://mpc-hc.org/) and follow this setting (https://voxelium.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/icc-color-management-in-media-player-classic-home-cinema/) to make your Window Media Player color managed, so that when reviewing your videos, you see what the color supposed to be! Mac people, you're on your own since I don't use Mac. After done this, I'm much happier with the blue color that I'm seeing from Panasonic (shoot in "Scenery" color profile), I think it's just as good as Canon.

The 4K camera scene is slowing down now that it's only Panasonic vs Sony. High frame rate 4K is still no where to be found. Panasonic seems to want to take on Olympus and introducing their own 5-axis Image Stabilization. So far it's not confirm that if the 5-axis exist when shooting 4K video, or if it's just their regular Power O.I.S. Something worth to follow if people are in the market for a camera that benefit photos and video:

http://www.43rumors....-at-ephotozine/