Keith Lester
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Hello, I purchased a Canon 5DMark II in 2008 and used it for several years on professional projects as well as using many Panasonic P2 cameras over the past five years and now own an AF100.
These cameras are all different, but have benefits that make them right for any given job. The 5D Mark II is small and portable and really easy to get in tight spaces. The images are really nice and can stand up against cameras that cost much more. Audio is poor so you have to use 2nd unit sound to acquire professional audio. The Panasonic AF100 is also small and light and has the ability to use various lenses that can give you great flexibility as well as professional, cinematic footage. It has built in XLR connectors for professional audio and is more of a traditional video camera. It also has the ability to record in various slow and fast motion from 12 frames to 60 frames. This is a great feature as the motion looks much better than what you get from Final Cut and other editing systems. It doesn’t record audio in these frame rates, but most slow mo and fast motion video is for effect anyway. The big time saver for me is that I don’t have to convert the footage from the AF100 to ProRes to edit it in Final Cut. I open log and transfer and it shows up, drops right in and is ready to go on the timeline. With the Canon 5D, you have to transcode your footage to ProRes before you can really edit as H.264 is not ideal for editing. This can take a very long time depending on the amount of footage you shoot. I like both cameras and feel they can coexist. The Panasonic AF100 is more “video” friendly with it’s professional audio, neutral density filters for shooting outside, extended recording times of up to several hours with proper power and memory card capacity, viewfinder as well as lcd screen and variable frame rates. Your wide angles lenses will not be as wide as they would on the 5D Mark II, but you can still achieve a very professional, cinematic look with proper lighting, camera placement, movement and composition. Good luck. -
ok, see it on my MacBook Pro, with 10.7.2, I will update my tower with Lion. Thanks
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Not seeing the A/V Output screen that Macworld displayed in their article. It talks about beta monitoring being in this version. Any ideas?
Thanks. Running MacPro with AJA Kona LHi.