The first difference is the fact that you are shooting long GOP MPEG encoding and transcoding to an I frame codec like DNxHD. Because of the differences in encoding, you cannot just match up data rates and think they are the same (not saying you are, just setting the ground rules). MPEG encoding can maintain a higher quality picture at much smaller data rate but can suffer from image control and multi-generation depending on what you want to do with it.
I find that with EX1 going to DNxHD 145 is fine more most if not all transcodes. You are not gaining any additional quality by going higher or uncompressed. The EX1 is also 8 bit as is DNxHD 145. You can keep going to 185x (10 bit) if you want, the 10 bit will give you slightly more control (not more color) when doing certain color correction operations.
Michael