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What characters!!! Manual focus or single AF? Z-Cam is really a powerful weapon. I hope that the lawsuit won by Panasonic in Japan against Red might make it possible to recover raw on these cameras one day.

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I haven't seen any good uw video from this camera yet. But the housing is gorgeous

Looking forward to see some cracking image. Thanks.

Yes probably the most obvious explanation is that since the cameras are very similar, with minimal effort they got the housing. Then since the FX5 is thicker than the FX3, to give it a pro touch they added the cheese plate on top. Ironically Sony keeps pushing back the delivery date, so the housing is available before the camera itself.

Yes, exactly. Sorry if I didn't explain my answer. It was too blunt. I wish I could be a fly and listen to the motivations behind Nauticam's technical decisions. Clearly there are nuances that escape me. 😇 For the Canon C-50 which is a cinema line camera they made from scratch a really beautiful housing with all the refinements involved. Now, the FX3 already had a really basic housing. Yet the FX-3 was the most used cinema camera in the world as a B cam in so many film and broadcast productions. Now, Nauticam has gotten us used to launching housings practically at the same time as the camera launch and I can understand that when it came out nobody imagined such success. Now comes the FX5 which replaces it and which in the Sony video world has been expected for years. A machine totally dedicated to video. It doesn't even take photographs! It was the opportunity to make amends and equip a pure cinema camera with a dedicated housing of the same level as the NA C-50. Nothing! And I'm telling you this as a Panasonic user who has witnessed this inconsistency for years on Lumix cameras which are the most complete in the video sector since always. A mystery. 💁‍♂️

A missed opportunity from Nauticam.

Even if he used a fixed exposure camera to film the test (and I think he did) He demonstrated nothing except (maybe) that the declared Lumen output is more or less correct. Completely useless.

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Thanks for the detailed feedback from a real use case. Two questions: Did you find any differences or did you have to change anything in your setup since this monitor is supposed to be much heavier than the previous one? Others and I are using the Weefine 5 inch with great satisfaction, but we drew a wild card with the extra features. The Zebras are not real zebras. In short, the firmware feels homemade. How do you like yours?

28-60mm alone is already a medium to narrow lens. I have the 14-42mm (M43 hence 28-84mm) and CMC-2. Adding a CMC-2 you definitely go in medium macro territory. But don't confuse this configuration with a true macro lens. I made the same mistake naively years ago. I had the WWL and buying a single flip with the CMC-2 was the obvious choice. But if you look at the port chart you notice you have a focus/distance gap. The MFD of the 14-42mm is much greater than the focus range of the CMC-2. And you're therefore forced to be very careful about distances from your subjects. For example, my 14-42mm has a MFD of 20 cm at 14 and 30 cm at 42mm. For example you have a nudibranch at 20 cm from you. You're at 42mm and you can't focus on it but if you put on the CMC-2 it's not in focus anyway and you have to get closer between 77 and 122 mm. Depending on the subject and situation it could be really annoying. I also have a 45mm (90 FF) on which I mount the CMC-2 with the flip and for macro it's a completely different sport. Sure you don't do medium subjects but from small to fairly advanced macro you cover all sizes and distances. Now I don't want to dismiss this configuration that I still use and consider a jack of all trades. But it's not ideal like it was often recommended years ago.

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