@Zaven13 That's really good news!

You may want to start a new topic for GH4 firmware 1.0 bugs and issues

If you will find bug, just make such topic :-)

Always had good experiences with samy's myself.

@Zaven13

If you have camera and want to share info or tests use

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/10202/gh4-4k-panasonic-video-camera-user-reviews-and-opinions

http://www.photographyblog.com/previews/panasonic_lumix_dmc_gh4_photos/

I wasn't trying to start a debate about samy's, I just had a bad experience, that is all. As far as the last minute argument goes, the camera was ordered from their website. Their website and representatives told me a specific date and said it would arrive. If it wasn't possible they shouldn't have said so, last minute or not. The only reason I bought from them was because I am leaving the country wednesday to shoot BTS for a feature film for the next couple of months. I was happy with my pre-order at BH w/ a later date, but the notion of getting this camera in time for the BTS seemed like the perfect opportunity to test out the camera. So I was little upset with the customer service, that is all. However this is my last response on the Samy's subject, cuz it seems like a waste of time.

This camera is looking amazing, I can't wait to start fooling around with it! The Cinema-D is looking beautiful, and actually looks like it has pretty good dynamic range for a Micro4/3 DSLM. I am curious to see how well the 4:2:0 takes to color grading, I wasn't that excited by some examples I have seen thus far, has anyone else played around in Davinci or Scratch with their footage yet?

I read here that several people were disappointed not to get one before a significant trip. All that I can add is if the trip is for work rather than pleasure I would have to test the GH4 with its new features for several weeks before I would have the confidence to use it on a paying job.

@natureflixs: So you would not dare to use a GH4 even if you had also a GH2 with you to fall back to, in case the GH4 fails for some reason?

Given how many people have been fine even with using known-to-be-unstable patch settings (not me), that seems very very conservative... :-)

BTW: I just noticed rumor on the GH4 shipping in the EU from May 5th. I'm not sure I should believe this, as usually dealers are quite keen to enter their offerings along with optimistic delivery dates as early as possible, but in the case of the GH4, I don't see any online dealer claiming a specific delivery date as of today.

@karl - Jessops in the UK say shipping from the 5th of May.

Btw, it's anybody's right to be cautious about too short a learning curve with new kit. No need to dig them up about it.

The big temptation to "jump in" on a new project for me would be the Cine-D or 4k, especially for those things where you could either use a cropped final output through Warp Stabilization or utilize transcoding to 1080p just to get 4:2:2 to grade.

But even then it would be wise to do at least a little post-processing to check out how the input leads to output. With the camera in hand would I be wise or ... risk-taking? Hard to say as I don't have one yet ... but even with 35 years of being "sensible" ... hmmm ... ;-)

Probably just as well I'm not being tempted now, though if I were headed out for a major shoot knowing I'd be getting one right AFTER I finished shooting, I'd be frustrated.

That's aliasing like mad. Apart from that, very nice

@mrbill Is that on the Vimeo compressed version or on the original file. I can't se that the original is available for download.