GH4 is a fucking great camera at that price point, Panasonic respects its customers, and it's going to be even better when log-color gets added later this year in a firmware patch. I've used it for a year and I'm in love with this camera.

As for MFT, I use mostly Canon glass with a speed-booster, and it's worked great

If I'm adding an atomos, I'll be just as well with a 5D2, to be fair.

Again, I've already owned and sold a GH4. Not going to back to Panasonic unless I get a proper video camera, like the HVX200 used to be.

Shooting on a Red Epic would certainly be fun, but having seen a Red One in the flesh, I don't see that ever becoming a reality. Not because the cameras Red make aren't great, but they're simply too big. The way I usually go about things is a tiny crew and a shoestring budget. If I get a proper budget and crew, I'll probably have more than one guy on the camera, and then maybe, maybe using a larger camera like that would be an option.

As of now though, small but good is the way to go.

Sam: Battery life is not an issue. I usually bring a dozen to the set anyway, just in case, along with two chargers. No problems there, really. The slow motion isn't that big of a deal either. As I said, I owned a GH4. Didn't even touch the 96FPS. I'd just as well use an iPhone 6, and shoot 240fps for that one shot I'd need it for.

bullet: I actually didn't like the menu interface of the GH4. I found it confusing and not logically built up. I remember looking for frame rates, and then I had to go back and change the hertz of the damn thing, and to enable stuff like that, I also had to set it to NTS or PAL or whatever. It's not a bad camera, by all means, it just didn't work for me. Major setback, money-wise, but no cigar. I waited for a potential ProRes or raw feature, but whilst I was doing that, the camera just gathered dust.

I know I'm probably sounding like a jerk, looking for advice when I'm already settled, but the truth is; I'm not. I'm on the fence, sure, but I still think I might do stills some times, and that's when I'd need to have my own camera instead of borrowing.

Which is why I pretty much need 3 cameras.

sorry, meant GH4...

I can hit record on my gh2 walk away for 2 hours and when I come back its still chugging away. So not sure why yours had a 30 minute limit Tom. I know a lot of the canons have that.

I think the GH4 has a hard 30 min limit, but maybe I'm wrong. But if you're recording at 4K, I don't think your memory card is going to hold more than 30-45 minutes anyway, so it's a moot point.

Never had overheating problems of any kind with it. I must re-iterate though if you're going for a more filmic aesthetic, you should dial back a lot of the settings, it over-sharpens like crazy on the default settings. That being said, I've been able to get results I'm really happy with by adjusting some of the settings, running it through film-convert, and adding some Gorilla Grain.

Yeah I know Canons can go 30 minutes because my b-cam on a massive videography project last year was a Canon, and we had to keep cycling the recoird button every half hour.

As for the Gh3 or 4, I have no idea. I've never used em. But I'm not sure why they would lose continuous recording functionality from the GH2 unless you're in one of the higher res/framerate modes.

Well, that doesn't make much sense, but neither does "European tax law", as Europe is 50 individual countries, with 50 individual set of laws.

But that does actually ring a bell.

In other news, I may have decided to just go for the BMPCC, and get a Rebel series camera to take pictures if need be.

Fun fact, Norway isn't IN the EU

Yeah, the EU is screwing things up for all of us on this one.

Update:
I sold all my schtuff.
I'm now the proud owner of a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, a Metabones SpeedBooster EF and a Rokinon/Samyang/Bower VDSLR 35mm T/1.5.

I haven't received the SD cards I need to make this baby roar (which is a whopping 95MB/s 64GB), but from what I can see on the monitor, and using a z-finder, this is really right up my alley. the raw image and film range is flat as fuck. I love it.

As for shooting with it, I'll be doing some tests with grading next week, and creating a short the week after that.