Essential Accessories for the AF100A

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LanceOregon

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I'm currently wondering if an AF100A might be a good value for me to consider. For it does not seem that I would have to spend any money at all on accessories for it.

All of my Panasonic m4/3 lenses for my GH2 and GH3 will work just fine with it, correct?

And is it true that my batteries for my AC130 are compatible with the AF100A too? It would appear to be so.

And I already have a nice XLR microphone that I use with AC130.

Am I overlooking something else here? It would appear that if I bought an AF100A, I would have to spend ZERO dollars on accessories in order to be able to start using it.
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Yes all your GH lenses will work with it.
Yes your AC130 batteries will work with an AF100.
Yes your XLR mics will work with it.

Not only that, you'll find that the menu structure is nearly identical between the AF100A and the AC130A, so you won't even have to take more than a brief amount of time learning how to use it. About the only thing that's different is that you'll have 1080/60p, SDI output, uncompressed audio, expanded focus assist and variable frame rates. Everything else stays the same.
 
Barry_Green said:
expanded focus assist
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Many people who own the AF100 (or the FS100) feel the need for an external monitor. Now that there's expanded focus assist, are there some vital monitoring functions which the AF100A is lacking which would still necessitate an external monitor?
 
Well, an external monitor is bigger, so that always helps. And the expanded focus assist doesn't work during recording, so -- if you need that, you'd get it from an external. And some people like the "false color" exposure aid that many external monitors have... so those are a few reasons why you may still want one...
 
Ah, one other accessory that will be compatible between the AF100 and the AC130 would be a remote zoom/iris/focus/record controller. If you have one of those for the AC130, it will also work on the AF100. Obviously remote zoom control would only work if you had a lens with its own zoom motor in it (such as the Lumix-X 45-175 and 14-42) but if you do have those lenses, the remote zoom controller would work for it. And, obviously, remote iris control would only work for Lumix lenses that have electronic iris control (which should be all of them, I would think...) but of course remote iris couldn't work for a manual lens like a Nikon or something.
 
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