thanks for the input about sound and the canon 70!
And thanks for the detailed answer from bcooter!
I usualy don't like the canon look. when shooting with magic lantern it would be raw though and maybe easy corrected.
I just tryed the oly m5 mk2, I never had olympus, but was not impressed by the focus. Automatic WB and colors were nice.
Besides I did not like the handling.
I tested a GH3 yesterday, impressive focus, though no real(shallow) dof for my taste, and colors not what I like, auto wb was off.
Similar to the LX100 actualy.
Having scenes in focus might well be the most important feature at bts though.
My fuji is actualy doing better colors and white balance, just the focus is not good(besides moire and noise). Manual has no focus aid and AF is just sitting where it starts.
I don't like the Canon look just because for me it doesn't come out of camera looking like film, but we routinely grade the 70d next to the RED footage and I can match them exactly.
Film convert plug in placed in DiVinci will even the files up and "film them up" pretty quickly.
There are a lot of plug ins for everything that can cost tens of thousands to a few hundred, but learning DiVinci is more important than anything you'll do in regards to out of camera colour.
I can even make the gh3 file look good but I'll admit it's more work, unless you shoot everything with the gh3 then it's pretty easy, though the panasonics are very biased towards yellow.
Take this in a good way, but your asking a lot from an inexpensive camera if you want stabilization, a thick file, super 35mm sensor size and a low cost.
A 70d is $800. Next up would be a in the $5000 to $7000 range, like a c100 mark II, used Scarlet, the New Blackmagic, etc. and you would need lenses in the $4,000 each range to get the full effect.
I'm not selling Canon, but the 70d pulls focus like nothing I've ever seen. We did a actor running through a crowded street scene in London with a 70 to 200 on the 70d and it tracked all the way through staying on his face for the full clip. I never thought it would work but it did.
The Gh3 will do the same thing and like I said has a thicker file, just the colour is more difficult to hit.
The 7dII is suppose to be a little better, but it doesn't have a touch screen or an articulating viewer, which makes no sense but Canon seems to do what they want to do regardless of what people say.
Why Canon doesn't put that pdaf capability on all of their cameras is beyond me but if you watch areas that will moire, use lenses that have stabilization and learn to use the camera in a thoughtful manner, it will produce what you want.
If you need more in camera stabilization then a Ronin or a Movi style stabilizer will work but we do a lot of things to track movement.
I have a skateboard we've mounted a mafer clamp on with a C stand arm and an assistant pulls me. It's a little dangerous but it makes for some great footage, so there is always a way.
Good Luck.
IMO
BC