Panasonic EVA1 | Journey To Find The PERFECT YouTube Studio Camera

In this video I continue my journey to find the perfect YouTube studio camera, this time looking at the Panasonic EVA1. Here’s the story.

The Panasonic EVA1, more affectionately known as EVA, was released in late 2017 and is a 5.7K cinema camera with a Super-35mm sensor.
It boats 14-stops of dynamic range, dual native ISO of 800 and 2500 and the same colour science found in the VariCam camera system.
It has an EF-mount, so you can use all your EF lenses on this system. In the studio I typically use the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 and then when I’m outside and need that extra reach, I’ll use the Canon 70-200mm F2.8.
This camera also has built in NDs, letting you reduce the light by 2, 4 and 6 stops. These won’t necessarily be that useful inside, but outside they are very handy to get that shallow depth of field without needing to crank the shutter.

It has a removable LCD monitor… we’ll get back to that later… and has all the functions you’d expect from a cinema camera – waveform, focus peaking, assignable buttons, shutter angle, built in XLR inputs, full HDMI out, SDI-out, timecode in and out, electronic image stabilisation – which is alright, and more.

I’m currently recording on a Panasonic 128Gb V90 card. These cards are expensive and I was fortunate to get one of these as a promo when I purchased my EVA1. You only need these cards if you’re recording 400Mbps ALL-I, which I never do, but these cards are really handy for dumping your footage to your computer. I normally get transfer speeds of around 250MB per second, where as my SanDisk V30 cards get around 90 MB per second. If you’re filming 4K, 25p in 10-Bit, the V30 cards are fine and a lot cheaper.

When changing frequency the codec defaults to the 8-bit codec 420LongGOP, instead of the 10-bit codec. So you need to make sure the right codec is selected whenever you change frequencies because you might end up shooting 8-bit instead of 10-bit. This is annoying to me because 90% of the time I’m shooting in V-Log, so I need that 10-Bit codec and it’s very easy to overlook changing the codec and end up recording in 8-Bit.

The EVA1 also has a bunch of Color Settings, or “looks”. I typically only use V-Log and Scene 2. Right now we are recording in V-Log and I’ve put a LUT on with some adjustments. But let’s jump over to what Scene 2 looks like.
This is what it looks like by default, but if you want to change the settings, you can definitely do that by going through the Scene File Settings and modifying everything until your heart is content.

Battery options: I use the Core SWX Nano-VBR98 HDV battery for Panasonic EVA which has a P-tap out. I specifically got this so I could power my external monitor, but in the end I have yet to use it. I haven’t got a cable to go from the battery to the monitor, and since I already had a bunch of Sony batteries, it wasn’t that big of a hassle to power the camera and monitor separately. The extra battery weight doesn’t bother me and this way I get longer run times on both my camera and monitor. You can expect between 4 to 5 hours of battery life off one charge for the EVA1.
You can also run the camera directly off mains power through the 12V DC cable that comes with the battery charger. This would be my recommendation for a permanent studio camera.

Live streamers can use this as it gives you a clean HDMI out.

One feature I like about the EVA1, which I didn’t actually like when I first saw it, is the Square Focus Assist. When you’re manually focusing your lens, these green boxes will appear and show you what is in focus. The bigger the box, the more you’re nailing your focus… as long as the boxes are on what you want in focus. Initially when I saw this function I thought it was distracting and I wouldn’t use it. But it quickly became my preferred method to get focus. That, along with using the expand zoom function, which I have mapped to my handgrip and also Button 3 on my camera body, allows me to confidently get critical focus of my subject.

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