I think you may be on to something here and I've been a little suspicious as well. The actual airframe of the Inspire hasn't seen a substantive upgrade since introduction. The X5R is just starting it's commercial cycle and I fully expect to see a new advanced airframe that incorporates obstacle avoidance capabilities and other modifications like larger battery configurations. Kind of like the hybrid offspring of an Inspire and a Matrice that would support the X5-FLIR platforms with an additional FPV camera for dedicated PIC flight independent of the imaging systems. They have the phantom 4 poised to capture the <2kg market that may likely be open to commercialization independent of FAA regulation and something that would replace the S1000 class for high quality imaging that, was as easy to get in the air as a Phantom, would be a natural for the FAA >2kg classes.
DJI has been a little "hit or miss" lately, but the X5R looks to be a true game changer. After only using it for 20 minutes, it is clear that this is a huge step up from the X5. The image quality is simply stunning. Compared to the X5...it's day and night.
This is the camera setup I have waited years for. It's finally here. Our 30+ foot CF jib is nearing completetion and the X5R/Osmo adapter works. Finally.
This is a still from a 4096x2160 video. Color graded to my hearts desire.
No flickering. No compression issues. Beautiful 24p in RAW. Slow clap for DJI. FINALLY!
Understood. Youre a great person for updating us. Could you at least take 30 seconds and post a quick pic of the osmo + x5r you have? I think thats the least you can do to settle our first exciting jitters?
..................Hello Luke,
But filming large projects. Then making sure you have redundant backup on site + at the studio and workflow between offices and storage after completing the project becomes an "issue". HD are cheep now days and we have huge raids but we all know the danger that fire or other tings can cause to local stored files. And clouding like a few hundred TB does not come cheep. I keep reading about down rendering and deleting the RAW files. Why would you need a X5-R for then? I downrender for faster workflow in Smoke/AE and other but always replace with the original files when rendering. 
No, the bitrate of the X5 CANNOT be increased. Irrespective of what speed media is put into it.We have taken the X5 and looked at it and compared it to the X5-R after we saw a interesting post about someone who had done the same and found that it might look like the X5 is 60Mbps because of the speed of the Micro SD cards where as the drive on the X5-R can take a lot of more data.
It looks like they are on to something as to what we have found. Sandisk are coming out with some super speed cards this summer and if this is so a code rewrite to the firmware might open the X5 to a X5-R. Just to be clear we are not sure we at this point think it might be!!
When it comes to filming with the X5 and the X5-R I find the X5 works fine for even advanced color editing in SMOKE and also in After Effects using like RED GIANTS Magic Bullet package. But when like night filming and other bad light locations the X5-R gives you that extra edge. I would not say its like night and day. The high data from the X5-R is for me the issue. Then again you cant get one without the other
So now we choose X5 or X5-R by what project or what asset we need to film. And so its clear I LOVE THE X5-R!!!! :-D
It is what we would belive and it makes most sense. Anyway we have both so i happy :-D
