so this has been going back and forth in my head for two weeks now and i need someone to just tell me what to do. primarily doing cinematic stuff, some long range but mostly sub 400m, running DJI O3 on whatever i end up getting. budget is roughly the same for both if i configure them similarly.

the Cinelog 35 seems like the obvious pick for actual cinematic use, smaller, lighter, easier to get into tighter spaces. but the Evoque just looks insanely capable and ive seen some bando footage with it that was ridiculous. i dont really do bando though. like once in a while but thats not my main thing

the thing that keeps bugging me is i flew a friends Cinelog 25 and the tune felt kind of mushy to me, maybe thats just the 25 but im worried the 35 will be similar? or is that a fixable thing. i run KISS on my main 5inch but these would both be Betaflight so maybe im just not used to the feeling

anyway yeah. talk me out of it or into it, either works at this point

the mushy feeling on the Cinelog 25 is almost certainly a D term issue, they tend to ship with D gains that are too conservative because its aimed at people who dont want to tune. totally fixable. the 35 has a bit more authority just from the motor size so it feels better stock in my experience but its the same story, you'll probably want to bump D_min and run a filter sweep before you really commit to it.

honestly for your use case i'd go Cinelog 35, the Evoque is a great quad but its heavier and if you're not doing bando or aggressive lines regularly you'd just be carrying extra weight for no reason. the O3 integration on the Cinelog is also pretty clean, no weird antenna placement weirdness like on some frames

coming from KISS to Betaflight the feel difference is real and its not always the tune, sometimes its just that KISS has a different underlying feel that people get used to and then BF feels wrong even when its actually dialed in. give it a few packs before you decide the tune is bad. ive seen people reflash and retune a perfectly good quad because they were comparing to KISS feel

not saying dont tune it, just saying fly it first