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I had a go with an FX2 yesterday. The tilting EVF is great. As are all tilting EVFs.

Owner of an R8 here. Those big phat sensels and sophisticated AF will help you big time in low light. 1080p is very good, if you need it. I've had zero problems with overheating in indoor situations, but the body will get warm if you push it all the way to 2 hours of recording. Same goes for SD card. Remember that you can use EF APS-C lenses with the official adapter and that opens up a huge panoply of options for the R8 which were never available for EF bodies. You'll get the APS-C crop in video, of course, but it's still a great option. Since my R8 lives on a tripod I use mine with a venerable EF-S 17-55 F2.8. That's it. For video I need nothing more, save for some lights and a good Rode wireless lavalier mic kit. Minimal set-up, every good results. P.S: if you'll be swapping SD cards in long recording sessions and the camera has to remain on a tripod, avoid the R8. The SD card is placed on the bottom, so you'll be hitting your battery constantly. The battery door is the worst I've ever seen in any Canon camera irregardless of price. Go for the R7 and its side-loading SD card slot, in that case.

For a start nobody seems to be able to concentrate for long enough to watch what is being made. Boomers have movies on in the background like elevator music for smartphone scrolling. Everyone could do the industry a favour by un-addicting themselves from their phones for long enough to look up for 10 seconds and watching something long-form, challenging and not family friendly. But everyone is too exhausted and overworked for it, and they have children hanging around on tablets - you can't get the time as a couple to go out and watch Taxi Driver and you can't put it on at home either because it would upset the brats. It's a big cultural shift in the world and filmmaking is one of the big victims of it. It is strange as pre-pandemic, I thought cinema was doing well and there was that moment when Oppenheimer / Barbie were all that people talked about, and the F1 movie has done incredibly well, one of the biggest grossing movies of all time. Apple is spending billions on movie production. There are signs of life. Why is it that everyone seems to be struggling so much - well, it's just a typical industry recession, less demand, because put simply - there's just TOO MUCH CONTENT and too much competition from people's shitty phone addictions for the customer's attention.

Camera market is a total sideshow for Zeiss, whose main income stream is from EUV lithography machine lenses, as a partner with ASML -> TSMC. The iPhone CPU is etched into silicon using Zeiss glass. These big companies are interested in growth. They'd rather buy an unprofitable, but growing company, than a profitable but stagnant one. The Chinese might buy ARRI for the patents and branding. Only if it stays in German hands will they continue as a cinema camera manufacturer. That's what I think anyway and I could be wrong, we'll see.

Don't know much about the R8 but I did a bit of research on the R7 as I was looking for a C-cam to go with my two R5Cs. The reason I didn't go with it was that there was imo an usually high level of owners on one of the bigger R7 groups on FB reporting mechanical shutter failures. It was particularly troubling for a cam that wasn't even 3 years old at the time (this was at the top of 2025). Either way I have decided to stay away from it and am pretty close to grabbing an R50V for the time being.

Totally agree on this take. We use the 7IV along with an FX6 for doc shoots, a solid camera all around. It kind of just does everything really well, with an absolutely solid image to boot.

Yeah the whole nature of the business is changing rapidly. It's easy to keep pace when you're working in the YouTube world, but I can't imagine how tough it must be in the Hollywood circles.

Streamlining the regional division is an internal matter and shouldn't send uncertainty message to customers. But regardless of the recent event, its been known for years that they are more inclined to jettison businesses that don't make money or see no growth in horizon rather than saving a struggling business with god knows how much debt. Is it? Hollywood has audience problem, not a money problem. The number of shoot days in Los Angeles decreased, but its only in TV/Commercials, which is not necessarily a Arri market. Feature film shoot days are actually increasing.

I don't think is actually a sign of much anymore. It has more to do with stream-lining the European division. Panasonic is already a partner for ARRI. If they have the cash, that would be great though! Then again, why would they need that? They've already got ARRI Log in their cameras! How could they improve- they already have the best? Maybe they should just give us that S1Hii? Anyway, ARRI closing factories is more about Hollywood than a dysfunctional company.

As far as their lighting goes, since about 2 years ago I've been seeing Aputure and Nanlite products trickle in on big film sets, I think this was bound to happen. Also IMHO I don't see a single camera company fit to take up Arri!

Thanks fellas. I think I have worked out why I cannot get this to work and that is because I cloned the settings from Cam A to Cam B so they are identical...including file numbers...so the software is only allowing the footage to be shown as 'everything' from Camera A and THEN everything from Camera B. I went into my photo sorting software, PhotoMechanical and changed the file names and then managed to reorder everything once the material from each camera had a unique name. I will only know for sure if I reset each camera to start with say A and the other B and then C etc which is what I had previously and never had this issue before. So almost certainly me as expected 🤪

Let's not forget Nikon had no cine line, it was a clean buy with zero conflict of interest. Canon and Sony already have full cinema lines, so buying ARRI would create instant internal turf wars. Canon’s C-series and Sony’s VENICE would clash hard with the Alexa pipeline. At this point the wild card that makes the most sense is Apple. They could scoop ARRI up without blinking, keep it running as a prestige pro division, and then quietly bake LogC + ARRI color science straight into the iPhone Pro pipeline. Zero internal conflict, huge marketing flex, and a perfect fit with Apple’s long-term imaging strategy.

My understanding was that this is related to their decision to reduce their activities in the lighting and grip side of the industry, not cameras.

They're already closing down their pro services, and no way they invest in a zero growth business when they kill their own zero growth businesses. Canon can't do it. That would be all against their ego. They and their customer base believe Canon color science is best in the world, and thats why they have 50% market share. They're like "we ain't need nobody". Sony will have a integration nightmare if they do it. Arri systems are in conflict with the whole Sony line up. Also it would be an official admission that the electronics/AV giant couldn't get the color science right and eventually had to go shopping. Nikon acquisition of RED unintentionally made this perception that its a preferred approach in Tokyo. But it isn't. Nikon had to choose between two costly options and the acquisition was cheaper. In China, its only DJI who can gain a lot with Arri reputation in its arsenal, but I don't think Germans are comfortable with giving away this German icon to Chinese. Zeiss would be the perfect owner. A German brand with enough money, so the brand stays in the country, and they're heavily invested in high end part of the cine market.

If Panasonic would wake up, they could be the ones to get their hands on Arri. They already have a collaboration for the color profile, and Panasonic no longer has the professional division. But, as you say, the old Japanese guys have completely lost their minds. Could it be a Chinese company that pulls off the big coup?

Wow! This is surprising to me. Maybe the market is saturated for that type of camera.

ARRI are closing two factories in Germany. https://www.eoshd.com/news/arri-closes-factories-contemplates-company-sale/ The ALEXA factory remains for now. 150 jobs are to go. Reasons for this and words from ARRI's spokesperson are in the article above. But in a nutshell they really need saving - and like Nikon buying RED, it should be Sony to do it for ARRI. They will lead the cinema camera world if they do. The question is will there still be a cinema camera industry if the current pace of collapse continues?!

I find the higher LCD dot spec a bit dotty as 3 inch is too small to see the difference. What does matter is the live-view quality - scaling, focus aid quality, and that kinda stuff. It would be nice to see a ZR size screen on a stills camera one day. Hell even in the 90s they had 4 inch LCDs on consumer Handycams.

It’s really good fun to shoot with too, especially with small manual primes (Thypoch Simera-c).

I am one of the weirdos that bought an fx2. Sold my FX3 for it which may sound very strange! I wanted the viewfinder and a more detailed image plus the ability to crop. The bonus is that it is a great stills camera too. I paid £2050 through Panamoz which I think is a pretty good price for what you’re getting I.e a hardy, proven, no fuss image gatherer which is what I need for my very unsexy corp jobs.

Add "Creation Date" to your project's MetaData Display Tabs. Now, if you're wanting your video clips to be icons and also sorted this way, you can toggle to list view, sort 'em, then toggle back to icon view. They should then be in your desired order at that point. FWIW, it's not a bad idea to dig into the meta stuff in premier's metadata window; pretty granular. You can set 'dynamic' values on clips for all sorts of useful organization.

Inside of Premeire Pro you can sort on Creation Date if you add that from the Metadata Display.

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I might be going mad, but I cannot find a way to do the following… So with stills, whether the material is from 2 or 3 cameras, I can sort footage by date AND time, down to the second at least so as long as the cameras have been synced for time, all good. With the video footage, I only seem to be able to do it by date, so in the folder I am going to cherrypick clips from to add to my timeline, I might have: 200 clips from Cam A followed by 150 clips from Cam B followed by 100 clips from Cam C all shot across say a 12 hour time period. Having to trawl backwards and forwards is an utter pain but all I can find are links to organisation by date only. Premiere user if that makes a difference. Any help appreciated and it’s probably one of those stupid things where once I have the answer I will slap my own head!

If you had my eyesight and shoot exclusively off the rear LCD in both bright sunlight and super low light…