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Without revenue, there will be no reviewers who test enough different models to have a meaningful opinion. The best, most unbiased reviewer in the world can't provide a meaningful opinion on the Z6 vs. S5 unless they've tested both. Professional reviewers are invaluable due to their experience with many different models. I understand the dislike for people who spend more time reviewing than using gear (see the Gerald Undone topic), but there isn't enough time in a day to both review every camera and lens released, and also have a career as a videographer. No one should listen to only one source before buying. I'd always recommend both general comparisons by pro reviewers who have an overview of everything out there, and specific reviews from pros or enthusiasts who have used a given model regularly for real work but have only owned a half dozen cameras. I'm not defending all of the practices of paid reviewers/shills/influencers. I'm just saying that reviewers who have actually used every camera out there are very useful, and that no one will be able to do that without it being a near-full time job with a revenue model.

Great to hear! If there's any before/after you're willing to share I'd be curious to see it. I don't recall ever seeing other people doing this stuff, just me playing around with things. There's likely to be a reasonably good average grade that would work across all shots that you can use while editing, and then fine-tune once you're almost at picture-lock. That avoids you working on shots that don't end up in the final edit, but also means you're not working with the unprocessed footage, which can be distracting. If that's a true stream of the data on the tape then that should be as good as it gets. Then the next steps would be how to de-interlace and process it further. I seem to recall several ways to de-interlace, either with their pros and cons. One was to have each frame made up of alternating lines from the current and previous frame, and the other was to just duplicate the lines from the current frame. The former had more apparent resolution but had a horizontal blind type of effect on movement, and the latter had less resolution and was prone to flickering, especially on hard edges that ran horizontally. Choosing the overall approach might be subject-dependent, and maybe even shot dependent? I'm curious to hear how you go with this as well.

I am sure the colors are nice but color matching two different cameras/sensors is always a pain regardless. I am confident with my S1 as emotive color does the work for me 😅. Probably would like to get a P4K or 6K at some point for the RAW though, a bit easier to match WB. I like the Micro body over the OG pocket camera. The screen on the pocket cam was just kind of terrible and the micro HDMI was really brittle.

My initial research suggests that miniDV captured through Firewire 400 with iMovie was as good as it gets. The resulting files are a ".dv" files which are simply a stream of digital video. Since it's all digital and nothing was edited in a destructive format, I think that might be the best I can do. If anyone knows differently, please tell me.