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If I were construction contractor I m be more willing to do million dollar project then make some garage for someone, just saying

I still don't get why people invest big money on camera only to do low budget stuff, that doesn't make sense economical wise in terms of return from investment. This job I m doing right now is over 10k pay rate, the fourth one this year that are 5 digit budget. Just wish c200 have 422 10bit as some client need those, guess I still have to keep that ninja blade just for this arghh ( at least file format is 422 10bit even though technically it is not 10bit lol)

C200 only record 4:2:0 8bit in mp4 format which is a bummer, no flexible 4:2:2 10bit in reasonable space. 4K raw only can shot 15 minute with 128GB card

Yeah, should be able to upgrade our companies 2 c100mkii to this... with company money haha

$9000, so affordable!

Actor turned director have insight of how actor's head are thinking than someone coming from director's background. I met some people like that and they sure do get some good performance from the actors on stage.

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/first-sony-a9-overheating-issue-report/ Man Sony and Overheating have become synchronous

Saw this on fb, looks like Panasonic gonna roll out professional service like cps, definitely good for us using it professionally

Yeah when you have a lot at stack, look at grip hire, traffic management, catering, places availability etc, that a lot of stuff to manage.

Basically replace phantom 3 standard as the entey level drone so phantom line (p4pro and p4adv) is reserved for enthusiast/advanced user

GoPro Karma will be good indication for size of your fantasized 1inch sensor mavic drone.

I mostly use native lens as I hate the wobble when doing critical focus with adapted lens and adapter, plus AF is crap with adapted lens and drain more battery.. Hence I have dual native Sony E mount and MFT lens lol. Though I mostly buy 2nd hand lens which MFT is pure bargain (up there with Canon), Sony one is still more expensive, i can get both 12-40 and 35-100 2.8 for the price of one used Sony 70-200mm F4 OSS and still lighter. 18-105 on FS5 and Sony 28-135mm on A7S is my fav lens, too bad Pana doesn't have equivalent PZ lens on their setup which is a bummer. I used to have Leica F1.2 and Voigtlander 0.95 lens, but since I got Osmo X5 I just use small primes for gimbal stuff as I mostly use zooms nowadays for my shooting, and don't shoot night much at all.

Wow that look really high quality! The guy definitely use full potential of his available gear!

We have some clients that decide to setup in house production but only to dismantle them few months later, and at end still turns to us for video needs. There is a lot of variable in terms of skill, mindset and need to click with clients head which can be major pain in the butt (and they have to offer them monthly wage even if there is not much video to be made) Though we do love clients who have idea on how video production works, they make life so much easier instead of back and forth changes with people who don't have much clue and art sense, they tend to make final video actually worse than our first draft. Some big brands do spend less money and decide to go uber style provider, in our area it's 90 seconds, even Discovery tv and McDonald used them, I know Discovery got burned big time by amateur videographer hired by 90 seconds as 90 seconds tend to choose new videographer every time, MCD uses only 1/3 of their normal budget with 90 seconds compare to traditional tvc production.

I just tell my boss to upgrade to either camera if they turns out good, as we start to get client demand 4K shooting and delivery which have to use my machine or hire c300mkii but cost money for renting thus make less profit Meanwhile I just use those would be "camera monies" to save up for deposite for bigger purchase cough house cough, gotta draw the line on how much you gonna spend on hobbies. (Gonna slim down my camera collection as I use them much less)

It's annoy to switch from normal to slowmo because now you found you have to stay back since composition changed

I have FS5 which said to be better performance than FS700 but lowlight still outgunned by much cheaper A6300, FS700 can only be worse, I guess their good low light performance is for year 2012 and not year 2017

Yeah that the thing, we are shooters with different purpose and mindset, I for one shoot for economical gain so having cost control/time management is important as well. If I do stuff for hobby/interest where time is unlimited then shooting raw seems to be fine, but not if you have deadline due for the client which is a different story.

Says Kodak or Nokia... But not releasing new camera often means the camera doesn't depreciate fast, so good for us camera buyer in a way

One problem for me is good AF lens suck at MF, it is not reliable since its fly by wire (look at those Canon STM lens..)

By the way I just noticed "13 Reasons Why" is shot on Varicam 35. the night scenes in the tv look pretty clean! I really wish they use the same sensor on this cam! http://www.digitalcinemareport.com/article/two-looks-13-reasons-why#.WRE1R-WGOHs The DP also considered Arri 65 and Sony F55 but decide to go for Varicam 35 at end after testing them out

I prefer 18-105 over 16-70, PZ is handy and bokeh from 18-105 is more pronounced at 105mm vs 70mm of 16-70

I dont care about RAW, that why I never bothered getting the $500 upgrade for unlimited RAW on my FS5, it doesn't fit to my business and doesn't make economical sense as well, I rather spend on that 120fps unlimited upgrade which is more useful.

FS5's weakness is sensor is old and codec not solid, I know cause I own one, I also have A7RII which I can get better colour from a7rii than fs5 anyday, a7rII colour just feel more solid, though non compares to C100MKII which with a few tweak will have good colour even if straight from camera footage looks crap. I know many people waiting for AF100 successor, me included, price is still within reach so thats ok lol (gonna trade my FS5 for it), I got GX85 and loads of M43 lens, also got Sigma 1.8 zoom lens on EF mount (for FS5). So what if new camera doesn't use mft, I can use it on GH5/GX85, but I know my sigma 1.8 zoom will be on new Pana camera so that works ok fine. And I hate native Sony lens because their MF is really terrible, that why I use Canon mount lens on FS5 for solid MF support, still dont know what the big fuss about af, I know AF lens suck ball when you try to use MF, they are totally unusable! Vice versa for Canon lens too, only STM lens have really nice AF (but suck MF) on C100MKII, L lens is only ok but I wouldn't rate it stellar and they make noise, but MF is reliable.

As frequent (daily) user of C100II and owner of FS5 and having played Varicam on set I can definitely agree on this!