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I still get way more beautiful shots on the 5d than on the a6300. Even on h264 mode. Yeah, the a6300 is sharper, more detailed. That's about it. Most seasoned DP's agree that sharpness isn't the thing. I realize that the 80D is no 5d (especially when shooting raw) but I still have shots I've shot on the 7D on my reel. It was actually interesting putting the reel together because most of my best shots came out of a Canon, even when I was shooting with the A7s (about one year with the a7s). And most of the A7s shots I didn't put on the reel because they just looked a bit ugly. Am I just wrong or...? What's going on? I really have no idea why people are raving about the Sony cams. For example the A6300 seems to be the best camera ever if you just look at youtube comments. But it's not. I can see several things I like about the 80D more (except moire, hate that stuff but the A6300 has it too when shooting HD and the 4K is useless because of rolling shutter). Yeah, the a6300 can take beautiful still shots and tripod shots. Whooptydoo. A lot of people here seem to not shoot much if anything. They look at stills and analyze pixels (which I do as well and love it) but without the shooting experience all the advice you give others is kinda moot. When people ask me "what should I shoot with", I'm really careful about giving a straight up answer because there so many caveats attached to every single thing you suggest. A long time everyone on this forum was riding the GH4 wave (It looks fugly I thought) and everyone was suggesting the GH4 for every single goddamn project. I thought it was just weird. Seemed like a cult but I guess that's what we humans do. Form cults around cameras.

Am I the only one who doesn't use zebras? They're distracting as hell and I can see clipping and skin tones anyway with my own eyes. I do have a histogram on the screen on occasion but rarely really watch that either.

But that works for every consumer product. Apple consistently has new features that have been around for years. Everything has been around for years somewhere, in different iterations and versions.

H264 will be around long after cineform or dnxhd are gone.

I had a couple of weird frame bugs too with the RX10 ii. Seems to be quite random, had a few of them months ago but then had a whole days shoot with none appearing. Same card too.

Great shots squig!

That just cracked me up. As all the mirrorless cameras I've used have been less ergonomic than a 5d (A7s, a6300, nex7) Oh okay, is this a competition about what you can do? I just shot a one man operated three camera shoot and I had the a6300 handheld with autofocus on a certain point on 35mm f1.8 lens. Worked actually pretty great and I could check the other cameras with my third hand while shooting. I wonder what you would've done differently, atleast the focus would've taken a lot more of your brains processing power. Why would you say you can pull off "that same shot" with a shoulder rig at f5.6? It's not the same shot as a gimbal at f1.8. That's just unnecessarily boosting yourself instead of discussing the issues.

That's so wrong on a multitude of levels. Even here in Finland we shoot Arriraw with childrens movies. All Marvel movies that have been shot with the Alexa have been shot in Arriraw. Can you stop trying to pretend you know much and stop using those exclamation marks?

That's probably the stabilization unit. Those things wobble in stabilized zoom lenses too when you shake them around so I'm not 100% sure it's that... But yeah, something is wobblying somewhere. You probably used prime lenses on the other cameras, not zooms?

Doing "short form" doesn't really mean anything. You can do a three minute short film and still spend hours taking material. I did replace my nex-7 with the a6300 and for the express purpose of replacing the nex-7 it works well. But it is a b/c-cam for several reasons. The rolling shutter alone makes it almost useless for handheld shots. You can work around the issues the sony has. But you can also work around the shortcomings of any camera. And I'd say working around a huge rolling shutter is a way worse problem than a soft image. I'll actually be using the A6300 in HD mode quite a lot instead of the 4k that will be reserved for tripod shots. And the Sony colors are an issue. They work well when doing something gritty. But beauty shoots are not easy to achieve with the A7s or the A6300. Hats off to anyway who achieves those. That is crazy expensive. A 7d mark II is 1450 euros here.

Maybe the lens is vibrating inside the body? The rx10 ii is not very well built.

A LOT of vibration in the RX10 shot. You need a better gimbal system. Try turning off the steadyshot on the rx10 if that is somehow going awry.

I disagree owning the RX10 ii. I'd say a 24-600mm f2.4-f4 will definitely be more useful than 24-200 f2.8 The difference between f4 and f2.8 in dof is negligible but the difference between 200 to 600 is huge. You could then use the rx10 iii as a 600mm replacement camera for video. RX10 is not a light gathering camera anyways so you can forget about shooting in low light with either. At 200mm the rx10iii is probably somewhere around f3 so the difference is even less. You can't do smooth zooms or snap zooms with the rx10ii so the "constant" f2.8 doesn't even do anything.

I would love for Canon to stick with mjpeg instead of going the shitty h264/h265 route. Atleast give me the option to use a low-compressed mjpeg because I would use that over the h264 variants every day.

Plus you can do 60p raw with the 5dIII on a lower slightly cropped resolution.

Correct answer!

More of a Doug Liman style. Greengrass is even more crazy with the use of handheld and editing, not that much into continuity. Liman is way more restrained though he only did one Bourne.

Shot this little action scene with the A6300, 5d mark III raw and one shot is from the RX10 ii. Guess which is which. Uploaded in 4k.

What in the f are you talking about? So the camera is somehow "bad" because it's rock solid and makes a gorgeous picture? Weird thinking. Yeah, the body is huge but guess what? Professionals like'em huge. (it's not even that big, it's basically a 5d + battery grip)

You need a Red Dragon for 4k and 120fps.

But you have to get someone to use those multiple bodies. I have three bodies now and for my own free projects it's a drag to even get one person to operate them. And even when someone operates them I usually end up with bad b-roll.

I edited a red 5k shot commercial on a really shitty laptop while they were shooting it with a real quick turnaround and a bunch of vfx. I'd say that redcode is really quite easy on machines.

That's because the ISO800 of the BMCC is the same as ISO100 on the 5draw. I mean, the BMCC cannot go lower than ISO800 when shooting raw. Or am I missing something? Have you tested setting the BMCC to 800 and the 5d raw to 100 and looking at the exposure? Sure, there might be smidgen more resolution for the BMCC but also a bunch of more moire. The prores though is nice!

BMCC has nothing on the 5d RAW. Except maybe half a stop more in ISO 100 but that's like the only plus and a billion other negatives.

If you already have the 5d with RAW, then none of those cams really surpass it.