Zach

I am totally with the op. This is absolutely the most glaringly offensive lack of a feature on this camera. 
 
Is there seriously harm in asking for a simple feature to be added? This is the 3rd overhaul of the camera, still no exposure lock

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:)

I wholeheartedly disagree.
 
You are not a professional, you are an amateur, and perhaps you consider yourself a skilled amateur?
 
Then the best way to prove it is to film and edit a wedding. Don't raise the expectations of your clients too much, but assure them they will be happy with the video. 
 
Know, that filming a wedding confronts you with considerable challenges. You spend maaany hours with the family and friends, you can't be tooo much in the way, you can under no circumstances lose or botch important moments, you have to film them in clean images, beautifully, without shaking or trembling (but also very often without tripod), you have to get usable sound (in the beginning you will probably not wire the pair, but be aware you have to capture their voices really well!), you have to control the light for perfect exposure, in an environment where very often your only way to influence light is how you position yourself (and keep in mind, don't be in the way tooo much!). There may be no noise, there may be no clipping, but there may very well be creepy darkness. Or, almost worse, a parc in the harsh sunlight, with beautiful green treetops that cast green shadows on the faces of the lot, alternated by veeery bright stripes. You get blinded, hands sticky ...
 
Perhaps you have a talent to master all these problems or never experience the worst. You produce excellent images.
 
But having technically good images, perhaps even with glamour to them, is not enough. A good videographer is very rarely also a good narrator, let alone editor, and vice versa. Finding images is fundamentally different to arranging them. So if you are not a very good camera operator, but a good editor or the other way around, you have to find a way to become good enough.
 
You have to know where the moment you witness and record fits. You have to realize the moment. Often you have to make it fit. People react to you. They act to you. They know their expression and their remarks will be seen by their hosts, they absolutely have to come up smiling. You have to be charming. You have to direct them. You are not 'an eye', you are not a participant with a camera, you are the Ghost of the weddings past.
 
You really learn a lot about how people like to be, to be seen or to become. You are their magic mirror. An invaluable insight if you ever wish to do something dramatic.
 
This is so much more than an industrial image film. Who never made weddings doesn't know.
 
Next step is editing all that. The first time you will curse the day you said 'I do it', and you rue to have followed Zach and me and not Moongoat and /p/.
 
The second time you will try to follow a concept.
 
The third time you will talk with the pair in advance, find funny stories, write down a draft. You will get your clients to accept that you keep it short, you will have enough experience to face difficult situations calmly. You will edit in one day, in a relaxed mood, seeing that your preparation fruited.
 
The fourth time you will say, allright, I like you, that's why I charge only $1000. 
 
 
And if you have improved your skills the first three times, you can actually enjoy it.

No offense but you must be dutch regarding the way you handle this thread.
Yep I know how to use Google very well. Last months this was how I worked my way through hours of google learning all the different aspects of filmmaking from scratch - story tellling, lightning, audio etc.
 
As this is a forum for filmmakers I thought hee let's hear the opinion of other videographers who already used this camera. This is what I think a forum is for isn't it. Sometimes even when the manual says class 10  - there are opnions among videographers stating a higher read/write class was better for several reasons. Not all class 10 cards have the same writing/reading capacities.
 
So no ofence + thanxs for the answer!

29 minute limit on the NEX 5N actually, at least on the PAL one I have.

I like the way you think. 

Shot on the C100 with a Ninja 2. Prores HQ with a Canon 100mm f2.8 and a Rokinon 35mm T1.5 on C-Log. Graded with Color Finesse and Filmconvert. RGrain ultrafine:)

Just trying to see how filmic i can get this bastard:

https://vimeo.com/65086996

Lmao. I wonder what the might of their legal team thinks of this one.

"Alright assholes. We'll leave your 1DX alone."

Commander Chris Hadfield onboard The International Space Station has posted this amazing pop video he has shot a revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity,
 
Stunning shots from space -
 
is this the most expensive pop video ever made to date???
 
the cost of building the station and flights to it means it must be!!
 
Some nice post production anamorphic flares added to it
 
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KaOC9danxNo
 

I would love to be a fly on the wall at the Canon headquarters when they find out about this

I would love to be a fly on the wall at the Canon headquarters when they find out about this

Exceedingly poor show. If the 7D II is indeed the first APSC model to have a new sensor, let's hope it's really good.

Not true.

Zach, why not get the VAF adapter for 365 problem solved?

Borrowlenses.com also has a good rental selection.

This is unfortunately the case around here too. If you're shooting your own projects and short films it really doesn't matter. But if you're doing freelance, a lot of people expect (even if they're clueless) a 5D, or c300, etc. 

Too bad, in the end it just ends up costing everyone involved more money.  I could tell my clients I'm shooting on an Alexa and they wouldn't know the difference.  It all looks pretty much the same on TV anyway if you know what you're doing.  It's unfortunate more clients don't get that.

A XF305 is totally different use to a DSLR.
 
Great AF, great zoom.
 
Also no pro with a C300 will dump that and go for a hack running on a DSLR just for raw or a better image.

Well, I've been buying and selling on Ebay for around 10 or so years, but mostly vintage dinnerware, with the occasional electronics or camera sale when it was time to sell my old items.  The thing is, I rarely buy any dinnerware anymore there, since at least 50% of the time now it has undisclosed damage (chips, cracks, scuffs) that completely devalues the piece.  Unfortunately, all of the other collectors out there have figured this out too, so now if you are an actual GOOD seller, you can't get the correct value for your items since buyers won't pay premium prices for anything on Ebay (since they assume it will have hidden damage)....I've gone to selling my dinnerware to a private group of collectors through a message board and a couple of Facebook groups instead.  It's much nicer and easier all around, although it is a smaller audience than would be reached by Ebay (but oh so much less hassle...).
 
I've mostly had pretty good experiences selling electronics and camera stuff with a couple of notable exceptions, but the level of fraud that is going on now has gotten pretty high, and I can't really afford to risk that.  Ebay does NOT give even good sellers the benefit of the doubt, and that is a real problem. Buyers have learned they can beat the system and scam their way out of paying for their goods by using the "buyer protection" feature, and it's just gotten too iffy to sell there anymore (plus the cost is just insane now).
 
I have not sold the GH3 yet, though, so I may have to list it there at some point...I'll give it more time though... Thanks all for your comments!
 
-J

So tape the orange ring up with black tape then? I don't think it is an issue for stealth. Hand on the lens covers it anyway. I've never had a better non-reaction of people to this camera when pointing it in their general direction.
 
On the 1D C test shoot with Slashcam I was filming a blossom tree and a woman in Berlin who was standing on the pavement over the road actually stomped over to me and asked me if I was filming her. She harassed me down in a u-bahn station and went out of her way to do so. She even asked to see the shots. Some people have real hang ups about personal privacy and you need to be careful. Granted it happens VERY infrequently, but if Henri Cartier Bresson had to go round the street handing out release forms doubtless he'd have missed a few decisive moments :)
 
No VF? That's not correct. With the add-on it has one of the best EVFs around. I tried the Zeiss optical one too. Very nice for composition, very bright.

JPEG will do just fine.... no need for raw, i said it at no film school ... really no need for raw... 1920 x 720 of a true JPEG its gonna be much better that the upscaled muddy "HD"

To say no, it is not better, without at least a simple green screen test seems unfair. I can't see why people were expecting a drastic difference

Bet they hooked up an Xbox when the Cruise was not around.

I'm done with Green screen this is the way forward!
its looks so much better - all shot in camera and no post green replacement for months
Mr Cruise seems to like it too!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCkIuv82Q4&feature=player_embedded
 
 

SSD's cost around 150 euros and upwards for 250 GB, over 300 euros for 500 GB sizes.
 
SSD's are the most rugged ones for sure. Hard disks are far more sensitive to rough handling and shocks than SSD's. However, they are the most sensitive when they are powered on. If you eject hard disks safely before powering off - hard disks park their mechanical parts (arms with read/write heads). When in parked state, hard disks can withstand quite a lot of shocks and rough handling.
 
So, if you want lots of storage for a cheap price, hard disks are the way to go. If you want the absolutely best ruggedness but can survive on a bit smaller storage, SSD's will be the best choice.
 
Depending on where you travel, you want to keep both SSD's and HDD's dry. In jungle-like humidity you really would want to have some kind of sealed box/bag with something that absorbs humidity, like silica gel.
 
I've seen how bags get treated at airports, and would it be me, I'd be sure to keep the portable disk as hand luggage, wrapped in a sweater or so. Normal carrying like that in a backpack or so shouldn't be a problem if you aren't unusually careless about the bag.
 
When it comes to the casings of the hard disks, I wouldn't care too much about if it is padded or not, that's mainly cosmetic. What I'd care more about would be the cooling properties of the hard disk case. According to largescale tests done by larger data centers, hard disks have the least amount of failure if they run at around 30-40 degrees celcius. Cooler or warmer running increases risks for failure.
 
My personal recommendation for traveling storage on the cheap would be to get two portable hard disks, one for backup, then using same transporting & dry keeping for both of the disks. If they'd get banged around enough to break - you got a good chance that one of the disks survive at least. Hard disks are the same all around the world as well, so you'd easily be able to get a replacement for backup if one would break down.
 
Also, any portable hard disk that has the right interface for your mac (USB/Firewire) will work, no real difference.
 
My own solution is to get any cheap metal (better for keeping drives running cool) casing I can find for the interface I need (usb/firewire/esata), and then I drop in just a normal 3.5" hard disk. No reason for you to do it if you need a new case, I just do so because I usually have a lot of extra hard disks lying around.