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I'd take this a step further an investigate how competitive $$$ a dedicated server is versus using cloud storage from the big 3: Amazon S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage. Managing a dedicated machine can become a PITA if you're responsible for security patches and updating software. I do have some personal experience with all of this. Am currently using Google for my hosting... and, back in the old days, 2006-2010, I used to run a website that streamed videos. This was before Amazon AWS was mature enough to use, so I was running my "CDN" on dedicated linux servers. It was expensive, even with aggressive targeted advertising. It took a few years to simply break even every month. Good learning experience: bandwidth is expensive, videos are large files and visitors always expected things for free.

@Dimitris Stasinos I took closer look at this. Dropbox does not re-encode your videos. So you get whatever quality you want, BUT, you have maximum bandwidth of 20 GB free and 200 GB paid, per day, for entire account. Elite Player method for streaming Gdrive videos is bad. Can't do large files and your videos stop streaming arbitrarily due to exceeding an unknown amount of bandwidth. You'll be seeing a lot of this... (edit: actually you won't, the videos will simply not stream.)

Those videos are re-encoded on upload, no different from hosting on YouTube. A user would have to download the file from a Google drive link to actually get the original quality.

You have about a 5 year wait for the next pocket camera.

Google drive direct linking has been dead since 2016. You used to be able to hotlink to media files but now you can only share the file, which means whatever link is generated, takes you to the google drive page.

Never ever going to happen, too niche, no profit to be made. Also Blackmagic couldn't even make this work with their original URSA turret scheme. Why would you want to swap sensors when the recorder/body is out of date in 16 months?

@Andrew Reid Don't do it. You run the risk of being permanently and ubiquitously blacklisted by Google. Fighting DMCA strikes without a physical contact at YouTube is risky. There are instances of channels being demonetized for using music the creators had paid to license. I'd also stear clear of royalty free and public domain. Lots of abuse in the past of entities claiming control and stealing revenue. Safest way is to pay for an original piece or do it yourself.

In my region the original c120d is being heavily discounted. Best price since they were launched.

Full Frame sensor in a C200 body with RF mount. ?

@Ed_David Both these cameras look great! How did the file sizes match up?

See this is why I'd like to have @Brian Caldwell reply. I was forced to study optics for a semester specifically for microscopy. Brian could maybe tell us what specifically changes quantitatively. Instead of just "performance". Can't really fathom what else would change besides the angle of refraction.

@Brian Caldwell Can we get you to weigh in on this? As far as I understand, filter stack thickness varies between m43 cameras, yet no m43 camera has problems focusing native lenses to infinity. Which leads me to believe the camera manufacturer offset the distance of the mount to account for their filter stack to prevent this issue from ever occuring.

you mean like valid technical reasons that were covered ad nauseam 6 months ago? 1) it's a cinema camera, free floating ibis sensors tend to vibrate on car rigs, etc 2) heat dissipation is greatly improved with a non ibis sensor, helps the gh5s shoot cleaner at high isos

you linked to a website that shows up as the first result on google linking garbage helps their seo, which incentives these types of websites to pump out more BEST X 2018 GUIDES can you explain to me what authority this guy has to recommend the olympus 400mm? otherwise, that website is just a bunch of copy and pasted specs.... why not just link to a B&H search result? provides even more valuable (((info)))

@kye @jonpais @webrunner5 lol yeah this dude's site is totally not a moneygrab for emarketing spam......... Andrew totally tries to get us to subscribe to his newsletter and sell us guides to filmmaking I'm glad Mr Reid pumps out articles on his blog to recommend us lenses he's never used for cameras he's never used. lmfao @Andrew Reid Can you add a blacklist for forum links? You should seriously consider blocking URLs for sites like wolfcrow and 43rumors, et al. They don't add any value to discussion.

it's literally a list of affiliate links, dude pumps out garbage clickbait notice how he only lists lenses that are available on B&H and amazon where is this supposed good info?

Edelkrone units never quite deliver, there's always wobble or sag problem with their designs, but you get what you pay for: real moco is expensive. I used a Edelkrone slider and motion control kit extensively 3-4 years ago when I was a DSLR shooter. If you're based in North America I'd suggest Kessler Crane.

I botched my first shoot with the C200. You have to pretty much calibrate the camera for every shot. Canon calls it "Black Balance" and it fixes FPN in the lowest IREs. Still need to crush the last 1/2 ish stop of blacks to kill the bad noise. The chroma dies usually when it's uploaded thankfully.

Disagree. The chips added by the camera manu determine how well the signal is processed: FPN removal and other denoising implementations determine how many usable stops a camera has. camera =/= only sensor

ProRes 4444 XQ or DNxHR 444. Cineform is interesting but the encoder hasn't been included with FFMPEG yet.

How accurate was the repeatability and how much clean up in post to line everything up?

Three months ago I was salty about not getting a Micro 2. Now I'm ready to upgrade just for that 4k60! Hey @John Brawley can you pass feedback for future cameras? Me and some happy BM owners would love to see a Micro Pro with a positive lock MFT mount, SDI out and swappable rear battery plates. I know we are a niche market but those things would make the Micro v2 epic.

Imagine how much cash they burn through just that stage alone. Overhead, salaries, development hardware, etc. Six months, a year, maybe two later: now you have to source your BOM, have the camera certified a half dozen times, ramp up production, package, ship... By the way, your first run of 1,000 units has a faulty LCD ribbon cable. And a prominent YouTuber just shit all over your product in a review video. What do we do? I would never invest in a company manufacturing cinema cameras. Market is too niche, upfront costs too high for little profit.

Neither of those are good choices due to massive throttling of their GPUs. Get a portable gaming laptop. Reddit is a good non-biased source to use to find the right one.

And cinema ain't real life. FPN, chroma noise and rolling shutter make film grain look far superior.