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Should perhaps have shared this trailer ages ago, but this might just maybe perhaps be the first feature film with an Aputure Deity used on it?! (was shot mid last year) Maaaaybe, share if you know of any others! Although the bulk of it I used a Sanken CS3e for outdoors, and a Samson S02 indoors. (plus a little teeny bit here was done with an Oktava cardioid or a 416)

If you're just operating it on sticks, then sure, whatever.

I'm in the third week of a feature film being shot with an AMIRA, I'd say it is a massive massive stretch to think of the AMIRA as a one man crew kind of camera (though it is closer to that than any other ARRI digital camera). We have a three person camera crew for this. (& three person lighting crew, continuity person, AD, wardrobe, MIA & assistant, etc etc) The FS7 however is very much on the small side of "big cameras", and can easily be operated solo. However, I've also worked on shoots with a FS7 which had a five person camera department.

This. Whoever wins... Sony wins!

"Itchiness" is only relative! If you have a beard then go clean shaven it feels damn weird and itchy like mad! But then after a while that too passes.

Would you ever shoot with a camera that doesn't have a monitor? (or even any way to monitor it)

FIRE! Everything is more fun with that :-P Are those special stunt bricks, rubber ones? Or just normal bricks? Is about three years and a bit I've had it. But once it was only a year or two long then it pretty much stopped growing any more. Did anyone notice the seat created out of apple boxes that DoP was leaning/sitting on? I found that amusing. Oh, and the hat I was wearing I got given the day beforehand for FREE! :-D As we were shooting in clothes store.

Huh? Sorry, I'm still not following you at all, this doesn't make any sense. You want a meter long mic which can bend?!?! And somehow this this eliminates the need for a boom pole? Nope, this is make zilch sense whatsoever.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1281427-REG/olympus_v314080bu000_m_zuiko_digital_ed_12_100mm.html Well well well, I was wrong all this time in my mind when I thought of this lens! Thank you for the correction

If only it had OIS then I'd be keen indeed. And a f2.8 version, even with less reach, so we'd have the MFT equivalent of the 18-105mm f2.8 for Sony APS-C

It is a bit fvcked that production will frequently not prioritize sound appropriately, so it isn't infrequent that I can't properly monitor sound during the takes inside cars. But at least the ride around for the first take gave me a rough idea of how well it was going or not.

Huh?! I wouldn't put the DR10X at the mic end of the boom!

I haven't done a video yet of my bag (but I should), and each day it can vary a little (even if just by simply adding/subtracting a wireless). But if you see my past videos, it can give you a rough idea of some things I use, as sometimes I do an unboxing video when I get new stuff and I explain why I got it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCniNTuAtkFiSCQNfIaw9SJw/videos And I have a partial, and little bit outdated, gear list here: http://ironfilm.co.nz/sound/ Basically you never want to peak at any stage along the process. As once that happens it is unrecoverable, no matter how much you might turn it down later on. Thanks! My approach as been if I let my perfectionist nature take over then I'll never share anything, so I'm embracing the one take with zero editing approach instead. Which is what Matt Price does (and he is the biggest YouTuber in my little teeny niche of pro production sound recordists, with a huge number of four thousand subscribers! :-o Well, big for this obscure niche! ha): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHYM50mRY7o-VMGhEDzOnw

Use a cheap external powerbank + update the firmware, then zero issues with the Tascam DR60Dmk1 and it runs for waaaay past all day! :-) http://ironfilm.co.nz/firmware-update-for-tascam-dr-60d-mk1-fixes-recording-interruptions-when-running-on-external-usb-power-packs/

Roland used to be a strong low budget choice, but lately they've been MIA in for a while.

And we didn't even get to come over a decision for this....

What problems specifically have you noticed recently? I dunno, just how good was last night's pizza?! I doubt it.

Don't worry, even expensive professional recorders run on external power. And with a cheap powerbank the Tascam DR60Dmk2 runs all day long! Or even better the Zoom F8n?! Were you using Tentacle Syncs?

Just to be clear for any one else reading: this is not for post, but for playback of people viewing the monitor on set. Should have made it clearer: this needs to be quickly and easily usable for when more than one person is reviewing, earbuds are out! (although yes, this is the approach we took with the GH5 on a feature film last year) Bingo, this is exactly what happens. Worth checking out if it is possible. However I'm doubtful, as it is pretty loud and obnoxious!

Thought it would be interesting to share the BTS videos we take on shoots. This is BTS from a car mount shoot, and what I did to capture the audio:

Did another car scene today, had to sit it out though and leave the recorder running :-( As focus is more important than sound! :-o

Sorry, no idea. And I only know one friend with a MixPre series recorder, so couldn't easily test it.

Sad to see that Cinema5D is still spreading their damage even today. That review in particular along with many others is one reason why I just stopped reading Cinema5D. Wonder how many sales of the Samsung NX1 that Cinema5D caused damage to?

I'll admit I spend far far too much time on my smartphone. But often it is doing things like reviewing the shot schedule, or brushing up on the lines from the script (so I can cue the boom accurately on time, or figure out how to prioritize handing out the lavs for the next scene), so these are all very necessary things to do for the production happening right now. (on this topic, I'd like to mention how very handy it is when production gives out physical copies of these to you at the start of the day! Rather than having to be flipping through a PDF on your smartphone) However yeah also it is sometimes figuring out some business related things such as doing a bit of pre production or figuring out tough sechudling issues. (for instance in about a fortnight away, I'm in a tricky spot where I have THREE feature films I'm working on all at the same time!! Yikes)