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Wait.... WHAT??? Are they seriously requiring you send in your 5Dmk4 if you want a simple firmware update??? Shocking!! :-o Oh wow, up to a FSmk3 already! ;-) :-D I'm hoping for an a5200, as let's not forget about the little guy! The C300mk2 seemed to pick up a little bit of traction after it got its big price drop. Be weird as hell if the C100mk3 has the missing middle codec the C200 lacks!! lol (but in return of course the C100mk3 will not have raw) I feel you created this "needs" list by looking at the C200 spec sheet then listing what it is on it? (and not including anything that is not on it) When you take that approach it becomes very easy to justify your decision to exclude others! haha

Sure, maybe in five years time I'll be visiting Berlin? ha :-P Sorry, no immediate plans at all to go to Europe currently :-/ Yes, that is an excellent looking article!

Public opinion won't sway Canon. Look at the massively popular Magic Lantern, did that spur changes to the Canon DSLRs? Nope.

You swapped the F3 for the BMPCC due to the size? Couldn't keep both? I did a shoot yesterday using both my F3 & BMPCC

Haha! I feel you want to say more on this....

I'm so frustrated with Panasonic that they didn't choose to use a locking MFT mount!! Or at least a sub-PL mount like Kinefinity does. http://ironfilm.co.nz/what-if-kinefinitys-kinemount-became-a-universal-cinema-mount/ Exactly, and you could still beef up the MFT mount while keeping it MFT! And you could make a positive locking MFT mount. Making it even more desirable for professional users.

https://fstoppers.com/product/mike-kelleys-where-art-meets-architecture-1 I'm guessing if you do photography you have already seen this series? (there is also #2 & #3) There is a lot you can learn there! Of which you can transfer some of that knowledge over to video too. As for cameras, Panasonic GH5 / G80 / Sony a7Rmk2 / a7Smk2 / a6500 / BMPCC / BMMCC are your top seven choices to consider. Unless you have the budget to go for the likes of a Sony FS7mk2 etc Sticking with your current 5Dmk3 and shooting ML raw is a tempting option to consider as well, and best thing about that? It is FREE!! (aside from perhaps buying more/new cards)

Nice! Then go ahead and move to a bigger market where you'll have more opportunities.

I've been pondering over the thought that a better path to becoming a high quality DoP in the future is not by struggling up through the camera department, but instead via the lighting path. And on a related point, perhaps there is a better opportunity to make money as a gaffer than a camera op? (as cameraman is such an oversaturated area, especially at the low end)

Yes, I kinda remember that being mentioned. But it lacks specific details, is it a business that is tied down to a brick and mortars location? Or is it a job he can take with him to wherever he has an internet connection? Or is it somewhere between these two extremes?

Oh wow, yeah that would be awesome! A revolution even.

I read that, and I'm very jealous of you! I'm a big fan of the TdF

Doooooooooo it!! What is your current job, that won't hold you back either from moving?

The C500 wasn't majorly popular. The C300 mk2 is playing second fiddle to the FS7 and other cameras. I wouldn't be surprised if the C200 fails to be a big hit for Canon.

Heh, I'd say you're likely right, I was just going off the info in this thread. I think Yuneec is sensibly not trying to directly compete against either the P4 Pro or the Inspire but instead putting it in between the two.

Yuneec is $300 cheaper, and its legs can lift up to get out of the way of the shot. Six props should give it better stability too. Plus in the medium term, I bet the price of the Yuneec will drop faster than the DJI drone.

Yup! I'm a kiwi, thus my domain name has the ".co.nz" at the end in my signature: http://ironfilm.co.nz/ Sadly not in Berlin :-( Would like to visit one day in the distant future! (I'm part German myself)

Cinema5D lost me as a reader a long long time ago. I much more prefer sites such as: https://www.redsharknews.com/ http://www.newsshooter.com/ Plus of course EOSHD!

Perfect?? Only if you don't need to hide the transmitter frequently! Then RodeLinks are useless. So it might be ok for some sorts of documentaries, or for ultra low budget corporate shoots, but for everything else you are wasting your money buying RodeLinks. Especially as a secondhand Sony UWP-D11 / Sennheiser G3 is similar (or less!) money than a new RodeLink. Zaxcom or the latest Lectrosonics is waaay too expensive for me :-( But 200 series Lectrosonics is very affordable! I am building up four pairs of Lectrosonics 200 series wireless at the moment. (plus have a 5th Lectrosonics TX/RX pair, which is fixed frequency) And for the rest of my wireless, for the curious, I have: 2x RodeLink + 5x Sony UWP-D11 + 3x Samson Micro + 1x Saramonic UwMic9

Spotted this when it first hit the news, this is really great news for Sony F5 owners! Bit of an overkill the price is however for me to use it with my F3

Practically speaking for weddings, it is a much much better idea to just use a 4th/5th camera than to use external recorders. That way if the worst happens and you lose a camera (unlikely!) you still have another angle to help cut between to make "something" work out ok in the edit.

Whoops! So true. At least you get what I mean :-) Has been a loooooooooong day!

Sony PWM-F3 / BMPCC is what I use these days. Although mostly my work I'm doing is a ratio of around 90:10 when it comes to sound:camera ratio, so not getting out and shooting with the F3/BMPCC so much now. For personal casual stuff (snapchat/Facebook/etc) then I'm using a truly dreadfully awful camera: Samsung J2!

Hell no, go for Nikon D500 or D7500, better stills performance AND better video performance.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1336174-REG/smallhd_mon_focus_5_touch_screen.html Micro-HDMI Input?? Nooooo Thank goodness the GH5 did away with the Micro HDMI nonsense and went full size! However the a7S mk2 is still stuck with micro HDMI But at least get a monitor with full size HDMI? As for an external recorder, I reckon 9 times out of 10 it is not worth it unless you are at a minimum going from 8 to 10 bit (or raw. Or gaining a leap in resolution to 4K, such as with the a7S mk1).