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I think diminishing returns hits in really hard long before that $3k mark for DSLRs. You can get two Nikon D750 or two Sony PMW-F3 for that price! Or heck, get a D750 *and* an F3 for $3k!! :-D Or 3x BMPCC/BMMCC. Or you could get *many* G7 bodies. Or heck, even Sony FS700 secondhand are dropping under that price. Or near that price for a C300 mk1. Or you could get lucky and maybe find a R1 MX for near that price. So at the $3k price point I see the options are: a) go waaaay cheaper, and get multiple bodies (if that is what you need) and/or invest in other areas which need it (never a shortage of that! Audio/lighting/lenses/etc) b) go with an older professional cinema camera such as a FS700 or R1 MX or C300 mk1 c) go *BIG* by not spending the money, and instead save up for an FS7/FS5/F5/F35 d) bonus wild card option: a new JVC LS300, or new URSA Mini 4K (or used URSA Major). Personally I fall most strongly into camp a) But sometimes sometimes tempted by b) but only specifically by the FS700. But not yet... maybe once it gets under $2K c) is my hope, one day! I'd love an F5, or an FS7 d) sometimes is a very mildly tempting option to consider..... but I think I'll wait for the LS300 to show up for crazy low prices secondhand first, such as $1k ish, should only take a year or two I suspect!

But that would price it above the brand new C100 mk1 with Dual Pixel AF :-/

Just simply getting "low cost, high quality offerings" from Canon would be a massively huge surprise in itself! :-o So in other words, more of the same same. ("only our existing product line") As for "a few surprises".... likely just something minor, or some hints. Not any new products (because: "only our existing product line"). Or in other words..... nothing new! Again. Same same. Canon has already displayed a working 8K camera. http://www.newsshooter.com/2015/10/13/canon-expo-2015-8k-cinema-eos-technology-demo-camera-recording-to-four-external-recorders/ Hahaha, but Canon guy didn't say it would be coming from them! ;-) Again.... more of the same same, nothing new here. Canon has displayed that before: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10725492/i-was-taken-for-a-ride-by-canon-s-8k-experience

Oh snap! I was just thinking about this myself, as already working with VR (but using photogrammetry), thus thinking getting into 360 videos would be a good related sideline. I'm thinking the cheapest way to get into this is get two of these and stitch them together in post: http://www.gearbest.com/action-cameras/pp_311067.html Total cost is only $150!! :-o Super super ultra cheap. Next significant step up in quality would be using a heap of GoPro cameras all carefully aligned around each in a sphere, but that would be a far more expensive approach. My thought is maybe take the very cheap approach to make a few videos, and then hopefully leverage that to end up getting some jobs which will find the GoPro sphere approach.

Take raw stills! But not raw video. And yes, no matter what you pick, bringing along an RX100 as a back up in a wise idea.

Use a flash bracket to mount your microphone and keep it clear of your flip up screen. If a flip up screen is very important to you then consider a Sony A5100 or Panasonic G7 / G6 / etc

But if a person is selecting a camera for the purpose of raw then I feel they're better off going with a BMMCC instead.

For such lightweight run and gun usage, perhaps a Sony RX10 mk2 or even a Panasonic FZ1000? Get yourself a monopod too :-)

Yet even so a Panasonic G7 / Sony A6000 / Nikon D5500 / etc I'd still find a better deal than Canon 5D mk2 As I reckon no matter how low a Canon 5D mk2 / mk3 goes, others will have fallen even further to be an even better deal than a Canon (especially as Canon fanboy photographers will keep their prices artificially high, above their true worthwhile value).

Yet even if they drop low.... a Nikon D750 will still be a better buy

If you're in no rush just wait otherwise, get a Nikon D750

You might want to go with the heaps cheaper Aputure FineHD VS-2 over a Shogun. http://www.newsshooter.com/2015/12/21/a-7-full-hd-hdmi-field-monitor-for-less-than-200-aputure-launch-vs-1-finehd-monitor/

Agreed, that is a point I have also often made about the FS5 when people complain about it. While it is a bummer it lacks proper 4K, it should be viewed as more like a direct C100 mk2 competitor, which doesn't have *ANY* form of 4K at all! So the fact FS5 has any 4K at all is a bonus over the C100 mk2 Doubtful, as the FS7 raw was a disappointment. Squeezing 14 stops into 12bit linear raw doesn't work out well... this is one area where the F5 keeps a large benefit over the FS7.

Still faster than my Atomos Samurai Blade I think? That takes foreeeeevvveeeerrrr!! So we can give the PIX-E5 a bit of slack, as it is a recorder after all. Not just a monitor. Ditto the extra size, if you look at the picture you can see the small increase in size is entirely thanks to the extra direct buttons (& a little bit because of its more rugged build, also a good thing). Something which many of us would greatly prefer over the SmallHD UI inputs! Thus I don't see the PIX-E5 as the loser here at all, just "different".

So what??? RED has been doing this since what... 2005??

HAHAHA! Me too :-D Be puuuuuurfect for my next cellphone camera ;-)

I think a lot of people just don't have experience or understand how engineering of physical products plus software development works, it can be risk and unpredictable! Timelines can balloon. Unless you're doing boring simple cookie cutter stuff that has all been done before or are nearly nearly nearly almost finished. But that simply is not how BMD operates, and I don't want them to operate like that either!

Yay, the URSA Mini 4.6K ships! Nearly exactly a year after it was announced. (as NAB 2016 is now just around the corner....) I spent a good few weeks last year thinking hard about pre-ordering the URSA Mini 4.6K, but in the end decided to go with the Sony F3 when I found a great deal on it for only US$1.2K Now that I see how long it took for the Mini 4.6K to ship (plus who knows how much longer mine would take because I wouldn't have been in the first week of pre orders, so might have been a loooong way down the order queue), I am feeling extra good that I went with an F3 instead! :-D Yup, taking all this extra R&D would've cost a lot. The BMMCC will still be a great camera! After all what the top three things people complained about: 1) poor screen, well... it is gone now! ;-) & as a bonus you get a much smaller camera! A thing many other people hoped for (like drone pilots, or for use in action shots) 2) the poor battery life 3) no slow motion (every music video wants that cool looking 60fps shot) Well, BMD has fixed all three big issues on the BMPCC now! True for people who already own a BMPCC like you and I, but for the many people who still don't have a BMPCC... then they just got an even more compelling reason why to get a BMD camera now they can buy a shipping BMMCC! But yes, you and I can wait a little while long for the BMMCC to go on sale or pick one up secondhand for cheap Because it is silly to even plan a project seriously on the basis of a camera which is not even shipping yet.

Awwww..... disappointed you passed on the F3 :-( Would've liked your review on that! Especially head to head with the R1 MX! :-D As I've used both, but never used them directly next to each other, or even used them in the same month (as I purchased the F3 sometime after I'd stopped helping out on shooting the feature with a RED). Don't see it so much in top Hollywood movies, but heaps and heaps of popular TV shows with big budgets show quite severe rolling shutter on it. For instance "Suits", nicely shot TV show with a big budget but I notice rolling shutter in it all the time. However, is likely the average viewer never sees it!

Exact OPPOSITE of Samsung's camera department! I'll double second that! You might need longer reach than 105mm, depends on how far back you're shooting the close ups of speakers from. Such a simple simple SIMPLE thing to do! Surprised they did not, even the Sony A5100 which I own has touch focus!!! Grrrr.... *ALL* should have that now, it is too handy not to have! And their medium format camera which does video!! :-o http://philipbloom.net/blog/pentax645z/ I want one!! :-o

Shooting in S35 or HD also helps with many cameras

Yes... "s" is lower case when it should be uppercase like this: FS100 Also he is a time traveler from the past who has traveled into the future to ask us about a camera. Very sensible move! I always try to do the same before buying my cameras as hindsight is golden.

NAB is only a month away. Want to place a bet on when those NAB 2016 cameras will ship? lol Be crazy if they don't announce any cameras at all :-P Maybe if instead they announce a cheaper EVF (yes please!) and a 7 inch Video Assist that does 4K?? Plus a URSA Mini 4K variant with a MFT mount. No new cameras but did those three things instead, then I'd be very happy! :-D

If you can spend double (or triple) then a Sony F3 will be a way better deal. But at least now there are E mount adaptera with a variable ND filter built into it that you could use with a FS100