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A lesson here for any future purchases:
If you're buying a Sony camera primarily for filming with, get one of their FX Series bodies which is foremost designed for, not an A Series body that's for the stills photographers. 

The fx3 and fx30 are cameras for people who take video seriously. And cameras like the a7s iii are not for them or other hybrids, with or without breathing compensation. Of course this does not mean an owner of an a7siii is not professional. Just she ended up with the wrong camera. 

Sony not offering firmware updates doesn’t bother me. I use Lumix cameras.
But being serious, I have never purchased a camera based on a promise of what it might or will be at some point in the future. I will buy it (or not) based on merit with what it comes with.
If something is updated with something I find useful, then that is a bonus, but not an expectation.
I’d be very happy with a pair of FX30’s plus a single A7V straight out of their boxes.

You are confounding the new fx30 and firmware updates for the fx3. The fx3 does not have breathing compensation nor improved AF from firmware upgrades special to it. It does not have less noise reduction via firmware updates either. These non additions to the fx3, but features of the fx30, suggest they are not possible for updating the a7siii either. These fx30 added features is not evidence of Sony holding back on firmware updates for older cameras with different hardware.
The fx30 is not the same hardware as the fx3 or the a7siii. It is a new model.  So, the better AF and breathing compensation that it has may require different hardware, so that no firmware upgrade is possible. fx3 cameras did not get these fx30 features.
I think it was you who claimed the fx30 was noisier and thus much inferior in low light to the fx3. Now you are saying less noise reduction is a desirable feature of the fx30? Yes, the smaller sensor/pixels of the fx30 do make it inherently noisier, but for the same NR, not so very much different in most situations. 4K 120p is definitely significantly noisier, but that is because the fx30 uses a 1:1 crop of the sensor in that mode, unlike 4K up through 60 fps, and those smaller pixels then matter.
I don't understand how Cine El improves images, it is just a way to shoot. Base ISO and how you use it matters, but that can be done with the a7siii, just less easily. Do you understand how you can get better Slog3 image quality from the same sensor, processor, gamma, gamut, and base ISO from the fx3 compared to the a7siii?
Finally, baking in LUTs is indeed a new firmware feature of the fx3. But hardly one meriting all the whining.
And, yes, firmware updates are always good, but not always important, or possible for adding certain features given hardware constraints, as we have seen.

Well, here is something I got tagged in yesterday that I worked on (as the Sound Mixer of course):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CquYJX2vwrm/ 
Can't seem to see any trailer for 女儿来了 (My Daughter Is Coming) anywhere online though? 
Here is a little review of it: 
https://hongi.co.nz/news_article/asian-new-zealand-film-makers-represented-in-nationwide-festival/ 
(and the whole thing can be viewed online, but costs $$: https://ondemand.showmeshorts.co.nz/film/nu-er-lai-liao-my-daughter-is-coming/ ) 
Was shot by Darryl Wong on an ARRI AMIRA:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRxtDvMs61C/ 

Well, here is something I got tagged in yesterday that I worked on (as the Sound Mixer of course):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CquYJX2vwrm/ 
Can't seem to see any trailer for 女儿来了 (My Daughter Is Coming) anywhere online though? 
Here is a little review of it: 
https://hongi.co.nz/news_article/asian-new-zealand-film-makers-represented-in-nationwide-festival/ 
(and the whole thing can be viewed online, but costs $$: https://ondemand.showmeshorts.co.nz/film/nu-er-lai-liao-my-daughter-is-coming/ ) 
Was shot by Darryl Wong on an ARRI AMIRA:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRxtDvMs61C/ 

I gave you a like for your unusual choice @Rinad Amir of camera. Noooot:) But for the Konica 35-100 F2.8 which you might have combined with it, which a I got because of your recommendation. Best direct lens recommendation I got, besides my 8EUR Tokina 25-50 F4 from @andy lee, one of Eoshds lens connoisseurs.
I put my Fs700 to a bit of use for some additional income, in HD 420 mostly. S1 got a little share of that. GX85 my eternal love, awesome beautiful image taker and camera. Sony PMW F3 waiting to get any use:) BMMCC used for some camera enjoyment. 5D2 and 3 to test which one is cooler for raw video and hopefully not collecting dust with the F3. Second FS700 never used, collecting dust. BMPCC og collecting dust. I am a dust collector like my lenes. Don´t start me on lenses:) Still got a G7, Oly Pen EP2 and E-PL1 🙂 
Looking forward to see some (moving) images from your beauties. 🙂 @Ty Harper @majoraxis
Welcome back to the forum @kye 🙂  

By far and by far the one I use the most is a Sound Devices 833.
Oh wait, that isn't a camera.... I guess my phone then?? 

Thank you! You can go ahead and assume that there was neg on everything except the super wide shots. I’m a bit lazy when it comes to scrimming, so no. The scene in the park was actually shot before golden hour, which is why the light on them is so hard in the wider shots, but i like the edges that you get from that. For the closeups, the sun was already behind the trees, which is why it looks so soft in comparison.
We had a tube light which was intended to emulate the hard edge, but obv it wasnt powerful enough at all, but i still liked the slight extra level it gave on that side of her face.

some stills from a new short i dp’d. Still ungraded, some still need to be cropped a bit.

 

They literally mean what the words say. 
"Pixel binning" is taking the average for that bin.
While "Line Skipping" is skipping over entire lines, no calculations done whatsoever. 
That is why line skipping generally performs so much worse. 
  
Sound Devices is missing from the list of brands 😞

They literally mean what the words say. 
"Pixel binning" is taking the average for that bin.
While "Line Skipping" is skipping over entire lines, no calculations done whatsoever. 
That is why line skipping generally performs so much worse. 
  
Sound Devices is missing from the list of brands 😞

Reviving this old thread.  @dreamplayhousehow have you been liking your Nikon Z6?  Did you end up getting a Ninja 2 or Star for it?

fx30 for event coverage:
Or is this a narrative film?

I can rattle off about my Z6 but the only problem is very few people if any use that camera on the forum besides myself.  If anyone has questions about that camera though I'd be happy to answer, I've been using it very consistently for over 2 years as my main video workhorse.

Welcome back dude, and stay around!
Image is like my 3rd job in the industry, so I spend a lot of money for sound mainly, but recently I worked with A) GH5 3 cameras setup B) A7Siii and A7iii setup C) last night we worked with 2 C300mkIII and 2 C70s, I love the latter..
 
Personally, 
I still using my fleet of NX cameras, mainly because the lens collection is amazing. I bought this past summer the R7 and a couple of years ago the BMP4K. I am relatively set for the moment, but I am eyeing the R8 now, mainly because I have so many EF and RF lenses that makes perfect sense to just have the option..
As I said, it isn't my main job, but I want to stay relevant somehow (that is why I have the Pocket for braw, and the R7 for the run and gun..

By far and by far the one I use the most is a Sound Devices 833.
Oh wait, that isn't a camera.... I guess my phone then?? 

MANY things!
Timecode. 
SDI outputs.
Reliability. 
Internal NDs. 
More recording options. 
etc etc etc etc
But for many people these extra factors don't matter to them. 
However, for many professionals these would be deal breakers for these to be missing. 

And it is so dirt cheap to buy a P4K that there would be plenty of spare cash left over to buy a secondhand Panasonic G9 for the photography as well! And you can share the lenses easily between both cameras. 

D-Cam duties is all it deserves. 

Better than it being in black!

Or fold the packaging flat, so that you can post it back to yourself cheaply. 
Then you can reuse the packaging to get a bit higher selling price when  you inevitably end up selling your gear in six months time. 

Or fold the packaging flat, so that you can post it back to yourself cheaply. 
Then you can reuse the packaging to get a bit higher selling price when  you inevitably end up selling your gear in six months time. 

I agree, the next generation of us filmmakers will more likely have come up via a pathway of being aspiring youtubers/tiktokkers/instagrammers than because they were aspiring to be the next Richard Deakins 
The B Cam Op on the film I just finished was yet another example of exactly that, he was a fairly successful Instagram Influencer who has now transitioned over into the Camera Dept on film sets. (owns a RED Weapon and RED Komodo) 

GH6. There is something special about V-Log with high dynamic range enabled and the Panasonic V-Log to REC709 LUT. I have never had such an easy time with color grading. I made the move up from the GH5 because I wanted better audio focus and to be able to record 4 channels of audio, which the GH6 will with the Panasonic stereo XLR audio hot shoe adapter.