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    IronFilm reacted to Alt Shoo in Canon C200 and Panasonic rival camera to fight it out at CineGear Expo   
    Definitely agree the JVC-GYLS300 is already a viable option. I really don't understand the lack of interest for this camera. 
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    IronFilm got a reaction from Geoff CB in Canon C200 and Panasonic rival camera to fight it out at CineGear Expo   
    Don't get mount and sensor size mixed up. 

    My dream is it is a locking MFT mount! 
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    IronFilm reacted to Kisaha in Canon C200 and Panasonic rival camera to fight it out at CineGear Expo   
    Guys, the solution is already done, LS300, variable sensor.
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    IronFilm got a reaction from Orangenz in Canon C200 and Panasonic rival camera to fight it out at CineGear Expo   
    I would not mind at all if Panasonic releases it with a MFT sensor, *if* that means the camera can hit a very low price point such as say US$3.5K??

    Who wouldn't want a GH5 with built in NDs, SDI out, TC, and XLR for US$3.5K!
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    IronFilm reacted to OliKMIA in Canon C200 and Panasonic rival camera to fight it out at CineGear Expo   
    The new canon FF in 2018 is still speculation and even if that happens we can count on Canon to be another disappointment in the video department. They'll probably only have 4k30 perhaps with no or little crop. With DPAF and canon color it will still be nice though.
    Meanwhile Sony will have 4k60 and much more stuff, the GH6 will probably be 8k, etc
    Yeah there's 4k on the 5D4 but the thing is so crippled that it's useless. Just good to put a "4k ready" sticker on the box.
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    IronFilm reacted to Kisaha in Canon C200 and Panasonic rival camera to fight it out at CineGear Expo   
    @Andrew Reid 
    Truth is, that only Samsung has Dual Pixel technology in their mobile phones, so I would guess there is some kind of licensing going on.
    Co-operating with Samsung would be very positive for the older players, such Canon and Nikon, that seem to missing some innovation in the connectivity/touch screen/mirrorless era. Samsung is the only other sensor manufacture that can make a dent to the Sony-owned industry.
    Also, there are a lot of us, even here, preferring the C100/FS5 form, as our workhorses, and dSLR/mirrorless as B or C cameras to our workflows. Also, A7sIII needs more things than better AF to compete with these kind of cameras (C200/C100iii-Panasonic light mini).
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    IronFilm reacted to Nick Hughes in How important is a social media "presence"?   
    I think it's important for people to see that you're working and remind them that you're out there. I follow tons of local filmmakers and the ones who I see posting set-pictures or stills from a project are the ones that stay in the front of my brain. When I need to bring on an extra shooter, the first people I think of are likely to be the ones who I've most recently seen sharing their work. You can pimp yourself out however much you want (or not), but we as filmmakers shouldn't be afraid of sharing our work. 
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    IronFilm reacted to Oliver Daniel in How important is a social media "presence"?   
    Yep, I'm always banging on about this in the office. 
    Buying your followers to look good doesn't create any kind of organic high quality.
    I'd rather have 50 followers who offer great insight, communication and value rather than 500,000 random buggers who couldn't give a monkeys. 
    Here's my take on social network needs and where your ideal audience could be....
    I'm only just this week sorting it the f**k out so I don't die of starvation from lack of self created content sharing on social media. 
    Facebook
    Fun, informative and interesting content that's widely appealing and shareable. You HAVE to "boost" for anyone to actually see anything though. It does work. Very powerful if done right. 
    Instagram
    Visually exciting, conceptual, artistic content. This is where you show off your stylish stuff. 
    Twitter
    Personal insights and conversations. Sadly I've never got into it. Don't think I ever will. Zzzzzzzz. 
    LinkedIn
    Powerful as fuck if you're hooking up with other professionals for work. Should be a priority if you're doing filming for work. 
    Snapchat
    Where you're you. A human. A selfie human. I'm signed up but I'M PETRIFIED. 
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    IronFilm reacted to Oliver Daniel in How important is a social media "presence"?   
    I can weigh in on this. 
    About 18 months ago I was frustrated because I'd get a lot of very flattering positive comments and reviews about my work, but not really seeing the benefit of this financially. 
    Unfortunately these days, if you're able to give yourself a great social media presence but you're work is mediocre (as compared to a poor social media presence with incredible work) - it's more likely the former will be more successful. 
    I've been studying the "business" and "social media" side of things on a course, and although it would take me far too long to say everything here, the overall conclusion is that marketing does come before your art. Social media is the No.1 distribution platform, so if you're not bothering with it, it could be very difficult to get anywhere. 
    I've only just now, this week, picked up my social media strategy. I'm not being false, I'm not doing monetised reviews or any of that crap, I'll just be documenting what I do in bite sizes, and what value I'm able to deliver and help out (in a very non-salesy, authentic, organic, real way). I'm just going to be myself. I'll show what I'm doing as it is. 
    I'm also camera shy. So there's that too. 
    The difficulty I've had is my creative side feeling starved. The benefit is, I'm hungry to create and the artistic side is about to receive a mighty, mighty push. 
    I advise anybody to use social media to show your work and value. But be real and authentic, or the audience will see the "fakeness" a mile off. 
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    IronFilm reacted to Inazuma in How important is a social media "presence"?   
    Theres plenty of DP's who have gotten work through vimeo and instagram. Just listen to the wandering DP podcast where some of the newer players talk about hoe theyve established themselves. 
    But its important to have good work to show before going wild with social media. 
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    IronFilm reacted to Cinegain in How important is a social media "presence"?   
    I have a friend that used to never want to have anything to do with social media. Then again, he also paid for everything cash, because who knows who's keeping track of the digital traces you leave behind. Now that he has started his own business, he's all about social media and without embracing it he probably would never have seen the growth he has now. Unfortunately you're better of being an attention whore than keeping faith you will catch your break eventually. Your content might be king, but if it doesn't reach the eyeballs of someone recognizing your talent because you're hoping they will bump into it magically, opposed to actively promoting your material... then maybe there's something to it after all. Of course, being true to yourself is a noble thing... so if you can manage to get by without selling your soul then by all means stay sane! In the end of it, it's all a matter of perspective... there's 2 things in particular you mention... 'popularity is the only thing that matters' & 'making films I'm proud of'. Which is the more important one? Of course you can do something in between... like just showing some natural excitement for what you're doing by sharing little bits and pieces, keeping people in the loop... rather than just having to come across forced and spammy.
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    IronFilm reacted to Ken Ross in Gh5 or 5d mk iv?   
    ^ And likewise, in other ways, you could contend that 4K, IBIS, internal 10 bit etc. makes the GH5 the better choice. Oh, and the GH5 is no slouch shooting stills, but of course we're talking video here.  
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    IronFilm reacted to Cinegain in New Panasonic Compact Cinema Camera ?   
    Yeah, it's when someone makes perfectly understandable sentences and then ends with the note *sorry for my bad English, I'm from <insert country> *, lol. Again: it's all good, we're only human, no bad has come from it, don't sweat it, the intent was good.
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    IronFilm got a reaction from Cinegain in New Panasonic Compact Cinema Camera ?   
    Agreed, it is silly to go overboard deleting things. I hate when that happens.
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    IronFilm reacted to Ken Ross in Gh5 or 5d mk iv?   
    Hmm, the 5D3 is more detailed than the GH5? I'm having trouble with that, particularly when comparing the 4K output of the GH5 to the HD output (no 4K on the 5D3). Doing that comparison, the GH5 blows the Canon away in detail. I'm not saying the Canon isn't a great camera, but for anyone shooting video, I can't see spending the money on a camera that can't do 4K. Not in today's world and especially considering how good HD looks when it's downscaled from 4K. Then there's IBIS.
    The footage out of the GH5 looks so much better to me. That's MO. 
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    IronFilm got a reaction from omar in Gh5 or 5d mk iv?   
    Agreed, wait a few days and see what Panasonic announces! Will hopefully give you the best of both worlds. 

    JVC LS300 or Sony FS700 would also make interesting worthwhile supplementary cameras to your C100
    But a C200 / C100 mk3 probably will lack TC or SDI. 
    Will only get FHD 120fps if we're lucky, or maybe do something twisted like 120fps but in 720P.
    Will have 4K, but will be 4K 24p / UHD 30p and be 8bit 420 (maybe it will even be cropped like on the 5D mk4?? Kinda doubt it, but no kind of crippling Canon does would surprise me....)
    All for a price even higher than the current C100 mk2!
     
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    IronFilm reacted to Kisaha in Samsung NX1 vs Fujifilm X-T2 vs Nikon D5500 vs Sony a5100 shootout   
    @mercer Ok, I agree Fuji is great, I am very excited about them taking video seriously and I am looking forward for their next moves. Their APS-C cameras are serious ones and they seem to listen to their customers and I always enjoy their top execs interviews; very honest and good natured.
    I just expressed my opinion that isn't "hands down", I was expecting much better results from Fuji. It is great, but NX holds its own. NX1 is a more complete camera than NX500 in every way. Also in my monitor I didn't see the "huge" difference I was expecting. Let's say, I think I saw a bigger difference with my friends a6300 in high ISO.
    These days, is very difficult to NOT be happy with most cameras in photo and video (except maybe the lack of 4K from Canon, or some specific feature like 120frames slow motion, something that X-T2 have not, if I remember correctly, or something else). In my opinion (based in technical facts) the NX sensor is more unique than that of Fuji (which is manufactured by Sony and sold to others as well). It is made in house by Samsung, the first BSI ever made (September 2014, while Sony announced their a7Rii in June 2015), it still has the highest megapixel count ever for a APS-C camera (while Fuji had 16MP back then, Samsung had 28) with incredible fast readout (with 6.5K readout) etc Worth mentioning that its rolling shutter is 7.9ms in 1080p, and the most impressive thing, that not a lot know, is the excellent heat and power management that are capable of. I have failed to overheat these cameras, even the small NX500 in unbelievable conditions and continuous hours of video recording. These are the reasons I found it more original.
    I shoot raw, and I use Lightroom for the rest, but I have some collections that have - in total - more than 2000 presets from the classic film stocks to whatever one can imagine (I never use them now, just saying), and something similar for video (again, I am not using them). That is what I said. It is not like choosing your film stock anymore, you can choose, manipulate, do whatever. Samsung's color profiles are really interesting too, unexpectedly, even. I use the NXs as hybrids (I mean, I equally care for photo and video), and dedicated video cameras for more advanced projects, NXs are for very very low budgeted video jobs and they have served me well for the last couple of years (knock wood). That's all. When I will be more happy with another hybrid camera, I will let you all know (be sure about that!).
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    IronFilm reacted to BenEricson in SONY PMW F3 - "Direct Menu" where is it ?   
    They probably went with the LP-6 due to weight and size? The micro cinema always uses those batteries... Which also sucks. 
    You know what, I couldn't tell you because I have never used the internal recording. I do like to over expose a stop or two at times to get clean shadows, I would image this is more of a problem with the low bitrate. It is seriously difficult to get the F3 to fall apart. I will say that I use the C300ii quite a bit and the image on the F3 is pretty similar, (besides crummy indoor lighting, where Canon does so well at staying bright and colorful.) I do think it has one of the best 1080p images available. You do need to know that unless you have upgraded to the 444 version of the F3, you will not be able to get 60p with the video assist. You can with the 7Q without the upgrade, but that is much more expensive and a lot bigger/heavier. Also, for whatever reason there is a bug that causes the bottom pixel to flicker when using the video assist and capturing 60p/3g.
    I buy directly from SWIT. These guys are really good about shipping. I ordered Monday at 4pm and they shipped it out the same day and I will have it tomorrow. I currently own a 63w but just purchased that bigger one because it was on sale. I'll probably buy another if it works out. These are seriously convenient. http://www.swit.us/dv-batteries.html
    I have been using Canon LUTS and I am really happy with the results. I am working on a longer project that will be graded professionally, very excited to see how far we can push the files. I attached a couple stills. I think in almost all of these, I am exposing ETTR. I am really happy with how much saturation is held when over exposing. 
    I have the F3 rigged right now but no photos... This is a very minimal low footprint setup, could be used on a monopod or something. 
     
     
     




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    IronFilm reacted to TheRenaissanceMan in SONY PMW F3 - "Direct Menu" where is it ?   
    Ugh, I know! Even internally the camera is great, but part of me knows I'm not getting everything I can out of it. What are the biggest things you notice jumping up to external 10-bit? Just a lot more robust in the grade?
    Nice to hear the recorder is no fuss. I should invest in one or two of those d-tap Sony batts; battery life on the assist sounds irritatingly short. Not sure why they went with LP-E6 over Sony NP-F. 
    Got a link to the batts you use?
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    IronFilm reacted to omar in Gh5 or 5d mk iv?   
    I agree Ben. Color should be a spec. I guess what bugs me is the fact that canon seems to limit some of their cameras that can do more then what they're locked into doing.
    For example, look at the 5d iii and what the ML hack has been able to do with this cam. It shows the almost limitless capabilities that camera can do. But the 5d iii out of the box without jail breaking has hardly any video features. Why canon???
    So canon makes cameras that are capable of being amazing but just blocks this from us and tries to force us to upgrade our camera. :/
    And I get it. They don't want everyone buying just one of their cameras but that doesn't mean you completely make your dslrs crap. Look at Sony. Even though they have their FF mirrorless cams with a ton of video features people still buy a ton of fs5's and fs7's. I just don't get why canon can't do the same. 
    I mean canon is just now putting c-log on the 5d iv! LOL Why now? Why not when the camera was released? C'mon canon! It's pretty ridiculous IMO. 
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    IronFilm got a reaction from Emanuel in G85 Discontinued?   
    Noooo.....  Don't even joke about spreading nasty rumors like that!
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    IronFilm got a reaction from Mat Mayer in G85 Discontinued?   
    B&H occasionally has a few weird glitches when they mark something as discontinued when they just mean out of stock.
     
    Plus the G7 would get discontinued before the G85....
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    IronFilm got a reaction from Ken Ross in G85 Discontinued?   
    I strongly doubt it. G85 is half the price of a GH5! Which will make it an attractive purchase for many people.
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    IronFilm got a reaction from mercer in G85 Discontinued?   
    I strongly doubt it. G85 is half the price of a GH5! Which will make it an attractive purchase for many people.
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    IronFilm got a reaction from mercer in G85 Discontinued?   
    B&H occasionally has a few weird glitches when they mark something as discontinued when they just mean out of stock.
     
    Plus the G7 would get discontinued before the G85....
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