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HAH Ebrahim, I can paypal you some money if you can buy and ship it to India P:P

I've used the VideoMicGo on a no. of weddings and own the regular videomic. The go's are grea for scratch tracks with the A7s. I have a feeling the Micro will be as good given the low frequency rejection that they advertise. The videomic is decent as a boom given what it costs and what it's meant for, I like the newer designs where one can remove and replace the wire.

The FS5 is $5600 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1185424-REG/sony_pxw_fs5_xdcam_super_35.html

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1186034-REG/sony_ilce7sm2_b_alpha_a7sii_mirrorless_digital.html

Any particular reason you want/need to use OSX, Ed?

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/08/18/intels-new-mobile-xeon-isnt-what-you-might-think-i.aspx For what it's worth.

Laptop or Desktop? Remember...the lenovo laptops are the first ones with the new mobile xeon processors. Till Apple makes laptops using similar processors you would be relying on hacked kexts and DSDTs which aren't the best

Good luck trying to get this to work 100%

Brian, you set the camera to focus at infinity and use the range-finder attached in front of the lens to focus.

That's what I was thinking. 3200 would have been very useful for the slowmo in average light. On another note slow-mo footage NSFW https://vimeo.com/136149736

Also, the interwebs seem to have really conflicting views on low-light performance. Can anyone else chip in?

Marvellous Mr. Reid, simply marvellous. Would something like the cheaper rangefinder be a good fit on this to get rid of the fly-by-wire focus? Also, anyone who has this, have you been able to use the Playmemories app to control the camera?

That beats a regular Sata 3 SSd too! With 4 disks it works out to a speed of 175MB/s PER disk which is superb. Stick with the current config.

Oliver. SSD's like the Samsung 850 Pro will offer you better speeds than a RAID 5. I am slowly shifting to SSDs as the Media/EDIT drives as my projects rarely go above 6-700 GB. RAID is a luxury I cannot afford and it does have its caveats. A simpler more economical suggestion would be to use SSDs (the 850 pros) as your Media and Cache drives, and backup to external disks. While this requires a little more effort, It gives you similar/better speeds at a much lower cost.With 4K and even high bitrate 1080p footage, faster seek times (which the SSDs offer) will give you better performance while scrubbing through tracks. Stick these SSDs into thunderbolt external enclosures.

It's Sunday! Thwack...Thwack...THWACK!!! ....i'll get my coat..

One-man-bands definitely need to own at least one camera. There are shoots that will be jus fine with a 5D, A7s, etc. There are some you would want higher end stuff and would be very difficult to pull off and sell as a one man band. Can always rent for those. It's truly based on your needs. Personally speaking, I own a T3i and use it for the odd personal project and stuff where people would pay me a small amount. If I am being paid a decent rate, I always rent either an A7s or three or a C100.

Didn't you buy one? Here's one from CSTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntMjRXL0Z04

Looked a bit fuzzy here in parts, definitely not video though. Regular screen not IMAX.

MI5 looked like video?

That's superb. Is it easily available or through dealer contacts?

Did you but it in India? If so, how much was it for?

That's why many companies are pushing dedicated HEVC encoders/decoders

This is brilliant.

Funny as that is exactly what I was looking at it for. All in one stuff when I don't have the luxury of renting things.

Hey Ebrahim. Do you own any fly-by-wire lenses you could test this out on? Thinking the cheaper version could be a good way of managing focus on these fly-by-wire lenses most of teh mirrorless guys are making.