Ed_David

well with iphone sales slowing, and slow adoption of the more expensive brand items and a global recession/depression on the horizon, especially with the us/china trade war, brexit, and the collapse of the environment, and Moore's law, Leica sales may also be tapering off a bit, especially if rich little johnny finds his current leica is just fine and doesn't need to upgrade, especially when the end product is instagram.
I know andrew isn't a fan of canon's lack of innovation, but they did do dual pixel AF in the c300 which started the amazing autofocus for video game and their lens ISS technology is pretty unbelievable in that 70-200 II and III lens and they do value good skintones, so I hope they don't leave the camera game. 
So let's not dance on their grave  . And full disclaimer, I now own a c300 ii and a c700, nikon d600 (selling) also a sony a7 iii and blackmagic pocket (selling) and aaton xtr plus.
 

I'm not expert at any of this, but would assume all semi-professional camera makers are taking a hit.  What is the performance with Sony, Leica, Panasonic, etc etc in their camera divisions?
As the iphone portrait mode gets better and better, this is most likely taking away people from canon rebels and the likes.
Next 10 years, god knows what happens with the dslr/mirrorless world.  That iphone portrait mode is probably good enough for 85% of people I would imagine, especially when the end result of photos these days aren't to be blown up.  Not even onto computer, but a 2 in instagram picture on a 720p cell phone that's no larger than 6 inches long.
and full disclosure, even I have been fooled by the iphone portrait mode.  

I don't know if I agree.  There was a succesful class action lawsuit against Western Digital in 2006 because of mislabeling drives as their total value, not as their usable disk space value.
Seems that there would need to be a disclaimer on the cards about this to prevent them from the same thing happening.

A class action lawsuit is an easy win. Nvidia i just read had to pay up when their 4gb ram video cards turned out to only be 3.5gb. Someone get a lawyer in california asap. 

Looking for red mini mag 512 gb customers to start a dance company/support group.
We need to join hands and sing out our troubles.

On which point, I recommend people pop on over into the RED group and give Ed at bit of support in the comments as at the moment he is getting a lot of hate from the RED fanboy gang:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/35666868707/permalink/10157567243643708/

Exactly! The Nvidia case makes a class action easier, not harder. 

I saw your post on the RED facebook group, I unfortunately give you a 50/50 chance of getting booted out! ?

I've been banned from RED facebook groups for lesser "crimes"....

But I wish you the best of luck!

Looking for red mini mag 512 gb customers to start a dance company/support group.
We need to join hands and sing out our troubles.

A class action lawsuit is an easy win. Nvidia i just read had to pay up when their 4gb ram video cards turned out to only be 3.5gb. Someone get a lawyer in california asap. 

A class action lawsuit is an easy win. Nvidia i just read had to pay up when their 4gb ram video cards turned out to only be 3.5gb. Someone get a lawyer in california asap. 

A class action lawsuit is an easy win. Nvidia i just read had to pay up when their 4gb ram video cards turned out to only be 3.5gb. Someone get a lawyer in california asap. 

from my quick usage of BRAW - I also didn't notice banding on 12:1 footage on ursa mini pro G1

We had a similar discussion back in 2017 when it was noticed just how cheap as chips an ARRI ALEXA Classic is getting:
 
So they've been "affordable" for a while now. 
 
I work on lots of shoots using ARRI cameras (I'm the sound recordist for a series right now which is being shot on an AMIRA, with a BMPCC4K for some occasional specialist B cam shots). And yeah, you really need to have at least a small crew behind you if you want to shoot on an ARRI. 
Lots more Minis for sale in recent weeks compared to last year, now that ARRI has confirmed a Mini S35 4K will be coming in 2020. 
Folks need to get rid of their Mini before then! ?

Depends entirely on a persons connections as to what kind of network they have of people who'd hire it from them directly vs via a full service rental house. 

As the owner of a popular site like EOSHD you could probably do better at getting rentals than most, however on the flip side people would need to be local to rent from you, which is a much smaller part of your total audience. (unfortunately a contributor like myself from way out in New Zealand will never be renting an ARRI to get it shipped from the UK to NZ and then back again!)

I'd like to see a 2019 review of the GH1 as well!
 
Skip the C100, the C300 is only a little extra cost and offers much more!
 

Yes, in terms of a more "practical" camera then EVA1 / FS7 / UMP / RED DSMC1 / Kinefinity Terra / etc will all be much much more usable in that general price range. 

Just because they're lighter / faster / power efficient. 
(relatively speaking)

And over the course of a long day of shooting then the more "practical" camera can give you better looking results than one you have to constantly fight against. 

in the states, you can rent it for around $300 a day on sharegrid and kitsplit - but I don't know the demand for it, but I think it's probably fairly good, especially wtih an odyssey for arriraw.
But as a former owner of a sony f65 - having a big giant heavy power-hungry camera with a slow boot up time definitely limits creative choices that you can get with a smaller camera.  You can't fly on a gimbal or steadicam as easily you can put it in a car or other tight spaces, you can handhold for as long.
But still, yea that alexa has some great skintones, and so easily.
still though, an ursa mini pro with a custom olpf filter or  red scarlet maybe more useful at that price range

the varicam lt is not as good in low light, and doesn't do full frame nor has, in my opinion, skintones as close to alexa as the c700.  but yea I got my used.  varicam is a lot cheaper - but that's the price I got the c700 for used

I bought one used.  it's about 1.5 stops better in the shadows than the c300 ii and same in the highlights (3.5 stops over key) - https://cinematography.net/CineRant/2018/07/30/personal-comments-on-the-2018-cml-camera-evaluations/
which makes it almost as good as any camera - well better than the alexa in shadows but, still alexa is the king in highlights.
it shoots pro res.  it does everything you wish the c300 ii would do.  well not raw light - i don't know why it doesn't do that - maybe I should ask them.
here's some stills with a zeiss 28mm standard speed - doesn't quite have full frame coverage.
i'll post a video soon to show more tests with it.

I have the new lcd. Makes the c300 ii so so so much more ergonomical .
I shot some tests c300 ii and c200. Email me at ed.david@gmail.com and i can get you the raw dpx files

I have the new lcd. Makes the c300 ii so so so much more ergonomical .
I shot some tests c300 ii and c200. Email me at ed.david@gmail.com and i can get you the raw dpx files

just the youtube web version - yea it's still really bad, but if you look at what's on youtube, I'm just trying to help them - help the little guy

just the youtube web version - yea it's still really bad, but if you look at what's on youtube, I'm just trying to help them - help the little guy

wooooooo 575 vs 300 watts . DAMN GINA!  that's like a joker 800

i regraded it for them to make it better.  tried to get rid of macro blocking:
 

Per Ted Sims on the 300Dii, via Facebook: 
"Release date in the next two months! Yes, that is an all-in-one controller box. No more noisy ballast. The new design is all built together with zero fans, all passive cooling. 20% brighter. DMX added. Powerable from a single battery. Quick release super clamp mounting point on the controller box. 360 degree reinforced yoke. Built-in Effects and Wireless Control via APP."