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How about ProRes? The ZR has ProRes HQ and ProRes RAW. That should be easy to edit on a Mac, right?

Any of Canon's recent MILCs are more than enough for your needs. - Cheapest for interviews: R8 or R7 (HD is also very good on both of these if you need to save on SD cards) - Best for Docs and everything else: R3 (for the money it's a lock for just about any application). You already know the best qualities of these cameras: rock solid AF, great color science, best in class reliability and dead simple usability. New Nikons are also very very good in this regard (Z5M2, Z6M3, Z8, Z9). Just try to stay with first-party lens options. For Canon you can add the official adapter and get the whole EF catalog. Maybe not the most exciting models, but if you're looking for real world usability it's hard to go wrong with the big two right now.

Damn, that's unfortunate. Maybe they blame the Angry Photographer for their divorce. They went at each other hard some years ago very publicly with non tech related personal stuff.

You forgot Chris and Jordan LOL

Def getting there. As you said, bokek is better when it's not distracting, like in most of your recent images. That and the very contrasty-darker frames make the image better. I think that's it. You'd just have to add a couple of actors that move within the frame to fill the last piece of the visual puzzle.

Nice! The contrasty light makes this images much more interesting than the previous flat ones.

Sounds good, can you name that specialized AI and the purpose it serves in your workflow? Thanks.

It is, but true artists love the craft. That's why they are artists and not accountants. When talking about AI for creativity it's always about the program used, never the person doing the work. "How do I make this easier?" is the question of an engineer or someone who wants to cut corners. Now we all use some sort of AI for our day to day jobs. I get it. It's either that or get out. But no self-respecting artist goes into the daily creative grind thinking I should embrace tech to increase my output and spend my free time on TikTok.

As the poster above said, the cinema look is hand-crafted. I would add dramatic lighting to your list. Think of the great Italian chiaroscuro painters from the XVII century. By nailing that artistic expression you're 99% into cinematic. Lots of light makes things uninteresting, didactic.

Put a lady's stocking on the mount of the lens to soften the image, maybe?

Well, that's something. It's clear that key and fill lights are the main differences between all the high-quality movies you mentioned and your samples. Hours upon hours go into the cinema aestehtic so it will be very hard to replicate via YT without the proper means. Add some very good actors and the bar stands incredibly high. Ever shot with older tape-based digital cams? Maybe you'll get some better results with a different media altogether. Newer sensors are just too clean.

Thanks for the detailed answer. You're right, only the more advanced videocameras will allow to you record at different fps, either higher or lower than 24fps (8, 12, 18, for example). Not sure about your GH7, though. But as you mentioned, you can play around with a lower shutter speed to break the 180º rule. Try 40 or 30 instead of the usual 48 or 50 and see what happens. Can't lose anything for trying, right? I don't mean to be rude, but it's hard to make innanimate objects feel "cinematic". We'd get a much better feel of the cinematic vs. video aesthetic you mention by recording human movement.

DP Reviews image tests on the new RX1 Mark III just came out. The lens is incredibly soft. Too many MPXs on that sensor for a 10 year-old lens.

Still too clean for me. Dod you record at 24fps? Maybe try lower at 20-21fps to give a more filmic cadence?

Yep, still useless. AI has no feelings. No promp-master can make AI distinctly his own. The output will always be an interpretation of something synthetic devised by the AI being used. I'm not talking about shooting your own material and enhancing it with AI. That's a different thing altogether. No. I'm talking about movies made 100% prompt after prompt. No wonder the current examples of these prompt-driven "films" always put the AI tool used before the author. It's what ppl want to know. "What tool did you use?". "What prompts did you input?". It's never the author. Always the tool.