Tim Sewell

Front of my house on the day.

I've got a mate coming round to help me with the few shots that need camera movement or a focus rack. I can fill in the rest solo.

Front of my house on the day.

And yet Biden has achieved more bipartisan legislation than any president going back for decades. The Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the PACT Act, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, plus numerous programs and EOs combatting Climate Change, protecting equal marriage, reducing racial inequality etc etc. He's actually one of the most consequential presidents in living memory. It's frankly rather astonishing that he isn't a shoo-in in an election where his opponent is a three-time loser, adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

And yet Biden has achieved more bipartisan legislation than any president going back for decades. The Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the PACT Act, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, plus numerous programs and EOs combatting Climate Change, protecting equal marriage, reducing racial inequality etc etc. He's actually one of the most consequential presidents in living memory. It's frankly rather astonishing that he isn't a shoo-in in an election where his opponent is a three-time loser, adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

And yet Biden has achieved more bipartisan legislation than any president going back for decades. The Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the PACT Act, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, plus numerous programs and EOs combatting Climate Change, protecting equal marriage, reducing racial inequality etc etc. He's actually one of the most consequential presidents in living memory. It's frankly rather astonishing that he isn't a shoo-in in an election where his opponent is a three-time loser, adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

I'm sure I'm not the target market - which is good as apart from it being a very good-looking camera, to me it is totally underwhelming.

I've got a mate coming round to help me with the few shots that need camera movement or a focus rack. I can fill in the rest solo.

I've got a mate coming round to help me with the few shots that need camera movement or a focus rack. I can fill in the rest solo.

To be fair, that guy could get great video out of a Box Brownie.

I'd give even money on him doing the same with a Chocolate Brownie.
His XH-2 stuff is very good.

Looks pretty good....
The poor-shooters Alexa 65?

Spenser Sakurai
Tenfold Productions
Robert Machado
- also deserve a mention.

Sorry. UK idiom. 'Old' in that context doesn't mean old. My bad.

Sorry to take the thread off-topic, by the way.

With reflectors on it's definitely around 2-3 stops brighter than my Godox SL200.

Sorry. UK idiom. 'Old' in that context doesn't mean old. My bad.

Maybe the forum has been taken over by AI and it's become sentient and agreed with your comments so much it wanted everyone to read them several times!!

Sorry. UK idiom. 'Old' in that context doesn't mean old. My bad.

Well I'm no pro, but I do want to get pro results.
The tiles were, happily, a fairly neutral dark grey, but the room itself was tiny. You literally could not swing a cat in there. I lit it quite easily - 1 x 5800K Lupo into a bounce on the wall opposite the talent, a 3200K Lupo offside and behind, a 3200K tube on the floor at his feet and then the M20 at 6300K behind him lighting the sloping roof at around 40% to give a bit of separation.
It certainly looked nice enough in the monitor! Today's shots (which only took just over an hour - the advantage of the tiny location was that you can only do so many CUs and mids of a guy sitting on a stool playing a guitar and staring at a laptop!)n will be used as B-roll to run as interview cutaways and also to create a monitor LUT for all the other studio work we'll be doing over the next couple of months.

Well I'm no pro, but I do want to get pro results.
The tiles were, happily, a fairly neutral dark grey, but the room itself was tiny. You literally could not swing a cat in there. I lit it quite easily - 1 x 5800K Lupo into a bounce on the wall opposite the talent, a 3200K Lupo offside and behind, a 3200K tube on the floor at his feet and then the M20 at 6300K behind him lighting the sloping roof at around 40% to give a bit of separation.
It certainly looked nice enough in the monitor! Today's shots (which only took just over an hour - the advantage of the tiny location was that you can only do so many CUs and mids of a guy sitting on a stool playing a guitar and staring at a laptop!)n will be used as B-roll to run as interview cutaways and also to create a monitor LUT for all the other studio work we'll be doing over the next couple of months.

Have you checked out the Shotdeck channel? There aren' a huge number of videos there yet, but those that are seem very good. Basically hour-long Lawrence Sher interviews with directors/DPs etc about their movies, using the images from the site as jumping off points.

One of the things I find hilarious about YouTube is that a lot of the big camera influencers talk about leveling up channels and increasing production value, etc.  A lot of the bigger names have between 50-200k subscribers and a lot of them had the advantage of being early to starting camera channels.  Newer, theoretically popular people like Cam Mackey have like 65k.
Meanwhile, a friend of mine decided to do something with his YouTube channel a couple of years ago after the news did a story about his having purchased the monorail for $1/car from our local zoo when they stopped running it and turning it into a private campsite on some land in Wisconsin.  He mostly repurposes junk that he finds at garage sales and thrift stores into things like push-pull carts on railroad tracks and satellite dishes coated in aluminum foil.  The cameras he uses are mostly potatoes - like 25-year old camcorders and Hero 3-type stuff.  He has a pretty decent natural grasp of editing and story, though, and he's a funny guy.  He also would freely admit that he neither knows a lot about cameras nor cares to know any more.  Last I checked, he was at about 187k subscribers (including me - I like watching his stuff).
So if the goal is just to grow a YouTube channel, the quality of the camera is probably the least important bit.  Making half of your video be slow motion slideshow garbage so that you can put "cinematic" in the title doesn't really get views if the rest of the content is garbage.
I buy too much gear for my own mediocre talent, but that's partly just because I want it and after a lot of years, I can almost always find something to trade in to make stuff more affordable.  I have no illusions that buying a Komodo-X will substantially improve anything I do, but I might do it anyway.  If I get it, I'll probably like it a lot for a while and then after a couple of years, I'll probably trade it in toward something else.
 
Anyway, another thing to remember with these YouTubers that are in the business of making day 1 review commercials for various channels - when they're showing "what this camera can do," go watch their older stuff with a camera from last year.  Most of the time, it looks almost exactly like whatever they're doing with the new camera because they're really not that different.  One of the most laughable things that people say on various camera forums or YT comments is "I can't wait for (creator name here) to get it so we can see what that camera can really do."  Wanna know what that camera will look at when your favorite creator gets it?  Go watch the review they did of the camera before it.  It'll look pretty much like that.

I really don't envy you pros who have to go into who-knows-what situations and have to deliver professional results!
Do you at least know what colour the acoustic tiles are?  Heaven forbid that you go in there and they're all purple or green or something horrific..

Have you checked out the Shotdeck channel? There aren' a huge number of videos there yet, but those that are seem very good. Basically hour-long Lawrence Sher interviews with directors/DPs etc about their movies, using the images from the site as jumping off points.