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1660 Ti should be about the same as a 1070. So 1070, 1660 or 1660TI would all be fine, 1070 offering even 8GB of ram.

Thanks you, great points! Ergo would be top on my list. Still not using my F3 beause I am shying away from spending money for an EVF. Akward, and the epitome of camera GAS. Buying the camera and not being willing to build and rig a system. I find my S1 harder to grade than GH5 material. I considered myself a person with decent color grading skills. But it took me a few hours to get the hang out of the S1. I had bad experience with IR poluted BM Mini Pro footage. It felt like grading 420 bit from a 5D2 to me! Hard to imagine but true. I don´t see many comparisons with the Lumix cams and EVA. From what I saw, the Varicam holds onto colours better under a variety of shooting conditions than the EVA. EVA coming close ore even equalling the image from the Varicam under normal lighting conditions, Lumix cameras having a different signature still. S1 potentially coming close with adequate grading. Varicam should trump with its thick codec for heavy grading. @kye Though the 150mbit codec of the S1 is not easy to break, just like the one from the GH5. Kye couldnt break the GH5 10bit Intercodec, which is a good thing of course:) But I imagine color response and tonality would offer more to the eye with the Varicam.

If I was to buy a card, a RTX2070 would be perfect for my needs. 1070, 1080, 2060 should be good enough even.

Thank you both for your insightful writings. I am shy of introspective at the moment. So thank you for letting me relate to the important points and thoughts you mentioned, you both! What I can state is that I want to contribute some of my last years findings to this forum and to engage more into discussions and exchange with you guys.

@Eric Calabros There is a chip shortage but still plenty opportunity to buy stuff. Are you on the edge of purchasing a camera at the moment? I bought a BMMCC a few weeks ago. Beautiful image! Blackmagic stopped its production one or two weeks ago due to the chip shortage. We will see how long it takes until the new Ursa Broadcast G2 with its 6K sensor will be available in larger numbers.

Hallo dear friends, in these rough times we all are happy to enjoy calm and joyful moments of comfort and peace of mind. The silly camera game belongs in that category of escaping the harsh reality once in a while. Even if we don´t own, rent nor use cameras a lot, we still like to fancy and, well, debate them. I am myself guilty of owning a Sony PMW F3 and having not used it other than two lazy blinks out of my window. For one and a half year, nothing, still nothing filmed yet! I bought a BMMCC a couple weeks ago and have only shot some test footage once. Owning two FS700, having used one of them (or was it the other:) only twice in two years! My Shogun Flame is still waiting for its cage, because I dont wanna spend the money. It´s still being unused as a recorder and as monitor. My S1 has performed a bit but not much. Lenses are an even worse story! Isco 16 2x unused, Tevidon lenses ununsed, Vivitar 90mm F2.5, Tokina 28-70 2.6 and so on! And still I am asking myself about the Varicam LT, because of its rep as a "real" camera. I am fascinated by both, the underdog and affordable cameras and the notion of a real cinema camera like Alexa, Red cameras, Sony Cinealtas and Varicams. So what do you think? Is the Varicam LT giving me so much more imagewise than a S1? What does it have over URSA Broadcast G2 or Mini Pro G1? Why do I fancy owning one, when not having used my other cameras for real? Two topics in one.:) cheers

@Beritar Then you might like the 200mbit hack for HD on the G9. You can find it in this thread and let us know about your findings.:) I like the 4k on my GX85. I imagine the GX9 to be about the same. It crops in more than the GX85 does because of having 4MP more in resolution. But it also is the newer sensor from the GX8 and GH5. I imagine the GX9 to be the perfect compact HD camera with its new 100 and 200mbit modes, coming from the hack.

@Grimor i don´t have a gx9 myself. I downloaded hd files with 100 or 200mbit rate from a link in this thread. They worked. Btw 200mbit would mean AllI Intra flavor of Pannys codec!

I highly recommend browsing this site for Andrews blog articles and for the posts in this forum. I wished some of the posts were not buried in the subforums or that there was a way from the user interface to get more people such as me to read them when they are posted not months later be coincidence or browsing. The anamorphic forum is a treasure. Would be lovely, if people posted more material without having it hidden in the footage section.

How about this baddie: YN455 with mft sensor, 6gig ram and android 10. Cost still much higher than a used OG BMPCC.

Would be nice to have a list of compatible phones. Would love some 2K+ 3:1 Raw from a Panny Lumix CM1 phone with its S16 size sensor from the RX100 series. But it has only Android 5 and 2gigs of Ram with 128gb storage to micro SD. @sanveer Would be great to see and read your findings. Merry Christmas to you and everyone.:)

Some GH3 love would be fun to see. But yes G9 has pixel perfect HD from the tests I´ve seen. With its 10bit and HLG it´s too easy to achieve impressive image quality.:) GH4 is my suggestion. @webrunner5 So, so, A7s, now you got perfect HD with not so perfect colours. Would make a perfect BW cinema image though.:)

@kye There is a variety of Varokinetal lenses that might do for people with budget.:) For me, affordable and small c-mount primes will have to do it. One thing about C-mount is that sometimes lenses get a bit loose and unscrewed. I had it happen with a very cheep 25mm CCTV. I´m wondering about a solution for follow focussing, which would have to be rock solid. I guess, mounting C-mount the solid way is not for the faint hearted and demands to glue or to be acted upon with screws. 😳 Just imagining doing this to my Tevidon lenses gives me a funny and funky feeling if you know what I mean.:) I think the BMPCC should be newer than the BMCC. The latter one being launched in 2013 if I remember correctly. Funny thing that anyone could look it up. But sometimes it is just fun to try to reconstruct and remember things from memory.

Darn it @Grimor. Having 100mbit HD on the GX85 would have been.. Well, would have been still the same HD which lacks the natural beauty one gets with HD from a G6 or G7. GX85 HD looks a bit underwhelming and brittle compared to those two. GX9 on the other hand might be a winner. Any experiences with the 100mbit and 200mbit HD from the GX9?

GH1 days, awesome @Roman Koenigshofer I remember I joined around the Gh4 days and have been a reader since the Gh2. So in honour to the pioneers of Dslm eloquence and passion, here is one of the first videos i ever watched in search for a large sensor camera, around ten or nine years ago: 😊

Bmmcc was introduced in spring 2015 and actual availability was in 2016. Was sure crevice had a typo there.:) Anyway, this thread is a highly recommended read for anyone starting with their bmmcc journey. Just got myself a Zeiss Tevidon 18-90 f2 lens for it. But that beauty will take longer to find the right adapter(s) for.

So save up your pennies. Blackmagic has stopped to produce the micro due to sensor shortage, as stated on their website. So prices might not get too low again soon. Hard to believe this camera was introduced in 2012. @crevice are you sure you got that right when you started this thread?:)

G7 has beautiful and almost perfect HD. It has a better sensor than G6, which has a beautiful image as well. Gh2 to my eyes has a harsh highlight rolloff and is weaker in low light than G6. I would go for a gh4 with its thick 100 and 200mbit codecs or with a G7, both with good color and the benefit of additional 4k. GH4 body is very sturdy and battery lasts forever, plus it has 100 and 200mbit for 24 to 60p! G7 in HD only goes up to around 28mbit, which is fine in good light. G6 needs to be graded with some curve tricks in resolve and codec is weak in low light. Though a G6 with 8bit 422 100mbit would be all the camera i would need. Gh4 being that, G7 almost. I filmed with G6, G7, Gx85 and Gh5, owning the first three. Graded all of them a good deal and Gh4 as well. Gh3 offers a pretty beefy 50mbit codec and should do better in lowlight and with 50/60p than g6. Watched some great videos with it, but never used one myself. For the price a no brainer with best battery life, great built and great HD afaik. Same battery like Gh4 and Gh5 i think. I really recommend reading and watching Andrews reviews. They are highly informative and entertaining!

And Christmas time all at once!😊

@Mark Romero 2 Yes, indeed. It is a different sensor though. Watching test videos shows that Varicam holds onto colors much better in lowlight than eva. It also offers 444 video in hd and 2k. I imagine the eva 1 being to varicam what a gh5 is to eva. All three great cams, but Varicam being a fantastic true pro tool for cinema production with an image up there with an Alexa and Red.

@Wild Ranger The look and mood of your film reminded me of a film which was also done with a GH line camera. Of course the GH5 trumps it by far regarding tech specs and ultimate image quality. But it shows the craft and care and right camera and approach for the film. In the end we will always be low end equipment lovers, even with an Alexa on a jib.:) So here some Bts from this GH3 image wonder. Wondering if the filmmaker Gami Orbegoso has put it out yet. You will find his GH2 predecessor on his vimeo channel, a 70min feature film.

Eos R seems natural in regard of your wish list or a used R6. Or sell your lenses and get a Lumix S5 and some manual focus vintage lenses. Would love to seem some old school Canon Ti videos. People have been doing some amazing stuff with it.

@Emanuel One would need to kiss many asses to get funding and much, much moreso to get distribution and sofore recognition in Germany. Distribution counts a bit in the end, right. They regularily fund and distribute highend trash, soulless polished garbage. Yesterday I watched a short from a filmschool, Alexa image quality, as it's filmschool and industry standard. But what luxury trash it was. So, no new sensor tech could have changed that. No new sensor tech will sofore open the gates of distribution for indy narrative masterpieces. More interesting to me on the sensor side is the fact that Blackmagic stopped the production of the Bmmcc, making it indeed a true connoisseur camera. Glad i own one myself now.:) cheers

Dear Andrew, Merry Christmas and best wishes to you! Thank you for your work and this magnificient place. I wished I had contributed more than I did last year. Corona and changing social climate in Berlin have not been so easy. So I always came here to give my soul some rest but didnt share much. For giving us comfort and for this creative community and much more- thank you so much! I love your latest article/blog post. Great photos of you and great lomo shot. Looking forward to contributing and enjoying the spirit of EOSHD! love from Berlin, Marty

Gh5 is using rec709 or at least a smaller color space than V Gamut is. I find it easier to grade for shots under natural light. The S line is using full Vlog and V Gamut. Varicam still has a different response and a very impressive image with its S35 Varicam sensor.