Rick

I dont think its that easy. Its a matter of taste. If you like BMs color science the camera is a big deal for you. If you dont like it, you dont have to buy it. But my BMPCC has SO MUCH MORE skin texture at proresHQ than i have seen in my a7s II, or a6500, or in any DSLR/M footage that iam pretty sold to BM when it comes to "aliveness" of skin. Maybe i could achieve a similar result with proper post-production but thats time. And time is money. BM does also try do achieve a pleasing grain instead of digital looking noise. I guess thats why they call their cameras "cinema". For small file sized just shoot prores proxy, or prores lt in full sensor FHD. Just bake in you own lut and you may not even have to "grade" in post. 5 axis is cool, but there are also good IS lenses out there for run&gun work. Wide lenses can be handheld even without IBIS. AF is a thing for some but iam glad that they did not put their ressources into improving that at the first point. Personally i like MF. Just feels more handheld to me and sometimes, selfmade, organic focusshifts can also look more natural or interesting than AF failure. Which will happen. In the end its all personal taste. For me, i can tell, i was so eagerly waiting to get the look and feel of my BMPCC footage back but since i do a lot of run and gun i am in the need of a more full-framish look, slow motion and low light capabilites. My clients do love the look, its way more obvious to them than colors. Most of my stuff is produced for social media, so it also suffers from bad compression rates in the end. Meanwhile the sony footage always looked dead and flat to me. I learned to deal with it to some amount others would call "no difference" but i see it, so yes, its just about me. But i also cant listen to mp3s anymore because they do lack so much of dynamic and they sound compressed compared to CD quality recordings. When i show it to others, some notice the difference immediately and others are like "huh, sounds the same". I guess last ones are also happy with DSLR/M footage ;-)

Iam into the same problem deciding which camera fits best :/ Working with two BMPCC now, which are really great colorwise. Thats also the biggest downside for me with Sony cameras as it always was with Panasonic. The out of camera footage doesnt look pleasing. I think ill go with a sony a7r II or a7s II for documentary style and the "lightweight setup" (i cant really decide, i think sony sells and old sensor with the s II and will maybe give us next year a new, backilluminated version which will be a really huge improvement) and the Ursa Mini for the "big stuff". The only downsides i can see with this camera are the mount, the lack of ND Filters AND the availability! ;-) BUT - Color is awesome - dynamic range is awesome - 4,6k 50p! - global shutter option! (halves the framerate but still awesome!) - 3:1 lossless compressed Cinema DNG RAW -> since you need less storage the effective price of the CFAST cards isnt that bad. - if youre planning live productions the URSAs ability to remote control colors with an ATEM Switcher is also a nice-to-have feature I think 4,6k is just kick-ass since you got those 0,6k extra for stabilisation and tracking stuff without losing resolution of the 4k image. Also the 3:1 Lossless compressed Cinema DNG RAW saves you a lot of space and you may be able to playback 4,6k 50p from one consumer SSD (4k 50p RAW from FS700 recorded with Odyssey is more around 650 megabytes/second =0) I also thought about the big Ursa, but i dont think my Edelkrone Slider would appreciate that ;-D