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One thing I noticed about YT microphone reviews (from people who don't know much about audio) is that they tend to be judging the EQ of the microphone instead of the quality of the sound overall.  I'd hear a microphone and think it would be fine with a bit of EQ and then the person would say something like "it sounds thin and hollow - not even usable!" and I'd just roll my eyes.
@IronFilm is this something you also see across lots of reviews?
In a way it's like filming in RAW and then saying the camera footage looks "too grey - not even usable!!".

One thing I noticed about YT microphone reviews (from people who don't know much about audio) is that they tend to be judging the EQ of the microphone instead of the quality of the sound overall.  I'd hear a microphone and think it would be fine with a bit of EQ and then the person would say something like "it sounds thin and hollow - not even usable!" and I'd just roll my eyes.
@IronFilm is this something you also see across lots of reviews?
In a way it's like filming in RAW and then saying the camera footage looks "too grey - not even usable!!".

Thanks !
I have both the BMPCC and the BMMCC and I have the mosaic filter on the pocket. It is a necessity to me. I'd like to buy one for the BMMCC as well but it's so expensive  I got away without it in this very video thanks to vintage glass wide open and diffusion...
Thank you !
For the light being diffused. It actually was  I used a Tiffen Black Pro Mist 1/4, it is very nice to get those highlights spill all over the place ! (Kidzrevil also uses thoses filters extensively)
The filter combined with the use of vintage lenses wide open (almost all the time if I remember correctly) soften the image quite a bit. I used a Yashicha 55mm macro lens and a canon FD 28mm. But it is true that blackmagic images have an analog feel to them. I agree with cantsin, it surely has to do with the lack of "over processing"/NR and having a great uncompressed codec.

The Black Magic cameras all seem to share a similar look and feel with how they handle light.  It is very nice, almost like they have put a diffuser over the sun.  There seems to be nothing harsh about the image.
What is it about their cameras that creates this effect?  Is it the DR?  Colour science?  High bitrate (either prores or raw)?
I really want to own a camera that has this look but my style of film-making relies heavily on stabilisation, zoom lenses, etc so they're just not the right tool for the job.
Nice video - I particularly like the fun / different editing style!

Hi guys !
Just wanted to share a short piece I shot with my BMMCC during a sunny afternoon in Paris !
 

What I recall is 99% of people that complained about media issues didn’t use cards from BMD’s list.  I know that they also struggled to keep up with the SSD list because it takes a while to certify media and the manufacturers were constantly changing the performance.  I vaguely recall one of the SSD drives that WAS recommended wouldn’t work when they went to the next generartion of the same branded media.  That’s not on BMD.
It is why they changed to CFAST though even though everyone seems to think SSD are the perfect solution and always work.  Go look on BMD’s forums at the number of complaints over SSD’s with the original BMCC.
I personally worry about USB-C as a port for reliable use.  I would hope someon comes out with a cage or mount that locks that plug down.
I’ll be sticking to CFAST.
JB
 
 
 
 
 

Looks like the Micro is already going down in price on the second hand market. I got one for under $700. This is my first test, also my first time shooting Raw. Love this little camera. My Micro and Pocket should compliment each other well.

In a way that's a side effect of the large aperture lenses - those things are so fat it's more like the lens is squishing your fingers against the grip instead of the other way around!!

@wolf33d interesting information - thanks.  The internet isn't keen to tell you the weaknesses of various products!
In terms of the size, I'm sure that lots of accessories are (or will be) available for making the camera bigger - if only there were accessories available for making a camera smaller and lighter!!  Then I might buy a C700 and as many accessories as it takes to make it the size of an RX100 ???

@wolf33d interesting information - thanks.  The internet isn't keen to tell you the weaknesses of various products!
In terms of the size, I'm sure that lots of accessories are (or will be) available for making the camera bigger - if only there were accessories available for making a camera smaller and lighter!!  Then I might buy a C700 and as many accessories as it takes to make it the size of an RX100 ???

Nice video, especially the funny bits from Grandma!
I did a bunch of research before I ended up with RVMP+ and the TAKSTAR SGC-598 and Pixel MC-50 seemed to get positive reviews, and at $40 or less are HUGELY cheaper than the Rode or the Azden.
However the reason I went with the Rode was that those two mics are quite large and I'm trying to fly under the radar with my setup, so that matters to me.  I'd watch a bunch of reviews to see if there's a reason to pay more than $40...

Been using the A7 III with the new Tamron 28-75 for a couple of day. 
Great camera overall. Lots of improvement compared with my older A7RII. Much better than the GH5 for the same price. In fact a totally different league for stills. 
For video the AF is so unusable on the GH5 and so good on the A7 that it's also a kill for me. 
The cons are still the shitty menus even though I could set up my own ones. There are still some frustrating shits from Sony. 
For exemple I set up the dial "1" for 4K and the dial "2" for 120p with specific settings. Great. Now I can only set once and forever what shooting mode (aperture priority, manual...) for those otherwise I have to completely start over. What it means is in "1" and "2" mode that you use with the dial, you cannot choose even in the menus your shooting mode. This is ridiculous. 
Many frustrating and ridiculous ergonomic stuff like this. Also the camera is way too short. The grip is fine for a kid or small woman hand but not a man, what were they thinking?
But much overall better than before. And IQ is great, 120p is great, AF is great, IBIS is fine, S35 mode is fantastic ... Definitely the best camera on the market for 2K and that Tamron 28-75mm is fantastic. 800 bucks and 550g for a 28-75mm f/2.8 is killing it. 
Combo works well on my Crane Plus. 

Until the A7SIII is out there is nothing better at that price. 
EDIT: this might fix the grip too short problem https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1334069-REG/really_right_stuff_ba9_base_plate_base_plate_for_sony.html?ap=y&gclid=CjwKCAjwyrvaBRACEiwAcyuzRCIVpadM8fw7qzuDhV_PDMbeD_m0_IQY1m06fG9E_t2KTAqy-MEt-xoCn-wQAvD_BwE&smp=y

This is a good intro to the structure of proxies and caches in Resolve - it's from v12 but the overall structure is likely to be similar if not exactly the same in 15.
There's also a google doc of the diagram: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pbBbA4I2q3RZYrOSELPXgfdzp0X6B9OngVimTeSmbuo/edit
Resolve is a complicated beast.
I had to watch a few tutorials on manual Online / Offline editing workflows to find one that worked, especially considering my proxy files were slightly different filenames (extensions were different than proxies) but this was one of the ones I watched and might give an idea about the logic involved.
 

Hello. I made travel video using only amateur gear.
List of the gear is here:
iPhone 8
Zhiyun Smooth Q
DJI Spark
Canon G7 X
Xiaomi Yi
Manfrotto Pixi
Andoer 360 timelapse head
Here is the video:
The full story about making this video you can find on this link .
Feel free to ask any question.

freakin' Indiana is Freakin Beautiful to shoot in! I was in Brookville and Saint Marys road to Sunman 2 days ago, just a beautiful area. This Harley was shot in Brookville, Indiana.
The video below was shot on Saint Marys Road. I had to hurry, Really Hurry! The Farmer that owned that Field was Mowing the other side of the road I was parked on with a John Deere Tractor from hell coming at me fast as heck!  He stopped in front of my car and I talked to him I bet for 15 minutes about his farm and my video equipment. Farmers are great people. And there is a Bunch of them close to where I live. I only live like 5 miles from the Indiana border in Ohio. Most of my fathers side of the family are farmers in Iowa.

Agreed.  I haven't had a chance to do anything serious with mine yet (and I live in freakin' Indiana, so there's that). But a lot of the stuff out there, and the "cinematic" examples on youtube, are pretty bad overall.  I think a lot of people are upgrading from a6500 type cameras and they're more vloggers than filmmakers.  The second example you posted is particularly nice, I think that's the best I've seen.

Has anyone shot anything really impressive with the A7III yet?
I did a big comparison of the 'look' of the BMPCC vs the A73 by binging on BMPCC travel films for 2-3 hours and then trying to binge on A7III films, but the only real observation I made was that A7III owners can't edit for sh*t!
The only A7III videos I've seen that aren't terrible are these..
Matti Haapoja (he had focus issues - I think from not using the right focus modes)
Christian Mate Grab:
 

I would guess only a little, but Blackmagic probably figured out how to streamline testing as they know how to make cameras by now.
I think whatever Blackmagic does to deliver their cameras at a low cost is fine by me because they at least seem to be very open about replacing defective cameras with a new one. 
And it's the same with computer hardware. If you look on newegg or similar sites all you see are bad reviews because no one who recieves hardware in good condition actually leaves a review.  If it works as expected, everyone knows from benchmarks and specs how a particular piece of computer hardware performs.  Likewise, no one is out making threads about how good their camera works, or how it arrived with no defects.
Blackmagic seems no worse than other brands it's just due to the amateur pricing of their products, you get a lot of idiots who don't know how to use the cameras properly and claim defects because they don't know how to expose.  There was a guy who compared a bunch of different cameras including Alexa Mini and a few others and he declared the 4.6K "unusable" due to magenta all over the images and the manufacturer Rec 709 lut looking bad.  Maybe if he had used the same kind of ND that is internal with the Alexa Mini and learned how to grade he wouldn't be saying these ridiculous things.

I've seen some stunning work done on the C500 as I have with the C300...
I mean seriously. JB is shooting some of his network narrative handheld with a BMMCC, just for one "local" example.
Anyone can crap on anything if they want to but creatively speaking, any quality shooter/producer can make any number of cameras, tossed around this and other sites, produce brilliant imagery.
It's like the the idea that no one is using _____ camera or ___ camera on big shoots.
Well yeah, when you're spending tens of ks per day on production of course you use the most versatile, proven and adaptable cameras you can budget.
But to equate that (as a lot of people do) into a sense that smaller/cheaper cameras can't produce the necessary image for quality story telling just doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
We crossed that Rubicon a while ago.

If the C500 is not enough camera for you, it’s worth considering that perhaps the camera is not actually the issue. After all, if it’s good enough for a major motion picture... and with that said I as high a hopes as I have for the P4k, I’m not expecting it to live up to a C500. Just keeping it real.
 

I'm definitely not JB, but I can talk about testing, having been involved in software development and testing in my day job.
The short version of why things are released with bugs is this:
A company figures out that they can build a camera with X features in Y time, and they think that it will fill a niche and make money They start to develop it, and due to how dependencies in projects work, development takes longer than anticipated The company knows that releasing a product late is a huge mistake, especially in a rapidly developing market, but they also know that releasing a product that is flawed is also a bad idea The company goes into TESTING, where people are using the camera, noting down issues, annoyances, and product features in a big database Everything in the database is ranked (according to importance) and then allocated to a tech to fix Once an issue is fixed it is then sent back to the person who found it to test it again It is common for a change to fix something but break something else, and it's also common for a problem to be caused by two things (eg, hardware and software, or two different software modules) not being completely aligned.  Communication needs to occur, discussions to understand what is happening, what to be done, implications etc.. At some point (normally the publicised release date) a huge meeting is held and all the remaining items to be fixed are reviewed by management and the decision to release it anyway is made.  It is very very very rare for something to miss the delivery deadline because of the number of issues. The process of identifying, tracking, fixing, testing, continues during the lifetime of the product (and is why there are firmware updates to a product) In reality there will be thousands, maybe tens of thousands of items involved in a process like this.  Nothing is ever perfect.  It is not possible to test every function with every combination of data. 
Here's a quote from an article about developing the software for the space shuttle:  [Edit: here's the link to the below]
I highlighted the relevant passages in bold.
Obviously, NASA has more at stake with software problems than a consumer electronics company, and even then, they can't possibly test everything.
There is a typical divide in culture in an organisation around Risk.  
IT and engineering professionals are normally trained in a culture of excellence, where due to advanced mathematical training, there is often an underlying and often unconscious mindset of there being one answer to a question, and therefore one solution to a problem, with the rest being sub-optimal.  These teams are often incentivised by having KPIs and bonuses around system reliability. Sales, marketing, and product managers operate in "the market" which is complicated, messy, and is basically a shit-fight, and know that sales (and therefore profit) are more related to perception rather than facts, and they know that every day a product shipping date is delayed is lost sales.  They know that nothing will ever be 'perfect' and are fully ready to 'explain away' any shortcomings of the product once it's in the market, but they can't do a single thing or sell a single unit until it is actually released.  These people have KPIs and often have large percentages of their income based on sales bonuses.  They care about quality, but only as it impacts sales. Often, Sales, marketing, and product managers think that IT and engineering professionals are ivory tower elitists who will 'gold plate' everything until the company goes bankrupt and products have to be ripped from their hands in order for the company to ever be finished and for anyone to ever get paid. Often, IT and engineering professionals think that Sales, marketing, and product managers are reckless, dodgy, cowboys who have no pride in quality, no understanding of shafting the consumer by fast-talk and no integrity, and they need to prevent products from being released too soon otherwise their lack of quality will immediately sink the company and no-one will get paid ever again. I hope this illuminates why products ship will bugs.  It's a fundamental issue, and the final result is always a compromise.

Latest updated rumors https://nikonrumors.com/2018/07/09/additional-nikon-mirrorless-full-frame-camera-specifications-af-and-more.aspx/
Over 400 AF points, not sure about the exact number, it should be somewhere between 430-450. The AF is supposed to be very fast.
The rear LCD screen is tiltable just like the Nikon D850.
There is a second LCD screen on the top of the camera (just like the Fuji X-H1 pictured above)
My understanding is that there is only one selection wheel on top of the camera.
The camera's "prism" with the EVF is a bit less angular/smoother when compared to the Sony a7.
I can now confirm that the new 24-70 mirrorless full frame kit lens will indeed be f/4.
I see 8K listed in the technical specifications, but it is hard for me to get the translation - I don't think it's for video, maybe 8K time-lapse just like the D850?
The new Nikon mirrorless camera will have a nice finish and a very comfortable grip. The overall handling/feeling is supposed to be excellent - this is coming from somebody who is/has tested the camera.
Most likely no built-in flash.
The promo materials should include dancers.
Potential names: Z300 and Z500 (not confirmed at all, could be just a guess).

Very well put 

I'm definitely not JB, but I can talk about testing, having been involved in software development and testing in my day job.
The short version of why things are released with bugs is this:
A company figures out that they can build a camera with X features in Y time, and they think that it will fill a niche and make money They start to develop it, and due to how dependencies in projects work, development takes longer than anticipated The company knows that releasing a product late is a huge mistake, especially in a rapidly developing market, but they also know that releasing a product that is flawed is also a bad idea The company goes into TESTING, where people are using the camera, noting down issues, annoyances, and product features in a big database Everything in the database is ranked (according to importance) and then allocated to a tech to fix Once an issue is fixed it is then sent back to the person who found it to test it again It is common for a change to fix something but break something else, and it's also common for a problem to be caused by two things (eg, hardware and software, or two different software modules) not being completely aligned.  Communication needs to occur, discussions to understand what is happening, what to be done, implications etc.. At some point (normally the publicised release date) a huge meeting is held and all the remaining items to be fixed are reviewed by management and the decision to release it anyway is made.  It is very very very rare for something to miss the delivery deadline because of the number of issues. The process of identifying, tracking, fixing, testing, continues during the lifetime of the product (and is why there are firmware updates to a product) In reality there will be thousands, maybe tens of thousands of items involved in a process like this.  Nothing is ever perfect.  It is not possible to test every function with every combination of data. 
Here's a quote from an article about developing the software for the space shuttle:  [Edit: here's the link to the below]
I highlighted the relevant passages in bold.
Obviously, NASA has more at stake with software problems than a consumer electronics company, and even then, they can't possibly test everything.
There is a typical divide in culture in an organisation around Risk.  
IT and engineering professionals are normally trained in a culture of excellence, where due to advanced mathematical training, there is often an underlying and often unconscious mindset of there being one answer to a question, and therefore one solution to a problem, with the rest being sub-optimal.  These teams are often incentivised by having KPIs and bonuses around system reliability. Sales, marketing, and product managers operate in "the market" which is complicated, messy, and is basically a shit-fight, and know that sales (and therefore profit) are more related to perception rather than facts, and they know that every day a product shipping date is delayed is lost sales.  They know that nothing will ever be 'perfect' and are fully ready to 'explain away' any shortcomings of the product once it's in the market, but they can't do a single thing or sell a single unit until it is actually released.  These people have KPIs and often have large percentages of their income based on sales bonuses.  They care about quality, but only as it impacts sales. Often, Sales, marketing, and product managers think that IT and engineering professionals are ivory tower elitists who will 'gold plate' everything until the company goes bankrupt and products have to be ripped from their hands in order for the company to ever be finished and for anyone to ever get paid. Often, IT and engineering professionals think that Sales, marketing, and product managers are reckless, dodgy, cowboys who have no pride in quality, no understanding of shafting the consumer by fast-talk and no integrity, and they need to prevent products from being released too soon otherwise their lack of quality will immediately sink the company and no-one will get paid ever again. I hope this illuminates why products ship will bugs.  It's a fundamental issue, and the final result is always a compromise.