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12 hours ago, Video Hummus said:

Just watched Kai video. It seems to still have that horrid stepping exposure problem.

Yeah, this is a deal breaker for me. 

50 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Camera ops sometimes now and then listen to internal audio, to check the scratch track is ok. 

For a lot of run and gun stuff where I'm recording straight into the camera it's invaluable to have headphones. When you're a one man crew you need to make sure you're getting good audio.

It looks really good overall. I wish they'd fix the stepping when changing the ISO that I'm seeing in these videos, though. And the recording limits really are a bummer. Maybe the X-H2?

Bummer about the recording limit.

Any info on recording limits? 

On 2/23/2020 at 8:06 PM, Parker said:

Mostly I use the light dome II on a C-stand (Matthews or Impact) but for much cheaper you can also use Impact heavy duty light stands, which are also quite a bit lighter and more portable. 

Yeah, Impact's 13 foot are really well made and a bargain. I've used them as a tripod before when I needed to film over a crowd. 

20 hours ago, IronFilm said:

C Stands are rather heavy! You'd want to buy them locally. Where are you?

Or do what I do, and buy Chinese C Stands direct from China. (not sure if that is a great idea currently though, you might be in for an extra long wait)

Links?! 

3 or 4 years ago this would've been a huge release. Today though it's hard to justify spending $900 on this when there's so many options out there, even from Canon themselves. 

I'm sure it'll be a good, maybe even great, camera, but it's 2020... These specs are real late to the party. 

Honestly I find low light to be adequate on the G85, GX85 and the GH5. It could be better but a little extra light goes a long way! 

26 minutes ago, mkabi said:

I didn't say I wanted crop/mft.... just saying that people are disillusioned by the whole FF look.... don't get me wrong, I would still opt for a FF over mft if the choice were available where both were similarly priced. I mean all people would at this point....

Not if the Full Frame is significantly bigger! 

M43 is about smaller bodies and lenses, not just cost. I can carry 3 bodies and 3 zoom lenses in a backpack and it will be nearly equal in weight to one full frame camera and zoom lens. 

I mean the GH5 with 35-100 lens combined weighs less than the popular 70-200 f/2.8 full frame lenses alone! 

Had no idea people at the level of Dave had agents! My mind is kinda blown. 

I've never felt limited by M43 when it comes to most of those things, outside of low light. M43 showed though that it can have respectable low light with the GH5S and Pocket 4K.

I'm happy with M43. 

2 minutes ago, Jimmy G said:

Anyone else noticing an uptick in GH5 discount sale prices recently? As I write this B&H currently has 39 different offerings on GH5 kits/bundles and Adorama is weighing in at 40, each offering savings at-minimum of $700 USD. Perhaps clearing inventory for a new release, or am I reading too much into this?

I don't think you're reading too much into it. I'd expect an announcement in the next couple months. 

Whether Canon can deliver on the hype in a timely manner and at a competitive price are all open questions, but everyone else will need to start innovating and pushing forward. That's what's exciting about all of this! Hopefully though it's not just everyone rushing to do 8K. 

The A7S is one of those cameras that I drooled over when it first came out. I didn't even care about full frame, it was the low light that appealed to me! 

The battery life and overheating though 😭

Like even this topic, "How Much do I Make on YouTube" became a subject everyone started copying. Around 6 months ago one of the filmmaking channels did it and then within days a dozen other filmmaking channels all followed and did it too! 😂

I think they do better than $500 but not a lot better! Really it's just a continuation of how advertisers view wrestling on television. WWE has some of the best television ratings for the coveted 18-49 demographic but generates significantly less ad revenue than shows that do far worse with those demographics because of the perception that it's low rent entertainment. 

The problem with YouTube is figuring out which content appeals to advertisers. Is that channel that races marbles more appealing to them than pro wrestling or some other "fringe" topic? Who knows! YouTube certainly isn't telling us! 

What we do know is what absolutely DOES generate advertising revenue, but unfortunately that has resulted in hundreds of people producing content that's heavily influenced, if not completely copied, from the same dozen or so YouTubers. It's to the point where there are YouTube channels devoted to showing you how to edit like _________ ___________. It's all homogenized. 

7 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

you'd be looking for a color shift I assume? I could shoot it against a grey card

Yeah, that's the one thing about these lower end lights. We're really blessed when it comes to quality affordable lighting, but only the bigger companies provide the consistent quality of light across different models, while the budget companies don't because they source a lot of their lights from third parties and then brand them. 

I'm thinking, given their similar designs, that the Godox COB lights like yours and mine were made by the same company and probably use the same LED's but I've yet to find any videos on YouTube or anyone that has different models they can compare to see if there's a color shift or not. 

1 hour ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

I could test it for you, what would be the best way to test a quality of the light? 

I don't own the Godox 60w though. My LED's are all mixed haha, makes for lots of fun in post. 

Ah, I was hoping you could do side to side with the 60w! No worries! 

9 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

New godox lights are pretty nice. You can also replace the fans pretty easily. I am pretty impressed with the Godox 200w video light.

Have you compared the light from the 200w to the 60w? If so are they the same quality of light? Or do they not mix together well? 

I've had this problem with other lower cost LED's. I love my 60w lights though! 

7 hours ago, Cinegain said:

I've been noticing a bunch of YouTubers putting out content regarding the Sokani X60. Seems a solid Godox SL60W (of which I have two) rival.

Seems they're quite loud, unfortunately. 

2 hours ago, wolf33d said:

Yes, if you watch the above video he actually tells you how much people make per view for some categories. 
Any content with violence or bad words doesn’t get much. You just mentioned an extreme example. The majority, including the initial guy we talked about in the other thread who reviews camera make a lot per view. 
Also if your people with millions of sub make family friendly content, then you don’t know them well. Reminds me of that French youtuber having 10M sub and daring to say on his channel he takes home 500$ per month. A few days after he was bashed by the French YouTube community for being so insulting to his subs.

Most of the content on YouTube is extremely niche content. There are YouTube channels about marbles that have more subs than you or I could ever dream of. If your content though is deemed undesirable to advertisers it doesn't matter. 

A lot of YouTube content falls under that label. It's also resulted in creativity becoming stagnant on the platform as everyone copies one another. 

9 hours ago, wolf33d said:

So a few weeks ago on the forum, a lot of people were wondering how some YouTube with hundreds of thousands of subs could afford to buy many cameras like C500 and so on. 
That’s when I realized people are completely clueless about YouTube revenue. As I said, any Youtuber in the world with 1M+ subs is a multi millionaire. Someone with 500K subs is already quit rich. 

That guy made 250K a year when he had 200K subs. He now made US$1.9M in 2019 with 1M subs. 
Time to stop being blind..

Sometimes I do not know how to think about it. It makes me feel similar to soccer players and so on with irrational amount of money. 
I am like, good for them you know. But when you think about it, the guy picking up trash in your street does a more useful job to the world than a guy telling jokes on YouTube. Yet one gets 15K a year, the other 100 times that. Just the world we live in I guess. 

Also about that video below, his channel is about personal finance. He his making money explaining you how much he makes thanks to you watching him explaining you how to make money

 

 

 

I personally know people with over 2 million subs and they're definitely not rich or anywhere close to being rich. 

There are a lot more variables at play. The type of content you make, who watches it, etc. plays a huge role. My friends that have hundreds of thousands of subscribers but deal with pro wrestling content don't get much at all since YouTube allowed advertisers more control over what videos they advertise on and most passed on advertising on wrestling related content. 

15 hours ago, MurtlandPhoto said:

Personally I love using m43 cams with native lenses for interviews. You can easily light for f/2.8, but with the benefit of f/5.6 DoF.  It means I can use smaller, less powerful lights which helps keep the setup small. 

The 35-100 is a dream for this I've found! I'm so glad bought it! 

The Panasonic G9 is a really underrated stills camera. It gets overlooked because it's M43 but it's awesome. The IBIS is a dream! 

Perhaps look into the a6600 as well, if you're not willing to go the M43 route? It's a little over your budget but not by much.

The GH5 with the Sigma 18-35mm/Speedboster combo or the new 10-25mm f1.7 is a killer set up even in 2020. 

Not to say the S1 isn't awesome. I wanted to pull the trigger myself after using one, but at the end of the day the GH5 was more than adequate. 

Heck the local production house my friend works at is still rocking GH4s! 

6 hours ago, Kangaroo said:

What's the quickest way to downscale 4k to 1080p? Does it make sense to scale down the footage before editing to have better performance if the output would be 1080p anyway?

I'd edit in 4K and export your finished edit in 1080p. Or just add the 4K footage to a 1080p timeline. No sense it degrading the quality by adding unnecessary transcoding the work flow.