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Yes I think the cell phone is really hurting this industry for events. My next least favorite trend is somehow in my area wedding photographers are paid more than wedding videographers. These days it seems like the videographers are hired as an afterthought and only with whatever funds are left over from the wedding photographer.  I've turned down multiple requests this year because they had no budget and every one of them had already hired their wedding photographer.
 
I'm with you for this year.....I cancelled my C70 order, I had so many low budget clients approach me in the past few weeks that I decided its better to wait and see. Instead I am getting the S5 as a gimbal camera / B cam and if I get a shoot that could use the C70 I'll just rent it.

Thick Negative sounds like two of the bullet points written on my school report.

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I haven't tried the 24/25/30p so can't comment, theoretically it should give less heat than 4KHQ
 
Well here is my thought on the R5 after the race day
 
1. AF   The most reliable method for me is the Zone AF, tracking AF on cars can get lost when I also do the panning or when the car is down to certain area on screen or if there is a lot of cars which can block the view. Expand AF can get OoF once the car goes past and I have to use manual to get back in focus quickly otherwise it is really really slow to get back to focus. (with telephoto lens), There is still occasional focus hunt when I panning across to follow the car (from forward to sideway)
2. Custom Video Mode Major advantage over R6 is the custom video mode, currently I have set to FHD/4K50P/4K100P, so when I want to change I just press the mode and change. I can totally feel the pain for R6 user which currently doesn't have this, Canon should really update R6 for this feature.
3. Movie Crop Mode You can't set the movie crop mode to a custom key which is super dumb, I have to go to menu each time i want to do crop mode, on Sony and Panasonic you can set key for much faster access.  If you shoot in crop mode and change to your custom mode it will still shoot in crop mode (unless in 4K100/120/8K).
4. NTSC/PAL Selector  Much better done on Canon than Sony or Panasonic, just change the frequency and shoot, no need to format card (Sony) or restart camera (Panasonic), so if I need more slowmo I just change to NTSC and keep on shooting.
5. Battery Issue  I had problem where it just suddenly give me error when using EF Lens on the adapter on the genuine LP-E6N battery, I have to use LP-E6NH to make the problem go away. I will need to investigate this more. Though I feel I might get more LP-E6NH at end and sell the old LP-E6N.
6. No CLOG on H.264 This is probably the most dumbest move on Canon, we get that HEVC offer twice the efficiency but the bitrate is quite healthy on the H.264, there is absolute no technical issue for clog not on H.264! Hope Canon can really fix this as X.265 is so awful to edit.  There is HDR PQ to increase DR on H.264 if you dont want X.265 or Andrew's EOSHD Clog to emulate Clog on H.264, I used cinestyle as it matches up with the 1DX2 which also use cinestyle to help with edit in post as the video is due next day.  My editor have no problem editing the 4K50P on H.264, though 4K100P is still lag feast on Ryzen 7 4800H.
 
Other than that the editor say the video quality is definitely better than the C100MKII I shot on previous race, unfortunately we can't share our video as it belongs to the TV station (for subscriber only) but here is the  video from the team's media team  (some of my R5 footage is from 4:36 onwards)
 
 
 

The image quality is very good on this camera. Got me excited to try it out myself.😄

After doing videos for three years, I've learned an expensive camera does not always equal to an expensive and beautiful image. Part of that "Arri" look or cinematic look as people call it, is created before the camera starts to capture. 
The videos now I can shoot with very cheap camera are so much better than what I used to shoot using a Sony A7S2. Give the best camera in the world to a newbie and he is going to still have bad result. Something I only learned after quite a few bad investments. 😅
What I want to say is, a thick image with great contrast and saturation has to be created on the set, and then enhanced with camera and post production. If you can fully control the set, you don't even need log profile or crazy high bitrate or raw most of the time, though they are certainly nice to have. 

Hey guys! I’m about to interview our very own @Andrew Reidon my podcast Golden Hour! 
 
Reply with any questions you have for him and I’ll try to get them in the show!

The problem is it is not just about money, or financial reward in other ways.
The way Youtube is set up, video makers are bumped up the rankings by the number of views their videos get, and by how long viewers are engaged. One major way to achieve that is to be the first to review a new product.
All the camera companies have to do to discourage any negativity is to not offer a Youtube reviewer a new product, or be slow in offering it. No money has changed hands.
In the music gear game, backhanders has long been a problem. Magazines rely on gear advertising for their income, so would be hesitant to give an item a bad review in case the manufacturer pulled their advertising. What happened was that magazines would only review gear they could be positive about.
Maybe the same will eventually happen on Youtube. If a new bit of gear doesn't get reviewed much, read into that most reviewers thought it was garbage.

Just give plenty of SDI outputs, with full individual control over each, and let people use their own preferred monitors. 

I think it's about intent.  
Christian starts his video saying "Most of the people I got to know in the last two years, let it be photographers videographers film-makers whatever, tend to only go out and shoot if they got something in mind to achieve, maybe it's a vlog, maybe it's a client project, maybe it's just a travel film".
Trout and Coffee starts his most recent video saying "Hudson and I hadn't been on an adventure together for a year, by now it was the very end of August, I had been spending a lot of time staring at my computer in my office and could tell I needed to break off, spend some time away and do what I love most - make a simple film".
So, the whole premise of that video was to make a film, ie, no shot in that was C-Roll.  Sure, it's not scripted, but every time he hit record during that trip would have been in the context of "I'm making a film about an adventure with my dog" - ie, he had something in mind to achieve, like Christian said.
The shot in the one you posted where he was talking with his dad about fly fishing might not have been scripted, and he might not have even shot it with a specific context in mind, but this is where we get to the tricky parts of YouTube and how it becomes all-pervasive.  This is the hidden side that people typically only talk about when they're having some kind of meltdown.  
This is something that lots of people have spoken about - "and you start losing focus on like, what am I doing - am I doing this because I love her or am I doing this for the video? That's toxic for any relationship" (from the below video about 2:30 IIRC.).
Most people put on a facade when they go out in public, or when a camera is pointed at them (which is basically the same except the public are invited into your life via the camera).
When you're filming your life it's hard not to start living your life like people are always watching.  There are great articles on surveillance and how privacy is kind of related to being able to relax in some way.  In a sense, C-Roll might be different to A or B-roll due to the expectation of what will be done with the footage, because that's what matters in the relaxation and the creativity.
I make home videos, but no vlogs.  I make a video of when my family has a holiday, or goes out somewhere, maybe for a party or something.  If I'm doing the dad-with-camcorder thing at some occasion where we all got ready, got dressed, and went out to do something special, then that's not C-Roll.   
What is C-Roll is the shot I got of my daughter (who loves drama and acting) that starts with me testing mixed lighting in the kitchen/dining room and the kids had been home from school for about 20 minutes, and my son comes through to raid the fridge and my daughter is telling my wife about some thing that happened at school and I kind of cheekily kept rolling and she saw the camera and then started making faces and then came over to the camera, took a breath, held for a beat, then dropped into character and then proceeded to give a highly bumbling and misguided tour of our house from the perspective of the character she was in that didn't understand 21st century western living.
That shot is the one that was shot for no purpose, wasn't aligned with any project, was definitely not shot for publication, and I will probably drag out for her 21st birthday 🙂

I film my dog and then never edit the footage.

On the contrary, I like it quite a lot.  It drew me in and immediately had a fresh and honest aesthetic that made his life look somehow very appealing and yet very accessible.  I'm not sure if you've ever tried creating a video like these, but this is in kind-of the same direction that I work towards, and I can tell you, anything that is effortless to watch is because the person making it put in all the effort!
Maybe I'm wrong, and he's just a natural, where everything he does just happens to come together into a coherent narrative with candid shots that all work and support the edit in post.  The internet is a big place and I guess statistically there are likely to be a few people out there who can just pick up a camera and it all just works for them.  Who knows.
It sounds like it might be worth a go.
When I was shooting stills there was a pretty constant supply of stories from people who say that photography saved their life.  Typically they were working through the loss of a loved one or some other kind of major tragedy and were approaching suicide and someone gave them a camera and they just went out and started taking photos and it ended up helping them get through that difficult time.
I am no expert, but one thing that comes to mind is deliberately doing the opposite of what you would typically do for paid jobs and testings.  I've had a lot of success creatively in many different creative fields (music, drawing, photography, and more) by deliberately taking something you always do and just doing the opposite to see what would happen.  It kind of instantly makes something new and fresh, and you won't have any expectation that it will work (many times it really won't!) which means you will also take risks and will be more in the moment.  Worst case is you spend some time and have a little fun.
I'm not so sure.
I think nowadays with pervasive social media it's tempting to always be trying to get something that's sharable, and even if not sharable, you're always comparing yourself with things you see online.  Think about beauty 'standards' and how young women talk about how they look - they can be incredibly beautiful and yet think they are ugly or fat because they're comparing themselves to supermodels or to tennis stars that spend 8 hours a day in the gym, or to pop stars who have been photoshopped to death in every image that's publicly available.
Think about the people that you know and how often someone thinks they have an undesirable feature like a big nose or frizzy hair or blotchy skin or whatever and when they look in the mirror that's all they see.  I know people who have worked out some bizarre way to contort themselves for photos and they end up looking ridiculous but they do it because it slightly improves the one thing that they see when they look at themselves.
I remember a saying "don't compare your insides with other peoples outsides", which is talking about how we are aware of our own inner vulnerabilities and mistakes but are only aware of the projected personas of other people so we naturally don't compare well in that context.  
I used to think about Christian the same way - another 'cinematic vlogger - epic b-roll - buy my LUT packs - thanks to todays sponsor' but the last few videos have been different and he's started to become authentic, which puts him in another league entirely.  
I think the pressure on these people is huge, and there's a formula for making things look good and do well on social media.  In a sense it's copying the Peter McKinnon aesthetic, except that the aesthetic alone feels empty without a big personality and big content.  I think all the big YouTubers have a quite deliberate aesthetic, Casey Neistat has spoken openly about his, but when you're copying instead of finding your own voice I think there's a place that you end up and that's the aesthetic where there's the tens of thousands of these people that you're talking about.  They kind of all end up looking like a model in a lifestyle commercial rather than a real human being.
He now has my attention, let's see if he can keep it up.

I love getting out and doing this. I have so many bits and pieces from over the years that don’t have a rhyme or reason. I think it’s super important to the creative part of your mind, to keep up on the craft for the love of the crafts sake. Otherwise it gets stale really fast. People do this with music all of the time, pick up your instrument and just play. We need to remember to do it with video too.

i like the concept and if your out and about "documenting" everything, family included, then your mind is at least kept active and your video skills as well i guess. 
i had a mate pass away nearly a year ago. he was into photos and video as well. Last time i was around at his place i helped the youngest daughter with his old video gear, got it sorted and running, now the family has memories and treasures and in some ways (he will live on)  at least for his family and thats the important thing i think. there may be no financial benefit but there's more to life than money.

This is a surprisingly meaningful video. Makes me think about life. 
My girlfriend and I used to shoot videos just for fun. Very silly stuffs, really. We knew nothing about videography so the videos are just bad. This changed after we do video professionally. We don't shoot those silly videos anymore. We only shoot paid jobs and testings. It's like we have forgotten making videos are not always about work. Making videos are not fun anymore most of the time.
Maybe that can help with my depression. Who knows?

This is a surprisingly meaningful video. Makes me think about life. 
My girlfriend and I used to shoot videos just for fun. Very silly stuffs, really. We knew nothing about videography so the videos are just bad. This changed after we do video professionally. We don't shoot those silly videos anymore. We only shoot paid jobs and testings. It's like we have forgotten making videos are not always about work. Making videos are not fun anymore most of the time.
Maybe that can help with my depression. Who knows?

That's "F2.8 equivalent" by the usual Super 35mm standard. 

S35 F2.8 DoF is plenty fast enough for shallow DoF for many filmmaking purposes. 

I for one will never go back to shooting anything less than 4K and typically nothing lower than 4K60FPS.  I already have over 120TB of storage, my projects drive is 4TB, my cache drive is 1TB, 14 core CPU, RTX 2080TI video card, USB3 media readers, 1TB SD cards, and I  always generate optimized media for every clip to have smooth playback after color grading and Fusion effects are added. I rely heavily on recomposing shots, stabilizing in post, straightening the horizon (drone footage), and couldn't imagine losing all of those capabilities.  I shoot 4K60FPS because I never know when I might need to slow something down later as part of a speed ramp or to get additional gimbal stability. Interviews of course are shot at 4K30FPS.
 
I typically then deliver in 1080P although lately I have been editing on a 1080P timeline then upscaling to 1440P for a YouTube delivery. For my website's demo reels I need the highest quality so I have Vimeo Basic which is free but has a very low storage limit so I put about 4 or 5 videos there until I reached the storage limit so that customers see a higher quality video than YouTube would allow. I also tried hosting a few MP4s on my website but that's just too unreliable; maximum quality but it's a pain to write the code to detect the different viewports and deliver the proper format based on the user's devices.
 
I get what you are saying about the additional overhead, but all of it is paid for by my clients. I charge for each project based on the number of hours it will take for me to shoot, edit, and deliver that project and my service proposals are based on processing, editing, and rendering 4K footage. Clients hire me based on my past work, they expect to get the same level of quality that they saw from other projects, the only way I can do that is by shooting in 4K or higher and delivering in 1080P or upscaled 2K. I have never shot a single frame of video in my GH5, C200, GoPro, or drones at 1080P. If you plan for 4K, build your workflow around 4K, and charge your clients for 4K it's really no different than 1080P.  If you are not making a living from video work and just posting personal projects on YouTube then 4K might not make sense.

Those look great! Awesome setting.


Some from me, these are all Prores 422 LT

Beach food shoot. Both with Nikon 24-70

If this has 4K 10bit (which it surely does???) then I'm looking forward to the FS7 price drops!

Willing to bet they added glow/had a filter to smooth the skin tones and dropped the exposure on all the greens. Bottom shot definitely added a mask to the main character and dropped the exposure on the entire background. 
 


Additional one where I lowered the contrast in the background.

Here is a VFX heavy short film I shot on the Samsung NX1 years ago, finally decided to finish it and get it online so here it is!  The last scene is the canon T3i 
all lenses used are the rokinon 24mm f1.4 and Canon 50mm f1.4  
Watching in 4k is strongly recommended as YouTube loves compressing things 
 
 
 
 

I've been doing various tests of image quality (Prores vs h264/h265) and also YouTube quality, and i'm thinking my next test will be if YT at 4K is good enough quality to tell the difference between a 4K acquisition / 4K upload and a 2K acquisition / 4K upscaled upload.
The reason I mention this is that you're wondering if 4K 420 8-bit would be "good enough" for YT, whereas I think there's a chance that even 2K 422 might be "better" than 4K YT.
My experience is that the difference between a great 4K master and a barely passable 4K master is basically invisible once YT compression has done its thing and brutally crunched the image.

Ah yes, that makes sense. It's one of those things where being more mobile might make for a better looking end result over the bump in absolute image quality.

I've absolutely over-rigged cameras in the past and in a doc situation the first thing you end up doing is take all the extra stuff off again ha.