MrSMW

From everything I heard connections are the real benefit of going to school, of course the better the school the more useful the connections. If you are a socialite you can make connections without school though. It can definitely help motivate one to actually do work and learn, but if you can get a production job that accomplishes the same thing. For corporate type 9-5ish jobs having a masters on your application can definitely help, though in this visual land your work can also speak for itself.



 

Yes. And until such time, I refuse to make any more wedding videos.
It's ridiculous that we don't have 12k now. 
24k would be even better ?

Pair of Fuji XT3’s for weddings.
Left unit with Fringer Pro and choice of: Sigma 18-35 f1.8, Canon 50 f1.8 or Canon 85 f1.8 with Rode Wireless Go to transmitter with fluffy/lav/shotgun. On tripod. Ceremony, speeches and dancing only, ie, static.
Right unit with Fuji 50 f2 and Zhiyun Weebill Lab on monopod with Anker battery pack. Moves with me throughout the entire day.

I also have a Sony 1" camcorder on another tripod with shotgun as a ceremony & speeches back up, plus the OSMO Action for some B roll stuff plus Mavic Air.

I have 2 bodies so 2 lens 'strategies'.
XT3A on tripod with Fringer adapter with main choice being Canon 50mm f1.8. Options are Canon 85mm f1.8 if I need longer or Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 if I need wider. This is my 'static' for wedding ceremonies, speeches and dancing.
XT3B on monopod with Fuji 50mm f2 which goes everywhere with me all day as my principal tool.
In summary, APSC 50mm ie, full-frame 75mm, is my principal chosen focal length for as much coverage as possible.
I've chosen them as the best compromise of fast aperture and size/weight.

Pair of Fuji XT3’s for weddings.
Left unit with Fringer Pro and choice of: Sigma 18-35 f1.8, Canon 50 f1.8 or Canon 85 f1.8 with Rode Wireless Go to transmitter with fluffy/lav/shotgun. On tripod. Ceremony, speeches and dancing only, ie, static.
Right unit with Fuji 50 f2 and Zhiyun Weebill Lab on monopod with Anker battery pack. Moves with me throughout the entire day.

I also have a Sony 1" camcorder on another tripod with shotgun as a ceremony & speeches back up, plus the OSMO Action for some B roll stuff plus Mavic Air.

Wedding video... how hard can it be?

Entrances & exits for one thing... as one of those 'hybrid' wedding photographer/vidiots, I shoot both stills and video at the same time.
Most of the day, I can flip between camera types (XT3's for video duty and XH1 & X100F stills) but there are times when I need to both at the same time such as entrances and exits, confetti tunnels etc.
I used to stick the Action on top of the XT3 on a monopod so when they got too close for the 50mm prime, the wider angle action camera captured the last few feet of their walk.
I also use it to follow trays of canapes or plates of food in motion where anything bigger is a pain in the wotsits.
I also shoot band/dancing footage and for first dance especially, it's my wide.
I'm not that creative with it and it's more filling a hole but in a limited way. Same as the drone, - just a very small part of the day, especially as the footage of both is not in the same league as that from the XT3.
I tried the Pocket previously. Wasn't for me. Better low light but for my needs, the Action works better.

@newfoundmass
the latter, ie, separate settings for photo & video ie, basically have 2 cameras in 1 body with respective settings for each type of capture.
It sounds like it’s the case and when back in the UK in a few weeks, will go and have a play in a camera shop. Maybe take a card and shoot something even if it is attached to an anti theft cord!

I was being slightly tongue in cheek and mainly referencing the olde schoole videographers from 15+ years ago that usually took their wives along for no apparent reason other than company.
Usually found wearing a polyester jacket flecked with dandruff and standing within 3 feet of the B&G at all times with his shoulder monstrosity.
Gimbals. They can go do one also ?

I've spent many years watching hybrid "vidiots" at work trying to re-balance their tiny gimbals, running back and forth to check if their Zoom/Tascam is still recording, trying to get their tiny toy tripods to stay upright in the wind, explaining to the client why they're shooting video with a stills camera etc, and missing valuable shots in the process.

All of these problems could've been avoided with a bigger, shoulder-mounted cam with XLR & ND's which just lets them shoot without thinking about anything else.

I'm being a bit tongue in cheek, but just because somebody doesn't do things the same way as you, doesn't mean you need to call them an idiot.

Without question. It is the key.
I spent many years prior to being a 'hybrid' photographer/videographer watching vidiots at work with their huge tripods, sliders etc taking sometimes 10+ minutes to set up a single shot.
Wasting 10 minutes in my opinion.
It's all well and good capturing that one 'hero' shot because you saw it on someone else's wedding video, but the reality is you are denying the client so much more potential footage and story.
Unless the client just wants the hero shots which is then fair enough.
Indeed. Too many are always chasing the next bit of kit that will then allow them to realise their creative vision.
Just get on with it with what you have got and stop making excuses.
But then this is a thread about 'dream kit' so carry on ?

I would rather have a crew with enough knowledge and experience to make things work with the equipment on hand.

Sometimes the smaller the better if you are a one man band.

Is that ^ Canon's latest offering?
The Canon EOS Desirée. The 'jack of all trades, master of none' (hybrid potato/camera).

Is that ^ Canon's latest offering?
The Canon EOS Desirée. The 'jack of all trades, master of none' (hybrid potato/camera).

Sometimes it feels like some people will never be happy. 
This is great news, whether you buy it or not. That affordable anamorphic lenses are hitting the market is a big deal and a sign of things to come. 

The name's Winky. Tinky Winky.
I think Tinky Winky would naturally gravitate towards using the glory hole.

Yup. I power mine all day on a typical 10-12 hour wedding shoot and the Anker battery pack rarely uses up more than 1/3rd of it's available stored power.
This is not continuous use obviously, but still typically 100-150GB of 4k 25p or 50p capture at 200mbs. With a single internal Fuji battery.
I have the battery pack gaffer taped to the monopod and now that I have 2x XT3's for next season will get another power bank and gaffer tape that to my tripod the other camera works from.

Well I thought I’d give it another go and repurchased another set.
But with a caveat and that is I am double-backing up audio and only using the Go as an actual lapel mic (rather than in pocket with lav mic) or attached to a lectern in direct line of sight.
Excellent speeches last weekend, but less so Ceremony when granny doing her reading stood in front of the lectern and not behind it as 99.999999999% of all human beings would. And then spoke in the quietest voice in human history.
Weddings... ?
(Backing up as in I have 2 other Sony audio recorders, sometimes with shotgun mics, nearby either table top, fastened to something or velcroed to a wall!)

Maybe such close proximity helped but with a wedding, that kind of distance isn"t possible.

2 sets, 4 jobs, 4 failures, so I have returned for a refund via Amazon.
I don't want to diss Rode as I use other audio equipment from them and had really high hopes for this system, but it's let me down several times now over the last few weddings.
Whether connected to camcorder, or Fuji XT3 or Sony recorders, I haven't had a single seamless ceremony or set of speeches.
The final straw was this weekend, direct line of sight, indoors, under 20 metres/60 feet and the end result was again incomplete.
Even at 10 metres/30 feet with the transmitter in grooms pocket and lav mic on lapel, - intermittent result.
I have 2 sets marked up A and B and it's happened with both so either I have been incredibly unlucky, or the system is not flawless.
Whatever the case may be...and as above, no intent to slag Rode, but I can't rely on this system so next weekend going back to Sony recorders, lav mics + shotgun mics and Pluralize.
Just a heads up and for anyone using the system, make sure you have a back up audio system running...

Nice job.

That's very gracious & appreciated. Apologies are such a rarity on this forum & on the Internet in general.

I'm in the camp of some of us don't even own a TV.
We haven't had one for 3 years and for stuff like Netflix or movies, my 22" PC monitor screen, ipad mini or phone.
We also still play board games.

It's so crap, I ordered a second Fuji XT3 body yesterday for video so I can carry on making more crap wedding videos.
Actually, I'd be quite interested to see what DJI come up with as I love the look of the Hassleblad...just that its; too expensive and doesn't suit my needs anyway.
Further to this topic...
Yesterday, I was again wrestling with another wedding video, - trying to match up; Sony 1" camcorder static footage with Fuji XT3 footage with DJI Mavic/Pocket/Action footage...and there is little consistency and though in isolation the camcorder footage looks decent, compared with the XT3, it's garbage.
So I had a little word with myself and made the following decision and that is bar anything actually breaking, forcing me to replace it, instead of looking at what I might be doing next year and speculating on what new kit might be coming, I'd embrace what I have and make that work.
I shoot stills and video at the same time so ideally, having just one system would be best but as no single manufacturer makes 'everything', I have to use multiple brands.
I've pared it back to Fuji & DJI. Fuji as the principal and DJI for the aerial and backup.
The camcorder is going to be sold and I've ordered a second XT3 body to replace it.
For the rest of the year, I'm just going to shoot the Eterna profile only, so no Flog or HLG on the basis I can judge the exposure of the film profile far better in the real world conditions of often uber-bright sunny SW France and concentrate on my capture rather than having the kit and technology get in the way.
I'm planning on getting to know the set up as intimately as possible as I believe that is where the results will come from rather than the next latest and greatest.
So the BMPCC4K, the Sigma FP and the potentially new DJI et al all look great, but none of them are going to make me any better at my craft.
Maybe HLG next year, but for now I think the negatives outweigh the positives and consistency is the key.
Sorry for the ramble!