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If your use case is with C mount Super 16 lenses, "a bunch of lenses" might fit in a coat pocket. The tripod can also be an insanely light tripod or even something like a Manfrotto MP-3.

Well, all autofocus is in beta on the 12K. 😅

Er, the RED phone* that is.

If it makes you feel better at all, nearly every Ronin 4D that was ever made is convinced that it is currently 1970. 😅

Guess they figured the RED camera went over so well that they should make one themselves! 🤣

For me, 6K is ideal - I don't lose detail when reframing and even with some denoising, a lot of the fine detail sticks around. Really, for anything from 4K through 8K, it's fine for me. 4K just means I have to be more careful with my frame and 8K means using a bit more disk space (which I have plenty of for now, hope hard drive prices come down someday, though). But yeah, the frame rates are fantastic. They're one of the big reasons that Camera Conspiracies loves his M1P ILS so much.

I think we had some discussion about it! I'm very pro-Mission 1 ILS. I've bought a couple of Backbone-modded cams over the years (well, the first one I bought as a conversion kit for an existing previous-gen GoPro, which I promptly screwed up and then sent to them to help me fix nice guys!). The thing that's kept me from using either one is that monitoring is bad on them. The HDMI output on the older GoPro lags. We're not talking 3 frames... more like 1/4-1/2 second. And the monitor output on the Insta360 One RS... isn't. There's no wired display option for it and the wireless display to the phone is also laggy, even in an area with no wifi interference. Neither was made for pulling focus. And holding a wee little action camera right up to the eye to focus on its little screen (very little on the One RS) stinks - and tools to punch in, while available, are clearly an afterthought and are clunky. So they're most usable for something where you focus once and then just roll - which doesn't fit a lot of my use cases for a smaller sensor. Though they were great for the eclipse that came through the US a few years ago. Anyway. The M1P ILS seems to fix that problem. The screen is as big as you'll find on an action camera. Wired monitoring is possible and (from what I've seen) low-latency. Dynamoc range is, by action camera standards, good. The only reason I didn't buy one when I got the "in stock" notice from B&H was that... well, I just got a Pyxis 12K because the current sale is crazy. That and it's GoPro - they'll be on sale for at least $100 off within a year. That's how I got my M1P non-ILs.

If the monochrome version is also 2K, it'd be a lot closer to a 2.8K bayer pattern camera in actual resolution - better in low light too. That'd be a really fun camera to have.

The article said he got a total of 4 sensors. I think he's planning less on having two for other filmmakers to test it and more for having two to lend to other filmmakers to use. Unless I misread things, he's not planning to make it a product to sell. Sounds like he's going to make 3 or 4 cameras total. (Which is extremely cool, I love when people do something for reasons other than commercial interest)

These days middle-of-the-road is really good, FWIW. I sounded more pessimistic there than I meant to. 😄 The difference in DR between a mediocre modern camera and a good one is only a stop or two and the good one is usually only a stop or so off from an Alexa. But yeah - 18-22ms of rolling shutter when at full sensor width 16/17:9 will be noticeable, but IMO usually not overly offensive. 25ms in open gate starts to get into noticeable even by someone who isn't looking for it. But hey, it's still better than the $15,000 Eterna 55 with d-range on or in the 5.8k or 8k modes... a lot better than the 36mm wide 8k mode (around 32ms). I talked myself into a Pyxis 12k at the current sale price. Will be selling my E2-S6G soon to make myself feel better about adding another camera. RS and DR on it are both very good in the 8K mode which is how I'll be using it most of the time. Autofocus with EF lenses adapted to L mount is... well, it's a beta. 😅

This is the right solution IMO. Gimbals that you attach a camera to are so much less usable/useful than camera-integrated gimbals!

I would even say that the A7 IV and FX2 are, on paper, much better as run and gun cameras than the Pyxis. On paper because I haven't touched any of the three options. If I'm not mistaken and the Pyxis is IMX410, that's a very old sensor. I had one in a Z Cam E2-F6 that I bought in 2018. As you said, rolling shutter is really mediocre and dynamic range is also pretty middle-of-the-road. Even if autofocus is good, the only vendor I've seen who comes even close to Sony is Canon. It's a really good sensor which has been in a bunch of great cameras in the last 8 years, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I suspect this price drop was a signal from BMD that they're ready to move on from it - Kinefinity, on the other hand, are primed to release another camera built around it. Dropping the price was really smart - at $3,000, the competition was a lot stiffer. At $2,000, it's a potentially-compelling option against the A7 IV depending on the use case - like you said that your studio use case requires SDI and that's just not an option on the A7 IV or the ZR. Used Komodos are also in your price range and they do a pretty nice 4K ProRes from the full oversized S35 sensor (with a 0.71x focal reducer, you end up with something like 1.05x FF coverage). If you want raw, you'll be cropping in to a Micro 4/3ish window. Autofocus is a little worse than Fuji, though, and it wants a CFast card (and if you use a CFast to SSD adapter, it'll complain every time you turn it on). Otherwise, there really aren't a lot of cameras in that price range that have SDI output. I'd give it a week or so to see if anybody announces anything interesting at IBC.

Someone named Vitaly hacking a camera? Oh boy. 😅

Whoa, nice! 🤩 With the discount, used prices are below standard used prices.

For people in the US, at least (I'm not sure abroad), Panasonic are running some trade-in deals. The one for the S9, in particular, is fantastic if I understand the terms right: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/a/trade-in/61933 The S9 is $1,197 normally, but there's a $300 instant rebate and if you do a trade-in, you seem to get an extra $350 + trade-in value of what they describe as "any working digital/film camera." I wonder just how much of a potato would still quality - $547 for a brand new S9 is genuinely tempting. It's pretty much the most pocketable full frame camera on the market now - would be nice if it had internal ProRes, but I think Panasonic's HEVC implementation is decent. Also, kind of crazy to get sensor shift stabilization on a FF camera for that size/price.