Nerv

I've been buying on ebay for years and have had great success and gotten major steals on items...ie bought a RED Epic that was apparently broken and wasn't supposed to boot up for [$1000] and when i received it the camera it was basically new with 200 hours and has been working perfectly since day 1...maybe they sent me the wrong camera??? not sure but they never contacted me since...they were a very large camera retailer...

But yeah, i have never tried to sell on ebay and after reading this probably never will

More than a C70 or Komodo...which of the 3 would you chose for video work...

19 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Yes, that's a good summary of the situation there

Time was, when a trade show was advantageous for publicity and a useful place to make deals, meet distributors, network. Apparently all that is online now too.

Solution...turn off the fucking internet.

The internet...also the killer of movie theaters...

it's too bad, i have a Nikon D3S, D4 and D4S and they are stellar for photography!  I do like the idea of Apple buying them to get into the Pro camera business...but will never happen 😞

There are more than enough options out there from the last 10+ years to make amazing films...starting to feel like the camera industry is going the way of the cell phone industry...new offerings yearly...if you can't shoot an amazing film with 2008 RED One...the C70/FX6 won't do it for you either 🙂

unfortunately its all about the views...

Again, the lens is the most important part of an image

So how do you set which point to focus on?

its funny but last i checked i thought glass was the most important part of a good image.  why buy Zeiss Master Primes when you can use the plastic lens of a smartphone. it will be a sad day when processed images of a phone will mimic pro equipment...

3 hours ago, Sid said:

Is this site now boycotting Canon, after the R5 experience ?  It's just that the Canon EOS C70 4K Digital Cinema Camera has been announced and there is no mention of it on this site.  It looks pretty good to me, but I was wondering Andrew's take.... 🙂

agreed. its a killer cam

13 minutes ago, fuzzynormal said:

So here's a simple story:  I was in the market to hire a guy about 4 years ago for a video shoot.  A shooter contacted me to inquire about the gig, but had almost no experience with motion pictures.  

He was just getting into video from photography and he asked me if his lowly Pentax, which only did 60p @720 would be okay.  His photos showed that he had a great eye for composition and when we talked about the assignment he explained that he was a video neophyte, but was willing and eager to learn.

Seemed like a bit of a risk to hire this dude. After all here was a guy shooting on a decidedly not video-centric DSLR and admitting that video wasn't his main thing.  After some coaching, both of us reviewing past examples of the job I was hiring him for, and collaborating about what I wanted to see in the footage, we decided to partner up, and off he went.

Meanwhile, I simultaneously hired another guy for the same sort of shoot on the opposite side of the country.  Dude made sure to tell me more than once what his list of gear included (would you also like to know about his C300 and PL mount lenses?  Apparently he was convinced I did) --and how he was a video professional with years of experience.  Sure, he knew what I wanted, not a problem; don't even need to discuss it.  After watching past examples of the job and assuring me he could do it, off he went.

With that narrative set-up you can probably imagine who delivered spot on incredible b-roll shots that were a bit IQ mushy, but captured great scenarios and emotion --and who gave me a pile of shit footage with no cohesiveness or creativity, (plus couldn't even get the horizon level) but sure looked super sharp with great colors.

I don't know if any of this is germane to the thread, but... Here's hoping that niche players like aspiring videographer Phil from North Carolina hang in there...and their camera gear supplier does too.

fully agree here. give Steve Vai a piece of shit guitar and me a $6000 Ibanez Jem. who is going to play better...its never the gear...on a side note i still love my 1DC and RED One MX...amazing cinematic images

Canon C70 is a bad ass camera. Super 35 = perfect. full frame not necessary.  add RAW light and its all set. no EVF...big deal

Andrew. You're getting ripped on over at canonrumors comment section 😳

how does the R5 4k HQ compare to the 1DC 4K MJPEG

is it really that much better or barely noticeable. 

17 minutes ago, Nerv said:

looks like memory card used may make a difference. Prograde vs...

If below is true and the memory card effects timer precision causing confusion to the cripple timer...ie will be corrected with next firmware update so buy up those ProGrade cards and stick with 1.00

"There is one other significant difference that might prove more interesting than the meat drawer. Yesterday's experiment was with a Sony CFE card. Today's experiment was with a ProGrade card. In today's experiment he actually ran out of space after 60 minutes of recording on the ProGrade, so he then switched to the Sony card. Just before the switch the camera was reporting near 0:00 available video recording time left (thermal indicator, not card space). After he switched from the ProGrade to the Sony the camera immediately jumped up to 15:00, and provided 15 minutes of recording before reaching thermal shutdown.

Another interesting CFE observation is the indicated available video time on the ProGrade is displayed with granularity to the second - for example at the start of the test it showed 24:23 (24 minutes, 23 seconds), whereas the Sony always shows the seconds field of zero (for example, 15:00, 10:00, 05:00). It's very interesting that the precision of the available time left (presumably based exclusively on thermals) would be different for one card vs another. This implies the thermal calculation may be based in part on the CFE interface and specific card, either due to differences in some field the card returns in a CFE/NVMe protocol or even more interesting, based on a thermal element of the card itself. More experiments will need to be performed to investigate this aspect."

looks like memory card used may make a difference. Prograde vs...

From what i've seen this camera is getting rave reviews for its stills capability.  is that not worth the price alone.

will be interesting to see how this plays out.  I don't think we'll get what we want in the end. 

I'm always hearing about Canon doing this or that to protect their C-Line.  Curious on the size of the Cinema EOS business unit vs their standard camera business.  Are they so passionate to protect a business unit that only accounts for 10% of their revenue??