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Pile of crap, there you can say it. But you're wrong. The DSLRs are still as good and as exciting as they always were it is just that the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is EXTREMELY good and has raised the bar at the $3000 price point. You can blah blah blah about Red all you like, they are not $3000. Big difference for most of us.

The form factor really is good for my kind of work. I don't 100% understand the obsession with excessive rigging. Here I have with the Blackmagic a much larger screen than a DSLR and a picture making box with securer connections on top of sticks. Want more? Not me. On a DSLR you have a tiny screen and wobbly HDMI port, then inevitably spidery arms to whatever add on is flavour of the month. Not for me really. I like the simplicity the Blackmagic gives my shoots.

The 1D C in my opinion looks very nice. But it is $12,999 (maybe even $15,000?) and that is the problem. The Blackmagic is $3000. Shoots 12bit raw. You may have heard of it :)

Are you serious? (the both of you...) The 1D C isn't even for sale yet, I haven't even seen any proper footage of it.

I'm totally sold on the BMCC, i'm a postproduction guy and 12bit 4:2:2, 2.5k resolution for green screen work, the BMCC is a bless for compositing.

Well after testing fs700 and c300 and c100 i bought Canon 1dc yesterday. A trully visionary camera.

Well done Andrew. What a shame about the vg-900. to me the poor image quality of the vg900 was more of a surprise than the difference between the fs100 and the bmc. If only the BMC had been built into a housing like the c100/c300. they get everything right apart from their stupid physical design.

[quote name='BurnetRhoades' timestamp='1353284294' post='21910'] [img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/13968/50a97ac24a62d_YESSSS.gif[/img] [/quote] SLR magic wont be able to manufacture something like the Iscorama for less than twice the current going rate of a used iscorama on Ebay. Even at £3000 for a new anamorphic exact copy of the iscorama 36, and/or a set of matched primes for £3500 a pop, PL mount, they would sell lots. I'd happily do a feature film and know it would be good enough for the big screen using my Iscorama + Zeiss primes on an Epic or Alexa. Problem is, SLR magic might struggle to market to this end of the market

[quote name='BurnetRhoades' timestamp='1353099045' post='21804'] Is the patent still in a stranglehold on the Iscorama though? That'd be great if it functioned like you're saying but I hadn't even considered it because of the patent. [/quote] Actually is out of patent now, I am told.