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If the budget is only $5000 i'd recommend this kit. Canon C100 MK1 - $2499 Sigma 70 - 200mm f/2.8 - $1299 Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 - $799 Rode Videomic Pro - $229 SanDisk 128 GB Extreme Pro - $66 Total: $4892

Nowadays the 5D3 and D810 are completely outclassed and outdated for video work. They're still great photo cameras, but if your focus is video you can get a LOT more for your money. To make specific recommendations we need to know more about what & how you are shooting, and what equipment you already have. For instance many corporate gigs would require lighting- if you have no lighting equipment you need to knock your camera/lens budget down to be able to get some lighting. But maybe you have a lighting rig already, or your clients typically don't want/care about lighting. Same goes for audio... shooting length (media and battery)... shooting speed (zooms vs. primes, auto modes)... ruggedness/weatherproofing... transport/storage... what looks you want to be able to achieve. Do you need photo capability? What about autofocus? Do you already have lenses or other equipment you need to maintain compatibility with?

This was my first opportunity to get out of the house and play with my C100 mkii since I got it - over a month ago. Just my luck that if I emerge from my house bearing a camera the sun always makes a run for it and the clouds start to shed their loads - so not a lot of time, or inspiration went into this. That said, I couldn't be happier with the camera - it's so easy to use that it just gets right out of the way so shooting feels more fluid than I've experienced before. 'Twas shot Canon log, with a tech LUT to Rec709 and an Eastman 100T emulation LUT, plus tweaks etc. Mainly the 55-250 STM lens.

That's exactly right, it's not just about me as a customer, it's about the millions of others who check this blog every year and want to get advice on what cameras shoot good video. Canon ignore them at their peril. Interest in DSLR and mirrorless video is not small. 4.6 million session on EOSHD last year from 1.7 million unique users.

What's the number Andrew? WHAT'S THE NUMBER?

To be fair, that is the worst video in the world. I wouldn't invest any conclusions from it whatsoever.

There is a discussion on cml about monitoring for hdr. You may be able to glean some insight there. From what I have read so far, and my own forray into hdr, 12 bit aquisition seems to be the recommended minimum prerequisite. Also, I cannot remember if the mysterybox articles mention that if you would like hdr scopes and controls, the paid version of Resolve is also necessary. As an aside, its unforunate that hdr display tech shares the same name as a photographic technique which only simulates greater dynamic range.

That's poor...quite miserable in my eyes...just take a look at the background focusing permanently back and forth - unusable with this flaw. It's the "old" Panasonic "pumping issue", sometimes in background, sometimes with the subject in foreground. It works a little bit better when defining a certain focus area and trying to keep the subject within this area, but it's far away from Sony A6x00 AF or Canon DPAF...

Really? I'm with Orangenz on this one, the GH4 was dramatically noisier than this. 3200 here is what 800 looked like on the GH4, maybe a little bit cleaner even. Have we been conditioned to be afraid of any and all noise? Go back and look at any cinema older than 20 or so and you'll see grain everywhere. Super pristine images are a relatively recent development. Yes, technology moves forward and standards change, but I'd say that the level of noise we see at 3200 on GH5 wouldn't even be noticed by audiences on Youtube, or at regular viewing distances from a television.

Yes you don't want to touch a DSLR rig with a 10 foot pole. C100 mkI or mkII is the way to go. Great skin tones for people pictures. Get a 18-..mm STM lens, a decent microphone, damn good tripod, not a cheap lightweight one, and you are 80% there. You need some lighting equipment, maybe a small external recorder to up the Codec a bit. They are cheap for 1080 recording. The C100 is a dream for the two things you mention. They all involve people and they Have to come out looking good, no great, and the Canon can do that. Get a C100 with the DPAF in it. People tend to weave back and forth, rock side to side when excited, so you Need AF. Make sure you don't go with too shallow of a DoF, but you do have to isolate them. Takes practice. Go for the mkII if you can swing it, DPAF is included, and the EVF and LCD are Tons better on it. Your budget is within reason using the Canon's. But you will find out there is no end to the money you sort of would like to spend LoL.

Andrew isn't quite wrong about multiple sources being the sum of a PR move. Canon famously doesn't let anyone with negative words about them get their hands on a review unit - I was denied any form of Canon gear for review after pointing out how Canon likes to "castrate" features for product segmentation (I think it was for the EOS 6D). O&M, Canon's PR firm, told me as such in polite terms. So if Canon only lets bloggers and reviewers who say nice things about their cameras have review units, you get this wall of positive noise about their cameras.

Seems odd, but I guess the full frame market is seen as quite conservative, and getting pro Canon and Nikon shooters to shift to mirror-less is a big challenge, especially now that Sony has such a developed mirrorless full frame operation. A whole new lens system, just to catch up with Sony?

Without the handle it looks and handles like an extremely large SLR (an extremely large SLR on which all the video-centric controls are easily to hand with it up to your eye, and are nearly 100% assignable - for instance button 7 on the handgrip: when I'm using an AF lens I have it set to AF lock, when using a MF lens it's set to magnify/B/W and peaking). It is a joy to use.

Panasonic GH5 plus secondhand G7 (dirt dirt cheap! & always handy to have in the edit a second locked off shot, if you stick the G7 on a tripod and let it run)

I just said that from your words it seems like the camera you currently have is the most appropriate for you. The only auto focus system I have ever used professionally is the one in Canon C100 mark II. I have used the A7ii, A7Sii, a6300, a6500, mainly with EF lenses. The a6500+18-105 combo was the most pleasant (and closer to my style for a hybrid camera). I don't dislike equipment, it just tools, and those kind of Sony cameras are missing a lot of the things that are important for me; I am not on the target group of these cameras as it seem, not even close.. Blockbusters have audio departments of hundreds of people, amateurs use small external mics, usually on the shoe mount, you asked about internal mics, so I guessed that you care about audio a bit, and this is a very specialized forum, so one expects a more advanced approach. You should check the Canon M series as well, if you are willing to check Canon cameras they are interesting alternatives (especially the M6, similar experience to your 5100 with the full touch screen controls, but with the gravity of Canon), and you can add a Rode video micro for some extra audio quality (the difference is huge in my opinion). Plus it has an interesting 5 axis stabilization - which is software based 100%!, but it is there, and as I said, the best AF system in industry.

I would also include: 1 spare Wasabi Power Batteries for C100 - $30 and your good to shoot all day long. 1 Z96 LED light(on camera light) - $70 2x NP-F970 Battery + DC01 Travel and Car Charger Adapter - $45 Total: $5037

It's still one of the best 4K cameras out there today, period. A dial each for shutter, aperture and ISO? Well ain't love grand! An entire wedding day at 60p on on 64GB card? Cut off my legs and call me shorty! 4K for corporate? Startin to see pictures, ain't ya? Yeah, but you think your Sony/Panny/Canon has better color? No sir, sorry bushwhackas! Maybe the now-jailed fella was responsible for the NX1's untimely demise. Or we go by my theory, which is the ugliest guy did it.

The importance of autofocus. I discounted it when I first made my mind up, but in hindsight I'd love some sort of usable AF. I hear the lowlight is still pretty good too + you have the added benefit of a full frame 4K mode with minimal rolling shooter, albeit slightly soft. I think the A7RII is a more complicated camera, but I think it might be worth it. Still, there's not much in it and you can't go wrong with either. Thanks for taking the time to watch!

Cheers Juxx, I'd recommend the A7RII over the SII, in case your eyeballing becomes cash spending.

Just out of curiosity. Wouldn't you have rather made like a few Indie Films for that $100,000 or so you said you spent on the Canon Gear?

The 1D C telephone is actually what I am going to dial on to reach Canon. Some people just don't appreciate satire.

..like people couldn't focus for more than 100 years.. all these generalizations "we need 25600 ISO to shoot/only AF/only 4K 60frames 10bit is acceptable", and whatnot make me wonder, if I am too old for video, or people have just a six months memory. Like a couple of years ago, all humanity was focusing on 4K 7" monitors that costed 150$..just gimme a break.

I really appreciate your time, thank you. It might not be beneficial for me to respond to each point and get defensive.. I'm a little stubborn, and I know it's a problem, so I'm sorry if any of this comes across as snotty (but hey I may not be real either, so doesn't matter). I'm just not really looking for ways to "improve" the film. Those notes could be an interesting new direction to take it; I just don't think it would be this film anymore at all. I generally agree with show-don't-tell, but I don't think the dialogue tells the story here, so they're speaking, but not telling. And yeah, my resources were limited, so I played both parts. I tried to distinguish them, but I'm okay with someone reading it as an internal thing

This Great... Eyeballing that A7s2... You shots and your sound design were top notch!

Add: No internal F-Log No 10bit color depth Incompatible with SmallHD monitors Lacking HFR. Only 24fps in UHD and 60fps in FHD In a 5k $ system as is rumoured I would really expect a lot, they can't come with FS5 specs in 2018 and expect to take the market.

The X-T2, doesn't have: sensor stabilization headphone port on the camera body frontfacing touchscreen the most well-supported mount... and there's no smart adapters (w/ chip) for like EF lenses They fix those... they're onto something. That's like what Samsung might've done if they'd continue to develop for a NX-2. I agree that APS-C is where it's at and Fujifilm knows their colors and quality optics. The Sony cameras just lack that creative passion for film, they just up the numbers on the specsheet, jack up the price and expect winning sales. But their product is kinda 'meh', specs look good, but doesn't really relate to realworld use. Canon of course is a joke. Nikon is not entering. And yeah, there's still the Samsung NX-1, but it's kind of an obsolete system if you can continue your road with Fuji that kind of has smiliar strengths and weaknesses. If they could bring a X-T2 VH like that, I'd seriously consider switching from Panasonic/Olympus/Blackmagic/Nikon.

I could pull focus from my GH2, which had a compact low res display without peaking... sure 4K will help, but to almost consider it mandatory is quite a stretch...

+111...There's a reviewer who normally shoots Sony (forget the guy's name) who compared a film clip from the movie The Rock to GH5 and the noise in the $100 million plus budget shot on an Arri-flex S35 was unbelievably bad compared go the GH5....

Yeah this is an unfortunate association. Even my initial gut reaction to HDR video made me immediately think of those terrible "HDR" photoshops.

I was already like did me and webrunner5 even watched the same video?? Even on the scene with the girl it's pumping around, you can also tell by the heavy breathing of the lens. Don't know, luckily I gave up on C-AF with Panasonics a long time ago. If you must... get a Canon for the type of shots where you really need to have it. Otherwise, S-AF & MF.

Thanks guys. I have to say that even at this early stage (ie, before I've learnt to fully exploit it) the image out of this camera is more pleasing to me than anything else I've shot with so far - in fact it was the camera I really wanted right from the get-go (well the Mk i actually, as this wasn't out when I first got the bug). I honestly don't know what I'd do with 4K - for me the HD image from a good sensor has exactly the right resolution to give the opportunity to craft an organic end result.

The problem with HDR with a A7s/R is that your video feed will be 8 bits only, So what ever you do you won t have a lot of information to display, HDR displays are 10 or 12 bits usually. It s a bit like displaying 720p on a 1080p TV, it s fine but you won t use the full spectrum of resolution. If you output a video in rec2020 color space it will look like crap on a normal display, your display monitor also need to be set up in rec2020 space Ideally you can work in something like davinci in ACES mode and apply the Lut at the end for exports.

What do you currently use? Surely that is a key factor in this?

Have a look at Bloom's take on AF... http://philipbloom.net/blog/autofocus1/

3200 looks so good! Amazing improvement from 800 on GH4

Man a C500 is a ton of money to rig for what you get in this day and age. And the media, storage cost, well christ. But they do have a Look. But for 7 grand you are up with a Sony FS7, or a whole FS5 rig. Man I can't turn one of those down, I have even seen Sony F5's for that. The Canon is a dead end, the Sony's are, well...more current.

I like the flow of your edits, well done. Pretty hard to beat a C100 mkII.

Tim, it looks great! Some of my favorite C100 footage. It amazes me how great the footage looks out of that camera, even by today's 4K standards.

GH5 Manual is online:https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/dscoi/DC-GH5/EG_EC_EF_EB/DC-GH5_DVQP1121ZA_eng.pdf

Well put! Good analogy.

A smart move by Pentax (until they gave in and brought out a FF... Hmm) and FujiFilm to just have APS-C and Medium Format. As the future is 1" compacts for those who want ultra portability. APS-C for those who want lens choice flexibility but are budget (or size) constrained. And Medium Format for those who the sky is the limit. So called "Full Frame" will hopefully die away as it gets squeezed in by APS-C/MFT on one side and Medium Format on the other side. Unless Sony is successful in entrenching their FE camera/lens range in time before Medium Format arrives as a truly affordable option (relative to an a7R or a9 series etc).

People don't shoot movies full frame, well very few its not the norm , super 35 /apsc is standard all those loveley cinema lenses won't work full frame , plus I really don't like the full frame look on movies , I'm used to guaging all my focal lengths relative to super 35 . So this new camera in apsc is a bonus !

All Blackmagic need to do is release a sensibly designed camera in the 1-3k range and they'd make a killing. How about a handycam design, like the NEX VGs or JVC LS300? Something sensible for handholding, with EVF and LCD included. If they are worried about protecting the Ursa line they could restrict it to S16-M43 size sensor.

Was this posted before? A good example of how 10 bit is more cc friendly

What is wrong with full frame? Pentax skip it and go medium format for their high end Fuji skip it and go medium format for their high end Only Sony and Leica doing full frame mirrorless cameras!

Hold your hats ladies and gentlemen, not so fast, the Samsung camera department is not dead yet, with the latest scandals at Samsung there been words that Samsung is once again putting focus on their mirrorless cameras. And also it was the son of head of Samsung groups that decided to lay off the cameras and move the team to focus on smartphone stuff, it clearly has not worked and one of their wonderful smartphones caught fire, a lot of people do not realise either but Samsung never had a proper camera department until they actually bought Pentax tech and people say that their smartphone department made great strides in sensor technology is simply not true, it was a two way cooperation between the camera department and the smartphone department. There still hopes for NX2

Hehe. I seem to remember when the honesty doesn't work in their favour they just leave the glaring flaws out of reviews entirely And they have so many relationships with so many PR and marketing people at the manufacturers, you can never be honest while you're constantly looking over your back at a bunch of friends imploring you to be as nice publicly to them as you are face to face at trade shows. I know how this works, I have felt the same thing myself. It's not a pressure or a strict form of censorship - it's more about just common politeness and a good career move. But it makes for a bloody boring website, believe me. And they get very highly rewarded financially too, so they're hardly a charity. What do they want? Reader donations on top of their latest $40,000 commercial video work? $2000, a 6K H.265 mode, anamorphic support and much better low light performance than the GH4. Yet they didn't mention any of that. Far worse though is they chose to make a small flaw HEADLINE news - a ridiculous click bate headline out of a tiny flaw in compression... then to imply the 10bit implementation was faulty and V-LOG completely useable for serious work, which we all know is bullshit, was the final straw for me. BULLLLLLLLsheeet. Panasonic loaned them the GH5! I have some suggestions!

I think the ursa mini pro is a better option right now (unless you need low light). More DR, build in raw recorder, prores.

Just saw this video. Seriously impressed how powerful the motors are. I get the impression Zhiyun is really serious about making good gimbals and are willing to spend money doing the R&D some (not all) other companies out there that have put out products, but I feel they are untested for real world long term use and are unwilling to make any improvements or fix any issues that the customers are having, and they are too busy making 10 other gimbal models that are not thoroughly tested for professional reliability. I guess it's just early adopter issues. Anyway, looking forward to more reviews on the Z1 Crane