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Id rather have built in NDs than IBIS and a Mechanical shutter.

Forgot to add my pic... XT3 with Meike battery grip. I would prefer not to use a grip but it does transform the handling and triples the battery power and when shooting 4K... Sirui freestanding monopod about 3 years old because I still can’t find anything better. 16-80mm f4 lens which is a bit slower than I’d ideally like (have some f2 primes if I need them) mainly for the range and OIS for handheld stuff. It’s also got a Gobe variable ND on it that is controlled with a marked up rotating Nikon lens hood I glued on. Good old Rode Micro for a better audio to sync to from up to 3x Sony pocket recorders and lav mics. Fluffy for outdoor use. For dancing stuff at weddings it’s just a case of whip off the mic and put an LED on the hotshoe.

Well, the macro lens there it is 2MP anyway... LOL Here's some 8K bokeh to mention though:

8K macro would be terrific!

Here's a test sample with the previous Note model: I'd dare to say we'd love to believe it shouldn't be much different, even though, there's a dedicated macro lens there anyway ; -)

I hope Sony leave out IBIS on the A7S3. I know they won’t because it is such a consumer selling point. I personally don’t need/want it. In an ideal world they would offer two versions but as we all know this isn’t an ideal world... Thee are so many options for “proper” video stabilisation out there (from tripods to Steadicams to electronic gimbals etc.) that IBIS isn’t “necessary” although I see why it is desirable for so many people in so many situations (particularly photographic).

I reckon a factor in the poor performance for the a7 series is they're trying to squeeze a FF sensor into an APS-C mount. Which doesn't leave much room to "wiggle" about. As for the a6x00 series? Perhaps because Sony just sucks now

Here's some interesting series from this Ukrainian channel:

Stuck at home like many, so I made my daughter the actor and my wife the grip and script supervisor What have you all been up to during these strange times?

Totally agreed. I could get a nice handheld feeling without the jitters with Sony's IBIS, exactly what I wanted. I'm not so keen on the movement you tend to get from gimbals and wouldn't want that ultra smooth quality all the time.

Sony's IBIS was always OK for shooting stills and only OK for video where you didn't move - at all. But ANY movement (panning, moving around, walking, etc) was worse with Sony IBIS than just not having IBIS at all. It wasn't until I used the GH5 (and then the S1 and S1H) that I realized how amazing and useful IBIS could be. Not sure why it is so bad. As of now, Panasonic is the only manufacturer I would use IBIS with in a professional environment. But I am guessing Canon's will be on par.

ah you beat me too it, I had no Idea it was April fools until 10 minutes ago... 😄

You guys are gonna kill me for this but I actually loved the IBIS in my a7 iii. The reason is that it didn't have that locked-down look from better stabilisers. It still looked handheld but without the microjitters from my shaky hands. Cameras with better IBIS also had a lot of drag when you panned or worse, warpy corners.

I wonder how good macro is?

I'm pretty sure the idea of a single room film making challenge undoubtedly predates the internet itself let alone YouTube but we were ten days ahead of the curve by specifying it had to be done while a real life zombie apocalypse was raging outside your front door

It had IBIS working only in stills mode, not video.

IBIS on the sony is pretty decent for shooting stills. It is pretty mediocre for shooting video, IMHO, and the IBIS on my a6500 doesn't compare well at all to the IBIS on my Panasonic S1. I think a compounding factor might be the really bad rolling shutter on sony bodies also makes it appear worse. I wonder if shooting at a faster shutter speed than the 1/180th rule would make the IBIS appear better (at the expense of more staccato movement, of course). Something to try out for the next sunny day.

Resolve uses the matrices in the DNG. "Sensor space" isn't really defined like a normal gamut with 3 primaries and a white point. It's usually described by spectral sensitivities and if you were to attempt to plot the response on a x/y (or u/v) plot it wouldn't be straight lines connecting 3 points. You can an idea by calculating the primaries from the matrices in the DNG since they describe XYZ to sensor space transforms and then plotting that. You would want to do it for both illuminants in the DNG metadata and take both into account. I haven't read every post as its hard to keep up, but I'm curious at to why you want to know? Depends on how you want to work and what suits, but this is exactly the intention of either Resolve's Colour Management option (rather than YRGB) or using ACES.

One is coming...

This Jamie Windsor's video is probably the best video about composition I've ever watched. Seriously. He mentions the most important rules but it's just to lay some foundation for a discussion whether one really needs to rely on them every time. And I really like his motion graphics. There is also a book I can't recommend enough: The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman. Very thorough but still easy to read and comprehend. Lot of diagrams, explanations, etc.

The blackmagic gear and switchers are all out of stock. For my needs I got this to hook up my F3: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DPVG74G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Edit: wow, Apparently I got the last SDI version of it in stock and they removed the listing, only HDMI version available. All the others have unknown delivery dates that might not be until May, crazy.