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Well video is about as hard as it gets. They make it look easy on TV or in some of the fancy YouTube videos but that is about as far from the truth as you can get. If you really look hard at good videos or movies most of the shots are blocked off. Meaning they are single shots of actors or scenes that hell might have been taken weeks apart, the other actors might not have even been cast yet. So it is Easier that way to set up scenes, light them, and take WB, get focus perfect. But Auto WB has gotten better and better as of late, your A6400 ought to be pretty good at it. But you still can't run form a desert scene to a forest scene and expect it to react quick enough or fade into what you want seamlessly. You have to think ahead and figure if you need to trust auto WB or do it manually. In reality most shoots don't change that much unless you are driving through a tunnel or going from outdoors to indoors, or day and night. The whole trick to most of this is you have to shoot and shoot and shoot some more to learn your camera in all respects, how it all comes together and then you are still going to have to learn how to edit WB in your NLE because it is Never going to go perfect unless you never move from one spot to another. There are some pretty good Smartphone Apps out now that are good at Kelvin temps. On my iPhone I use one that is just called Light Meter. I also with my Sony use a gizmo called a Expodisc That you put in front of the lens to set WB on cameras that can be set. Works like an Incandecent light meter did years ago. You are not going to get even good doing video overnight; it is crazy hard to do.

I'd suggest that maybe it suddenly overheated when someone said something wildly offensive, but I don't see any shots of Jeremy Clarkson, so maybe the theory doesn't hold..... 😆😆😆

hey everything looks like familiar to me there... ; ) Parede beach (Lisbon), the land of an old fellow and house mate from my Law school period and very close where still lives another old partner in crime of mine as well where I lived a decade and a half ago... and yet, one of the most iconic locations of the Portuguese cinema (and where one of the James Bond's was shot half century ago BTW, the only one with Charles Lazenby as 007) : Very Portuguese faces indeed :- )

Really cinematic stuff. I own the Red Komodo and the Canon C70. This camera honestly produces a nicer image in a lot of ways. It's really wild.

I actually haven’t unwrapped the battery that came with the camera in case I wanted to return it. I have a few OEM’s so I just cycled through them.

I got 50mins of 4K60 before shut down 😞 dual slots, XAVCS 4:2:2 10 bit 200mbps. Ambient 20C I think warning came on around 40 min mark, not 100% sure. At least 24p works!

Some nice family beach footage shot recently by the cinematographer Tiago Pimentel on original BMPCC on a Crane3s gimbal with a Zeiss 21mm ZF.2 lens; he graded it in Resolve and used one of Resolve's built-in Kodak emulations.

The Helios is a spectacular lens and is only cheap because of the sheer quantity of them made. I've read it's the most mass-produced lens on the planet. The Helios has famously been modified by multiple groups for modern cinema use. One such conversion is by a company called Dog Schidt Optiks, which modified the Helios to flare as much as possible, to give a very retro vibe. Andrew wrote about it here: https://www.eoshd.com/lens/digital-goes-back-to-the-70s-1st-impressions-of-dog-schnit-optiks-flare-factory-58-lens-and-sample-photos/ This lens is included in this huge test of 50mm lenses, which includes many of the greatest cine lenses available regardless of price: You will note that it is very sharp wide open, and has quite pleasing characteristics. It's worth spending a few minutes comparing it to the other great optics (timestamps in the description) to really see how good it is. Of course, it flares like hell, as that's what this variation of the lens is designed to do. It's also used in the Ironglass set which is a set of professionally rehoused Soviet optics: https://ironglassadapters.com I have two of the Helios's - the 44M and a 44-2, which are included in this lens test here: The lens is a copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm but has a dreamier look, which with todays high-resolution cameras, contributes a welcome antidote to the digititis that lovers of cinema recoil from. This is an interesting article about it if you want more information.. https://www.gearfocus.com/blog/2020/05/helios-44-2-bokeh-king Don't confuse cheap with low quality! 🙂