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I would still buy the one that I have now if I had to buy one tomorrow: the EVO II 6K. Yes the Nano is better in low-light, but where I live 10-20mph sustained winds are common and the smaller drones can't handle that kind of wind. I would rather a drone that I can fly back in the wind than one that is better at low light. I shot this video last year showcasing its abilities. I left DJI due to its very invasive data collection practices and geofencing.

Been playing around with the Canon EOS M and Magic Lantern RAW over the past few weeks, mainly testing Anamorphic Adapters and Lens combos. Prepped and shot this short film in a few of hours as a test run. Color grading under a Rec709 Conversion (BMD Rec709 LUTs Available Here: https://blackmagic-luts.yolasite.com/) Personally, really enjoying this little camera. Shame the YouTube compression is so heavy. What do you think? B.

I've also played with city... I have a 2070s and in game it's choppy, but i can use the map for cinematic and the quality it's very very good..

Just got a broken Nikon ED AF-S Nikkor 28-70mm f2.8 D for €99 (The Bourne Lens) that was easy repair 😎

It isn't going to win any focus contest that is for sure. Why Panasonic has to be the only dumb bastards that hate Phase Detection is beyond me. Well Canon, but at least DPAF actually works really well.

The GH5, GH5S, and now, lo and behold, the GH5 Mark II have the "awfullest" autofocus on the planet. Why is there a major, picture busting performance difference between AF when shooting stills and AF video? AF video is unusable PERIOD; it happily stays unfocussed forever. I've missed more shots in bright sunlight than I care to remember and often flip to stills just get something. The ONLY thing that keeps me with the camera is it's 4/3 and I can't afford money or weight for the real AFers (and it appears no 4/3 can handle AF consistently, repeatedly, and reliably). If anything, the AF is overrated unless we are focused (pun fully intended) on stills only. If someone has a magic bean for GH5 AF video, I'll eat the electrons of this post.

my mate did something very similar except of the gold coast seaway. He's braver than me. We both had our drones out getting some footage of the sun setting one afternoon. He sent it a long way out in a tailwind to catch some surfers, then realized coming back in was a lot slower and we were watching the battery level dropping and then the beeping started, was a close thing soon as he had it over the beach he dropped it onto the sand. Never seen him sweat before. lol

You mean like the time I sent my old one out across a bay to film a lighthouse and coming back there was a headwind and even in sport mode it was barely moving? 😜 I was stood on the clifftop wall of a sea fort arm outstretched to try and catch it because the app had been beeping like crazy for minutes and was showing 1%. The updraught from the cliff was also pushing it up along with the headwind pushing it away. Caught it and it died literally 5 seconds later. But for those 5 seconds, it would have been on the rocks in a gazillion pieces 100 ft below. I immediately stepped off the wall, sat against it and said "fuck" about 100 times until my breathing calmed down. It wasn't the drone I was bothered about, - that's insured. It was the material I had captured for the wedding I was at.

I have exactly the setup you're talking about, and absolutely love it. It's so light weight and the footage is fantastic. I will say though, monitor on for external raw is well worth doing. Braw works pretty well in Premiere now, and you have the added benefit of changing the angle of the screen. I have my monitor mounted on the back, so to the person being filmed, it doesn't look much bigger or more intimidating than the actual camera without the monitor. Here's a couple images with a 28mm FD lens (also a very nice combo)

I have a mate who has been doubly unlucky with drones. 1. First he had a Phantom which true to their name occasionally had batteries whose capacity would suddenly go from 40% to 10% in a few seconds. Tried to get it back over water but it sunk 20m from dry land. 2. The second time is immortalized in this video, The chances of 2 drones colliding in 3D space seem pretty slim to me but it happened in Myanmar. What happened next can only be described as 'lucky'.