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The Z8 as an APS-C video camera. You can shoot RAW in DX mode, which crops the sensor and gives you 5405x3040 clips, better than 5K and much better than 4K. You can shoot RAW at the highest quality (HIGH), with the bitrates 1/4th those for 8K - so you can shoot 48 minutes at HIGH RAW on a 1TB card, as opposed to 12 minutes for 8K! You can of course us DX (APS-C) lenses in those mode. For this video I used the FF Nikon Z 24-70 f4 lens. An advantage of the crop is that mostly one is using the center of the lens, so corner drop-off is irrelevant - most lenses from Nikon are really good in the center. So, how does it look: Think meerkats - habitat and inhabitants in their activities. 5K (5120x2880) frame grabs:

Fair enough. And good point 👍🏼

yes i see it now!!! im shooting tonight but ill get at this soon 😎

Just based on DR? That is pretty laughable 😆 But yes Canon mirrorless camera DR is not as good vs competitor, but cinema on the other hand is different story.

The ones that don’t have clog2 kind of suck dynamic range wise. All Sony cams (mostly) have slog3 which can contain all the dynamic range the sensor can put out.

I agree with you that the fx3 and fx30 are not the right cameras for shooting 1.5-hour takes, but I do not think your "evidence" - your remembering a video where someone quoted someone else (!) - is the kind of evidence that anyone should make decisions on. There are settings in those cameras for the fan, and for the shutdown thresholds. And indoors with no airflow will overheat cameras more compared with using a camera outdoors, where there is airflow. So, we need to know more about the tests than what you think someone concluded for a serious discussion of overheating. But, I do not think we need more on "overheating" for the purpose of this guy's video styles. Let us just agree that no professional cinema camera is appropriate for the OP's use (and we will all refrain from expressing our view of the worth of 1.5-hour continuous videos).

Or live a vampiric lifestyle. Or should that be unlifestyle..?? 🧛‍♂️

Even if you live in a timezone that doesn't exist!

Oppenhimer also have the enhanced 1080p option

It's back! I skipped through ARRIs YT channel to look for 1080p videos that had it, and I found a couple of interesting things: ARRI upload videos in all sorts of resolutions, 4K, 1080p, 1440p, even 720p, even recently The 1080p uploads they did only have the Enhanced Bitrate option very recently - the 1080p ones uploaded more than a couple of months ago didn't have the option This video has it: Here's a comparison. This is the 1080p video displayed full-screen on my UHD display and then a screen-grab taken. Standard 1080p: Enhanced Bitrate 1080p: Standard 1080p: Enhanced Bitrate 1080p: Oddly, it's not available on this 1080p upload, which is more recent than the above. @kaylee Do you have it enabled yet?