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Brother, no offense but I think you should rename yourself to EatsTooMuchBoot cause this kind of attitude toward any company is ridiculous. The least they owe you is reliability.

Every system needs a cheap nifty fifty! Either for the beginner starting out, or even just as a back up lens for someone more established. That was one of the issues with L Mount, their lenses are too high priced. But now one of those pieces of the jigsaw has been solved: The Meike 50mm F1.8 Full Frame Auto Focus L-mount Lens (already available in Z Mount and E Mount) https://meikeglobal.com/products/50mm-f1-8-auto-focus-lens-for-portrait-photography

Thinking a company should, at bare minimum, release products that are reliable isn't internet forum spazzing, haha. "They shouldn't offer that for free" is some bootlicking type behavior, whether it's people excusing Sony, Canon, or whoever. You're not asking for it for free, you're paying a $1000 for a camera! It really isn't relevant what brand you shoot, it's that you make that excuse for ANY company that is the problem. I really can't believe though that we're in 2024 and people are justifying overheating, particularly for cameras that are targeting video creators! People surely shouldn't have to watch a 20 minute video to watch some dude sitting in his "studio" tell you that the camera overheats. As much as it bummed me to have a recording limit, at least with my original S5s I knew how long I could record and bought the camera knowing that limit directly from the manufacturer. That recording limit also at least told me how much video I could reliably record in 60fps, too. I also didn't experience overheating with it even in 98 degree weather under direct sunlight, imagine that! Again, those hosting companies are clear about it up front. If a camera company can't guarantee reliability past a certain time then recording limits should be imposed so people can reliably judge how long they can record. Transparency and honesty doesn't cost these companies a thing, some just don't care about their customers enough to give it. I can kind of see why, because people are all too happy to make excuses for them.

And they work brilliantly because this was my approach for the first half of this year, - adapted E Mount glass on Nikon bodies...except there is one potential flaw and that is the lack of in camera lens correction. Sony bodies correct for it, Nikon bodies do not. It has not been a major issue with stills though sometimes, even with lens profiles in Lightroom and some manual adjustment, it has been impossible to truly straighten certain things and a bit of hard cropping is the only option. With video though, it would be a bigger concern. AF and image quality though, superb and it's my opinion, Nikon image quality is nicer than Sony image quality with your typical hybrid camera. And ultimately, it means that Nikon Z users have access to more glass than Sony E Mount users. But I have switched to Sony for stills because ultimately, I did not want the niggles of lens distortion and the AF is as good as it gets and those 2 factors counted for me on the basis that the image quality difference is negligible. Actually, regarding the latter, the image quality of the 61mp Sony files is better than that of the 24mp Zf files, but the Zf is better in low light. Without question.

The Zoom F3 also has much better preamps than the H4essential

Well, sort of. Now I watched the whole thing. I guess it's more "YouTuber shills for like 5 different companies and talks to other YouTubers while near an Arri and a GH7" - though it'll be interesting to watch their short film when it's done.

But it also shouldn't be expected for free. 😄

Another entry in the "YouTubers shoot the GH7 side-by-side with an Arri" catalog:

Good day to all! Very hot in Greece guys!! So I flew to Thassos isand with Tenere 700 & a7iv & gopro 12 for 2 days and I stayed on its beaches, close to the sea that is. I stayed for the first time in 2 very nice hotels and I noticed that there were no Greeks at all, like tourists that is. I was very impressed by this event and I say a few words at the end of the video. Nevertheless, it was very nice! Enjoy the video! (a7iv shoots are handle hand)

Yes, good point, I'd forgotten about the F3 - https://zoomcorp.com/en/gb/handheld-video-recorders/field-recorders/f3/ Less than half the size of the H4e but about the same weight (but you get 4-channel recording capability with the H4e). Now there are some decent mics around with built-in A-D converters and a USB-C connection (and all the recorders that can operate as a USB mic), I think it's time that video-orientated mirrorless cameras dropped the 3.5mm jack input and supported USB digital audio input devices instead...

It does involve a crop, and for best results you need to use a shutter angle of 45 or 90 degrees, not the more typical 180. This will make your footage look a bit choppy but that's easily fixed by adding back motion blur with Resolve. An advantage is that gyro stabilization also reduces rolling shutter artifacts. As always, the best stabilization is external: tripod, gimbal, or steadicam. Not even the best IBIS or gyro stabilization can beat it, although IBIS can stand in for a tripod on non-moving shots. It's once the camera starts moving that external stabilization beats everything else.