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For just the body I have about $2500 in the FS700 - IMO that's already a huge hit from the original MSRP. There still isn't any S35 or larger sensor body for anywhere near that price that does 240FPS - I doubt in the next year or so it'll drop that much. The successor is already out, the FS7. The 1dc's successor isn't out yet. Both are fantastic cameras and for shooting kids being crazy (I'm not a budding filmmaker) the FS700 works better for me.

I have a thick skin - I thought it was funny, like tongue-in-cheek funny. I was happy with the1dc - loved the image, but didn't feel super emotional about having it. The workflow was a bit of a pain IMO, but the colors were amazing. I have a hunch the 5dIV or 1dx mk2 will be announced/released soon and I'll probably get one of those. I didn't see that much difference stills-wise from the 1dIV in good light, nor the 5d3 (other than the burst speed). I'm not here to bash the 1dc at all. There is just something to 240FPS in 1080p that really does it for me.

Sony FS700 with 2 metabones adapters; the speedbooster and the regular. Also got the rig to shoulder mount it. While I loved the 1dc's image, I found most of the things I shoot outdoors I was stopping down to F/8 or even further most of the time. Oh, and I didn't realize used FS700's were under $3k now for ones with multiple batteries with the 4k upgrade already installed. Other reason for selling: I love slow motion. There, I said it. 240FPS is just too fun. So are ND filters and XLR inputs. I will miss that body though. In the right controlled settings IMO nothing can touch the IQ for less than 15k. Price point, Oct 30 2015, USA: 1dc I sold with 2 256GB Komputerbay 1200x cards and 2 128 GB Lexar 1066x cards, plus a spare battery. +orig box/all accessories (35k clicks) Sold on ebay for $6478. FS700R (4k firmware) + Camtree Rig + Metabones II + Non-ultra speedbooster + F970 and NP F770 battery + orig box/all accessories (260 hours) = $3180 shipped overnight. In my view, the 1dc isn't $3300 better than the FS700, and I was worried the 5dIV or 1DX mark 2 would be release anytime and shoot 4k and kill my resale value. I will pick up a beat up 1d Mark IV to shoot sports. Thoughts? Am I having seller's remorse?

*nevermind* - Drive mode on anything besides single shot makes these unavailable. Moving along...:)

Not that I really care about these options; I'm more annoying I cannot figure out why they are unavailable / don't work. I am on the latest firmware (1.4) with the 30mm F/2 lens attached. First question - I have picture profiles set to disabled, yet the smart filters option is still greyed out. I have set it to jpg only and a myriad of options; I cannot get into the smart menus folder. Secondly, according to B&H photo, if you use the Metz 41-1 Samsung flash you can use this as a slave flash. I cannot get this to work, and any/all internal/external flash options are disabled in the menu. Any ideas how the NX-1 reviewer got this to work? Thanks!

I will tell you as a 1dc owner it's tough to get super deep DOF with the 1dc. I've shot the 16-35 F/4 @ F/16 and it still blows the background out a bit. The colors and skin tones are just wonderful - the 1dc is magic fairy dust especially after you grade it a bit. Lots of data in those 500 M/bit files, and they grade quite nicely. The regular 1080p FF mode is pretty lousy, but the 4k scaled to 1080 and the s35 mode are great. I've gotten decent results with the 1080p60 and quite a bit of sharpening - it's the main knock on this camera. If Canon were smart, they'd put the 1dc sensor inside a 70d body and add the DPAF system - with a touch screen. It'd be killer.

Thanks much for the well thought out response. Obviously once she gets further along if we decide to go that route she'd have all the care her physician requires - I have some health issues myself and have gotten promoted so far into work that I have 58 people reporting to me. The daily grind of being the focal point adds quite a bit of stress already to the two I have - I will support whatever decision my wife makes. I have done some side paid video work but it's just not something I want to turn into a business. Too much work for not enough money...:) Part of the decision process is we don't have any time away from our 2 sweethearts already - her parents / sister are 2 hours away and my Mom has been gone since 2003 - if we had a better system in place it might make more sense. Don't get me wrong; this decision will not be made lightly either way. Shawn

Ebrahim. Not 40. 42. Meaning I will be near 61 when the child graduates high school. I have no idea what we're going to do.

I turned 42 two weeks ago. My wife turns 39 in November. We have two kids; ages 6 and 9. 1st and 4th grade. My wife came home today early from work and revealed that she's pregnant. While I love kids the thought of being this old and starting over with an unplanned pregnancy scares the living shit out of both of us. So I will probably unload my 1dc / 70-200 II / 300 2.8 IS / 135 L / 85 1.8 / 16-35 F/4 / 24-70 F/4 / 50 1.2 and the 2 256 GB cards / 2 128GB cards very soon. I am stunned, nervous, happy, sad, all at once. Sigh.

We have a Buy and Sell forum for this. Andrew, please do your stuff brother. I waffle back and forth about selling my 1dc, but nothing else exists that is a sports/4k shooter. Period.

I shoot my son's baseball games with the 1dc + 135 F/2 (stills) all the time. Nothing that won't AF would ever be on my GOAT list. EF 135 F/2 all the way - sharp wide open, light, reasonably priced (~700 used), black (does not draw too much attention), gorgeous bokeh, quick to focus and accepts 1.4x and 2.0 extenders. I've owned 3 of these; all of them worked perfectly on every camera body I've owned. Hell, plus it had a focus limiter too. Just too damn practical.

Some of those are great choices. To me the beauty of the 1dc is the ability to also shoot 12 FPS with continuous AF (sports). I didn't want a loupe or anything where I couldn't quickly put my eye up and shoot regular stills. I also wanted the ability to have an EVF and the ability to zoom in while recording. Get one of these: http://www.kinotehnik.com/products/electronic-viewfinder/overview It is lightweight, runs for 4-5 hours on 4 AA batteries, has 4 preset modes you can set to whatever you want - 1/2/3x zoom, 1:1 etc (like 8-10 zoom modes). All work while recording. SHOE mounted so in about 5 seconds flat I can shoot stills. DOUBLES as a 3 inch LCD monitor when the loupe/eyepiece is folded down. Has OVER and UNDER exposure modes, All blue mode, multiple colors and levels for peaking, software so you can edit modes while recording. Crop marks, histogram. I leave mirroring "off" on the 1dc and toggle the menu and I get a nice full viewfinder shot with only the record button at the top right if I want, or any combination of menus. Not only that, but I bought the (outrageously overpriced) USB control module with the 4 way joystick. I mounted this on the right side of the EVF on the 15mm rail so I can toggle zoom/peaking etc without moving my left hand from the camera body. The slickest thing for me is I have 4 separate zoom modes while rolling that can be toggled on and off without going into the menus. Well made and rock solid. They're $950 new or about $550 used on ebay. Comes with 2 battery trays. Less than a pound. You can get a SHOE extender and put your mic and the EVF both mounted to the shoe at once. I can take a picture of my setup, but basically it looks like this: http://www.hkarlsen.no/2013/09/the-canon-1dc-and-kinotehnik-evf/ If for some reason I ever sell the 1dc (why would I) I would keep this LCDVFE. Also has an HDMI pass through if you want to use recorders. False color, zebras, blue, peaking, etc. It does it all.

There must be a language or comprehension problem. Fact: The a7r2 only does 720p 120 FPS, not "FHD 1080". Fact: The a7s2 is reported to only do contrast detect AF, not phase detect. You mentioned a camera that did all of these. One does not exist. Your words: "Overpriced becaus no any other competitor can do what it do~ 14 stops DR，120P FHD without banning ，body IS，super lowlight and Phase Detection AF on canon 、nikon lens！LOL！ Again. "120P FHD without banning" = The a7s2 reporting does do 1080p120 without "binning". The a7r2 does not. "Phase Detection AF on canon , nikon lens! LOL!" = The A7s2 is contrast detection only AF. The A7r2 does do this though. Not sure why I'm bothering here...

Which camera are you talking about, the a7s2 or r2? The r2 doesn't do 1080p120 and the a7s2 is contrast detect only. It's "binning" by the way.

Well, how could it? It's like what, 5.5 Megapixel in APS-C crop mode? Not enough resolution left for 4k in this mode.

Also, if you want to grade a video exactly like Lightroom (for the most part, with the ACR control panel): Use a recent version of Photoshop. Open a video file. Right click on said video, and select "Convert to smart object". Then you will see the Raw filter available from the filter menu. Quick 4 step process (obviously once graded you hit "File / Export video". The rendering process isn't too quick, but I've had good results.

Tugela I realize this; been shooting for years. I know the difference with fully manual mode ISO/EXP/Shutter locked. I'm saying with metering set to SPOT and the display brightness set to "auto" I get very drastic / sudden exposure changes. With the slightest movement. Not so if I turn these both off.

Question for you Agolex - are you on ver 1.4? If so, put the display in "auto brightness" mode and the metering to "spot". See if you can replicate the flickering / drifting. Also I am using the 16-50 S lens with shutter and aperture set manually / Auto ISO.

Just did some tests. Framing guides on/off had no ill effect for me. Changing metering linked to spot focus didn't either. However, changing metering to evaluative / spot metering AND having auto brightness on the display cured the problem for me with firmware 1.40. Just an FYI.

I'm on ver 1.4 with the NX-1 - I'm getting some serious drifting in exposure. Other than checking my display auto-brightness setting and Framing guides, can you think of any reason? Shot quite a bit in the bright noon sun yesterday and my footage is pretty bad even at 1/125 shutter and F/16 panning around. I noticed the screen was flickering quite a bit as well; I'm sure it's just some setting I enabled by accident. I do have the overexposure guide on. Thoughts?

I'm going to, in my mind, call it 2.2x 1080p crop from the 1dc 4096x2160 and call it a day. I would ask what the 1dc 3840x2160 is, but it doesn't shoot that resolution so who cares. My head hurts. I will say it seemed like more than 1700mm to me as well, but what the hell do I know. I will say I was on top of that hill and I'd say that boat was at least 3/4 of a mile away as I used to jog that distance and come back all the time. Next time I go up - I will add the 1.4x teleconverter. So - 1.3 x 600mm = 780mm. 780mm x 1.4 = 1092. x 2.2 = 2400.4mm. Dare I stack the 2x tele? I would but I don't own one. At any rate, thanks.

It's really close to 2.2. Probably 2.3, but of course the 16-35 F/4 might not exactly be 16mm @ the wide end, nor 35mm @ the "long" end. Seems the 16mm shot cropped to 1080p was slightly tighter than the non-cropped 4k 35mm. In Edius I had to set the x/y to about 95%. So based on this non-scientific test it's probably 2.3x for full 4k.

Where did you get this 2.2x number? Just curious. Is this for true 4k (4096x2160) or UHD (3840x2160)? I will go test this myself. 16mm x 2.2 = 35.2mm (both will have the 1.3x on top of that, but should be close).

So at the end of July I went out to my wife's parents house and climbed a steep hill and got some shots. Please look at the 2nd picture first - note the outlined area I circled in red with MSPAINT (super high tech I know). That's how far away I was. This started at 24mm then went to 600mm, then cropped at 1080p. I throw on the Sigma 150-600 full tele. So my math (and correct me if I'm wrong) - this should be 3120mm focal length right? 600 x 1.3 (in 4x) cropped to 1080p = 780mm, then a 4x crop to 1080 = 3120mm. Is that right? I was pretty impressed with the range. Note - I'm not trying to make the next Cannes film festival. This is just for fun; not looking for "you blew the highlights" critique. I'm sure I made plenty of mistakes. It was hot and I was tired. Here's the video:

Panasonic G8? Or was that a Pontiac model?