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good grief, they have a techno crane on set, that's not cheap at all. $$$$$$ Shooting with an ARRI. ARRI WCU4 focus controller. Jealous, they're using a Sound Devices CL16!!

As freelancers we certainly do get paid very well on a per day / per hour basis. But yes, we don't get to work the same number of days per year as a regular Monday to Friday person does. Last year though I was looking at the rates that IT Contractors get, who are always freelancers (thus on a per hour / per day basis should be earning higher than those who have the perks and stability of normal full time employment), for the bottom couple of rungs in the IT sector (i.e. fairly inexperienced newbies, we're not talking about high qualified people here with decades of experience) then it's not too different from what say a Boom Op or AC in the film/tv world would also earn as a freelancer. Really puts it into perspective how well (or not) we get paid relative to other industries as a freelancer / contractor.

Just noticed they were using the Blackmagic Micro (not sure if the Cinema version? Then again, given it's for streaming.... perhaps the 4K version? Or even the G2 version?) for the US Chess Open Championships: https://x.com/STLChessClub/status/1847779295860838789

This forum is about filmmaking? He's doing literally the biggest scale filmmaking there is right now in some aspects (such as the most cameras ever). Of course people might be naturally curious about how it works behind the scenes. Yes, it's very normal for productions to rent equipment. (although they do such a high volume of productions, I'm sure there is a lot of equipment that they also own in house themselves)

ah, a new UWA lens just came out: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/12/26/pergear-12mm-f2-ii-wide-angle-lens-for-x-e-z-and-m4-3-mount-cameras/ At US$169 it might be the cheapest f2 UWA lens there is.

Don't think my old Fujifilm X-A3 counts as "reliable autofocus"! 😭 Never too late to start a new YT channel! I might just start up a YT travel channel myself if/when I move overseas next year. The 7artisans 12mm f2.8 lens I've got would be a good choice for vlogging, although I went for this 7artisans largely because I got it for next to nothing secondhand. If you're buying brand new then the Meike 12mm f/2 is only slightly more expensive than the 7artisans 12mm f2.8, but the Meike is a full stop faster which might be handy sometimes. Ahhhh.... so you can't get them in any rangefinder mount? (such as M mount) But rather than need to be removed from a fixed lens camera then get a mount added to it? (such as M mount) When I was looking through eBay beforehand, I did come across those with mounts already added to them, but they're at least a couple of hundred dollars! (if not even double, or tripple, or even quadruple that price) Seems a bit pricey, when I could get vintage / dead mount DSLR lenses for a similar cost, or even far far less.

YouTubers making drama up about Bigger YouTubers. Normal par for the course, been going on since day one of YT history. So far nothing seems that unusual such as you'd expect from any massively large scale reality tv series (especially survival / sports contestants) or even working on a normal AA narrative film title. (some of them just need to harden up, it's as if they've never worked a day before in their life as an Extra?!) Seems like she's got a vendetta against Mr Beast, she's made a tonne of videos against Mr Best: https://www.youtube.com/@RosannaPansino/search?query=beast I bet if we heard the other side, such as from the 1st/2nd/3rd ADs, the story would be very different. In the early years it seemed like he just poured close to 100% of whatever he'd make from a video right back into making the next video. Yeah I greatly admire him for what he's achieved with his YouTube videos (and now in the conventional mainstream media space too, doing a series for Amazon), he clearly has got it dialed right in and understands the YT algorithm better than anybody else on planet earth, but in the non-YouTube space I feel he might have done some kinda sketchy things. It is curious why they wouldn't use Sony FX3/FX30 cameras for handheld cameras instead? (or were they already? Maybe they simply ran out of them and were trying to get their hands on as many cameras as possible!) Wonder what the ingestion process was for those thousand GoPros? I wonder in particular about how they handled timecode on those, if at all. And likewise, what did they do for the handheld cameras such as the R5C? Did you see a TC box on them? Honestly with a budget like that I'd even think about handing out a few Sony RX100 (or RX0??) cameras to key cast members, to act as their handheld vlogging cameras, as an RX100/RX0 on their budget level is so dirt cheap they're basically almost disposable cameras. But perhaps the footage gained wouldn't be worth the editing time. Am a bit tempted to get a Sony RX0 mk2 myself before I move overseas next year, as I reckon a Sony RX100 with a wide angle prime lens would be awesome. Which is kinda like what the RX0 is, has a 24mm FF FoV prime lens, with a "big" 1 inch sensor (same as the RX100 has). Makes it super small and pocketable, even though it has a selfie screen! While watching the video again, I saw this: As they're rechecking the date at 6am I have a theory that they're not using Time of Day TC, but rather they're using Time Elapsed since call time each day (6am). I see they're recording onto a tonne of these: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1834930-REG/aja_ki_pro_go2_ki_pro_go2_multi_channel.html Is quite sad that Video Devices / Sound Devices completely gave up on this market, and never made an updated replacement for the Sound Devices 970

I feel that's a fairly fixable issue within the next few short years. You'll use a reference image that the generated video needs to adhere to.

ah I see, they've got now a 35mm, 50mm, and an 85mm that's cheaper than anything else at the moment for L Mount: https://meikeglobal.com/collections/auto-focus-lenses/products/3520?variant=45550769307876 https://meikeglobal.com/collections/auto-focus-lenses/products/50mm-f1-8-auto-focus-lens-for-portrait-photography?variant=45396236108004 https://meikeglobal.com/collections/auto-focus-lenses/products/85mm-f1-8-full-frame-auto-focus-stm-lens-for-sony-e-mount-cameras?variant=45493148614884 Like @newfoundmass said, they're not on major sites such as B&H yet. But give it another 18 months, for the prices of a secondhand Panasonic S9 to come down then this (plus perhaps the kit zoom too) could be a very appealing everyday casual camera on the cheap.

ohhhhh.... I'd never even looked into those lenses. (how should I search for them on eBay? How do I specifically restrict the search just to half frame rangerfinder lenses?) I guess due to them being rangefinder lenses, they must not have been too popular during the DSLR era at all. (as DSLR mounts are too deep) And being half frame lenses I guess the mirrorless FF shooters don't want them either. Would be perfect however for Fujifilm shooters. Only just starting lately to dabble in using my old Fujifilm X-A3 as a casual stills camera I can carry with me most times whenever I feel like it (I want something compact / light / cheap / decent, I think the X-A3 with APS-C lenses fits the bill here). So thus I recently put together a very cheap Fujifilm lens kit of native X mount lenses: 7artisans 12mm F2.8 II (Manual Focus) Sirui 21mm f1.2 (Auto Focus) TTArtisan 25mm f2 (Manual Focus) Vivitar 56mm f1.7 (Auto Focus) (I half wonder if the 21mm f1.2 lens was a mistake, was using it for the first time on Christmas Eve, and it was a lot bigger and heavier than I imagined! Perhaps a bit too much so for the little X-A3? Maybe I should have got the TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 lens instead)

First you might like to watch this video on Mr Beast's youtube channel, so you get to see what the end result looks like: Then check out the behind the scenes, of how it got made: Check out the camera plan (well, one of the camera plans) they show thirteen minutes into it (yes, that's one THOUSAND GoPros): Two more BTS videos about this same YouTuber production series:

NICE! What other X Mount lenses do you already have for it? (other than the 15-45mm kit lens the X-M5 is coming with) Will you be using it just for filming with, or photography too?

Using the S35 mode of the FX6 was the first reference to using FF cameras with the S35 mode in this thread, and I thus replied how that can't be done if you wish to film in 4K. I think that's more a comment on the dominance of Sony, and how Canon has lost the top spot in the low/mid market. (after all both the C400 and FX6 are VV/LF/FF cameras)

In recent years I've been trying hard to not buy as much camera gear, as after all, surely I have plenty already for casual usage? Plus my professional focus is on the Sound Dept these days, and that's where my money should be going instead. However I did at the end of this year go a little silly in jumping into the X Mount ecosystem, as I've got a kinda-ish decent-ish Fuji stills camera (the X-A3 from years ago, from before Fujifilm eBay prices went crazy) for casual shooting with, but have only ever used adapted lenses on it from other mounts. So I recently put together a very cheap Fujifilm lens kit of native X mount lenses: 12mm f2.8 / 21mm f1.2 / 25mm f2 / 56mm f1.7 (I half wonder if the 21mm f1.2 lens was a mistake, was using it for the first time yesterday, and it was a lot bigger and heavier than I imagined! Perhaps a bit too much so for the little X-A3? Maybe I should have got the TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 lens instead) I feel this is one of the big themes of the late 2010's and the 2020's, the rise of third party lens designs and manufacturers from China. You can put together a cheap set of lenses now for so very little. Is why I went for this with my Fujifilm X-A3 camera when I wanted a cheap but decently good-ish setup for a small walk around / travel kit. Because when I look at what other small sized mirrrorless bodies I have, then my Sony a5100 died ages ago, my Panasonic GF3 is far far too old now, and the Samsung NX300 is an evolutionary dead end. And buying those extra X Mount lenses cost a similar amount or even less than what it would cost to buy a replacement body for the a5100/GF3 of similar vintage to the X-A3 (late 2016) then using my existing MFT / E Mount lenses. Such as the Sony a6300 (early 2016) or Panasonic GX8 (mid 2015). As for 2025? I will go back to trying to resist getting any more cameras or lenses. (but maybe that 27mm f/2.8 lens will tempt me which I mentioned earlier. Or maybe I will finally succumb to getting that Nikon D750/D500/D810 I've wanted for years. Or maybe the Fujfilm X-M5 or X-H1 or X-S10 will tempt me as an upgrade if I enjoy the X-A3 too much) If anything, maybe I should try to end 2025 with less cameras than I'll start 2025 with. Perhaps selling my FS7, F3, NX300, and some of my Panasonic cameras. Maybe. Or maybe I'll just keep on procrastinating downsizing. Then again if I go ahead with my 2025 plans to move overseas, then I will definitely need to take downsizing more seriously. Next month, after spending NYE with filmmaking friends here in Auckland, then I plan on traveling to NZ's South Island to have a holiday there for a few weeks. Been a long time since I've visited the South Island, will be a fun road trip.

Yes, would be nice if Panasonic released cheaper primes (don't have to be weather sealed, f1.4, or made out of carbon, or whatever. Just give us those cheap "nifty fifties" that other systems would have, such as Canon 50mm f1.8 EF lens that would sell for only a little more than a hundred bucks. Or similar for Nikon, you can even go for less than a hundred bucks from B&H if you don't mind buying a Nikon refurbished lens. Although it seems the switch from DSLR to Mirrorless means the cheapest first party lenses seem to be a bit pricey now, the cheapest Canon 50mm for RF is US$199 vs US$125 for EF mount) I see also personally the issue of lack of third party support as an even bigger sticking point, normally if you pick any mount, then filter for only AF lenses then sort by price, you'll see a tonne of cheap lenses being offered. For example I have to go more than half way down this page of Z Mount AF lenses before I discover the first Nikon branded lens: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Mirrorless-Camera-Lenses/ci/17912?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_a_focus-type_5738%3Aautofocus%2Cfct_lens-mount_3442%3Anikon-z-mount Let's compare with the situation for L Mount: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Mirrorless-Camera-Lenses/ci/17912/N/4196380428?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_a_focus-type_5738%3Aautofocus%2Cfct_lens-mount_3442%3Aleica-l-mount They have between one and zero 3rd Party Lenses which are cheaper than the cheapest first party lens. ("one or zero" depending on if you count Sigma as third party lenses or not, as normally you would, but then again they do make L Mount cameras) I recently put together a very cheap Fujifilm lens kit (12mm f2 / 21mm f1.2 / 25mm f2 / 56mm f1.7), which if I'd tried to do the same for L Mount (to use with say a cheap S1 or S5 mk1) might have cost twice or even thrice as much.