IronFilm

I already thought the economy was on its way to a recession in the near to medium term future, before the Coronavirus even happened. But this will definitely tip many companies over the edge, is going to trigger a recession. One of these companies downtown ("Travcour"), which uses couriers, normally processes 30 visa *per day*, but the past month.... they've done ONE! And the Coronavirus hasn't even really hit NZ yet, it's going to get worse before it gets better. Many people are having shoots getting cancelled on them.

https://www.canstarblue.com.au/groceries/brands/devondale-milk/ They're Australian. I've got powdered milk at home already. During today's shopping trip I bought out the entire stock of canned mackerel at the supermarket.

Sure, of course some people do. Doesn't mean you always should, plus it doesn't mean the many disadvantages to it goes away. And that video was a promo video from RED, the most infamous example in the industry of people who are pushing for ever more "K"! The rest of your post is either: 1) wrong (saying you can't use MFT in small rooms) 2) complaining about lenses (when in fact I'd say there are many very fine lenses for MFT)

Even Sound Mixers are using Easyrigs now 😉

Welcome to the club!! Where did you source this deal from, eBay or elsewhere? I've seen them go MUCH CHEAPER! (as in close to half that price, but not with all those accessories. Especially as an active EF mount is usually very very very pricey)

THIS! The moment a person brings up a complaint about "low light" the very first thing to ask is, "what lenses are you using?"

FX3?? Have you heard anything about an FX3 before??

Get the BMPCC4K to perfectly complement your BMPCC6K, then get the entire set of Vazen Anamorphic Primes. Even once you add up the cost of the new camera plus buying an entire set of Vazen primes (only two out now, but a 3rd is coming along "soon"), this is still cheaper than buying a single Xelmus lens! Wouldn't having a new camera and a set of anamorphics be more fun than having just one lonely Xelmus lens?

An easyrig isn't on every shoot, but it isn't rare either. Of course you're far far far more likely to see a tripod on a shoot. But I'd say it is roughly ish as likely as seeing a gimbal on set, still pretty damn common place. As for why a DoP might own one, might be another health reason of what if a production doesn't want to hire one but you want it? As they can really save your bag. It might not in the short term be NEEDED for that shoot, but in the long run (over a career lasting decades) it would be smart to use the easyrig on the shoot. Recently a friend of mine had back surgery, first thing he got after getting out of hospital, purchased an easyrig! And @FranciscoB is exactly right about the monitor, it is such a crucial job of the DoP to judge and tweak the image, why wouldn't you want something which can help you accurately and consistently judge what you're seeing?

In my opinion the GH5S/BMPCC4K/E2/Terra are "better" in lowlight, as sure the a7 series might have a small edge if you're obsessed purely and only about noise levels. But the colors turn to sh*t with the a7 at high ISOs! (not that they ever started out too super great with the Sonys) While the GH5S etc holds onto it better as you push up the ISO, thus you're left with a better looking image. Nonsense. 1) there is not true whatsoever in being possibly just with FF, you can do this exactly just the same with S35/APS-C/MFT/S16 2) shooting to intentionally be cropping later in post is baaaad for sound, bad for the art department, bad for lighting, bad for the actors, etc... don't do it! Especially now! With the Coronavirus. Yup, even in a thread about the GH6, during a conversation specifically about "sized doesn't matter" like you think, then someone just a couple of hours ago basically said "M43 is poopie because sensor is small" as they're implying on a "small sensor" you can't crop & pan. What nonsense!

How am I doing..... This like Scrabble, right? Where I get a triple bonus word score, for combing 5G / chemtrails / anti-vax all into one conspiracy theory! "Taken care of", that's very ominous! Hope they were not "taken care of" like they do with suspected cases in North Korea!!

But by the time FF gets everything there is in a GH5/GH5S/GH6 then I'm sure the MFT system will have moved further on as well! But isn't waiting on FF the "chasing rainbows" option? Just for example, how many people are still waiting for a mythical "a7Smk3"? (some folks have been waiting YEARS for this!) Meanwhile we've got a GH5(or GH5S) which is better in many regards! (Waveforms/TC/4K60fps/10bit/240fps/etc)

Is the doco going to be Netflix as well? (do you know what "I Am Not Okay With This" was shot on?)

Bike messengers are screwed. We basically come in contact with more people every day than almost anybody else. I know with some bike messengers who basically never go through a winter without catching a cold at some point during it. (had one recently retire after nearly three decades, commented to me exactly that fact! Over all those many years, he'd never been through even one without catching a cold. Last winter was the first time he hadn't! Because he'd retired from couriering, and just did UberEATS a few times a week instead, so at least he could make the choice to avoid the wet and the cold if it got to be too much for him) Sh*t news for New Zealand though! Autumn has just started, I was soaked in the rain for hours today. Will be another six months until Spring rolls around again to save us. Can NZ hold off the arrival of the Coronavirus for six whole months?? I don't believe that for a second! Not with the completely pathetic efforts we're making at (human) bio-security at our borders! We'll basically just hand you a flyer "warning you", wish you well, then wave you on. Once the Coronavirus gets a half decent grip on NZ and starts its spread, then it will be everywhere across the entire county within a matter of weeks. We already got our second confirmed case here in NZ today. I said "(human) bio-security" because oh boy are we super crazy insanely over the top tough with our bio-security otherwise... don't you dare even think about trying to bring in a piece of fruit into our country! Or have dirty boots! The shock and horror of it all! No way, you won't be coming in here with that. Stop! The only folks who might come into contact with more people than bike messengers is politicians! Do you see how many hands they shake? How many hugs they embrace? How many high fives they give out? How many babies they kiss!

Might get a better ROI out of owning an Easyrig too than a tripod?

Literally so! Is @Kisaha EOSHD's Nostradamus? O' Wise One, please tell us of when the date of the a7mk3 will be announced!

"Hate"?? I think you're missing the picture in terms of the usual proportions and intensity of debate. Usually for every dozen people you get saying "MFT is unusable" you'll see one person saying "FF is unnecessary", a big difference in both their type of arguments and the volume of them. Sometimes it is good just to bring balance back into the discussion.

Fuji still has a loooooong way to go before they get the wall to wall coverage Canon/Sony/Nikon does, but they're playing the game and catching up! Which is good to see.

If you move up market to do bigger jobs you'll also get the chance to wear less hats as you can delegate certain roles. For example no longer will you need to be a master of sound as well, as you'll be landing bigger gigs where you can hire someone to be your sound recordist on the shoot.

The ARRI Alexa came out only a handful of years ago, and still is regarded as "latest cutting edge tech" (in a way). If you dig up reviews from back then, you can see people thought it was an amazing low light beast and were excited by the possibilities of shooting great images at 800 ISO! (which feels so quaint today)

The very first posts. It is all there, the core facts: 1) using the data reported by WHO / the Chinese government themselves 2) R squared value of 0.9995 3) the predictions of the figures to be reported by WHO / China in the coming days (which all came true, bang on accurate predictions) Those are the cold hard facts, can you get anything closer to a smoking gun unless Xi Jinping himself goes on live TV to say "yes, we faked our data"? So that's the concrete evidence, of course beyond that we can speculate on the "why": why would they report false data, is the true data better or is it even worse? What do you think?

I'm not saying someone who is short can't be a boom op, but it is quite undeniable that extra height will be beneficial. It is like if you're a basketball player, it is undeniable that typically being taller would help! Sure, you can have players under 6ft who are in the NBA. But if you're 6' 9" instead then that would really help your chances of playing professionally! And yes, just like being 7ft won't automatically make you a 1st round draft pick for the NBA, likewise it won't make you the best boom op either. (One of my friends is basically the only guy I'll ever see on set on a repeated basis who is markedly taller than myself, and thus I've attempted to use him a couple of times as a boom op on no budget grade films, but sadly he lacks the motivation / desire / aptitude. He's better off in lighting / art / wherever else instead)

Did you not read that link at all?? The answers are all right there to your questions. As for who the person is, doesn't really matter as I don't need to indulge in an 'appeal to authority fallacy' to make this point. Because you can look up the data yourself (from WHO/China themselves, the officially reported numbers. Which is exactly why you should take them with a big grain of salt!!), then run the figures yourself and get exactly the same result as was shared in that chart. It really is not that hard to do at all! You don't need a degree in mathematics to do it or understand it. Being able to repeat the results yourself is far far more important than the author having some fancy pants credentials. If you think he made a mistake, then run the numbers yourself and show us the mistake he made. (hint: he didn't, if you repeated this you'd get the same fit) Doesn't an R squared value of 0.9995 raise any question marks with you whatsoever? Even if you somehow skipped math at high school, just simply looking at its predictive power (he was spooky accurate!) should raise suspicions with you? Did you read the ELI5 comment at least in that thread? Wouldn't be the first (or last!) time the Chinese government have been caught making up data: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/chinese-government-may-have-falsified-organ-donation-numbers-study-says This entire thread is worth a read: https://twitter.com/evdefender/status/1223887384892313600

Historical perspective also helps us appreciate just how very very good we have it now! For example, people might hate upon MFT for being "poor at low light" (ignoring that the GH5S is one of the very best there is!!), when honestly for most of your filmmaking career since 1996 you'd have given your kidney away to have had a camera even as "bad" at lowlight as say the Panasonic G7 is with some fast lenses! As that is miles and miles better in low light than the camcorders you were using. I expect that even in 2030, when we have a GH9 with lowlight performance that is double of what an a7Smk3 can do, and has 16 stops of dynamic range, with 8K 120fps , that we will still have people hating upon MFT because "oh it isn't as good in lowlight as this FF is" or "but it has half a stop less of dynamic range than Fuji does". No matter what the MFT system does, it won't be "good enough" for them.

Have a read of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ez13dv/oc_quadratic_coronavirus_epidemic_growth_model/ If that doesn't make you start to wonder that just maybe the official government figures are highly suspect, then I guess there isn't enough evidence in the world for you to open your eyes. That's a pretty damn blatant example, staring right at you in the face. 1) social media does indeed conflict with the "official" story. I live with someone from mainland china, so as a kiwi my social feed isn't the same as hers, and she'll be daily showing and telling me new news she's seeing. Which the Chinese censors are indeed trying hard to censor. 2) it is very early days for the coronavirus outside China, going to be interesting following that progression. Fingers crossed