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Would've been handy to have had the number stated just before each segment started playing! Was otherwise a little tricky to keep track of where it was up to :-)

It depends an awful lot of you want to lean your bias towards video (such a Fujifilm X-T3) or towards photo (such as a Nikon D500, which is the best in the world crop body for sports photography, and takes rather good 4K video as well but by no means "the best"). Plus it depends on how "extreme" you going with your lens choices, as that impacts the budget allocation as well. For instance the NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR is a truly FANTASTIC sporting/birding lens. But it is not a NIKKOR 300mm f/4E PF ED VR either, and that is no NIKKOR 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II Lens either! (which just that one lens would blow your budget) Plus what if you want your lens strategy to be a mix of lenses, perhaps a NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR for the outdoors daylight stuff? Then a Sigma 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art Lens for indoor sports shoots. Or heck, go for three lenses and throw in the Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 as well! (you could potentially go crazy with all three lenses and a Nikon D500 body, and yet still stay within your $5K budget! If you go secondhand) Then you'd only have $2.5K budget for each system, for something that is already a very expensive niche (and could use up well beyond your $5K budget) Spreading yourself thinly out over two systems seems like a very bad idea. Ever shot (filming or photography) with a monopod? It makes a BIG difference! (this is why at the Oympics and all the other big sporting events, that many of the photographers are using monopods) Wouldn't recommend doing run & gun video with S35 @ f1.8 And how low low light do you really need?? Honestly think even a GH5 is just fine, people are beating themselves up over nothing, as "even a GH5" kills the bleeping heck out of many many past cameras that countless docos/sports/families/etc have been shot on! If you're struggling with low light with a GH5, the problem is 80% likely not to be the camera but it is YOU

You could shoot in Aperture Priority, just shoot wiiiiide open! (the rest on auto) That will help keep shutter speed high and ISO low. If you feel that comfortable handles the conditions then you might want to carry on with Aperture Priority but with your lens stopped down by one stop, so that the lens performs better and you get more of the subject in focus. Or you might make a different tweak by for instance by capping Auto ISO at a certain max value which is the most you'd ever feel comfortable with (as you'd rather trade it off for more motion blur instead). Or perhaps you learn that say for instance 1/300th is the average "optimal" shutter speed for your type of shooting, that gives a nice balance between a sharp face but with some blur of the limps to help convey effectively the emotion of "speed", so you might just shoot everything in Shutter Priority instead! (perhaps tweaking it down to 1/200th or up to 1/400th if you know particular performers are slower or faster paced) Anyway, you see the gist of what I'm saying, experiment with an auto mode then tweak the other settings to nudge the result into the outcome you want.

If you're looking for very high performance sports photography gear but on a tightly constrained budget then it is hard to look past the Nikon D500. Especially as they're going for such attractive prices secondhand now. Plus the Nikon 85mm f1.8G is an exceptional buy as well, a very good lens for quite a low price indeed secondhand.

Would be amazing if the old old G7 gets a 10bit update, but I very very very highly highly doubt that! Doubt even the older lower end G85 would get it (and anyway, a G90 would get it first).

Another thought is to buy both a Fuji X-T3 *and* X-H1 for the shots when IBIS is really needed. At least until a X-T4 arrives with IBIS Otherwise go for a Nikon Z6 or Panasonic GH5 If you don't want a mirrorless camera, then consider a Sony FS5 or JVC LS300 For sheer extreme tininess and cuteness the new MixPre3 Gen2 is a good choice for the solo operator, otherwise get a Zoom F8n, MixPre10 Gen2 or a secondhand Sound Devices 633 (they're going dirt cheap now!) if you want to specialize in sound but you've got no real budget. (or Zaxcom Nova / Sound Devices 833 if you're going pro)

The YouTube compression is so extremely bad on that video it turned it black & white!! :-o

Not even the FS5 can do 10bit, not unless you wish to be restricted to 1080

Sound quality is six of one, half a dozen of the other when comparing Sony vs Sennheiser. If you want an improvement in how the audio sounds then upgrade the lav mic used But in terms of design / features / ergonomics then the Sony is streets ahead of the entry level Sennheiser G3/G4

That is why the mk2 for the FS7/FS5 were basically nonexistence with their updates, because they were "too good" DItto why it is so long for a D750 / a7S mk2 / etc sequel to come out

Seems like it is just a name Watson gave their third party batteries? Which are compatible with NP-F systems

Ah right, so basically is at a hobby level for you at the moment ($4K/yr revenue). Are you doing shooting at work? You should be talking your boss then into buying more gear! ?

If you're able to charge full rental rates for an HMI and get even only semi regular work, then that chinese 1.2KW HMI will be paid back in a matter of months, not years. Yup, the hot heavy tungsten lights were the standard for many many many years, but people are in the midst of moving away from them now, which means we've got opportunities to pick up those kits for a song if you've got the connections!

Opportunity to use a reshipper then?

Nope, missing my point HMI lights are common place on even quite small shoots, where 1080 / 2K / 4K is completely normal. (I don't think I've even been on a 6K shoot at all?? And I'm pretty busy working on all sorts of productions) Nooooo..... not at all! Getting exposure right is but a small part of using lights, it is for crafting the look you want.

Wasn't B&H advertising the JVC LS300 only last week for just a few hundred dollars more? I'd take with its 4K 60fps 422 over a C100

Finally, someone gets it. In fact "insane" bargain might be more accurate than huge bargain. This is from Came-TV's "economic" line though, which I think means its ballast is a lot noisier than their more expensive ones? Not too sure, wish there were more than a small handful of reviews out there of them

Have a listen to each for moderate noise reduction too, for more light handed work, see which seems best at the job?

No real benefit of getting the new entry level G4 over a G3, so you might as well save your pennies and get a secondhand G3 instead. Except... I reckon the Sonys are better value than Sennheiser, for around the same price. So go for that instead. (either the latest UWP-D21, or the older UWP-D11) Story matters to porn too! Just the "story" is not the plot.

I dunno.... it isn't unusual to see that kind of gear on small corporate gigs.

Plenty of reasons for the GH5: Waveform monitoring XLR accessory compatibility Anamorphic desqueeze etc These might not matter to you now, but who knows, maybe it will in 6 months or 18 months time? Plus in a couple of years from now when maybe you will sell it, I bet the GH5 will hold up better on the 2ndhand market than the G9 (just because the GH series is more famous) Remember for many years the GH series was the best of the best that Panasonic offered for stills photography, I wouldn't be too worried at all about this aspect. Another year survived! Phew I'd like this, definitely affordable if lighting is something you need/use: https://www.came-tv.com/collections/hmi-light-kit-economic/products/hmi-fresnel-light-1200w-220v-electronic-ballast-dimmable

For sure, the vast majority of his subscribers won't be rushing out to buy an ARRI. But if only 0.5% of his watchers now have decided to consider buying an ARRI that will put a big influx of buyers into what is a very small market, and thus an inflation of prices. (wellllll, perhaps not an *inflation* but it will stop the steady decline of prices for a good chunk of 2020) Yes, the Sony F3 is a big increase in size compared to a GH2/a6000/T3i etc! Over the F3 compared to an ARRI Alexa Classic / RED ONE MX, then an F3 is very small / lightweight and only barely sips power! Don't worry, you're not overspending on a tripod at all! Still only scratching the surface when it comes to costs for a tripod

Also: https://klevgrand.se/products/brusfri

It is also perspective, as he is holding the ARRI closer to the camera taking the thumbnail pic. Unfortunately I reckon this video from Potato Jet is now going to help keep up higher the prices of cheap ARRIs for 2020 than otherwise, as he has massively raised the profile of these cheap cheap cameras which was otherwise slipping by unknown to most people. Doesn't ARRI do that merging dual gain approach which has been patented? (like Zaxcom's Neverclip)

You can adapt manual MFT lenses to E Mount And E mount can support up to FF, while MFT can support up to S35