IronFilm

lol Well, I fear that now that Sony is grabbed a big share of the FF mirrorless market that they might be turning into a bit of a Canon-like company. So probably you have nothing to worry.

I've shot tonnes of weddings, and I've also studied CompSci in my degree (even went so far as to start a Masters in Computer Science, but never finished it) plus I'm a bit time A.I. geek. My view is that robotic AI cameras/software won't replace humans filming weddings in the near future, but could it happen in my life time... ? I'm reasonably skeptical it could happen during my working life, but also it still is a very real possibility that I could easily imagine happening, especially in the low/mid range weddings. At the very least it could lead to a three person crew being replaced with just one person and the editing being almost totally automated.

Spent less than two minutes on google and it looks like they've got cameras built in (that security camera looking thingy on the top right): https://kimchiicecream.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/korean-wedding-hallcastle-culture-jason-when-are-you-and-julianne-getting-married-you-should-get-married/ Certainly a low budget wedding! (although I don't spot any robot cameras in that video)

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/28/17062338/ai-agent-atari-q-bert-cracked-bug-cheat That is very cool! The biggest event for me of 2017 was when AlphaGo beat the best human, very impressive.

Yeah you see so so many massive crop ins to 320P in a 4K upload by YouTubers that I bet an 8K source would be loved by them for this. But you'd have to be super sure about your focus!

Many of those productions won't be shooting with C300/C700 cameras, and thus then the likes of a P4K would be just fine. Or they'll use a mirrorless/DSLR camera. Even C300mk2/C200 shoots will probably more often use a 5Dmk(something) or an EOS R or a C100 than the XC10 as an additional camera. I've only once ever seen a XC10 on a shoot, and that was for an adverting campaign shot exclusively with a C300mk2. The XC10 was just come kind of extreme emergency camera (if the C300 completely sh*t its pants on them, which to be fair at one point it almost did.... but a reset solved that) that was owned by the agency (which they used for teeny little social media shots done by a one person crew in house, honestly any of FZ100/X70/RX10/GH5/C100/etc could probably have done the same job for them just as well/badly for them and their limited needs) and stayed in the bag the whole time. Am not denying that the XC10 has a place, it just seems to be an odd place.... which is tricky to really nail down / market to, and thus we're simply not seeing it out in use a lot.

I'm probably more trust worthy than your average bear on that topic, my degree from University is a Bachelor of Science which was packed full of physics papers. Sometimes it seems like I took almost everything they had, although I wouldn't say specifically nuclear physics was my strongest suit (although I did a few papers related to that, annoyingly NZ's only particle accelerator was at my university and it got destroyed only the year after I started there! Sigh, missed out on doing any of their experiments there with it), optoelectronics was more my focus in physics. However all of that was a long long time ago, I've forgotten now more than I remember!

haha, thank you! But I'm afraid all the advice I can give is "pick good parents with hairy genes, then do nothing"

Sadly this is very true if they're a clueless brand new n00b But a little bit of gentle guidance and understanding can go a long way. Often had to do this when being DoP on my very small shoots and using someone random to boom

Depends on what you mean by "these types of videos"? Yes a visible lav is likely for many casual YouTubers to be the most foolproof approach for usable decent audio under difficult locations (such as while shopping, or at the beach, or on a busy road, etc) with no sound crew. But if it is a film with a bit of a budget and a crew? Then the boom mic should be for dialogue, and lavs just exist for when the DoP/producer/director are screwing you over with no other option without resorting to ADR

As a guy who records dialogue for film/tv/video/web/etc , then I certainly might often switch mics, but I can honestly say that considering that the source might be "too loud" has never been a reason I've considered recently.

Just making this be a general "Marantz thread" , as I don't believe it deserves its own thread, but Marantz just launched a mk2 of their recorder:

I constantly get tempted to buy a second F3.... and then I need to talk myself out of it.

Yes, but it also means just because Jordan had a popular and widely held opinion, then it doesn't make sense to write him off on that basis. Quite a different example, the P4K has probably 100x the praise at launch than the Canon XC10 got. And surely 10,000x more people drooling over wanting a BMPCC4K at launch! Meanwhile I'd struggle to remember many if any people who immediately shouted I WANT THIS when the XC10 got announced. I really would not call a XC10 the "GoPro of the feature film world", heck the P4K is closer to being a "GoPro of the feature film world" than the XC10 is!

Nice.

To be fair it is a bit of an odd ugly duckling, which doesn't seem to neatly fit into any one category. (while say a Sony X70 was cheaper, a more traditional form factor with a more clearly defined role in a production. And many many potential buyers of a XC10 could also be happily content with a FZ100/RX10 which is massively massively cheaper, the XC10 was simply in a tough spot in the market with no crystal clear role for it) I remember even here on EOSHD, that early on there was a lot of negativity about the XC10 and it took a long while until people here warmed up to it and the XC10 somehow acquired the golden shine it has now in some people's opinions. Wasn't just on this forum either, *LOTS* of other reviewers and forums were quite critical or even outright negative about the XC10. Newsshooter summarized the reaction to the XC10: https://www.newsshooter.com/2015/09/25/canon-xc10-review-a-simple-solution-for-everyday-video-journalism/ "huge letdown" @Jordan Drake's views on the XC10 was not at all unusual.

No, boom mic exists to captured dialogue.

Your sound department will HATE you https://www.facebook.com/groups/moviesetmemes/permalink/2217668191636156/

Sure, but also Eric is not a regular I've ever seen posting on jwsoundgroup before. Who knows what he is really trying to say here?? I reckon Andrew Jones answered his post well: So yeah, we can see that potentially there are lot of things that Eric might have got wrong which explains why he got "only 7ft". (assuming this is true, and not just misinformation being spread)

Ha! Well ok then. But in normal conventional speech everyone refers to "a mic" as being everything which is getting connected at the other end of the XLR cable.