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I think the demand for Juniors/Interns in that field is probably going to soon drop off a cliff, but I think the demand for Senior Software Developers will remain strong for years to come

Yeah the GH1 was groundbreaking itself, as were the ones after it, the GH4 and even GH5. But the competition is so hot now, GH7 needs something "big" in it. And 8K or raw won't do it. Internal NDs are what we need! (and/or SDI out.... please??)

If they're going to release a "DX300", then they should make it with a MFT mount. But if they're going to release a new pro video camera with a mirrorless mount, then it would more likely be an "EVA2" with a L Mount Not possible at all while they don't support timecode 😞 True, but there is also a huge class of productions which are not for Netflix but have very similar needs/expectations.

Steadicam is the "traditional" alternative to a gimbal. (although, they're both slightly different types of tools, and not exact replacements for each other!) However due to the massively lower costs of a gimbal (both the equipment and the operator), then I do see gimbals being used instead quite often. I agree, even a 15minute edit length would be a huge improvement over the only five minutes or so we have now (it's a little longer than 1 minute? But not by much). Although I personally feel perhaps an hour or three would be the sweet spot. As that's still waaaaay under the typical time period for when those spammy bots would be posting then returning back to add sneaky links in the edit. I'm on gearspace too! But I'm very easy to figure out, I keep the same username over there as well 🙂

I think perhaps going back to my old career as a Software Developer. (it was a loooong time ago, we were programming on stone tablets with hammer & chisels)

Maybe them merging is good news?? When we consider all the negative infighting between the pro video and consumer divisions (because they pro division was very jealous of the success of the GH series. I bet for instance that's why we never ever saw a Panasonic EVA1 MFT, even though that made 100% sense!). As maybe, just maybe we'll see them now working together?? Bring on the Panasonic EVA2 with L Mount! Yes, Panasonic GH4 was the first non-cinema hybrid camera (as the 1D C was part of Canon's cinema series, although in a hybrid camera form factor). And the Nikon D5/D500 was the first 4K DSLR (as the GH4 was mirrorless).

I try to do this. But that is not how my brain works. I only see my mistakes immediately AFTER I have pressed the "submit" button! haha Yeah, it's a pity. I feel that the timer should be longer. Say if it was an hour long. Then if you post, then someone else replies at some point in the future, and you then reply back after trying to edit it, welllll..... the hour probably has expired already? (for instance, your reply to me just now, over two hours has passed!) But if you're just taking your time to read through the thread, and you get other thoughts you want to add to your post as you read further into the thread, well it's unlikely you'll take longer than a whole hour to read to the end of the thread?

Ahhhh... NOW you are speaking my language! 😉 I'm all for being quieter when on a production.

yeah, linear vs log Plus ARRI can do 12bit prores too

I remember reading there was so sort of compatibility issues with BMD cameras and the newer Samsung drives? But checking it out quickly shows this post from a couple of days ago, saying T9 is all good: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=190756 This post says T7 is bad: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=165083 But now the SamsungT7 Shield Portable SSD 1TB / 2TB / 4TB is listed as supported: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/faq/59025 So they found a way?? And updated the firmware. (as the 2nd forum post was a little while ago) Thus either would be fine??? If the price difference is only small, get the T9 Edit: ahhhh... it was about the Shield vs non-Shield versions of the T7: https://www.reddit.com/r/videography/comments/17kglkn/blackmagic_ursa_mini_pro_46k_g2_samsung_t9_ssd/

And the Panasonic GH7 can't be too far away! I'm betting this year. Plus I expect to see another MFT camera from Z Cam too. I guess it is due to the lack of edit button?? 😞 If only we could still edit posts! (more than a few seconds afterwards) Then we wouldn't see two or three plus posts in a row from the same person. The vast majority of times I'm on shoots with a gimbal they're not using AF. As they have a 1st AC.

That was more a design flaw of the FS7 itself though 12bit from an ARRI for instance will be great.

Portability likely trumped out and won in the end. A Convergent Design Odyssey 7Q isn't exactly an easy hassle free approach vs a lightweight little Hyperdeck (or perhaps if he was doing it today, an Atomos Ninja Star???? Maybe)

This film was quite famously shot with the Sony F35! Thus was already discussed a lot by folks such as us on various forums.

I've been wondering that too, how long until the rise of AI slashes down the relevance of my job by 80%. And what should I move on into instead? Wow! Fifty items! That's a lot. (but probably what I should do myself.... ) It isn't unimaginable that in one day in the not so distant future that all the footage gets crowd sourced from guests, that the AI then fixes up (or even totally regenerates from scratch, just using the input sources as guides for it) and spits out cinematic wedding trailers and wedding photos. That's "good enough" to satisfy the low end of the market (as of course AI will massively undercut the humans). Then another five or ten years later after that? It will have leapt ahead and improved enough to be eating away at the mid market which is the bread and butter of many pros.

What exactly is wrong with the S5 shutter? And what's right with the S1H shutter? (sorry, non-pro photographer here, so I'm a bit confused!)

If you're fine with only the electronic shutter of the 28megapixel sensor of the Sony FX30 when doing photography (some people are not, and insist upon a mechanical shutter for their photography), then I still think that's the way to go for you.

From this comment I presume they were recording to a Sony PMW-50, or similar. This is what I mean: https://pro.sony/s3/cms-static-content/file/05/1237490106505.pdf Although the reference to "disc" makes me wonder if perhaps it was an older/different model than this one. Or maybe it was just a slightly sloppy mistake saying "disc"? It's interesting how even the professional experts can sometimes screw up the basics. Correct, they shot one season with the new Sony PMW-F3, but after that they switched over to the brand new ARRI cameras for the later seasons. But where did you see evidence they filmed with the Nano Flash?

And this is why ProRes 10bit 422 is plenty for even quite "high budget" productions to shoot in, and they don't "need" raw at all.

Exactly, when it comes to just stills then for 95%+ of us an old body such as the Nikon D750 from eBay could meet 95%+ of our photography needs yet costs merely 10% of what a new Nikon Z9 would cost! The progress in tech for photography over the last couple of decades, especially in the past decade is: 1) has greatly exceeded the capabilities of almost all photographers 2) has somewhat stalled out, and is going at a much slower pace than digital photography was improving at in the 1980's / 1990's / 2000's Exactly, if you're on a shoot where you're doing both video and stills, it's much easier to jump between both if they're two different bodies. (especially the more complex it is that it becomes. What if for instance if the FX30 is setup rigged for video monitor + TC + audio etc, while the a6000 is setup to be used controlling external flashes?? You wouldn't want both of those combined into one!) Plus like you said, all the many benefits of having two bodies to use for BTS / timelapses / second angles / etc

What do you really need for stills? Could you just get a Sony a6000 on eBay for next to nothing? They'll then be each the back up stills/video camera for the other one!

Wouldn't a non-speedboosted (because it is native mount) have greater reach than the speedboosted 24-105? Maybe switch over to a normally adapted (no speedbooster) 24-105 in EF mount for cheap as standard adapters cost very little? (would give you more reach too!) As that would be less likely to struggle with the image washing out, if you're skipping using the speedbooster. Or is the issue that f4 is too slow for you? Get a secondhand 24-70mm f2.8 then? Could get one of those for EF for just $400 to $700-ish on eBay

I was amiss not to mention the Nikon Z8 (won the "Mirrorless Camera of The Year" award on Newsshooter for 2023): https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1765622-REG/nikon_z8_mirrorless_camera.html It's basically a Z9 on a diet, but even at its cheaper price, it's still too expensive for your budget, so I didn't mention it. (but then again, so too is the FX3 "too expensive", yet I mentioned it a lot)

My rough gear plans for 2024 that I'm expecting (can't be too sure, I don't have a crystal ball): Sell my Sony FS7 (and try to resist temptation to get another, and thus tell myself to not buy a Sony PMW-F5 and/or FX30 instead) Likewise, resist the temptation to buy a secondhand Nikon D750 / D500 / Panasonic G9mk1 / Pentax 645D (the cheaper these cameras become, the harder it becomes to resist the temptation to get one!) Buy an RF Distro (sadly none exactly match up for what I'm looking for. So I might just get one from Aliexpress on "the cheap" for less than a thousand bucks NZD, while I keep on waiting for the perfect distro. Which might be years away?? There have been in 2023 a few new RF distro announcements and releases, we're been spoiled with how many new ones are coming out, yet sadly none are quite what I want!!!) Buy the Audio Wireless DT-BOOST2 filter (it hasn't started production yet, official specs are not even announced yet, and they haven't even said what the price will be!! https://www.audiowireless.co.uk/online-store/DIGITALLY-TUNED-DUAL-ANTENNA-FILTER-DT-BOOST-2-p481882216 But I've chatted with them directly, it seems that it will be coming out in 2024 I hope, and it seems like they'll have a variable 50MHz bandwidth option, so this seems like the closest to what I could hope that I want. At least in the foreseeable future, could be many years until the perfect product comes out, so for now these seems like the closest there is) Get a Rycote INV-Lite 19 shock mount Buy another Sennheiser MKH50 and or Sanken CSM1 if I get lucky and see an amazing deal. (resist the temptation to get the new DPA 2017) Maybe get a Sony DWT-P01N, as one of my two plug on Sony transmitters is playing up with a few issues 😞 Buy another couple of channels (maybe even four) of Sony DWX (mainly because I want to be able to max out all 14 ISO tracks I can record on my Sound Devices 833, without needing to use my AJA ADA4 analog to AES convertors. And none of my Lectrosonics do AES output, but my Sony wireless does) Maybe get another couple more Sanken COS11D lavs, and/or Deity W.Lav Pros. Maybe get another spare 3.5m carbon fibre boom pole. Maybe jump over to eSmart batteries and the Deity BDS. (maybe, but this would be a rather expensive change up, vs sticking with my Sony BP-U60 batteries to power my bag with) Maybe change over from blk22 to blk20 for my IFBs/IEMs (I'd rather not do this, it would also be a very expensive change, for no real gain? But it might solve some minor issues I'm having, if the Lectrosonics PF25 won't resolve it) On the topic of IFBs, I might splurge out on a few Halter Technical headphones, as a better upgrade from the headphones I give out to people at the moment. Get a second ISDT charger for my AA batteries (I love my ISDT N24! However, I think my 2nd one will be a smaller 8x or 16x AA charger. As to get a second 24x AA charger would be handy! But slightly overkill too) Ouch! Once I write it all down like that, it looks like a big long scary list (expensive!). Even though at another level, it feels like I have "no plans at all to spend money", seriously... it's nothing at all.

HA! No, I'm a dog person. (although, no dogs here either) Still, I'm quite happy with how this year panned out. I think this year was by far the least I've spent in any year (or at least, it is the least since I was the "film school level" of filmmaking) Hope to try and make 2024 be a similar year. I'll still spend money on random little cables / adapters / batteries / consumables / etc that I need. (these can easily get into the low thousands of dollars! As all these little things can easily add up. But I'll try to keep it down more in the hundreds of dollars range)