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Heh, I would roll with an Aputure A.Lav plugged straight into my BMPCC for my YouTube vlogs! Although I've since switched to using my Panasonic G6 a little more often instead and it seems to have somewhat slightly better audio than the BMPCC (certainly better the Nikon D5200, is one reason I stopped using it, the other being it was just so big and heavy for one handed usage with my arm full stretched out for extended lengths of time. While the G6 + SLR Magic 8mm is a wonderfully compact and lightweight set up) If it is unpaid personal work then often my lazy/pragmatic side will take over! Thus why for my YT vlog I'm quite happy going straight to camera. (Vs if it is paid professional work, then of course I'll go hard to deliver the best possible for the client)

I've shot an awful lot with my BMPCC with only a small BP-U30 mounted on the top. But then again my friend's BMPCC usually is shot in a big rig with even a V Mount Battery to power everything. Depends on the person, it can be whatever you want it to be.

And what if unicorns farted rainbows of gold? The only think you can count on Canon doing is disappointing you.

This is your only pancake lens on the list. The super small compact size gives it a lot of bonus points as a "walk around lens" to always have with you.

The EOS R AF seems quite bad during portions of that vlog? As one of the top rated comments said:

With the exception of.... Fujifilm! They've done a darn good job with their latest release Also RED often puts out fairly slick release videos too. I'm quite partial to using my BP-U30 (and BP-U60 batteries) to powering my original BMPCC, the check light on the battery is handy to have. Oh no, it is too good!

Why print that on a lens? As it would constantly change, depending on what camera you put the lens on. At least focal lengths stay constant, as they're an inherent trait of the lens itself. Mostly it seems pretty useless, as 99.9% of the time I never use anything from it. But just sometimes sometimes it comes in handy, as my math/physics background does make it fairly effortless to understand many technical concepts.

The BMPCC had to start from a fairly low starting point, it could leverage some of the early work done with the BMCC, but that was all. Thus the original BMPCC still had a long long way to go. So while I expect the BMPCC4K will indeed improve with time, I don't expect it to have such a radical leap forward as the original BMPCC did. As the BMPCC4K has the benefit of being able to take advantage of all their years of software development on their other cameras, and the BMPCC4K is able to to start off from Day One as a much more fully developed camera (relatively speaking). What obsession with the broadcast market by BMD? Yes they make a lot of products for the broadcast market (such as ATEM etc etc), but they've done this for years, long before getting into camera manufacturing themselves. And the money and expertise they get from this is what helped allow them to build the BMCC! But when it comes to the cameras themselves, out of the many models they've put out, they've only made, what... three dedicated to the broadcast market? (Studio Camera / Micro Studio Camera / URSA Broadcast) So very very true.

Exactly. I reckon the average person should just ignore the entire concept (even though it is a simple one! But then again I've got a degree in math, and optics) of "crop factor"! As clearly this concept seems to do more harm than good.

Just "ok"?

Then we enter into the endless debate of what is or isn't a "cinema" camera.....

I bet some users would just velcro their cellphone to the back! So they can chimp away. Wonder if bluetooth could send the JPEGs across? But if you want to suck down your battery (and storage space!) then the WiFi gets turned on if raws are wanted.

The audio adapters are indeed handy, not so much just for the more study XLR inputs, but for having direct access to manual knobs to change things on the fly rather than digging into menus. As any solo shooter doing audio too needs all the help he can get to help make audio management quick and easy to adjust. Yes, go hard with the GH series (but still keeping basic photography functions, as after all many videographers like to do time lapses / stop motion as well). Especially if the Gx series is now going to target photographers will keeping damn decently good video too. (i.e. the G9) But keep also this high/low variation of the G series with a low end Gxx (i.e. G85) to keep on attracting in new customers to the ecosystem with an affordable entry point to MFT.

Hell yeah, is one of the reasons I recommend Nikon over Canon for someone starting out (as well as you know.... Nikon has better cameras!). Because Canon simply lacks that important part: a standard focal length (35mm ish on APS-C / DX) fast prime at a bargain price for a beginner. For all the sh*t Thom Hogan gives Nikon (buzz buzz buzz) for not doing their DX lens line up right, at least Nikon did that one lens! I recommended it to my brother even though he won't need it for his main uses (photographing cars for his business), because it is so cheap and handy to have around for other purposes (like say to take pics at a party). Although the one lens from the Canon side I miss is the Canon 24mm f/2.8 pancake. As that is a lot slower than the f1.8 prime, and I feel 35mm is a better general purpose focal length on DX, but I wish I had a lens as compact as that for Nikon DSLRs! I'd probably use my Nikon D5200 more often (and imagine how compact it would be on the even smaller/lighter D3500!) with a pancake lens on it.

Hadn't seen @Mattias Burling's video until just now, so sharing it for others as well:

Two kinds of people who buy the C200 (and often the same person, with these split desires combined together): The C200 is the cheapest way to get a "4K C100" (seeing as a C100 mk3 hasn't happened, and a C300mk2 is even more expensive) They're a Canon fanboy who also lusts after raw

This strikes me as very unlikely. Fujifilm is making an unusual bet that no one else is making (thus Fujifilm will win big if this comes to pass! As they're the only one playing who is taking this angle with their tactic. Pentax used to be with their APS-C DSLRs and Pentax 645D/645Z. But Pentax hasn't successfully entered the mirrorless market, and even their DSLR range didn't stay APS-C): Full frame will die. And we'll be left with only two systems: Digital Medium Format for high quality and professionals, and a smaller format (such as APS-C, or perhaps... MFT? So in a way, the MFT players are kinda making the same bet... sort of) which can take advantage of the appeal of smaller size/weight/price. Is this a reasonable bet to assume Full Frame will die and Digital Medium Format will die? Most camera brands don't seem to think so, at least not anywhere near soon whatsoever. However maybe it will happen? Bigger sensors keep on becoming more and more affordable, and more and more advanced. Well, Full Frame doesn't have to die for Fujifilm's tactic to succeed. They just need Medium Format sensors to come down far enough in price to be a strong competitor to Full Frame options, as I believe that is Fujifilm's long term goal. To attack full frame from above (much better quality) and below (much smaller size/price/weight). Thus why would they ever want to join the full frame arms race themselves? Fufifilm can smartly "win" the Full Frame war by side stepping the war entirely! And by out flanking the competition on both sides. Panasonic has taken a slightly different but also somewhat similar bet: offer two options, one for quality (full frame) and another for compact size/weight/price (MFT). Olympus would be wise to either follow Panasonic's path and join L mount, or leap to the other extreme and making the same bet as Fujifilm has done in attacking Full Frame from above (here is a wild thought, convince Pentax to join them in a new mirrorless mount for medium format??? As Pentax has the digital medium format experience.). Also, Olympus could just stick with focusing on MFT exclusively, and do the very best possible they can with MFT. After all, not every brand has to be everything to everyone in all niches. Nothing wrong with focusing exclusively in one area, especially if Panasonic gets distracted with L mount then there might be more opportunities for Olympus to offer products in areas in MFT where Panasonic drops the ball.

What if the panning speed varies? You'd need an accelerometer to collect that data. But even that still could not correct moving items in the scene itself, such as a train passing by.

Aputure are the Blackmagic of the LED lighting world

On the upside, the Samsung NX1 in 1080 mode has some of the most minimal rolling shutter ever seen. So at least NX1 shooters have a "get out of jail card", shoot in 4K until you're doing a high moving action scene (or whatever) then switch over to 1080 just for that segment.

Fujifilm have really nailed how to do a roll out of a new camera!

Guilty as charged. Clearly I'm an undercover BMD operative. No. But once you add on cage / lenses / etc..... the sky is the limit! (actually, no it is not, the moon is! actually, no it is not, Pluto is! actually, no it is not, the alpha centauri is! actually, not is is not.... )

Thank goodness RED has never done that to us! edit: this is a RED thread no?

This. It gets a bit tiresome if people go on over and over banging on about a missing feature that which is obviously / widely known as not being there. Is like complaining about a Jaguar sports car not being a six seater electric car. Well d'oh, everyone knows it is not one. haha, imagine if only the BMPCC4K had an input! So you could use the BMPCC4K as a monitor/recorder too (with loop through as well! ha). Boom! Exactly what I was talking about ? Well done. Well played. LOL! I might need free trousers too after reading this thread....

But it is not just the storage requirements. It is also the workflow. Every post house on the planet is set up to churn through ProRes footage with ease in a blink of an eye. But raw? Not so much. Nailed it. This seems to be a far too common problem with manufacturers who try to offer more at a low price point. I seem the same over in the Kinefinity forums, with many users ripping into Kinefinity over minor points. And I'm just thinking "hang on guys, but RED does it just the same, or even RED has got it even worse. But you're giving Kinefinity flack over some quibble??" Sadly it seems like JB might be gone for good now ? A loss to this otherwise excellent forum.