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I damn love that fold out monitor on the AMIRA! Has been so useful for me in recent week's a small the camera operator has been quite generous in positioning it for me keep an eye on it for framing while booming. Am not a fan of dovetails on an ultra small crew, unless you have too, Sony VCT for me! AMIRA certainly has the friendliest audio of all the ARRI cameras.

Arguably the AMIRA is better suited to narrative than anything else you might shoot with it. Especially for small crews (& by that I mean anything that just has at most a 2nd AC, I'd still count that as a pretty small crew). As for an ARRI being overkill for YouTube? Nah, tonnes and tonnes of content for the web gets shot on an ARRI.

Nah, you can always find people who will work for free on short films and such. Doesnt mean they'd be any good... or reliable. Agreed, rather shoot any day of the week with an EVA1 than a stills camera. But an AMIRA is in a totally different size category to an EVA1

Unfortunately yes, this is often how patents get used. Often another company unintentionally infringes, then another company comes along and shuts them down. For instance I bet that is what happened with Tascam when they brought out their DR10 I have only came across it once, and that was a few weeks ago. On a professional shoot, as a last resort back up option just in case their rented C300mk2 failed on them (apparently their XC15 is their in house camera the agency uses when they can't afford to rent in a camera such as the C300mk2)

Hiding away my boom just below the ceiling for the wiiiiiiide shot.

I'm not even using a camera, using a microphone, and I'd like this too please! Exactly! ARRI ALEXA is designed with a crew in mind, while the AMIRA is configured differently in a number of smaller and bigger ways so that going solo (or with a very small crew) is at least an *option*.

If you're doing newsshooter doco style shooting (I.e. Zero or minimal lights, and mostly just locked off tripod shots) then sure AMIRA / F55 / etc are just perfectly fine to use solo, and many many people do so.

But they're *not* one person crews, they're part of a larger production! Involving many many people. Not sure how this disagrees with my point that it is a bit of a stretch to make an AMIRA be a one man solo shooter.

Should perhaps have shared this trailer ages ago, but this might just maybe perhaps be the first feature film with an Aputure Deity used on it?! (was shot mid last year) Maaaaybe, share if you know of any others! Although the bulk of it I used a Sanken CS3e for outdoors, and a Samson S02 indoors. (plus a little teeny bit here was done with an Oktava cardioid or a 416)

If you're just operating it on sticks, then sure, whatever.

I'm in the third week of a feature film being shot with an AMIRA, I'd say it is a massive massive stretch to think of the AMIRA as a one man crew kind of camera (though it is closer to that than any other ARRI digital camera). We have a three person camera crew for this. (& three person lighting crew, continuity person, AD, wardrobe, MIA & assistant, etc etc) The FS7 however is very much on the small side of "big cameras", and can easily be operated solo. However, I've also worked on shoots with a FS7 which had a five person camera department.

This. Whoever wins... Sony wins!

"Itchiness" is only relative! If you have a beard then go clean shaven it feels damn weird and itchy like mad! But then after a while that too passes.

Would you ever shoot with a camera that doesn't have a monitor? (or even any way to monitor it)

FIRE! Everything is more fun with that :-P Are those special stunt bricks, rubber ones? Or just normal bricks? Is about three years and a bit I've had it. But once it was only a year or two long then it pretty much stopped growing any more. Did anyone notice the seat created out of apple boxes that DoP was leaning/sitting on? I found that amusing. Oh, and the hat I was wearing I got given the day beforehand for FREE! :-D As we were shooting in clothes store.

Huh? Sorry, I'm still not following you at all, this doesn't make any sense. You want a meter long mic which can bend?!?! And somehow this this eliminates the need for a boom pole? Nope, this is make zilch sense whatsoever.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1281427-REG/olympus_v314080bu000_m_zuiko_digital_ed_12_100mm.html Well well well, I was wrong all this time in my mind when I thought of this lens! Thank you for the correction

If only it had OIS then I'd be keen indeed. And a f2.8 version, even with less reach, so we'd have the MFT equivalent of the 18-105mm f2.8 for Sony APS-C

It is a bit fvcked that production will frequently not prioritize sound appropriately, so it isn't infrequent that I can't properly monitor sound during the takes inside cars. But at least the ride around for the first take gave me a rough idea of how well it was going or not.

Huh?! I wouldn't put the DR10X at the mic end of the boom!

I haven't done a video yet of my bag (but I should), and each day it can vary a little (even if just by simply adding/subtracting a wireless). But if you see my past videos, it can give you a rough idea of some things I use, as sometimes I do an unboxing video when I get new stuff and I explain why I got it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCniNTuAtkFiSCQNfIaw9SJw/videos And I have a partial, and little bit outdated, gear list here: http://ironfilm.co.nz/sound/ Basically you never want to peak at any stage along the process. As once that happens it is unrecoverable, no matter how much you might turn it down later on. Thanks! My approach as been if I let my perfectionist nature take over then I'll never share anything, so I'm embracing the one take with zero editing approach instead. Which is what Matt Price does (and he is the biggest YouTuber in my little teeny niche of pro production sound recordists, with a huge number of four thousand subscribers! :-o Well, big for this obscure niche! ha): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHYM50mRY7o-VMGhEDzOnw

Use a cheap external powerbank + update the firmware, then zero issues with the Tascam DR60Dmk1 and it runs for waaaay past all day! :-) http://ironfilm.co.nz/firmware-update-for-tascam-dr-60d-mk1-fixes-recording-interruptions-when-running-on-external-usb-power-packs/

Roland used to be a strong low budget choice, but lately they've been MIA in for a while.

And we didn't even get to come over a decision for this....

What problems specifically have you noticed recently? I dunno, just how good was last night's pizza?! I doubt it.