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Have multiple friends who purchased an EVA1, can't think of anyone at the moment who got a C200 who I personally know here in Auckland. But I'm sure they exist. A Ninja Star 4K so you could have a super small device automatically giving you ProRes 4K files out of the C200 would be a game changer for many folks. Or heck even if they just made a small monitor recorder with a 5" screen that does 4K, as no one else does that aside from Video Devices I'm very surprised that with a purchase of that magnitude a person didn't even consider the EVA1 for a moment.

Good grief! I've owned ZERO cars in my lifetime. But then again I've owned probably nearing on two dozen bikes over my life.

That was intentional, as a talking head alone can be quite borrowing. Plus his topic is about computers / visual media, thus I thought it would be nice to layer in those into the scene into the background and then another layer into the deep background. Would I do it the same all over again if I did this say tomorrow while sober? (I wasn't then!) Yup, probably. Although what I would change is I would tone down the brightness of the monitors, by how much.... hmm, maybe even by as much as 50%? (plus a number of other tweaks, such as I wish I didn't have to use a softbox as a hair light, and I wish I could have had more time to play around with how I was splashing bits of light onto the background) But we were very quickly running out of time. Remember, I'd already had a full day of filming beforehand, working on this feature: Thus we didn't have too much spare time available, because we really wanted to get into town before all the clubs closed up for the night. (as it was errr... we kinda missed that! Oops. Well, we got into one bar we spent the rest of the night in, but it wasn't our 1st or even 3rd choice, but nowhere else was letting us in because it was already too late in the night!)

Nothing else on the market can match its specs

If only it was 502! Would be rather tempting

The Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 is a very affordable lens for what it is. Of course there are YouTubers who can afford it. And you can use it on almost ANYTHING! (that isn't FF35) I have my Sigma in NIkon F mount and I've used it on: BMPCC, D5200, D90, G6, F3, GH1, etc... and those are just my cameras! Also taken it out and had it used on shoots on other cameras too such as a Panasonic EVA1 and many others.

You're going to be waiting a very looooooooooooong time before Canon puts IBIS into a cheap camera! The G80 is already very cheap, and the likes of a Panasonic 25mm f1.7 lens on sale is only US$99 Skip IBIS and you can get a secondhand Panasonic G7 for dirt dirt cheap! (skip 4K and you can get a G6 for a song!)

I shot this on Saturday night (while drunk ish! :-P ha) with the Panasonic f1.7 lens, which I however dialed back to f2 rather than f1.7 (the seated subject wouldn't remain stationary at all! But it was more to fix exposure, as the subject very annoyingly wouldn't let me turn off a light DIRECTLY in front of him under the bench which was blowing out his very light skin): Additionally, I used a BMPCC! Thus its 1" sensor is even smaller than the usual MFT sensor.

An indie film will try hard to push down that ratio to say 10:1 or less.

As stills work is very much secondary for you, it would seem like sticking with your GH4 is the no brainer choice for now. Perfectly capable to do stills on the side. Pair it with say an extra AF lens or three, such as say a Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7 or whatever it is you need to round out your AF lenses for still photography. Maybe get a few speedlites as well, such as the Godox Mini TT350O Speedlite.

Sounds like the Panasonic G80/G85 is the camera for you, and you could pair it with a couple of lenses such as say a Panasonic 25mm f1.7 & Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7

He was also on the cover of the video issue of Popular Mechanics last October.

Love it! As well as the benefits mentioned already, the BMCC MFT lacks an active mount, which rules out the usage of many of the native mount lenses for MFT

14mm wide enough for you? Then Panasonic 14mm f2.5 is nice!

Exactly. And rumor with 0.1% chance of happening! (a probability pulled from my ass.... but likely fairly accurate ish!)

You could switch to 1080 just for a few shots if you know beforehand you'll have major rolling shutter issues in a particular scene

Secondhand Panasonic GH2 SLR Magic VND FeelWorld F570 That blows your budget however.... but I don't see the point in going any cheaper. If you want to go cheaper, then you need to ditch something, be it the VND or the monitor.

Did the focal reducer for NX1 turn out to be viable? If so, that. Are there focal reducers for Fuji's X mount? I assume that, if so then go for this. Otherwise ditch the obsession with "full frame" and go with a Panasonic G80/G85 for maximum bang for buck value. (or alternatively, is 4K *really* essential for the very low budget shoots? Then you could go for a Nikon D750 or Sony a7S mk2 etc)

Sadly not :-( But because I got it secondhand I don't mind, I got it at a very good price! :-D Not sure..... but I'm skeptical? As I half think it might be a teeny bit too wide. It would be a close cut thing though if it can fit?? Headed out in five minutes to shoot an epic shotgun comparison for my YT channel. "Cheaper". Only if you don't count labour! As if you do, then it is waaaaaaaaay more expensive than a Tentacle.

Many many people have discovered a sure fire way to kill their passion is to try and turn it into an income/career!

Are you getting the original monster URSA or the newer URSA Mini?

Welllllll..... most kiwis don't necessarily think I have a kiwi accent! Even though I was born in NZ and have lived here my entire life (same for both my parents as well! Both kiwis). I've done a fair few videos on other topics about sound, or is there something specific you want? To go step by step through everything in my mixing bag on a typical film shoot? Not sure if I have done that, probably should. Especially now I have the Orca OR30 bag, which makes it much much easier to show to the camera what is in it. I have been meaning to do soon a video showing how different it is now between what my bag looks like set up in the Zoom's F4 specific bag vs in my new Orca bag.

Exactly. Too often I read on forums (well, not these ones! EOSHD.com is pretty awesome :-D ) people complaining they can't make a living, but no sh*t Sherlock! You can't making a living selling videos to the cows and sheep grazing in the local fields. Any specialised niche needs a certain size population to have a big enough market to support it. The more specialised the niche, the bigger the population base you need to have! For instance a soundie needs a much bigger city to live in than a general stills photographer needs. With hard graft a stills photographer might be able to make it in a small-medium sized town. (but he couldn't specialise! He'd need to take on all sorts of photography) While I couldn't survive in such circumstances, basically I only can be in Auckland in NZ. Or Wellington (or maaaaaybe Christchurch).

Opinions will of course vary a lot on this point (just like everything else before as well!), but in my personal view the Ultrasync ONE offers the best possible mix of size/features/cost. However having a Tentacle or two for DSLR shoots are nice with their built in scratch mic. You might also look around for secondhand original Tentacles, as you'd just be losing out mainly on bluetooth and the "locking" ish connection.

This. Too many of the old guard have failed to adapt with the times and thus wonder why their incomes have fallen off a cliff.