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They'd suck big time as an "all purpose" camera however.

For real estate stills the FX sensor of the D750 should be very handy for tilt shift lenses.

I wonder how on earth people managed to shoot with the GH4/GH3/GH2/GH1? How did we manage to shoot a short film last weekend with only a Panasonic GH3?? :-o Why on earth do I still own 2x Panasonic GH1 cameras :-o

It can take a little bit of time for a good short film to planned, shot, and go through post. (thus there can often be a lag before we see plenty shot with a new camera) But I'm certain plenty of short films have been done with the GH5. Heck, just a few weeks back I was 1st AC on a shoot with a GH5.

Nifty trick is you can use the Tokina 11-16mm at 16mm on full frame! :-o Heck I have a friend who even uses it at 14mm and gets away with it for night/party shots.

I don't have either lens, but I believe OIS works?

Unfortunately no one seems to love APS-C :-( Aside from Fujifilm (and even they just brought out a medium format camera as well), and Pentax (who not only have medium format, but now are doing FF too). If it wasn't for Tokina (11-20mm f2.8), Sigma (18-35mm f1.8 & 50-100mm f1.8), and Tamron (18-400mm f/3.5-6.3) then Nikon DX / Canon APS-C would look very weak and pathetic indeed. One of the last big gaps remaining is a superzoom with a constant F4, such as the 18-105mm f/4 but for Nikon F / Canon EF mount instead. (and kinda wish there were DX lenses for 85mm / 150mm / etc.... if it meant they could be smaller/cheaper? Like the Nikon 35mm f1.8G which is a sweet bargain! More pancake lenses too! Which Pentax does for APS-C already)

Ideally a secondhand Panasonic G7 But more likely a secondhand Panasonic G6 or Nikon D5200 is what you should be checking out.

Forget about it. Not a realistic approach for most people to shoot always in ML raw. And the 100D is not a good choice for ML raw anyway. So what? Nothing ultra super special about Canon lenses specifically anyway. Go for Panasonic G80/G85 (or a secondhand G7, if on a very tight budget).

Nice score on the MKE600! Only a student/videographer grade mic, but at that price you can't complain. If buying new, then I recommend the Aputure Deity as a low budget shotgun to go for. But yeah, with care some bargains can be found by hunting around secondhand.

Get a tonne of V mounts

I'd say the differences between the a7 vs a7r vs a7s was a lot more clear cut than Panasonic's range.

It sucks the price of it. Waaaay to close to the GH5, why not just get the GH5 instead? & leaves this big empty price gap under it until you get to the G80, with nothing to fill this hole (like it should be). Anyway, this certainly won't ever be replacing my Panasonic G6

I'm in agreement! :-) That was a point I made early on, that all the extra supporting gear adds a lot to the total cost (and adds to the complexity of the shoot too, you'll need an assistant or two). Depends exactly on how it is rigged up in the end. But an Arri Alexa would usually tend to be a bit heavier than a RED ONE I think, only by "a few kilos" though? :-P Brand new then $5K for a fluid head isn't unusual. But if a person is on a tight budget, then there is no need to spend that much. I didn't. I wouldn't ever count on making much or even any money on rentals from an old Arri Alexa Classic. Especially if you're not already set up as a rental house, as then the overheads for that just won't make it worthwhile the return you'd get. That just makes it even worse, as it indicts there is likely very little profitable demand for it whatsoever.

If you're using say four cards (and many Alexa packages might come with even more than that), then you could easily be talking about a thousand bucks. You might say it is "just a thousand dollars", but a few thousand here, another thousand there, and soon you're talking about serious money! Plus it is useful and informative to think about this things for the future, as what if a new Arri camera with a brand new sensor gets announced tomorrow? So that in a couple of years time from now, the prices of secondhand Arri Alexa Classics have tumbled down to just US$5K (not a totally unrealistic guess, it might be even lower!), then the question of spending an extra thousand dollars on SxS media or not will then become a relatively more important factor to consider. My bad, I linked to the wrong SxS cards which are not approved media, the minimum cards needed that B&H sell are five hundred dollars a pop: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1197877-REG/sony_sbp64d_64gb_sxs_pro_d.html Thus the appeal if SD can be used instead of SxS Pro cards (and the adapters I've seen do claim specifically to be replacements for SxS Pro series cards, but who knows as to the real truth). @DaveAltizer, when you next hire an Arri, as well as trying out the best settings recording to a SD card, could you please also give a spin recording the lowest settings? (1080 ProRes 422 24p)

On the upside, almost all these cheap secondhand eBay auctions I see do include the highspeed license already, and often arriraw too. This is I think the killer blow against the $10K Alexa. For owner ops considering a $10K camera, then most of their work isn't going to be appropriate for the Arri Alexa, and they'd get a better ROI (return on investment) from having the likes of say a Sony FS7. But there is still a small niche of a niche of people who it might be appropriate for, and I think the op might be one of them. Perhaps. Yup, I feel it is a very small slither of the market which exists between "can rent an Arri (and probably wants the newer Mini anyway)" and "doesn't quite afford it but still is appropriate for an Arri shoot"

SD cards are dirt cheap, and something everyone already owns (especially if you say have a BMPCC already, or any 4K camera). Thus cost = zero. For a couple of secondhand SxS cards (the minimum you'd need for a day's shooting) you're looking at five hundred bucks: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/used/1314825/sony_2sbs64g1c_sxs_1_64gb_440_200_mbs.html I think at least finding out if they really do or do not work is still an interesting question. as a person could say buy a couple of SxS cards (I already own two that came with my F3! Although only puny 16GB cards :-/ ) then have the rest be SD cards in adapters. That way for the vast bulk of their work they'd use the SxS, but for those loooong days where you're rolling and rolling such as a long series of interviews all day long (and without a DIT to unload them along the way) you know you can expand your day's capacity by using SD cards in a pinch.

You don't need them to be that fast to recorder ProRes HQ FHD. After all many many of us having been doing this for years and years now with SanDisk Extreme Pro cards. It is not like we're recording 4K 444 to them! (which QXD in SxS are capable of and are approved to work in a Sony F5/F55) So where are the limitations: The card itself not being fast enough: nope! The adapter not being faster enough: nope! (no fancy electronics in there I believe, is just a straight passthrough connection I think) Some other weird compatibility quirk: who knows.... is an open question which still needs to be answered!

Ah I imagine then you're quite ahead of the weight needs when it comes to tripods and other supporting needs for an Arri Alexa, so you won't need to be rebuying this? As that would then increase your needed budget significantly. What about lenses, are they a full set of PL lenses? As if they're SLR lenses then I'd email Leitax before buying the camera, so that you're 120% certain they have the adapter in stock! (because sometimes with these small stores and old stock, then they might list on their website as "in stock" but in reality they ran out and it never got updated. And you'll have a hell of time trying to track this down secondhand! Might be near on impossible) You might be the perfect niche candidate for buying one then! Look at how often you're sure you'd be renting one over the next 18 months, would that come up to over half the cost of buying one? If so, then you're starting to build up a more solid case to at least consider buying one yourself.

Seeing as you rent them now and then, please give it a go! The SxS adapter for SD cards is dirt dirt cheap, so zero harm trying at least! (and I'm sure you already own SD cards, but ideally try it with some fast ones such as Extreme Pro cards) I just used the cheapest one on eBay from China, not this one (I purchased mine a while ago), but same kind of thing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SD-SDHC-SDXC-to-34MM-Express-Card-reader-SXS-adapter-for-sonyEX280-EX350/291799349554 Ditto the XQD adapter is quite affordable too (although you might not own Sony XQD cards? But is easy enough to ask around and find some to borrow I'm sure): https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/840666-REG/Sony_QDA_EX1_SC1_XQD_ExpressCard_Adapter.html

What I'm curious about, but still haven't found an answer for is if SxS adapters for SD (or XQD) cards work in an Arri Alexa? Haven't ever yet found an answer for that. As if they are compatible (I use SD cards in their SxS adpater for my Sony PMW-F3) then that is a tremendous cost savings if buying a secondhand Arri Alexa.

That is likely just dreaming

Arri Alexa has been around the $10K ish market on eBay for quite some time now, well over a year, I've pointed it a few times already. But is it a wise choice? For almost all of us in this forum the answer is: no. Perhaps never been on a shoot with an Arri Alexa firsthand? But ever shot a multi day shoot with a RED ONE maybe? The experience would have a few similarities. You're dealing with a big, heavy, and power hungry beast. And $10K will be bit a tip of the iceberg, you'll need to upgrade your tripod/slider/jib/lenses/media/batteries, all at likely greater cost than you think. (for instance a quality tripod that can support a full rigged out Alexa isn't cheap! Can't use the $150 tripod you've used before with your DSLR. And this theme repeats itself over and over, what about costs for SxS media? Just to throw another example out there). Also $10K ish is a *LOT* of money, you've got tonnes of other options. Let's look at a few other options: Secondhand Sony FS7 (as THE MOST POPULAR midrange camera, you'd likely be able to find and do more work with this) Secondhand Sony F5 (basically a "more professional" FS7) New Panasonic EVA1 (want to take a bet on the next generation of midrange cameras? Might be this, maybe) Secondhand Sony FS5 (very compact! Nothing with its features and compactness can touch it, well until the EVA1 comes out... ) New Kinefinity Terra 4K/5K/6K New/secondhand URSA Mini 4.6K (original or Pro version) All these options you could easily afford if considering the Arri Alexa, might even leave thousands of dollars spare left in your pocket! And if you're a non-professional, then none of those should even be considered by you. Instead go for a Panasonic GH5/G80, JVC LS300, BMD Micro Cinema or a secondhand FS700/F3/BMPCC. So who do I see the "cheap eBay" Arri Alexa being for? I think they need to meet a few of these criteria (ideally all of them): 1) have the cash at hand and existing clashflow to justify such a very large purchase (don't be buying one without a business plan of some sorts beforehand! Run the figures, such as exactly that is the total cost vs what revenue you might get from it a minimum realistically speaking) 2) either are producing in house and/or have clients who will pay the premium vs just doing it with a camera that costs a quarter as much 3) don't mind the large weight and power requirements, because you either already own all the extra support or have budgeted for it. Plus your projects have the budget for the assistant(s) all this extra overhead will require. 4) you're already renting on at least a somewhat semi regular basis an Arri Alexa 5) you don't already have some other big gaps in the filmmaking process which are more deserving of the funding. For instance, do you already have all the lighting and audio gear you need? (or hopefully, you always hire gaffers / sound recordists who come with their own gear) 6) have no need for 4K right now (or have another camera for that), and can get a return on the Arri Alexa before the demand for 4K becomes mainstream (which is tricky to predict when that will happen? Or has it already.... a risk to take!) 7) live locally to an Arri Alexa seller with a good price, or willing to roll the dice on shipping/importing an expensive and bulky item. (this is a bummer for people like myself in New Zealand! But if you lived in LA, this is something to stick in the pro column instead)

ProRes 442 or ProRes HQ? There are (if I recall correctly) 4 settings in the Video Assist (from highest to lowest): ProRes HQ ProRes 422 ProRes LT ProRes Proxy And you can easily look up that info online: For example: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/webapps/videocalc ProRes HQ 1080 24p = 77.42GB/hr Oh that doesn't look that bad, but get yourself shorter rails! :-o If you're happy with the slog2 from a FS7 then you'll probably be ok with the same from the FS700 4K raw as well.

Or just punch in focus with your monitor. Also very easy. And doesn't need a parfocal lens!