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You don't always have the luxury of a high resolution screen. And focus peaking can help give you a bit more information than what a high res screwn would give you. I was yesterday 1st AC on a short film with the GH5 and the DoP only had one monitor for his camera (& no HDMI pass through! So wouldn't even have mattered if we had a second). So I had to use the GH5 screen itself for pulling focus when it was on his shoulder. Having focus peaking really helped save my butt when pulling focus on the Nikon 50mm f1.2! :-o

Being the cheap bastard that I am, the camera next year from Nikon which interests me the most is the D5600 replacement! 4K with focus peaking please

Just because the Arri Alexa has been ruling the roost for the last few years, does not mean it will be the smart choice for the years and years to come! (rest of your life!) The past is not the future.

The D5 replacement is not coming in 2018, maybe not even 2019.

If the D5600 replacement gets full sensor 4K with focus peaking, then I'm buying it!

Samsung NX1 owners will be stoked! :P

Don't see the point in the a7 series when if you just wait a few months more you can get the video focused a7S update instead! Aaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh..... that audio is awful! Noise floor is way too high.

It is also the high speed capabilities of the FS700, useful for music videos and lots of other kinds of shoots. Suppose it is a trade off, going with image vs features. Depends on a person's needs/wishes.

Panasonic GH5. We can close this thread now.

It is stupidly bulky though, and operates in a frequency that can get to be extremely congested. Just due to the sheer bulkiness I do NOT recommend it for filmmakers to use on talent! It is only a camera hop for me. That has nothing to do with it.

Lucky you have Tamron primes with image stabilization that can come to the rescue, if you need this.

YUP!!!! By the time you have purchased lenses, batteries, media, cables, shoulder mount, quick release plate, slider, tripod, rails, mattebox, 4x4 filters, follow focus, and much much more.... you'll look back and laugh at how little your camera body cost in comparison to your total budget you have now spent! And we haven't even started discussing audio or lighting gear yet. Except to potentially spend on each a comparable amount as on the camera! And this is exactly why you should not be expecting any rental income from a camera you purchase. Because too many people have thought the exact same thing! Only to discover the market is flooded, and they have to drop their rates very low to get anything at all back to service their expensive loans.

Yup! Mostly eBay is where I go for my deals. But occasionally elsewhere too. Indeed, I highly recommend doing a LOT of research first as to what is the right frequency range for where you live and work in.

Good news? No, don't count on it at all. Do dry hire hire gear has a lot of overhead/expenses, such that you hardly will be profiting from it if it is not on the regular. And if you're not already established in the film industry, then you won't be getting regular rentals. I'd go with Video Assist instead (or even an Atomos Samurai, which is what I use), as one of the big benefits of the F3 is its low cost in today's market, while the 7Q torpedoes that.... don't think the extra high cost of a 444 is worth it. If I was buying a 7Q, then it would be a no brainer for me to instead buy the FS700 over the F3. As now in 2017 (vs two years ago when I made my F3 purchase) the price difference between an F3 and a FS700 is only a few hundreds or so more. I wouldn't regard this as your "middle" ground option, but rather your highest end option. Would help provide better context for your other choices to compare with. This. x10,00 this. Although with a username like "CineAlta" you are probably biased! ;-) hehe Is it twice as "good"? (however on earth "good" is measured!! So many meanings of that word...) Or three times as good??? No. NOPE! No. Look instead at where the low hang fruit is (rather than spending even more on diminishing returns). Better lighting/sound/acting/set-design/pre-production/grading/etc etc.... will have a greater overall impact on the quality of the final product than tripling the amount you spend on a camera.

GH4 had for many years 10bit external, but Sony never followed suit. What I think we might maybe see from evil Sony is keeping 8bit 420 internal in their a7S mk3, but giving some kind of extra bonus option while recording externally. (probably just 10bit 422, but if we're super dooper good and lucky then maaaaaaybe FS raw??)

I noticed a lot of cheating had been going on :-o Makes it so so much easier if I could just pick one lens per mount! haha Wait, 10. Too late. I meant 100.

I've been having good luck at picking up secondhand units for $300ish or so. With some patience and luck.

My Sound Devices 552 works in the same way, feels weird and strange at first, but you get used to it.

Dual SD cards would've been nice. But using an ultra low profile USB stick (that won't stick out at all in your bag) would be an ok work around. Lacks input/output options of the higher end recorders, but practically speaking for at our level, it has everything we need. Lacks Dugan like 633/688 has. Am sure there are more things, but I only saw this announcement when I woke up this morning, thus only had a moment to look over it before leaving. As on a shoot today. I'm guessing based on what the US price is, it would be around roughly 1.8K ish euros?!?! Or just take whatever is your current MixPre-6 price is, & double it, that is an easy prediction of the MixPre-10T price.

https://www.sounddevices.com/news/sound-devices-news/the-mixpre-10t-announced-as-newest-member-of-mixpre-series Wow, is real! :-o I'm just trying to convince myself this isn't some kind of elaborate early April Fool's Day Prank! Ha. Impressive. Very surprised to see 10x Kashmir pre-amps on this device. (Although the price was a little on the higher side of my previous wild guess)

Yeah in an ideal world I'd like to try out a full Zaxcom system, as I like how their wireless can work together with their recorders. But...... PRICEY! :-o Had a fellow local sound recordist just get a Sonosax SX-R4+, the first (and only) one in the country! It is impressively small for what it can do. But.... PRICEY! :-o :-o On his Sonosax kit he spent over NZ$10K

If you hold down on your screen you should have options pop up? Then you can drag around selection etc I quite often post to EOSHD as well from my Android ;-) Although yes, the PC is nicer.

Yeah when I discovered that the MixPre6 can't do TC in your bag without losing inputs 5/6, that was a massive flaw in my eyes for its price. Much happier with my Zoom F4! :-) What I expect/hope is the next update on the higher end from Sound Devices is an updated 664, as that is getting long in the tooth. (it is the oldest of the 600 series) While the 700 series might go to the same place the 400 series went....

Next time, just select everything, delete, and start again!

I like the form factor of the C100 (don't like the specs! Or the price). But I don't like using the C300, it pushed the size and got "too big" for that form factor. (and it seems the C500 is even worse!) I'd rather use a FS5/FS7