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I posted about this over a week ago! 🤣 😂 😆 As the specs got leaked a while ago. But posted not to here, rather to a subreddit specifically for production sound: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductionSound/comments/1fl0rn9/new_tascam_frav2_is_coming_a_zoom_f3_killer/ I agree with the first post from @BTM_Pix, the fact that this is able to treat TC normally (rather than the hacked up weird way TC is done with the Zoom F3, although yes, the Zoom F3 is technically "timecode capable") means the Tascam is a better idea than the Zoom F3. (although I suspect the small $100 difference in RRP means that the average buyer who doesn't even know about will end up choosing the F3 instead 😕 However I suspect within 18 months we'll see the Tascam street price getting closer to the F3's RRP) So true that many "Boom Ops" lack the necessary skills at the indie level. (in a way this is due to the extremely low value placed on the Sound Dept. Where they think the entire department could be done by just one person. And if we do get a 1st AS that it is basically a glorified PA position, not that their skill level has to be at the same level as a 1st AC or Gaffer. Honestly even getting two people who can each properly boom one person at a time is often a tall ask. That they will get it in close enough, and on axis, and with no shadows, and with no reflections, and do all of this while this one person is moving. On an indie no / low budget shoot I feel lucky if I get even one Boom Op who is competent at all of that. If they can lav people up too, then I've hit gold. Yup! That's why I just said "If they can lav people up too, then I've hit gold". And is why in the vast majority of these scenarios I will have to lav them up myself. But on bigger budget / professional film sets, where you have actually skilled people in your department, then it's the normal process for the AS (usually the 2nd AS) to be doing the lav-ing rather than the Sound Mixer. For a long time I went hard wired. But eventually I felt the audio quality sacrifice of using Lectrosonics wireless on the boom was worth it due to the practical benefits. If you've got a person dedicated for being the Mixer, not someone booming at the same time, then I don't think it's that hard for them to grasp basic gain staging. Ohhhh.... where did you see this? Wish the Tascam FR-AV2 would also let you record the 3.5mm stereo input as well as both XLR inputs. (currently it can only do one or the other, not all four inputs at once) If the new Zoom F3 mk2 could do that and does TC sensibly (not only via BT!) and does 24bit 48KHz BWAV, then I think I've found myself my next backup / supplementary / compact recorder. That's true, due to firmware updates for the OG F8 then it's almost identical to the latest F8n Pro.

yup, my point was that Tangerine still cost a decent chunk of change And that: Simply eliminating the camera & lenses rental costs from an AAA budget level (welll... more like an AA or even A budget level) production does very little to the overall cost of it.

Labour still costs the same, no matter if you're shooting on an iPhone or an ARRI 35 The Sound Dept for Tangerine was still using US$60K-ish or more of sound equipment, as you might expect on a low budget feature film.

I think the other thing Nikon (and others) should start doing is start selling their cameras with pancake lenses. Make it already ready to go out of the box, with the lens preattached. Yes, Nikon no longer sells the Nikon Coolpix A and they have nothing to compete directly with the very popular Fujifilm X100 series. (or the X70) But imagine if Nikon sold a Z30 / Zfc (or "Z300") with a 28mm f2.8 pancake already on it? Even better... released a 23mm f2 pancake lens to compete directly with the X100 series? (and a 18mm f2.8 pancake lens to compete with the Fujfilm X70?) Who cares if half the owners of the Z30 / Zfc never ever take their pancake lens off their camera (most of these people might not even realize they could take the lens off!). If it means more sales for Nikon and the whole Z ecosystem, that will be fantastic news.

This is the way. They could even release a slimmed down / stripped down / even cheaper Nikon Z300. (like a Z30 but smaller/cheaper. They've also got the Nikon Zfc) But what is far more important, is that they bring out more APS-C pancakes! At least they need a 14mm pancake, or similar. (12mm would be even better, but harder to make. 18mm might be acceptable too) Then perhaps something (or two somethings?) in the realm of 35mm to 50mm ish pancake prime would be a smart idea too. Plus their existing 26mm f2.8 prime and 16-50mm fit zoom pancake, then they're sorted! (anything extra on top of this like a fisheye pancake, or a fast f2.8 18-35mm zoom pancake, would be merely gravy on the top) I was so very excited over the Nikon DL18-50!! What do you think happened with the DL series that explains them being cancelled??

Do no other cameras around this price point give the ability to tether?? What about the OG Panasonic G9? That seems like the easy choice here for a low budget camera that's hybrid video/stills. (edit: and I can see you've been seriously considering it lately, good!) My next choice to consider, if you lean hard towards stills is the Nikon D750 / D7100 / D500 / D800 / D810 / D600 / D610 / Z6mk1 All of these are amazing bargains if you go secondhand. And some of them can even do very well in video if you've just got more casual things in mind for it, such as the Nikon D750 or Z6. https://www.eoshd.com/review/nikon-d750-review-initial-thoughts-real-world-footage-ladies-gentleman-contender/ Of course for serious professional shoots then 1080 8bit won't cut it. Only really the Z6 with an external 4K recorder would cut it from that list of older Nikon cameras that I gave. (or maaaybe the Nikon D500???) Panasonic G9 would certainly do better when it comes to video than either of those. And unlike the Canon, you can use your MFT lenses on it.

Panasonic FZ2500?? (or the even older Panasonic FZ1000) https://www.dpreview.com/products/panasonic/compacts/panasonic_dmcfz2500 Or the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10/LX15 or similar?? Panasonic GX850/GX800?? As all of these share Panasonic DNA it might be also easier to in a pinch have them act as a C Cam to your Panasonic S5 if you wish.

That's my thoughts too, as no camera will be perfect on a budget (heck, even with unlimited budgets, cameras are still not perfect!). So I'd loosen up on a requirement, such as FF, and get the Sony FX30, the very best S35 camera made by Sony for filming with that won't also require an AC.

How shocking! A Japanese company knows very well what the Japanese customers want. In an ideal world, everyone should start supporting USB-C (with a locking connector) as their interface for a camera monitor with controls on it. https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/09/12/blackmagic-design-pyxis-monitor/

Ah, an in house videographer for a marketing / production house?

This is my full time main career. Am working as a Production Sound Mixer on tv / film sets etc. As for being a Producer (as that's what you're asking about), sorry, I don't have much first hand experience of that. (although might like to pivot into that as I get older)

Bad timing for you to be selling a FX30! Why were you selling it?

Not true at all. As I'm certain the vast majority of RED shooters are not primarily using Canon RF lenses on their RED.

I find it interesting how Nikon managed to pull off going "backwards" with 24 megapixels for all their DX cameras until their top notch high end DX camera the Nikon D500 came out with "just 20 megapixels". Then the Z50 / Z30 / Zfc carried with all having "only 20 megapixels". Ok, it's only a very small reduction, but it warms the heart to see Nikon fighting back against the obsessive megapickles crazies.

Am amused at how your quote was in Russian, even though neither sanveer or your own comment was in Russian 😛 I too would like a S1Hmk2 with the a7S/FX3 12 megapixel sensor (or heck, I'd love a FX30mk2 with a 12 megapixel sensor!), but I suspect Panasonic wouldn't do that as they want S1H to be more of a hybrid camera that can capture the photographer market too. And 12 megapixels can't do that in 2024, nobody gets excited over a D700/D3 12MP body any longer.

I wonder if Nikon/RED got leaked advanced word about the Canon C80 and wanted to make as many Komodo sales as possible before the announcement? To be fair, a FX6/C70 (or now, a C80) is "better" for Social Media shooting than a Komodo is. Edit: oh damn, I just saw there are four Komodos listed on TradeMe: https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/electronics-photography/video-cameras/search?search_string=komodo That's far more than I'd have expected. (by comparison not even one Sony FS5/FS7/FX30/FX3/FX6/FX9 is listed for sale)

Why??

Honestly not quite as extremely bad as I'd have expected for Leica pricing. It's so much harder to make a lens an extra 1mm wider than an extra 1mm longer. They'd probably have needed to make the lens have a lot less reach if they wanted to hit their weight/price/size/quality /speed goals with a 24mm wide end instead. Because Sigma is the low cost / high value brand? And I guess (for now) OIS goes against that. Probably the moment they can figure out how to offer OIS for merely pennies then every new Sigma lens will have OIS!

Well, they still need to sell the cameras they have already built?? They can't just chuck the cameras away into the rubbish bin?? RED is a big ship that takes time to turn around, I'd imagine even if Nikon immediately said on Day #1 "no more RF Mount cameras, only make Z Mount cameras" that it will take quite a long-ish timeline for that to happen. I'd be shocked if a Z Mount RED never happens, it kills half the value in buying RED in the first place! I'd imagine if they were half way to developing a next gen Komodo then there is no reason to divert R&D focus to convert / develop a Z Mount for the (soon to be) "old" tech. However, if they thought the current Komodo platform still has another five years of life in it, then you'd absolutely put focus ASAP into converting it over to Z Mount.

I hope the plan is to give Nikon a beachhead in the professional video/cinema camera category. Nikon has had so many opportunities to jump in, such as if only they'd released an equivalent to the Canon C300mk1 or C100mk1 (even if merely had the guts of a Nikon D5200 inside it, but without any overheating or record limiters, and with full size HDMI + SDI + NDs). But after kinda missing the boat on that, I guess buying RED gives them that foothold. Next steps (?????): 1) next gen Komodo with a Z Mount 2) a "Sony FX3" (but with Nikon/RED cobranding, with the internal guts of it being the latest Z6) Wouldn't surprise me if they're not manufacturing any more, and this is just a price cut to clear inventory.

Have you seen how their brand new price is now only $3K? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1500707-REG/z_cam_e2_f6_pl_e2_f6_full_frame_6k_cinema.html And how it's only US$2,199 for the E2-S6: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1505425-REG/z_cam_e2_s6_mft_s6_6k_super_35mm.html

Thank you Nikon for these price drops! (feeling the heat from the Canon C400? And maybe the FX6 & PYXIS etc as well) Hopefully not for just the brain?? But you got a bunch of accessories too with that package? Wonder what this will do to the prices of everything else from RED on the secondhand market? Who will want to buy a RED Scarlet MX for $2K or a RED Raven for $3K if a secondhand OG Komodo is sub $3K? (you can already find a $3K Komodo with only two seconds of searching: https://www.ebay.com/itm/335555382839 ) https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1787823-REG/z_cam_e2m5g_e2_m5g_cinema_camera.html "discontinued"

Tue, smartphones are yet another example of what I'm talking about. I used to spend a lot of time talking/thinking/reading about smartphones (back in era of SymbianOS / Windows CE / Windows Mobile 6 / Blackberry / very early days of Android / etc. Nokia N82 is one of my all time favorite phones! For its time), I'd be on GSMArena and the other websites all the time. And every phone I purchased was a rather pricey $$$ purchase. But these days? My last few phones have been around a little more than a hundred bucks ish USD each. (brand new!) And aside from when I lose/break my phone (& need to replace it, then I might spend a couple of hours very quickly comparing various $100ish models), I don't follow the news at all about new phones coming out. Less $$$ being spent + less eyeballs on websites = less income for those phone review websites. I wasn't saying this was the only reason, or even the primary main reason why anandtech shut down. But as the number of readers go down, and as the amounts spent by consumers go down, then there is less money being spent able to support websites that are largely advertising supported such as anandtech. Sure, I won't deny it's a huge market, but if it's also a shrinking market then eventually and unfortunately some of those will have to shut down. Am curious what the results of a poll would be if you went an asked high school classrooms today how many of them had built their own PC, vs if you asked that of people in the 2000's or 1990's. (or if you just asked them basic questions about IT / PCs, such as "explain a computer's file system", doesn't even have to be complex at all like "explain the difference between northbridge vs southbridge") If you have a much smaller pool of these people, that means a declining possible market of people who'd even read anandtech in the first place.

Leica is to Rolex as Hasselblad is to Audemars Piguet. Every man and his dog has heard of Leica & Rolex, but you need to be at least a teeny little bit nerdy to have heard about Hasselblad or Audemars Piguet (although, rappers have made them a little more famous. I guess once lots of rappers make music videos using a Hasselblad then they'll also become a bit more mainstream, but for now they prefer a RED)

I've often made the observation that for many years (I'd say arguably since roughly the Nikon D7100 era, and even arguably even earlier since say the D7000 or D700) that dedicated stills cameras have got "good enough" for many photography users. Thus even without the rise in smartphone photography capabilities, then we'd have seen a steep decline in stills camera sales due to the average consumers no longer needing to have a strong driving push to upgrade. The same thing has now happened with video and hybrid cameras as well, they've reached for most people "the good enough" stage, that upgrades for many people are no longer strictly necessary to do so frequently. (we can leave it to another thread to debate exactly when did that happen.... S5mk2? a7Smk2? P4K? X-T3? GH5? GH4?) Perhaps something has similar has happened for PCs. Ages ago it used to be every couple of years the leap forward in computers was so huge that it made sense to consider an upgrade, even for "average joe consumers". Then PCs of the past got "good enough" that consumers might happily go a five years lifecycle with them. Until now these days, you could get an ancient ThinkPad T440 for next to nothing, spend a hundred bucks on an extra stick of RAM and a new SSD, then put a fresh OS install on it, and you'll have a laptop that's perfectly fine for the needs of most average users. It shows that the lifecycles for PCs these days are easily over a decade plus years. Which is likely also linked to the big drop in interest in people building their own PCs, which is much less common these days. (And I haven't even touched on the massive rise in popularity of smartphones and tablets, meaning many people don't need need their desktops/laptops, or at the very least use it far less than they otherwise would have)