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Indeed, it is far too much to expect actors to give their best possible acting performances and to operate the camera too

They are now!!! But back when I was a serious running (twice a day running training! Every day, all year round) then I think in my city (Auckland, the biggest by far in all of NZ) we only had one ultramarathon each year! It's only in the last 10-ish-ish years that ultramarathons have seen their massive boom in popularity.

Back at the start of the covid era I worked on a major tv advertising campaign, bankrolled by the govt with oodles of cash to raise awareness about covid, with a top notch tv advertising agency running the show, with top flight director / DoP / etc, skilled crew of a 1st AC (and all the other ACs) and a Gaffer (with all their LX Assists) and full size lighting truck, and an Art Department, video village, etc etc... oh, and me of course! 😉 Doing sound. Of course an ARRI Alexa was used. But how they did they shoot it? With as much emphasis on "natural looking" lighting (even if there were a dozen lights used in the process of crafting that look!), and in absolutely every single case the talent (big name famous celebrities/personalities/sportspeople) would always be "holding the camera" (of course it's impossible for them to hold this big heavy ARRI! So they'd just have their hand on the edge of the mattebox, and both the talent and Camera Op would be carefully timing their movements to stay in sync with each other, this might take a few goes). Why was this done? To make the videos look as "authentic" as possible, like they're just causally filming something themselves to be sharing personally with you the viewer.

That's why any videographer should buy a Sony FX30/FX3/FX6 instead of the A7 series or a6x00 series

"Tascam has announced the DR-10L Pro, this is the newest addition to the DR-10L family. While the Pro version maintains a similar form factor and functionality, it adds the ability to record in 32-Bit Float and offers Atomos Wireless Time-Code-Sync Support." https://www.newsshooter.com/2023/07/06/tascam-dr-10l-pro-with-32-bit-float-recording-timecode-support/ Battery life has gone up from 10.5hrs to 24.5hrs (based on two AAA lithium batteries) Has a high-visibility OLED display, with lots of physical menu buttons for navigation. Has a headphone output so you can monitor the audio before/during/after recordings. Has an app for Android and iOS phones, you can add metadata (including project name, scene name, and take number) to the audio file. The app also gives you visual confirmation of the input audio with a waveform display over time. You can name each DR10L Pro via the app, for easy identification. The DR10L can now take MicroSD cards sizes up to a massive 512GB. (previous limit was 32GB) Comes with a free copy of iZotope RX Elements. Available now to preorder: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1773575-REG/tascam_dr_10l_pro_personal_recorder.html

The Barkely Marathons though is a bit like having a 100m race and saying "a requirement of the race is that you must be finished in under 9.7 seconds", of course only very very few athletes would ever be able to "complete" this race. I feel that's a bit of what The Barkely Marathons has done, to make it artificially even harder. As neither the distance or the terrain is outrageously super exceptionally hard when you compare it to some of the hardest ever off road ultra marathons there are in the world. It is the artificially extra very low time constraint (along with all the other weird things they do) which exist to great "the legend" which is The Barkely Marathons.

Plenty of us here need to be able to record for an hour or three while recording interviews / documentaries / conferences / weddings / etc

WHOOPS!! Yes indeed, that's obviously one very very big typo.

Heh, I've had a few people shout that at me while I am running! I look a little like that. Have a facebook friend who has gone well past her 100th daily marathon in a row. she's gunning for the female world record (I think it is over 200 days in a row??). And her plans for after that? She wants to run the fastest ever length of New Zealand! (she used to hold the record, which she set back when she was a teenager, but someone else has recently broken that record)

Oh I dunno, doing an Ironman each day doesn't seem to crazy to me?? When I was (kinda, not really) a "professional" cyclist then I'd 10hrs/day of cycling month after month after month. On the topic of cycling and Netflix, the biggest sporting event of the year just started this weekend!! Tour de France, and the greatest ever sprinter (arguably... greatest ever cyclist) is reading his last ever Tour de France, and there is currently right now a Netflix film being made about him, "Mark Cavendish: Never Enough": https://www.netflix.com/nz/title/81568626 Going to be released next month, once the race is over. A very quick turn around indeed!!! Last month Netflix released another cycling doco on the Tour de France, about last year's race: Been a lot of great cycling docos coming out lately, there just came out last month a documentary about America's first ever Tour de France winner (not just the first American, first ever non-European!!): This is a netflix cycling doco from a few years back, but is fantastic for any sports enthusiasts, not just cycling fans. Because it goes into a deep dive undercover look into doping (the filmmaker, Bryan Fogel, is himself a quite serious amateur cyclist, so he started out by doping himself!! ) : Team Jumbo-Visma did really amazing docos for their own YouTube channel during the last tour, such as: Just in general, it's amazing the very high standard of quality you can see from youtube channels covering various sports. Such as GCN Racing (why would I ever ever want to subscribe to a sports tv channel?? Youtube does it so much better than any broadcast tv I could get): https://www.youtube.com/@gcnracing https://www.youtube.com/@gcn oh yes, I've known about The Barkely Marathons for many many years! Being the super keen former runner I once was. But I reckon the Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Race (a kiwi woman won it last year! And set the race record) is a far far more impressive feat of human endurance racing than The Barkely Marathons is. At least the The Barkely Marathons are all completely over and done with in a rather short span of time. https://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/ https://youtu.be/0HusKjAhnvg Only 49 people have ever completed this race! Why aim for climbing Mt Everest or going into outer space? When you could be a member of an even rarer club!! 😉 Perhaps my biggest regret from my sporting life is that I never raced an ultra marathon myself (although, I certainly ran longer than a marathon numerous times in training just for fun).

It is pretty simple, if you have the hardware for it, then do timecode always with the FX3. All the "issues" I seem to come across with TC and the FX3/FX30 when I read about it online seem to be from users messing it up themselves with user errors. Perhaps some cases reported it seems to be just a frame or two off, a very small difference, but also a consistent difference across the entire production. Honestly even some high end cameras have this issues pop up. Not a massively big deal as there are easy tools to just offset everything by the correct amount to then match for the whole project. Doesn't matter if it is a low end camera or a high end camera. One timecode box per camera. 2 cameras? Two timecode boxes. 5 cameras? Five timecode boxes. Only need genlock for very niche usages such as: 3D filming, live switching, or very lowing recording lengths (such as entire Opera performances). But even in those niche cases, most people won't use genlock, and still be perfectly happy enough. Definitely not a waste of time. Do it!! I haven't kept up with the details of what's going on with that, but considering the target market using it, I wouldn't be surprised if one or more of: 1) they damaged the cable and/or 2) they're not using it right

Probably shares the same sensor with the FX30

I could have a daily upload schedule if I wanted to. This guy had a plan to do an Ironman every single day: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a36610754/james-lawrence-iron-cowboy-100-ironman-distance-triathlons-100-days/

Oh dear goodness gracious me! Showing a recorder (the Tascam DR60mk2) that blatantly obviously does not do timecode!!

There is not a single camera on earth that I would want to trust to keep accurate timecode with a timecode box on it. (perhaps the ARRI cameras.... but I'd rather not, even ARRI cameras have been known to have timecode bugs, and I don't want to become the first person to discover "a new bug" simply because I wouldn't put a timecode box on one!) Indeed, the more I work, the less I tend to upload to my YT channel. I highly doubt it is just a cable issue

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Saw that this morning, shared it with a mate. Certainly is an interesting development/approach when you think about. How many adverts out there only a few seconds long per scene? (or even shorter!) If the talent are not doing massive movements, you immediately make location scouting & art department waaaaay easier! And you can do far more epic videos.

ah, I forgot last, but not least: One Sony PMW-F3 for the locked off unmanned angles. (as it doesn't matter what lens is being used here, if the camera is unmanned)

Let yourself settle for 1080, and you can get OM cameras for mere pennies these days:

I hope so! But I fear it might be too little too late? If they'd released magical AF back in the era of GH3/GH4/GH5 then Panasonic would surely have a slam dunk success, and be running laughing to the bank. True, people are still getting it as their first A Cam. But I'd imagine people who are buying it as a secondary additional camera, have likely seen a sharp nose dive.

That would not surprise me in the slightest. In the low / mid range then the Sony FX6/FX9 are extremely dominant. And the FX30/FX3 are the natural partners to that. Especially with the FX30 being priced very similar-ish to the Pocket 6K G2 camera. Why would a shooter ever want to get a Pocket as their B Cam to their FX9/FX6?? It wasn't like back in the Sony FS7/FS5 era. When the a7 series (let along their APS-C models!) were crippled enough it made sense to consider perhaps a Panasonic GH4 / GH5 / OG Pocket / Pocket 4K / etc

Doing another degree, in Computer Science. Have checked out the Panasonic HPX250 before, is about 3 or 4 year younger than the Sony EX3? But a bit more prosumer orientated than the EX3. HPX250 was roughly half the price at launch (US$4K-ish) of what the Sony EX3 was at launch (US$8K-ish street prices). Seems that on eBay these days they cost roughly the same: $500-ish plus. https://www.ebay.com/itm/115833842126 I wonder how they perform head to head in low light? (I'd assume the EX3 wins? As it is a 1/2-inch type image sensor, vs a 1/3-inch sensor on the HPX250) While the Sony EX3 doesn't have internal 10bit (but it has internal 50mbs 4:2:2 1080p), it can output 10bit over SDI! And 1080 video recorders are cheap as chip (https://www.ebay.com/itm/195787133267) these days , so quite easy to squeeze maximum performance out the Sony EX3. But I don't think these old camcorder cameras should be about getting the optimal possible image performance out of them? Rather about benefiting from their ease of use features, such as built in NDs, or the SDI outputs. It is what makes the Sony EX3 so appealing to me, because you can adapt B4 lenses to the EX3 lens mount, to get truly huge zoom reach! And I've often thought about dabbling in live sports streaming, if I ever get back into the camera side of filmmaking / video productions. I think it could be a productive little niche for me. (but I shouldn't.... I am already spreading myself too thinly in life!!) And a B4 mount is super useful for live sports productions. The Sony EX3 just seems like a cheaper / more user friendly option than some of the more pure B4 cameras. For instance the cheapest "proper B4 broadcast camera" from Sony might be this Sony XDCAM PDW-700: https://www.ebay.com/itm/225563250916 Still costs US$1.3K without a lens 😕 Sometimes I think, "ah ha! I found a cheap one..." like this Sony PDW-F330: https://www.ebay.com/itm/225563250916 until I remember d'oh, this one lacks SDI! Got to pay much more for the Sony PDW-F350 if I want SDI. The Panasonic broadcast cameras seem to have been slow to embrace FHD, were stuck on 720 for a few too many years, thus it tends to be when I look for older broadcast Panasonic B4 cameras they tend to be more expensive if I want 1080 as I have to go for a somewhat more recent Panasonic body. Plus Panasonic lacks any camcorders which not a B4 mount but allow B4 lenses to be put on them (such as is the case with the Sony EX3), so there isn't that cheaper loop hole to go for with Panasonic. Does this train of logic make any sense at all? Is the Sony EX3 really the best choice here if you want to get a handful of cameras on the dirt cheap to live stream sports games? Maybe the best approach is using a mix of cameras: One or two Sony EX3 cameras for when you need the absolute max reach. One to three Sony EX1 cameras (cheaper!) for more middle of the road general coverage? One Sony CX900 next to the vision mixing desk, because it doesn't matter if it is using flimsy HDMI rather than proper SDI, as it is only a very short traveling distance to get back to the switcher. ah, didn't you see that "shaky EX1 video" also had a Sony PMW-F3 in it? 😉