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Let's give a camera analogy to help you understand: Let's pretend you have a camera that can record 16bit raw video files. (such as the Sony PMW-F55) Would you need 20bit raw video files?? No, of course not. (heck, even 16bit is overkill for most people! With 10bit being probably the most common bit depth) If someone is regularly messing up their exposure so badly with 16bit files that "it isn't enough", then I think they've got much bigger issues than what bit depth they're recording in! Likewise, the amount of dynamic range in 24bit audio files is huuuuuuuge, you've got to be quite incompetent to not find that to be enough. (it isn't like back in the bad days of 16bit, when you had to be very careful to have your levels well above the noise floor while still being low enough not to peak, which meant for a fairly narrow window you had to aim for) Let's have another camera analogy: if you're recording with a camera that only ever outputs 8bit 420, then why on earth would I want to record externally with a 12bit 444 recorder??? That's the case with audio, when 100% of the dialogue is being captured wirelessly. Thanks 🙂 Maybe in January I'll make a 2024 prediction! haha

It also is very expensive for a stills camera! Close to the same price as a Sony FX6. Makes the Panasonic S1H look cheap. Solution to Compromise 2: pretend it is the early 2010's. Compromise 3: using the FX30 for professional still photography.... really?? Or would you only use the a7Rmk4 for that? (or maybe pick up an a6600 on the cheap, or an a7mk4, to bring along instead of the 2nd FX30 if you know your day will be more stills focused than video based?)

oh yes, I definitely disapprove! a) 32bit is mostly marketing hot air and spin to sell to the lowly educated (to be fair, that's true for most people, they're not specialized in location audio. So they're marketing to a very large demographic) b) nobody should be buying non-timecode capable recorders in 2022 if they're in the film industry

Well I got this right. The Nova2 didn't come out in 2021! But it did in 2022... which was a surprise to me. https://www.jollypostie.com/store/gotham-sound/meet-the-zaxcom-nova-2-and-new-zmt4s-62f2ea42cfd0e However the Nova2 was a relatively "small" update. (but very handy for those who it does scratch that itch the original Nova wasn't managing to reach) Well, I guess I kinda got this right? Sort of. The Zoom F8n Pro was formally hinted at in 2021, and officially announced early in 2022. But the F8n Pro was also a very small update, not the bigger "F10" update I was hoping for. Ah well, but in general my predictions ("not much will happen") for 2021 I got right!

Recently posted over on reddit what is the best prosumer wireless on a budget, which is the Sony UWP-D21, and why. Thought I'd reshare it here as well, should others here be interested as well: --------------------------------------------------------- If someone can't afford pro level wireless (i.e. a receiver such as the Wisycom MCR54 / Lectrosonics DSR4 / Sony DWR-S03D / Sound Devices A20-RX / Shure ADX5D / etc plus the appropriate matching receivers) then going instead with the fourth generation Sony UWP-D is no brainer decision! (although, I'd recommend 2x UWP-D21 over 1x UWP-D27) This choice is so easy it isn't even close, as the 2nd best choice comes a long long way behind Sony. Sony gives you: True diversity receiver (no other prosumer UHF wireless has this) Has a digital compander (avoiding the issues that say for instance the Sennheisers have with their analogue compander, giving you better quality audio from the Sonys. Essentially, the Sony wireless transmission behave more comparably to how Lectrosonics Digital Hybrids do, using the same mix of digital + analogue for transmission) A slot receiver (again, no other prosumer wireless does this! Although, sadly not unislot, you'd need to get the Sony DWR-S03D instead. Hopefully Sony will bring out a UWP-D receiver one day in the future with unislot compatibility) An option of using the smart shoe on Sony cameras to feed it audio directly, skipping doing another D/A conversion, along with numerous other benefits such as being able to add more audio channels than otherwise or being able to go cableless with the receiver or not needing to do battery changes either for the receiver (these are all features entirely unique to the Sony wireless) Sony UTX-P40 Wireless Plug-On Transmitter supplies phantom power. (the Sennheiser EW100 G4 plug-on transmitter does not) Headphone output (but yet again, the standard Sennheiser G4 doesn't have this) An option for a dual receiver (again, the Sennheiser G4 doesn't have this) An option for getting it in the 941 to 960 MHz frequency range (again, the Sennheiser G4 doesn't have this, Usually only pro wireless offers products in this frequency range) Backwards compatible with all past UWP products. Just a few of these reasons would be enough to make a strongly compelling case to buy the Sony UWP-D21! (especially as Sony is priced similar to or cheaper than the Sennheiser competition) But add them all up together? Sony blows away all the competition. There are literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of options for lav mics for the Sony wireless just merely listed on the one B&H website alone: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/mini-microphones/ci/3779?filters=fct_compatible-with_744%3Asony%2Cfct_connector-type_745%3A3.5mm-mini-plug|3.5mm-mini-plug-locking There are zillions of accessories for the Sony UWP-D system, such as these (would you like for instance a battery pack for your Sony transmitter so that you can run it for over 24 hours? You can do that!!): https://www.hlaudio.de/sony-pro-audio/wireless-zubehoer/ Unfortunately when people hear "Sony" they think of "cameras", not audio. What most people don't realize is that Sony's name itself comes from the latin word for audio: "sonus"! Sony originally started out as purely an audio company, and has been making wireless since the 1950's.

haha, you're really living up to your username! 😉

Of course shotguns are always being boomed when outdoors, but the big and heavy hyperdirectional shotguns such as the MKH816/MKH70/KMR82/etc are no longer so popular in the 21st century (unlike beforehand, when radio mics were rarer).

They also mentioned ages ago, 35 weeks ago, on instagram: "What if we ported the OCTOPUSCAMERA system software to a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4? Well, you might get a 12-bit 4K RAW cine camera that costs under €150 and fits in your pocket! A little companion project we're investigating while other things are brewing 😉" https://www.instagram.com/p/CaaLmwyKNhO/

Aputure is a "budget brand", but they have been gradually pushing themselves more and more into the professional market. Which has meant a price increase too. That's why there is their new Amaran range as well, so they can still cater to their older original customers (and new ones too who need an even more affordable price point). Like @newfoundmasssaid, there are other brands than Aputure you can look at which are even cheaper such as GVM: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1719353-REG/gvm_gvm_sd600s_sd600s_daylight_led_video.html Still has app control over it, and DMX as well. (and maybe I doubt that an Amaran version would have DMX, although there is a mat and tube light with the Amaran branding which has DMX)

Yeah those social media shoots where they're doing ALL THE ASPECT RATIOS at once (4:3 / 1:1 / 9:16 / 16:9 / etc) in the same shot are when I find myself unable to be tall enough to boom from out of frame, even with all my 6'3" / 1.9m worth of height, and I have to steal an apple box to boom from. Nope. Quite the opposite in fact. Microphones such as the Sennheiser MKH816 ceased to be very popular decades ago. (still, that's one of the reasons the Sanken CS3e and CS1e are two of my favorite microphones) Nah, the response instead has been to just make everything sound like a reality tv show instead. You get a lav! You get a lav! You get a lav! Everyone gets a lav!

For someone who has been vlogging for a whole year, that is a surprisingly small amount. As for why she has a FX30? I dunno, maybe she has good real life contacts? Often that is more important than how many subs you have.

To be fair, that's very sensible, if you're living alone in a van, have a dog with you for company/protection!

To be fair, that's the situation with most professional users, perhaps 90%+ Is why I'm still using Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid. Is Sony Axient Digital better? Sure! But my trusty old Lectrosonics "get the job done". So I'm upgrading my booms to digital (well, Sony DXW, rather than Axient), after many years of a Sound Devices MM1 preamp into a Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid transmitter being what I used with my Boom Ops. But if I was strictly honest with myself, did I need to do this "upgrade" and spend thousands and thousands of dollars? Nope, not at all. Is really just for myself, because I'm very pedantic and perfectionist about my audio quality. That's why heaps of people are still shooting with old cameras like even an ancient Canon C100, because it "gets the job done". I understand why people put practical pragmatism ahead of perfectionism.

I wonder if we can get this thread to have more pages than the "A7RV announced" thread....

And puppies? Why don't we see more puppy videos??

The camera which can't even do raw stills?? zzzzzz I so want a fantastic camera with a 1" sensor and a compact wide angle prime lens at an affordable price, but this isn't it.

Or the A7RVA announcement?

I think the a7Rmk2 was the one a7R version which could manage to overshadow the likes of a7S series. Because when in 4K S35 mode it did 4K better than the a7Smk2 did? (if my memory serves me correctly, as I do remember a couple of DoP friends choosing the a7Rmk2 over the a7Smk2, because to them excessive exceptional low light performance wasn't the be all and everything of what they wanted. Or maybe it was simply their need to use the typical standard S35 cinema lenses they wanted to regularly rent)

The Sound Dept meanwhile secretly hopes that there will not be even one more future camera released with the ability to do the evils of open gate shooting.

Very sneaky timing with the Sony a7R mk5 announcement by Sony to overshadow the news of the groundbreaking new revolutionary OM System OM-5.

https://announcements.atomos.com/4207684 https://www.dpreview.com/news/3231195512/atomos-has-developed-an-8k-image-sensor-for-cinema-cameras

Maybe the AJA Cion? (or the Blackmagic equivalents) So long as you light it carefully.

I wouldn't worry too much about the stills capabilities of a camera (unless you're a very serious professional photographer, in which case you've likely already got firm opinions on what camera to get and not asking here), because long long ago cameras already reached the level of "good enough" for professional work for the vast majority of professional photographers. While it has taken much longer for hybrid cameras to reach that point of "good enough". (I'd say that's only just now happening, now that many are getting 10bit internal) Thus even if you got a very video focused camera (such as a P4K / C70 / FX30 / etc) then you could just for cheap buy a stills camera to use alongside your main camera that's for video. As in my opinion even an old Nikon D700 (only a couple of hundred dollars secondhand!) is "good enough" for the majority of "professional photographers" out there. (unless you're more into say the sports photography niche, in which case a cheap Nikon D500 still is one of the very best you could go for) So if you for instance decided to go with a P4K as your filming camera, you could grab a Panasonic G7 to complement it for stills. Or a cheap Sony a6000 to complement the FX30 for stills. (I disagree about sensor size when it comes to shooting though, and people should just choose the right lens for the job. But anyway... you could say get a cheap cheap Sony a7mk1 for your stills, to use alongside an FX30? Or go nuts with resolution and get a Sony a7Rmk1? There is one on eBay at the moment for US$500)

ah my bad, I was just looking up some of his videos, such as: https://youtu.be/qv7phUqoIE4 , saw "Video unavailable. This video was removed due to a legal complaint" and didn't think to check if his other videos are still up. Although if you look at this latest video: Years later and "coming soon" still hasn't happened yet. But anyway, his store is definitely closed, you can't order anything: http://jinnimag.com/store.html#!/JINNIMAG/c/33340804/offset=0&sort=nameAsc

If you need professional standard stills, then yes, I'd go with a Panasonic S5. (or the S1 or GH6 also from Panasonic) But if the stills is more casual / personal usage, and not a key requirement, then I'd definitely be going with the new Sony FX30 instead at that price point. The various Fujifilm options also get a worthy shout out. (X-T4 or the more expensive X-H2S)