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With the lack of basic features such as even a single SDI output however I can't see the C70 ever owning the mid range like the FS7 did.

And the "same" sensor as is in the even older BMCC EF!! (just with a smaller cut of the sensor than is in the BMCC)

Stopped forever? Or maybe they will resume production after the pandemic is over?? I guess it is more likely they'll create a BMMCC 4K?

Where is "here"? For most parts of the world the Sony FS7 has been the "industry standard" for the last few years, at least for low / mid budget work. (i.e. kinda anything which doesn't have ARRI level budget) With perhaps the C300mk2 sneaking in to steal a few #1 spots from the mighty FS7 in a few places and/or niches. But we're on a new generational cycle of cameras now, I do wonder what will be the next "number one" default camera for this type of work? Am tending to think it will be the FX6. As it seems it won't be the C70/C300mk2/C500mk2. While Panasonic is being too slow once again in updating their EVA1/VaricamLT. Nothing from Blackmagic or RED is making serious in roads for the bulk of this kind of everyday low / mid budget work. (although the UMP & Komodo were good attempts, but are not swiss army knife daily workhorses like a C300 or FS7 was) JVC/ZCam/Kinefinity/Sigma/etc not even worthy of discussion. Honestly the closest competitor other than the FX6 to "replacing" the FS7 as #1, would be the Sony FX9. Except the FX9 goes in the opposite direction to industry trends: greater weight, greater bulk, greater cost, greater power draw. Meanwhile the FX6 improves on the FS7 in every way, while keeping with the industry trends of: smaller/lighter/cheaper.

Try switch it to 1080 (not even joking...). Been a few years since I last worked hands on with the older C300mk2, but from memory if in 4K mode you couldn't have all outputs on at all time. So thus if in 4K mode you had to selectively switch what you wanted to use, or not use.

For $100 Million?

darn, well, that will help keep the secondhand prices of the F3 high 🤣😂

Get yourself a Tentacle Sync E. Is this TC for multicam, or for with a Sound Mixer? (what is their gear?)

This was shot on them:

This year has definitely been a rough one! First covid dragged on into 2021, and then EOSHD was down?? 😮

Glad you seem to have sorted it out! But you showed earlier that the MixPre3 was set to 30fps?! If you run into trouble again, would you mind posting this in English please? So I can read what it says.

Yup, I've got these ideas I wish to investigate for prototypes of products I want to develop for the film industry, but I've been running into serious issues just to get parts to get started on exploring prototypes to make. (let alone the many times more serious issue if next year I wish to orders parts in large enough quantities for production runs!) And then this week, literally the day after I order a Raspberry Pi WH (I paid through the nose too, because I couldn't get my hands on the standard RP H) the brand new Raspberry Pi 2 W gets announced!! Oh well, as one of the top YouTube comments said: "Excited to be unable to buy one of these for the next 3 years!" Yup, the supply chain pain is real. Guess I can't be too sad about not buying the newer version instead. "But due to global supply chain shortages, Raspberry Pi only expects to be able to ship around 200,000 units this year and 250,000 or so in the first half of 2022." Those shipping numbers won't be enough. https://liliputing.com/2021/10/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-is-a-tiny-15-computer-with-5x-the-performance-of-its-predecessor.html

What other options do you have in the settings of each? You're sure you have the FPS set to exactly the same in both?? (none of these 24 vs 23.97 mistakes)

oh, I was off by 0.5ms! ha, oops

You're always keeping the HDMI cable attached the entire time? Are they both set to the same FPS?

Hope it gets WFM, isn't Panasonic the only folks doing this with their stills cameras?? The Tascam add on could be a good third party audio option until Nikon brings out their own. (if ever) Although, I'd say just get a Sound Devices MixPre3 instead, a much better all round option. Apparently EF lenses already perform well on Nikon Z bodies with an EF to Z adapter. Wouldn't let having EF lenses ever hold you back from buying a Nikon Z body. And they've gone aggressive with the pricing too! Nikon Z9 is priced much more sharply than the Sony A1 (thousand dollars cheaper!) or the Canon R3 ($500 cheaper). WOW! That's incredible. May it please come speedily to their lower end cameras soon as well. They are indeed doing exactly that:

Bring on the Nikon Z90!! (well, the D3/D300... D5/D500.... pattern suggest the pro mirrorless baby would be called "Z900"?? But I suspect a zero will be dropped from the name) Nikon has always always being criminally underrated for video. Just a few of the highlights from Nikon: Nikon D90: first ever HDSLR. Nikon D5 / D500: first ever (non-cinema) 4K DSLR. Nikon Z6: first ever 4K raw external hybrid camera.

I think my point is being missed, I'll try again: On forums there is a lot of focus on which one or another is "best", arguing over a small difference here or there or whatever. Missing the big picture. Ten or twenty years ago, all these discussions made a lot more sense. As it was the early days of digital. Because you were seeing a big improvement each generation. Made it much more worthwhile discussing these improvements from one generation to another. So when someone said (& is right) that whatever-camera-body is "better" they really meant indeed BETTER!! Not merely some lukewarm "better-ish". But eventually, once everything is "good enough" those improvements are plateauing. This happened a long time ago in the DSLR world, when exactly? Depends on your opinion, and the their own needs. (could be argued that say it plateaued out at a different point for a hobbyist than a pro) But I'd say ballpark, this has been the case for the last five to ten years for photographers. While that hasn't happened yet for HDSLR/mirrorless video (or perhaps, it only just happened, in the last couple of years or so). Compare a sequence of cameras from the same line up, for video: Panasonic GH1, GH2, GH3, GH4, GH5. Each step, was a BIG deal. For instance as just one example for each is (and they all had more improvements than just the one example I'm highlighting): GH2 gaining full resolution live HDMI out so you can use monitors, GH3 gained slow motion, GH4 got 4K, GH5 got 10bit internal. At each step, all of these were a big huge deal. Look now at photography, say for instance Nikon's range of semi pro DX bodies: Nikon D70, D80, D90, D7000, D7100, D7200, D7500. For the photographer, if you look at the D70 vs the D7500, that's a radical mind blowing improvement. But if you look at same the middle of the line up, say D7100 vs D7500? Meh. Yes, it is an improvement, but not earth shatteringly so. Can't fault a photographer if they decide to skip on the "upgrade". But in the first half of this line up, then each and every one of those steps from D70, to D80, to D90, to D7000 was a huge big deal. But after that? The rate of improvement kinda slowed down. Thus my core point is, if you need "good enough" (i.e. nearly all nonpros on a budget), then don't obsess so much over photography specs, compared to the importance of comparing their video specs instead. As in the photography world, the "good enough" point got hit many years earlier than it did for videos.

What do you mean "drift", what exactly is your process? As if you have the MixPre3 attached to a GH5 (any of their three variants) via HDMI, then all of their files should line up. (if you're referring to say nonstop 3hr recordings... then d'oh, they will drift apart! You need a high end camera with genlock to avoid that)

I'd assume/hope you could have a 4K/24 subsampled with 7.8ms? That would be incredible! Better than ARRI in this regard.

Bravo on making it to day 2! Sure hope they're not meaning the buffer is only 30 frames at 30fps??? Surely not, that makes no sense at all. Just a single second of capture??

Do find there is much potential arbitrage between buying secondhand overseas vs then selling it again locally here in NZ?

And I bet 90%+ of those parents with a FF body would be better off with a well tuned Nikon D500 (which is an APS-C body) paired with the right lens.

Good point about how exceptionally high frame rates might find a niche in sports such as cricket, which have a lot more down time between moments worth photographing. (for those outside the Commonwealth: Cricket is a sport which is 99.99% watching grass grow, plus some other stuff of which the legal laws are too complex to possibly explain in one forum post)

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