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People who cheap out and buy a Blackmagic camera are also the same people who cheap out on their media... then blame the camera! Thus it is an important question you asked Robert ("what media exactly are they using??").

Are you off speed?

Inflation? Or all of this! But I think it is also a good theory too, that as manufacturers have given up on the low end, more people who'd have been entry level camera purchases, have instead turned to the secondhand market! Which have helped keep some of those price hold up over the years.

Half makes me wonder if I should hold onto my OG BMPCC for a while longer rather than selling it.... but then again, it's been a long time since I last shot with it!

I'd also look into getting a Z Cam E2 Series. (such as E2-M4 or E2-S6) Would give you the features and quality you're seeking, you could even equip it with a "native" PL Mount or E Mount like the Venice itself.

GH1? Yeah sure, maaaaybe. G85? Noooooo

My answer is that it's cheaper, and has a better form-factor, including a screen. I see they've all got on them the very cheap SLR Magic 8mm f4 lens as well! Likely I bet they expected there to be a very high chance they'd be destroyed, as they were put in positions of high risk that might capture a "cool looking shoot". Thus smarter to use an E1 than an E2, as not even a Mission Impossible movie has an unlimited budget! (another "fun and cheap" factoid: the Zoom F8 was used for a number of recordings on set for Mission Impossible)

Ages ago when it was on fire sale, what was it’s price? US$150? Or maybe it was a bit more. That Chinese Yi MFT Camera was dirt cheap brand new too. The only problem is they are no longer available at these low low new prices. And there seems to be no large supply of them secondhand to keep eBay prices driven down extra low.

Pocket 4K lacks an open gate mode. That would explain the differences in the numbers.

The original E2 being out of stock is to be expected! Has been discontinued, the even cheaper Z Cam E2-M4 has "replaced" it. Soooo close to reaching Firmware v1.0! Ha (wonder when that will finally happen??) E Mount is another option that they've got. (but also doesn't have eND with an E Mount ) Arguably didn't the GH5S / P4K / E2 / E2-M4 / Terra4K all share the same common origin as their underlying sensor they're derived/based upon? RED's patent lawyer trolls are the problem here....

Interesting trade! Would love it if you one day wrote up a details pros/cons of the modern (but "budget") Z Cam S6 vs the old vintage (but "pro") RED Scarlet MX!

It is also a very normal price for top of the line / sports camera. The Nikon D6 and Canon 1D X Mk3 are both over US$6K. This Nikon will be positioned as the Nikon mirrorless replacement of these. Just like the Sony A1 is! (which is also over US$6K) Had the BTS Set Photographer on today's film shoot (was one of our bigger days today, had nearly two hundred cast and crew on set, just for today's shoot) showing off his Sony A1 to me and raving on about how awesomely amazing it is for his photography. (he comes from a Canon background beforehand) Both great cameras, but also both totally different types of cameras, primarily aimed at a different type of niche market than what Nikon has planned. Why should Sony have a monopoly in this niche?? We ought to welcome with open arms more competition! This is the first seriously high end pro mirrorless sports camera to be announced that will compete directly head to head against the Sony A1.

Have you tried posting to user support forums for WordPress? As there is a great community behind WordPress supporting it.

What made you go down that path? Was the price unbelievably good?

That's an issue you had with your theme though, not with WordPress. And was it a paid or free theme? Even if a paid theme, most of them are dirt cheap, so there isn't built into their pricing the ability to provide substantial support.

Exactly, this is one reason why recently I've had a change of tack and I'm trying to get more jobs as a Boom/Utility rather than a OMB Mixer. Although, not quite working out like how I'd have hoped on the current 12 week long job, as I'm a more knowledgeable/experienced drama mixer than the guy I'm working under.

Doesn't sound as good. I started with a NTG2, then I "upgraded" (it wasn't!) to a ME66, then I got a Sanken CS3e / CS1e (and many others since!). Should've just skipped those first two and gone to something decent.

You were claiming that casting a female VP in 1989 would be unheard of, and it would create a big impact to do so, and I just proved that literally decades earlier it was not just happening but not just the VP but even the presidency! Exactly. There are many.

Yup, I mean the 1st AC basically runs the details of the camera dept... freeing up the DoP to look after the "big picture" and interact with the Director / Gaffer / etc

No. Please don't. The bare bare minimum should be the Deity S Mic 2.

A female VP in 1989? UNTHINKABLE! Oh wait, except in in 1953 we had a film with a female President: "Project Moonbase" (to give but one example of many)

Too many downsides to a cardioid lavs, they're incredibly rare/niche items.

So true! Often we think this artist / book / film / fashion / song was so amazing, because we experienced it at a formative moment for ourselves when we were teenagers or in our twenties. While as we age, all this "modern nonsense" seems repetitive and boring. I bet if this current moment in time traveled back to our formative years and we experienced it fresh and brand new, we might very well feel differently about it.

Definitely a lot of risk aversion going on, am currently trying to embrace more of that approach myself (whatever role that it might be I'm doing in the department, be it Mixer, Boom Op, or Utility). Not because I want to, but because I understand that it will help me in the long run for where I want to go. Thus each time I'm thinking about questions of lav placement, boom angles, plant deployments, or whatever else, I am trying to play a better balancing act between "safe" and my natural desires as a perfectionist.

Of course for that price (or lower) at B&H (of $69.99) it can't be beat. But I'm just letting my natural biases as a Production Sound Mixer shine through. If you want a field mixer: then buy that, such as an F8n/F6/MixPre3/etc, not an H1n. If you want a bodypack recorder: then buy that, such as Tascam DR10L / Zoom F2 / Tentacle Track E / etc I just don't see a place for the H1n. Where does it fit in?? But hey, that's just me! And my perspective. Not everyone is the same.