Tim Sewell

Very few I'd guess. It's a very popular part-time gig for students in the city - of which there are many!

Funnily enough, just found some pics from that evening. Days of innocence (kinda).

@Emanuel I also love my FX-30. It just came back from 2 months in the camera hospital (a whole other story) but I just love that thing. A beautiful sensor and lovely ergonomics. And so relatively cheap! The C100 of its days.

Interesting fact - everybody thought they did the billboard stuff with Ai, but in fact they had to do it frame by frame themselves. Nice bit of film making, in my always humble opinion.

I mean, she can stand up in a car, but she ain't Sydney Sweeney.

I've generally had good experiences with them, but it's always amused me that any parcel going either way between us goes from my house in Brighton, to Gatwick, then back to their original facility in... Brighton. They did once let me fulfill an exchange (I traded in a C100 Mk2 for 2 XT-3s) in person, but it was clearly well outside their comfort zone. That said, I did once end up drinking with a bunch of their employees at a pub in the city one Friday evening (this would be about 8 or so years ago) and they struck me as a great bunch of keen, intelligent and enthusiastic people (quite a few of them brandishing nice old film cameras).

I've said for a long time that the look generally accepted and desired as 'filmic' is, in fact, 'Arri'.

And that's because, at least in part, if 2 out of your 4 Alexas go down on set in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest Arri (or the rental house) will have replacements and/or technicians with you in under 48 hours. It's simply not worth it to provide that kind of support for 'cheaper' camera systems. Obviously Alexas are also engineered for an exponentially higher level of reliability and resilience in the first place too.

I mentioned that to him and he said he just doesn't like taking photos on his phone. Which is encouraging!

Scans. My 15yr old just bought a twenty quid Sony 10MP CCD compact. He specifically wanted CCD and he uses the flash on nearly every pic - loves the look.

If your main use case is concerts etc, I would say M43 is not the best choice (although I guess one might be useful for the reach, with a fast zoom). You might be better off looking at the S line from Pana - full frame, so better in lowish light and extremely well-made cameras - and would match reasonably easily if you did, in fact, go for one Pana M43. If AF isn't a big deal, there are lots of well-priced 1st gen S-line cameras out there used. If you have non budget constraints, I'm going to plump for a combination out of the Sony FX series. Full frame workhorses with great colour, codecs and great-to-amazing AF (if you want that). Again, for reach, you could combine with an FX30. You could shoot a short or a feature film with any of the stuff listed above, but you'll obviously have to pay far more attention to story, art direction and production to get something you can be proud of done.

Interesting - I will take a look!

Very nice work, Kye (influenced by MK Rhodes?).

Happy Chrimbo to you too Andrew! Top of my wishlist would be for it to be summer, instead of currently being too cold and grey to go out and shoot anything!

Where I am at right now - A rotating grip would, in my view , make my FX30 nigh on perfect for my needs.