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Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad your wife seems to be on the other end of her cancer! Well, your loss of work cannot be do to your skill set! That is some of the nicest work I've seen posted on this site! Really top notch! I love the Super 8 film/emulations and the B&W baseball footage! Is the C70 your workhorse? I'd love to know every camera used for every shot because we all know it's all about the camera... Btw, I'm pretty sure I still owe you a c-mount test. It's been a rough year for me and I have considered giving up on filmmaking altogether. I've definitely shifted a lot of my effort back to writing and I've been working on some audio dramas. With that said, I did get a chance to go out and shoot a little over the holidays and I am getting the bug back, so we'll see. I have a bunch of stuff to sell... cameras and lenses but I'd like to do that c-mount test with the BMMCC before I sell it. Does the C70 have a S16 crop mode? Also how do you like the Scarlet?

I desperately need a new computer... my 10 year old MB Air wasn't really good enough back then, let alone now. It still cuts through 1080p ProRes 4444 like butter, though. I heard there's an FCPX app for iPhone/iPad now, I'm curious about. That controller is slick! You have all the gadgets. There doesn't seems to be any latency issues either. What program do you use for music? With the audio dramas I work on, I've been using Reaper. It would probably make more sense for me to use Logic, but Reaper is priced right and is pretty simple to use. Of course, my goal for my next piece is to create it entirely in GarageBand. My friend who died of Covid, wanted to make a feature film entirely on his phone... from the script, to the preproduction, to the shoot, edit, ADR, the music and all the way to the final render. It was kind of a gimmick, but to him it was more of a challenge or a puzzle for him to figure out.

I thought menu controls could be controlled through the usb or hdmi?

I'd absolutely love a Z8 or a Komodo or even an XH2(s) to some extent but again, they're just too much out of my price range. As far as the fucking around with every shot... YES!!! One of the reasons I want to "shoot" in B&W!

True enough. Part of me wants an FX30 because I love slog with monochrome set as the color... you really see the dynamic range of their cameras in B&W and I want to make a B&W film... but I also want the ProRes from the GH6 because I am so tired of transcoding footage... I just want to bring it into FCPX and start editing.

Classic BTM... haha! I must admit, I'd really like a ZF but I'll have to wait a couple years for that one. You're right, though about Panasonic... they used to be punk rock, now they're Rick Roll. He really is making a lot of videos. Camera Conspiracy can be a bit much, but I appreciate the shorter videos compared to others that force a 20 minute video out of a 10 minute subject. With that said, I'm probably going to buy another GH6. I didn't love it the first time around m, but I think I was being too picky and I have a different... use-case for it now. Honestly, I'm kinda tired of all cameras right now.

Without a doubt. Now I don't mind a bigger camera... But... I don't care how many features you add, m4/3 is still m4/3, and the point of the system was small and economical... wasn't it? I feel like Panasonic hit its apex with GH3 as far as ergonomics and proper price goes. Starting with the GH4, they started chasing the wrong things. Both of those cameras fell completely off my radar. The a6700 is pretty impressive. As is the Z30, if we are to believe that Camera Conspiracies goofball. The real problem I have is that there is no camera under $3000 that is an upgrade for me, but I live an under $1500 kinda world.

If you can find one for a good price, I recommend it. I paid less than $100 for mine with the box and less than 1000 shots on it. The colors are amazing.

I don't really have a camera with me at all times. I have my phone, but I only use it to take photos for work or if I need to make sure I'm buying the right thing. If I could go back to a flip phone, I would in a heartbeat.

I think I like smaller cameras in theory more than practice, if I'm being honest. But I also never had a problem with DSLRs. The only benefit for me to shooting mirrorless was the ability to shoot some different lenses... but then you had to deal with big and clunky adapters which kinda made the small mirrorless concept moot... not to mention the annoying crop factor.

I have 3 that I enjoy for everyday shooting... a Minolta X-7a, a Pentax P3, and a Yashica FX3 Super 2000. If I'm going digital, I have a Pentax K10D with a 12mp CCD sensor and ibis that suits my needs. Although I prefer video, I don't get out enough to shoot anything worthwhile for day trips. One day soon, I am hoping to shoot a short film or something and I'll probably use my 5D3. I will say that I do miss shooting video with a small camera but even the GX85 I found to be fairly uncomfortable to shoot with and prefer a bigger camera. My dream camera would be a Nikon D5500 with DPAF, ibis and internal raw video (or ProRes)

Without looking at the actual specs, but having owned both cameras, I am pretty sure the FP is around the same size or smaller than the GX85. With lens options, you may have a point although the Sigma primes are fairly small. To be honest, this move to mirrorless seems kinda pointless... you're trading body size for lens size. It's kinda mind boggling really. I guess I've been out of the loop... I know the R5 had overheating issues... but it was my understanding they fixed it? Did I miss something? I'm also pretty sure that the RF mount has plenty of smaller primes. With that said, I understand you're already invested in m4/3 but it may be time to start thinking about a different company because Panasonic isn't going back to smaller cameras unless you want a G100. Which I may be in the minority but I actually think it looks like a cool camera.

To be fair, it seems like you specifically want Panasonic to continue making these cameras? Sony has the RX0 and ZV line that are pretty impressive. Although, recently discontinued, the Canon M200 is as tiny of an ILC that you can get. Then you have the Osmo Pocket, Insta360, GoPro, etc... there are tons of options. For some reason, every other company, except for Panasonic and BM, get a ton of crap on this forum with comments like Cripple Hammer, or whatever, but Panasonic gets a pass because they offer waveforms or something... but I feel like Panasonic is the worst of them all. In the past 3 years Canon has been the biggest innovator and are still making small DSLM cameras... look at the R50 or R100... they're pretty small. An R8 full frame camera with 10bit and cLog3 costs $1299. You can get a Sigma FP for $1000 used and not much more new... There are options... just not from Panasonic because they only care about full frame now, or they think any worthwhile m4/3 camera should be priced at $2000.

I must admit that I have been very tempted to try out the ZV-1. I guess if you want to go real cheap, the F version is a possibility as well. I've had a couple RX10ii and I really like Sony's 1" sensor cameras.

Not at all, that's why I suggested that if you think the one version looks better than the 24p version, then there's nothing more to discuss. Then I asked OR are you trolling. You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but I am entitled to react towards it how I want. And again, if you believe the 24p version looks worse, then there is no reason to continue this discussion.

This may be one of two downvotes I have ever done. I hate doing it but if you think that looks fine, then this discussion should just be closed because there is literally nothing more to discuss... or are you really just trolling?

Yes, @JulioD the most interesting thing I have learned from this discussion is that I am not the only person still shooting ML Raw.

Hahahaha... this is so stupid. @zlfan you are the one that claims 24p is outdated, yet you are the one demanding that the majority prove you wrong with scientific evidence that 24p is more cinematic than 60p... Sorry to tell you, but it's your claim, so the burden of proof lies with you to prove us wrong with scientific evidence.

I think it's just about ROI.

I saw this video on YouTube a few weeks ago that could be useful for some of you guys to think about...

That said... Long live 24p... AI will have to rip it from my cold, dead hands.

We invent tools to make a task, and therefore our lives easier, right? Well, at what point are our lives easy enough? At what point are we making ourselves obsolete? We wouldn't invite a bear, or any other apex predator, into our house, but we'll create one that's entirely intermingled into every aspect of our lives... The hubris of mankind...

What it will be able to do is combine visions or auteurs... what if Kubrick made John Wick or what if Spielberg made ... What would naturally take a person with his/her own vision and craft will soon be realized by a soulless machine. Sad.

Great rundown Kye, and to add, @Jedi Masterstated in an earlier reply that he watches movies for escapism, yet he wants them to look as real as possible? I also question the motives, or rationale, of people who consistently argue in favor of HFR filmmaking/exhibition because they base their opinions on practically no films that exist since 99.9% of all films have been shot at 24fps. So maybe they just don't like movies.

I kinda agree with that. And maybe if there was a public domain law for people's likeness, that could be interesting... after 50 years... or something.