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Wow, your answers getting epic. 🙂 @kye i think the Sony will do well with the nice ooc color, if similar to the A6500 and its AF. Codec will not be stressed in these settings. I would love to see a dull interview filmed with that thriling combo of a S1h and the Sony. 🙂

5D2 and 5d3 cameras will be rising in price again, like Andew wrote or maybe because he wrote so.:)

Welcome back, dear Don! Now that sounds like a worthy phrase from cinema!:) Now I have to check out that Takumar 28mm F3.5!:) Happy New Year, everyone!

@kye Thank you again for your camera- lenses combinations and insights. I find the GX85 perfect with sharpness dialed down all the way. It is a dogma for my Panny 4K acquisition. On my G6 it was -2 for sharpness.One thing about dof and angle of view is different in my opinion. The pairing for a 7.5 f2 on mft would be a 15 f4 on ff afaik. So 17.5 0.95 would have a FF equivalent of 35 f2 and so on. I also enjoyed your perspective on using focal lengths and its purposes and intentions! The 12.5mm 1.4 Fujinon covers the GX85 in 4K with just the normal IBIS, no need for the electronic one. With abrupt and fast pans the vignetting shows for the seconds of impact though. @webrunner5 I have an Olympus dream lens. Once acquired I will let ya know. Supposely the best in its class and hard to find for my desired price. Now isnt that a nice riddle:)

DP achieved effective and beautiful compositions. I found some of the shots with stonge geometry and perspective very engaging, Light was very painterly and dreamy. Great lensing regarding focal lengths and glass. Other shots felt rather sufficient in holding the edit together. As a whole, a good display of talent and also of the cameras sensor and the urban places.

Improvement would have to be seen when heavily graded. The thin AVCHD codec with its low bit rate should show so much mare artefacts than ALL Intra. Also in movements more mushiness due to compression.

@jgharding filming in HLG with it should give you results and dynamic like a A73 colour wise. I thinke the ZV E10 could compliment the S1H very well. The image from the A73 is loved my many one-man-band people. ZV E10 should do well. Have seen some great colour from the A6500 as well.

Funny enough, I was browsing for some steals and found a 5D2 for 350EU. It is a very pretty camera to hold and to look at. Just love the robust and no nonsense body and design. BUT, I do not own any EF lenses for photography nor sufficient glas in Nikon mount besides my Tokina 28-70 2.6 and a Vivitatr 35mm 1.9. No chance to adapt FD glas, which I have a handful fun and nice lenses for. There is a fascination coming from these big robust full frame DSLRs. I can imagine snapping a 5D2 or 5d3 sometime soon. When a friend of mine dped for a musicvideo he had a 5d2 on set for bts photos. That camera gave me great pleasure to hold in the hand and the satisfying sound of the mirror really made it click to me. My S1 does not resonat to me like that at all. Hardly do photography with it at all. Video as B- or Ccam only so for due to lack of rigging and batteries.

Thank you guys for your points. Both my topics were covered awesomely and even put into context with one another. Great write ups! Now with that Varicam, it would be a camera I would absolutely love to have in my arsenal. If the seller puts the price down again, I will make him an offer.

The Takumar and Cosmicar look the most impressive to me. The Pentax for its overall quality, the Cosmicar in regard that it´s just a TV lens for 16mm or super 15 image circle. Colors and contrast and resolution just look right. Thanks for the test, put the Takumar on my radar.

I don´t know. I usually look for comparision charts of the models, comparing one to the other. 1070 outperforms the rx580 by a significant margin. I would go with a 1070 or 1660.

@kye Exactely, to the point! I love the image quality from the BMMCC the best. I enjoy the promise of the F3 which is still untested. I dont consider my kitchen window a test of image quality.:) I think I enjoy the thought of possibility of testing and using all this gear and the thrill to buy them for cheap. Maybe we could start a thread with the best cam deals we made the last couple years. BMMCC will be for my mini anamorphic set up and lushiest colors. F3 for the hunt for the magic underdog camera, the baby Alexa. FS700 for the ease of use and external Prores 4K60p with a speedbooster. In the end it is easy to gather gear over the years like i have in the last two and half years. So I asked the two questions in one topic. I think it makes sense to talk and write about the oddities and akward habbits of cinematography lovers and camera dreamers. I filmed two shorts this year, 7days all together, first one with the GH5 only, second one mixing a rented A-Cam C300II with a rented GH5 as B-Cam and my S1 as specialty Cam. With own equipment I always realize, I am missing rigging parts, reliable battery solutions, monitoring, etc. Why holding on to equpment which I am not using? Hard to tell. But that is why I imply in the title of the thread what I am, a dummie. The Varicam question stands in relation to that but also for itself in relation to image qualiity and all the other important attributes. In the end I hope to have shared some questions of interest. The answers from you guys already were very satisfying and profound. BMMCC and C300II grade the easiest from my experience. For the GH5 I have serveral Power grades in Resolve which work well for me. But S1 only really excells to me in lit sets or under low light conditions. I have not recognized any artefacts from the S1! GH5 though turns super mushy in super lowlight. I find the S1 harder to grade under natural lighting condtions than the GH5. So the prospect of a Varicam would be, dynamic range and color response like my BMMCC, lowlight exellence and all the goodies of ergos and rigging, if bougth in a complete set. To buy a Varicam has only become a vague option to me, because I found a rigged out package, which is ready to film, with viewfinder, handles, shoulder pad and so. The price was very low for what this camera is. But seller raised the price again. So it´s out of my reach.

Wow, second video with the model is an akward test design and kinda untelling test conditions. All cameras looked bad btw in that test.:) I like the image to price ratio of the BM4K. Friends of mine love it and produce great colours with it. S1 really shines in lowlight, giving awesome colours and quality. Equalling or bettering possibly Alexa and Varicam. Gives you back the image noise, when you film under super low light:) Also a contender would be a Sony FX6, giving fantastic lowlight, NDs and all that. It does not produce mush in lowlight, which is great. FX3 and A7s3 get mushy with higher ISO in super lowlight. Somehow I have a fascination for Varicam as the ultimate camera in Panasonics offerings. The sensor has definately a different response to colours as test number 1 shows.

Great. That is a great advise! So I remembered right. Awesome!:) I got my second Iscomorphot 8 1.5 coming. I want to couple them with C-mounts taking lenses, that way having a super light RAW camera anamorphic setup with two anamorphic lenses! I am very exited. I think the Iscomorphot is perfect for the S16 sensor size. Coupling the setup with a Tilta Nano, Raw anamorphic with wireless focus- a dream come true.:)

1660 Ti should be about the same as a 1070. So 1070, 1660 or 1660TI would all be fine, 1070 offering even 8GB of ram.

Thanks you, great points! Ergo would be top on my list. Still not using my F3 beause I am shying away from spending money for an EVF. Akward, and the epitome of camera GAS. Buying the camera and not being willing to build and rig a system. I find my S1 harder to grade than GH5 material. I considered myself a person with decent color grading skills. But it took me a few hours to get the hang out of the S1. I had bad experience with IR poluted BM Mini Pro footage. It felt like grading 420 bit from a 5D2 to me! Hard to imagine but true. I don´t see many comparisons with the Lumix cams and EVA. From what I saw, the Varicam holds onto colours better under a variety of shooting conditions than the EVA. EVA coming close ore even equalling the image from the Varicam under normal lighting conditions, Lumix cameras having a different signature still. S1 potentially coming close with adequate grading. Varicam should trump with its thick codec for heavy grading. @kye Though the 150mbit codec of the S1 is not easy to break, just like the one from the GH5. Kye couldnt break the GH5 10bit Intercodec, which is a good thing of course:) But I imagine color response and tonality would offer more to the eye with the Varicam.

If I was to buy a card, a RTX2070 would be perfect for my needs. 1070, 1080, 2060 should be good enough even.

Thank you both for your insightful writings. I am shy of introspective at the moment. So thank you for letting me relate to the important points and thoughts you mentioned, you both! What I can state is that I want to contribute some of my last years findings to this forum and to engage more into discussions and exchange with you guys.

@Eric Calabros There is a chip shortage but still plenty opportunity to buy stuff. Are you on the edge of purchasing a camera at the moment? I bought a BMMCC a few weeks ago. Beautiful image! Blackmagic stopped its production one or two weeks ago due to the chip shortage. We will see how long it takes until the new Ursa Broadcast G2 with its 6K sensor will be available in larger numbers.

Hallo dear friends, in these rough times we all are happy to enjoy calm and joyful moments of comfort and peace of mind. The silly camera game belongs in that category of escaping the harsh reality once in a while. Even if we don´t own, rent nor use cameras a lot, we still like to fancy and, well, debate them. I am myself guilty of owning a Sony PMW F3 and having not used it other than two lazy blinks out of my window. For one and a half year, nothing, still nothing filmed yet! I bought a BMMCC a couple weeks ago and have only shot some test footage once. Owning two FS700, having used one of them (or was it the other:) only twice in two years! My Shogun Flame is still waiting for its cage, because I dont wanna spend the money. It´s still being unused as a recorder and as monitor. My S1 has performed a bit but not much. Lenses are an even worse story! Isco 16 2x unused, Tevidon lenses ununsed, Vivitar 90mm F2.5, Tokina 28-70 2.6 and so on! And still I am asking myself about the Varicam LT, because of its rep as a "real" camera. I am fascinated by both, the underdog and affordable cameras and the notion of a real cinema camera like Alexa, Red cameras, Sony Cinealtas and Varicams. So what do you think? Is the Varicam LT giving me so much more imagewise than a S1? What does it have over URSA Broadcast G2 or Mini Pro G1? Why do I fancy owning one, when not having used my other cameras for real? Two topics in one.:) cheers

@Beritar Then you might like the 200mbit hack for HD on the G9. You can find it in this thread and let us know about your findings.:) I like the 4k on my GX85. I imagine the GX9 to be about the same. It crops in more than the GX85 does because of having 4MP more in resolution. But it also is the newer sensor from the GX8 and GH5. I imagine the GX9 to be the perfect compact HD camera with its new 100 and 200mbit modes, coming from the hack.

@Grimor i don´t have a gx9 myself. I downloaded hd files with 100 or 200mbit rate from a link in this thread. They worked. Btw 200mbit would mean AllI Intra flavor of Pannys codec!

I highly recommend browsing this site for Andrews blog articles and for the posts in this forum. I wished some of the posts were not buried in the subforums or that there was a way from the user interface to get more people such as me to read them when they are posted not months later be coincidence or browsing. The anamorphic forum is a treasure. Would be lovely, if people posted more material without having it hidden in the footage section.

How about this baddie: YN455 with mft sensor, 6gig ram and android 10. Cost still much higher than a used OG BMPCC.

Would be nice to have a list of compatible phones. Would love some 2K+ 3:1 Raw from a Panny Lumix CM1 phone with its S16 size sensor from the RX100 series. But it has only Android 5 and 2gigs of Ram with 128gb storage to micro SD. @sanveer Would be great to see and read your findings. Merry Christmas to you and everyone.:)