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cheap Benro > than cheap Manfrotto. The S6 head is quite good for the money, I used it on a Benro monopod and it is a great setup, but the S4 is ok for a monopod.

They have a crop factor of X1.6, that is why they start from 15mm and 11mm in their ultra wide zoom, while others start from 16 and 12mm. Everyone has a 16mm kit lens.

I live in the southest part of Europe which is a quite warm place. External temperature and a fan base (which I always use, regadless) do not change the fact that todays processing power needs huge coolers and vents and fans. Take a look at the GH5, to make it a video powerhouse, the camera with the smaller sensor is bigger and heavier than most dSLRs. When you start to add things up to fight heat, then just go buy a real desktop with less money and many more advantages. My laptop is my fastest machine too, but I am going to build a new desktop soon for more demanding applications.

Lenses lenses lenses. Plus AF, ISO performance and price (A7iii is 500euros cheaper in my country!).

Heat dissipation is a nightmare for laptops. Even desktop replacements have heat issues, and they are huge and heavy. I bought a mid-tier Asus last year with a 1060 graphic card and I am really disspointed when it reaches 90-95 degrees during export or other demanding situations.

I probably did a mistake with the Regain calculations. For the 18-135mm it should be something like 18mm X 0.75 = 13.5 x 2 = 27mm (?) to 135 X 0.75 = 101 X 2 = 202mm(?).

A7iii seems like the best full frame hybrid option right now and X-T3 the best hybrid option for a smaller sensor. Sony's weakness- lenses - is now their advantage.

I honestly do not have a clue. I am avoiding adapters most of the time, but I am planning to order the BMP4K and that camera screams for speedboosted/adapted lenses. I have already ordered the Lens Regain which is 0.75X (I believe), so the 18-135 is 13.5-101mm. I guessed that it is compatible with EF-S lenses. If it is not I would like to know too, cause I am planning to start buying lenses really soon.

Exactly my thoughts. The USM with the power zoom can be a great run n gun combo. I love the lens on a C100mkII but I do not like the wide end, with a speedbooster can have an amazing range (13.5-101mm, depending the crop factor) and with a dumb adapter you have a 36-270mm! BM must polish some of those edges if they want their camera to be accessible to more people.

I can understand your enthisiasm. Canon had the recipe to create a best selling small video camera but left it to that. This camera design could be the best for a small dedicated video camera, and could be an amazing low budget solution partnered with the cheap and capable EF-M lenses (with 3 of them and the EF adapter could do anything). I am wondering what Canon sells in their XC and C line. Sales must have been really miniscule in 2018 and 2019 can be catastrophic (relatively to the company's market position the previous years).

This, may, or may not, could be interesting for an all arounder. Definitely slower in the 23-50 range, but it is longer and has some macro capabilities. Sigma 17-70mm F/2.8-4 DC OS HSM Macro Also, with the Dec Regain, a 18-135mm USM could be a handy 13.5-100mm.

what stabilized native m43 lens for workhorse zoom? The Olympus 12-100mm is an option, but a 1400euros one. What 2.8f APS-C speedbooster (and stabilized) lens do you people use?

I am checking all the new cameras and I am planning to buy the Pocket4K, before I choose a new hybrid system on a year or two (or three!) I am starting to figure out a good lens system for the P4K, and judge the other systems through their lenses. Z and RF have such limited options at the moment, SL not at all (except a few ultra expensive Leica ones) and Fuji is having a few significant gaps. What I get, is that the great power behind the NX system were its lenses, especially the S and the tiny pancakes. So, I am wondering, Is it possible to use an NX lens on any other system?

I am amazed that you are coming to this conclusion so late, especially after mentioning this "other world" in some of my earlier posts to you (half a year or so ago!). There are unlimited professional productions every day in the whole world, and not even 1% of those people are following, or participate in youtube. Also, when you work on a production, usually have a particular role. It is great to do a lot of things - and I do - but on a regular production (be it a tv show, a film, a corporate, an advertisement), you have to do the thing that you are best, and/or more experienced at. Budgets and timelines are very strict and specific, and there is no time for "education" or even a tiny little mistake. Recently, I have worked with some people that gained "fame" from youtube (and/or wedding videos), and the experience was really bad. They were good enough for their respected trade (youtuber, wedding video), but couldn't handle/understand a normal shooting day with different professionals and specialties. Their advantages? They are coming cheap to the production companies, because they do everything for a couple of thousands of euros (direct, camera, editing, color grading, e.t.c) so a job that usually costs around 8-10.000euros, is coming down to 3-4.000, so the client can get it for 6-8.000, and the production company has a larger profit, and a happier client. In your next quest for knowledge, follow the money, and try to understand how big production companies are gaining, what they do gaining, while most people work for peanuts (well, that is capitalism I guess, but the media business is one of the most profitable in the world, with not a lot of expanses, you do not need raw material to build something, you create money out of thin air!).

In APS-C is 2.8f for sure. The Samsung NX is 2-2.8f. For full frame systems 4f is probably good enough for most things.

The thing is that you always carry your mobile phone. It isn't between this and that. My NX500 with the 16-50pz/10/16/20/30mm NX pancake is already very small and the image quality is a lot better that what the small sensor can offer, plus 28mgpxls APS. Getting an Osmo for a little bit better image quality in video than the S9+/G6 I am using, or the NX3000/NX500, and a small phone gimbal that I may, may not use? It is a very hard sell, and I am buying a lot of gadgets per year, but I do not see many people have an additional device on them at all times, and hobbyists have more capable and very mobile tools already. It is a good device, just I can't see the point when all the companies invest in camera phones (vast amounts of investment by Colossal corporations, including Apple, Samsung, Sony, Huawei, Lenovo/Motorola e.t.c) and they already have a simiar performance. 82% of US kids have iPhones? That is not the case in Europe, and as I can see from my nieces, Android dominates in small ages (something like a 98% probably!), and even in US, they would rather stretch their budget for an iPhone, that any other additional pocket device.

350 is too much for teenagers, while they have pretty capable cameras in their similarly priced - or cheaper, phones. It is easier and more convenient to spend an extra 50-80€ to buy a dedicated gimbal, that can use with every phone, and for the limited times that would be needed. The market is the grown ups.

And 2.8f, and no IS. Not the modern workhorse lens that everyone else has.

Very interesting, but I seriously doubt is 2200nits as they claim. 2200 is too much, eyeballs burning - much.

You talk the old language! Organic sensors and graphene will shape the future, not the present. Graphene will improve almost any modern application(from oil extraction and water filters to ?) and is the biggest EU research program, and probably one of the top in the whole world. Gaining a couple of stops, and a few dozens of minutes of extra battery life is nothing like the next generation of cameras. Even the last couple of years the performance, bitrates and data transfer in cameras improved dramatically, while price decreased dramatically also. P4K, X-T3, Z6 were unimaginable a couple of years ago, or even in early 2017!

I am trying not to waste time on internet personas, rather exchange experience and knowledge on forums such this. We gave too much importance (and time = money = they get all the money!) to mediocre wedding photographers and videographers, while the real filmakers just do their job, somewhere out there, without insta posts and tweets (or whatever the new trend on social media is). Some people here know, it is a very hard work, you can work for days straight, needs physical and mental - and social - strengthness, and the last thing you care about is to inform your followers how fantastic and amazing is to work in the film and video industry with the new (insert paid advertisement here) and use the (another one here), while looking gorgeous, fresh and well slept! It is great for them (the youtube personas), glad ain't them!

Can anyone comment about the IR issue? -Do definitely need an IR filter? -How do we use one with other filters (ND,pola?)? -Is there a good (or bad!) brand?

A cross between the P4K and the XC would be ideal.

I exchanged the old design for the next one (SliderONE Pro), but I am sure I can't do that again. All this product separation is a bit unnoying, you always think you have the lesser product. Consider buying the HeadOne now.

For an amateur in sound, the Rodelink will deliver better than an NTG2 9 out of 10. Do you use a shotgun indoors? Why not a hyper cardioid? What mount? What basket? What boom? What position? E.t.c With the Rodelink, you just put the lavalier on a reasonable position and you are done. Sound pros have a variety of mics and accessories to do specific jobs.