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The MixPre6 here is 1388euros. The SD prices in Europe put themselves out of the market. When I used the F8 I found the ergonomics lacking, and not to my style (my impression was that the 680 was more straightforward, of course the Tascam isn't designed for film/video production sound); But if the Zoom F8n costs 999€ or less, then its a no brainer. The 10T doesn't even been imported currently, and when it does, I can see it cost closer to the 633, than any other recorder. Just for the record, the Edirol devices had amazing ergonomics, considered they were designed and built more than a decade ago.

The form factor of the Mavic is a lot more convenient if you do not want to carry an additional big bag. Tripods, lights, sound, cameras, some form of a computational machine, sliders e.t.c I do agree about the P4 quality of course, but I just can't carry another bag, for bigger and better we can always hire an operator with a Phantom/Inspire.

Last summer I was in the market for such a machine and finally I had to compromise for an Asus 15.6" i7/1060 6GB/16 RAM/256+1000 Hard Drives, but it wasn't at all near the 500€ mark, and even though it was one of the lightest such laptops, it is not very convinient to pack and carry (goes to its dedicated Thule laptop bag). Editing capabilities (even basic), small and light form factor with a price similar to a mid tier phone, isn't very realistic. Some Acer laptops with the new i5-8XXX would be your best bet, but it certainly will cost more, and it won't be as small as you would like. A Surface clone, or a Surface, would be very convinient packing and carrying, but they will cost double or triple your budget. There are some Chuwi, Telcast and some other exotic names - and brands, that can be bought for cheap, but I am not sure about the performance, and reliability.

The last few years I have used selectively, touch AF in my Samsung cameras, and some form of AF (never AF-C, touch screen/touch button always) in C100mkII/C300 and C200 lately. Even though manual focus consists of 90% of my work, it is a feature I would pay more to have and definitely worths more to me than e.g IBIS, or other stuff. Touch focus especially is liberating, can't really see any negative at all. I didn't vote, because I do not believe this BM camera is competitive to any real hybrid camera, or even the aforementioned Canon ones, and I do not believe that is as simple as a "double the price" question. A C series camera is a lot more, and a true APS-C hybrid like my NX1 is a lot more but on a different sense and directio . I probably will buy a BM4K, but it won't replace any of the current cameras I use.

https://www.google.gr/amp/www.itpro.co.uk/hardware/30467/tablet-sales-decline-for-the-13th-quarter-in-a-row%3famp Tablets are squeezed between mobile phones (my 5.7" is smaller than iPhone 4.5" and other 5" phones, and we also have a 6.2" S9+ in the family) and 2in1, convertibles, and other solutions that offer better connecticity/productivity/performance in similar, or slightly higher price. We have an iPad Air (something, I do no follow closely Apple products) which 3 years later is better than any new middle tier Androind tablet, beating even high spec-ed ones, so no need to upgrade. I want it to be portable, for a small crew in budget productions. The usual for such a case is an additional 7". Maybe I can mix my 2 needs and buy a 12" 2in1 and be set!

I can't wait anymore for the 1" Mavic Pro, and I can't afford not to have a small drone with me at most times. Customers are expecting to have a drone anyway. Whatever it is, I am buying it.

@Dustin 120fps in this camera is seriously bad. If this is a big selling point for you, try to see some footage first before buy. Coincidentally, I watched some clips - shot on a studio with lights - this very morning, and the results were unusable. With less than sufficient light, I have seen terrible stuff. Andrew Reid had posted a high frame rate list of cameras, a while ago, and he expressed a similar opinion.

Let's say you buy a couple of SmallHD Focus AND a couple of the cheap ones mentioned here, for the price of one iPhone X, and I am willing to use my monitor a lot more years than my current mobile phone. We have a lot of extra taxes in Europe, plus additional ones in my country. In my mind, a fanboy (in the materialistic aspect of it) is someone that chooses products based on the brand and not logic/rationality/real needs. The tablet market is quite limited in choices, so we still use an iPad in the family, we don't use any other Apple device anymore. Screens/monitors are getting cheaper and cheaper these days, what I am eyeing now, is a 10" or so, for a director's monitor. There are some HDMI options for less than 100$, but for that purchase I do not care for nits/interface/absolute quality, size or weight. Someone else can spend thousands of euros for such a monitor. Just different needs.

This can be said litteraly to anything in the market, from bubble gums to cars and boats. A basic - of anything - can done the job, but then we all would be living in USSR and driving Lada Samara - if the commitee agreed to give us one. If you do not like a product, or brand, there is no need to name-call the people that do, maybe they have different needs. Not at all like Apple, I wouldn't buy anything that resembles that brand. For some reason, TV Logic is the most popular brand in monitors here, and those are way more expensive than similar SmallHD monitors. I find the price I paid for the Focus quite reasonable when you consider that it is the smallest/lightest/best touch screen UI/and the cheapest - with as high Nits - solution in the market, and an accessory I use EVERYTIME I switch on my camera, so a lot. Battery consumption is amazing too, the other day I used only 2 of the smaller F batteries (and of low quality) for a full working day with an A7s camera. The monitor was back ordered for 4 months in my country, so it does some things right, it seems. Also, it created a trend, so, its success played a factor on all these 5" monitors, with some of them trying to mimic its likeness and that arm too. You can downgrade it as much as you want, but I don't remember any similar arm desing before, and the fact that shamelessly are copying it, means that works, and it does.

I have heard (dSLR video shooter?) that it is not the same quality as the SmallHD one. Not all similar things perform equally. Recently I was telling some photographers how much I have spent for air protection to my microphones (as much as one of their cameras and a cheap lens) and they couldn't believe that an ebay knock off couldn't do the same job. Most of the times you get what you pay for.

Analogue peaking is different than digital clipping. Big time. The way we approach sound in fully analogue studios and digital ones is way different, and that is why I mentioned my sound credentials, because I have worked in both environments. I lived between the two eras, so all my education (sound/moving and still image) started with analogue equipment. If you have "a little bit of clipping", let's say once every half a second, in a 5 minutes piece you have 600 unwanted (wrong/mistakes/bad job) elements in your sound gathering. Now, every one of these times, add another "little bit of" +3 stops of light in your image, or clip the greens of your perfectly exposured image. Do you see where I am going with that? Any way, for the zillionth time here and everywhere, a hobbyist judges things differently, and -normally- more lightly; I would expect someone that wants to improve to try the best way possible, because when you start the discounts in your job/hobby, then that can go really low. True story. When I shoot 3 pointers, 3 out of 10 are amazing for me, if you are a professional basketball player, a percentage less than 35-37% is a bad percentage (at least for everyone under 7 foot). But when I shoot, I am trying to be Curry, not Tristan Thomson. The OP should just try to avoid clipping, and as already mentioned, it is much easier to add a few db, than try to fix clipping sound in post (which the huge majority is unfixable anyway). Dual level recording is a very clever method to achieve that, and my opinion is to be conservative even in your highest setting.

Sorry, I took your words litterally! Even here, that I have explained you how broken the industry is, if you rent a higher tier camera, usually they include an ok monitor for free. Last job with C300mkII and a full set of Zeiss lenses, we got two 7" TV Logic monitors like that. Irrelevant PM: I did a New Zealanders wedding this weekend. The girl was from Oakland and we all had great fun. Lot of booze!

I hear the "views/likes" point being made a lot lately. The worst porn videos have millions of views, and we all know that the vast majority of the humam population is oblivious to some (most) of the best movies/paintings/musicians. All my favorite bands together, all their albums and songs ever, have probably less views than the last Justin Bieber video, and I do not even know one song of the guy. Views and/or popularity, do not justify everything. Disclaimer: This opinion is irrelevant with the above video. There are a couple Black Mirror episodes and one in The Orville about popularity, social media and the new challenges they create in the new world.

I am glad that you corrected your previous false statements, and you have to understand - and respect, that there are people that do NOT want to record externally, and I am one of those. I also said, and quote myself "..but these are outdated as recorders, NOT as monitoring devices.." which translates to something like this "some of them are outdated recorders but still are good monitors". The Ninja V is a great product, and I am sure it will sell exceptionally well, it is just a product that I do not need, and if I am keeping my current cameras, and buying the Pocket4K, won't even need it in the near future either. I am not even sure you have the camera to record 4k60p with the Ninja V. What camera do you have that does that?

I am a professional sound man of 19 years with a degree in sound engineering and acoustics, among other degrees, and honestly I am not sure what are you are trying to say with the above, and why we have to confuse people with irrelevant theories. "A little bit of clipping" could end my career in less time than the time you needed to write your above response.

Living in a country with almost a 6 months summer (and most of the rest is quite sunny anyway), all these cheap monitors are simply unusable for me. My mobile phone is 650nits and is barely visible for most of the time. All you mention Atomos or Ninja recorders, but these are outdated as recorders, not as monitoring devices, while some of them weren't even great monitoring devices to begin with. SmallHD Focus is still the lightest and smallest pro grade 5" minitor in the market. A monitor I can really see, and the lightest to carry around. Using a Feelworld monitor on a feature film is unheard, the whole budget should have been a couple hundrend of NZ$, I am not sure of what part of the industry those, so called, "feature films" represent, and how much you can charge for this?0.2cents per day?and if you use a 0.2cents monitor, what kind of camera do you use, 4NZ$ per day?and with what sticks? Everything is relevant I guess, for someone that will use the monitor a few times per year, it seems like a good buy, for anyone wanting more, a better solution should me most appropriate. Monitors and tripods can not be cheap. Learning this lesson everyday on work.

There is no "clip quite a bit", in digital sound; it clips or not. If you have good sound to start with, you do not usually need compressors/limiters in post. It is good to have good quality limiters for extreme sound gathering. Auto levels are a no-go, dual levels should be sufficient. Limiters in cheap Tascams are very limited, you should set your gain right and conservative. It is not a disaster to add a few dBs later on, but clipping sound is (almost) unusable. Last night I was doing camera for a live performance, the person(producer) setting the recorder set the gain in the sound test (I told him to be conservative, but he didn't listen/knew), when the band really started playing the sound started peaking. Result? Totally unusable sound. The producer just hopes that the band was recording the performance.

I did a music documentary a decade ago , but because I was doing one of the cameras and other stuff, someone else did the sound engineering, so in the end we didn't have any usable sound at our finale's band. We found their performamce in Budapest, I believe, and it matched our performance 100%, in the middle they had a localized section, calling our city and singing with the audience, and until the end the 2 performamces matched completely! Disclaimer: I watched the video on my mobile phone on a short brake for work, so the only thing that impressed me was the good sound.

This is what a hobbyist would have done with an 8mm/S8mm/16mm/miniDV camera at whatever point in history. The most important improvement is probably the better sound catch.

Benro S6 is the absolutely minimum for anlight video head.

I believe the people in "these forums" are exactly the ones that will find them helpful. At least these are in the right direction and people with no sound experience at all, can improve their sound. I am a professional soundman for 19 years, and I know that my experience, education and expertise can't be simulated on a few presets, but there is a huge percentage of video makers outhere -amateurs, one man bands, photogrpahers turn to video, cameramen not willing to hire a sound man, ultra low budget productions - that could be benefited for those presets. There is an increasing attitude in this and other forums, that even camera's internal mics are sufficient for sound, at least now they have a few presets to back up their claims! For the price, I see a lot of people invested on them.

Latency and viewable in day light.

That's not bad I guess, https://www.eoshd.com/2014/12/lets-see-samsung-nx1-really-capable-shooting-4k-sunny-lisbon/ and honestly, I haven't seen any worthy footage from you either, whatever expensive camera you have bought the last few years. NX1 was competing with the GH4, 7Dii and some 16megapixel Fuji cameras with barely any video capabilities. So glad I did the "mistake" and invest on the NX system.

If the NX1 wasn't that great, then all of us would have sold it, but we still going strong. Let the others do the catching up.

Favorite workhorse zoom for m43; Olympus 12-100mm 4f.