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I agree with your thoughts. But I don't see Nikon coming up with nothing new that will be amazing. I see them at best have a Mirrorless replacement for the time being for the D750, and the D850. I think the D500 and the D5 are safe bet to continue to be a DSLR. And best the new Mirrorless ones will be is a lesser Sony A7 mk III and a lesser Sony A7r mkIII. How they going to top those 2 cameras, let alone the Sony A9. It isn't happening. Now the Only good rumor I have heard is Canon might, and I mean might, on their top end Mirrorless, have ND filters built into an existing EF mount on it AKA like Sigma does mount wise for their new SD Mirrorless cameras. They don't have ND filters in them but there sure as hell is room for them in that snout! That would be a BIG deal if they do it! It might not be the most beautiful Mirrorless on the market but think of a FF Canon Mirrorless needing no EF lens adapter and ND's in it. Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Funny you say that, because I think a lot of people now, me included are now more and more using, depending on, fly by wire lenses, and we are missing out on the joy of being able to use MF, and put it to good use. I really wish I had the money, as do most people,to have a damn nice matched set of dedicated Cine lenses. I am sure it would up anyone's game a bit, and make it feel like you are Really in control, as you should be. My trouble even with older MF lens it that surprisingly a heck of a lot of them are small as heck. And it is hard to grab hold of the dials to change things without looking and that adds to slowing things down, and to camera movement etc. Plus the lettering size on them for F stops, Distance sure are not geared for older people I can tell you that LoL. ? But I agree it is not needed on every shot in this day and age like it used to, and in reality had to be. Run n Gun stuff you pretty much need AF. But wow to be pretty well off money wise would be nice. ?

Sounds to me you have enough Horsepower in your desktop, but no doubt a better, faster video card in the 10.. series will help. It seems in this day and age a GPU really matters for video playing and editing. I know Resolve is sort of a heavy GPU user. I personally think Resolve is the NLE of the future and the cost is very hard to beat, not counting all they have now in it. Even the free version of Resolve now is not missing too much other than built in Noise Reduction engine, Collaborative Workflow, and a lot of 3D modeling stuff most will never use. At 299 bucks for the premium version, which you seem to be able to upgrade for years down the road in the past, is to me a pretty big bargain. But yeah with proxies, unless you have a lot of VFX stuff in it does seem well, pretty slow going. Hmm. Are you using a Sony camera with Vegas Pro 15?

Out of likes. That was some really great footage you produced, not counting your skills on the skateboard. Now if I won the Lotto I would buy this one.

I have owned 7 male Ragdoll Cats over the years, including others, and the Siamese male cat I have now. Males particularly get into Everything you own somehow I don't care what you do. ?

Yeah nothing is set in stone. It is hard to do something that has not been done before. But to me Bokeh that is overdone stands out like a sore thumb. Now that can be good or bad, depending on the circumstance if you want it to stand out, but doing it over and over in a short or film to me gets old. It gets predictable ,and that gets stale and boring, and well to me garish.. Now for a Photo sure I think that s OK because it is sort of a one off experience. But to see it overly used in video when it occupies hundreds, thousands of frames, nah. I am not saying don't use it. Sure if you have a fast lens you are using at night you are going t have Bokeh, probably big time. And that is fine. justdon't dwell on it. Although I do remember some film where a guy was leaning against a wall at some restaurant staring into space at night, and all the backgrounds were OOF, and it was Bokeh hell, but it worked even though it was a long, motionless take. So that stuck in my mind forever I guess. So it worked, and worked well.

Well Nothing is cat proof. ?

That is a great way to go. If you don't have a whole kit in bags, sort of on the ready to go, it Never fails when you get there you have forgot something, might be a stupid step down ring, but it will stop you cold from getting the shot or shoot. Sure you can't take everything, but unless it is some specialized shoot you rarely need some extra thing you have stuffed away in a drawer you cant find to save your ass when you need it. Wires are the worse. They all sort of look the same when they are grouped together when you are in a hurry. But no way I have ever found to avoid it. If a wire can get tangled up with another it sure as hell will. Plus stuff in bags is pretty well protected compared to even in drawers, or on a shelf.

What is also interesting is that each eye is split in half. One side of our brain see half, the other side the other half. So one side see left in each eye, the other side see's right in each eye. I know that because my daughter's last baby had a stroke in her womb. So when she was like 2 years old they had a doctor fly in from Germany I think, and literally cut out half her brain that had died from the stroke. So now she only see's on the left side of each eye. She is 5 years old now. She is doing surprisingly well. Here brain that is left is re wiring it's self to do what some of the other side did. She will Never be normal but it is pretty crazy that they can do what they did. But they can only do it until they are around 6 years old or younger. Any older you can't re wire like you can when you are really young. She had like 200 seizures or more a day for a long time, and now she takes liquid Medical Marijuana and is down to only like 15 a day. Helps with her pain also. She has a drop foot also. They have done some crazy open spine operations on her for that also. The Ronald Mc Donald house has paid every dime of her cost since she has been born along with my daughters cost to be with her in LA for operations. Amazing stuff happens behind the scenes that few know about.

Sure would not be a place to live if you had Emphysema! Man when I lived in South Florida it was bad enough, Yikes.

Your lucky that Silent Movies was a passing fad!

In Vietnam I can believe you Need that for all the damn humidity!

Far from all I got, but it is most of what I need if I am in a hurry and want to just grab and go. I use this Manforrato Carbon Fiber Tripod, and Manforrato 502 head most of the time. Speaking of Manforrato tripods. I found this gizmo for them that solves having that big foot they use for the disconnect. It is great with a full sized Cine camera like my AF100A was. But if you are using a DSLR or Mirrorless that foot is huge. This item really solves the problem and it is from Manforrato. That way you can use a Arca Swiss plate. Pictured below on my Fluid Head. And you don't have to crap around with that damn small pull out knob on the side you can Never get to. It is right there on the back with this gizmo. Easy Peezy. You only have to use that dumb knob on the side once when you install the new foot, and even then nothing is in the way to put it on.. https://www.adorama.com/pm501.html

I would not really call that Bokeh. I agree it is blurring. Bokeh is to me is what @kye is showing.

According to Ken Rockwell we Do see grain in our eyes if he is to be believed. We probably do. https://kenrockwell.com/tech/how-we-see.htm

Read this article, especially the part about the file compression. Sort of answers your question. It should work out for you pretty well. https://***URL not allowed***/canon-eos-c100-review-an-underestimated-cinema-camera/

I am not too big of a Bokeh fan at all. Now some isolation sure that works, but total out of focus blurs, nah I'll pass. We don't see that kind of stuff in real life unless our eyes are watering or something that is so far away we can't focus on it like headlights in the far distance. And even that is distracting more than pleasing. To me it is overused to hell and back, especially at night in city scenes. Sure you are going to see it in scenes naturally because you are never going to be at infinity all the time, but to do that silly slow zoom out stuff over and over to get in focus, Jesus I hate that. Been used a Million times. Now something like I took today, yeah that works. That is not too radical to me. Pentax M42 55. f2.0 @ f5.6 on my Sony A7s. One of those 4 lenses I bought for a total of 16 dollars and the camera, and camera bag at a thrift store. 2 of the 4 are super sharp and have a nice coloring to the lens output. Sort of Leica like looking. Both of them were the Pentax ones. The 135mm 2.8 Pentax M42 is crazy good. The car shot is the 135mm. The Canon FD is pretty good, but sterile. There is one called a Toyo and it is hard to tell it is so wide, a 24mm at f 2.8. I like though. I have not taken anything super close with it yet.

Wow that is almost 5D mk III ML good! I have got to get one of those. Crazy good for 3 times the price let alone what they can be bought for.

Nah I think you are wrong. That movie would be way less dramatic if it was shot on some razor sharp Digital Camera. That is one reason Canon Cine cameras are so good. They are soft for a reason. Same with the Arri Alexa., the original one. Not really true 4K. Not soft but, sure as heck more film looking than any other digital camera I know. That was the reason Arri dragged their heals on not raising the resolution on it for years. But yeah that film is a Classic, it's true the story carries it no matter what. That film Needed a grungy look to it. It was not a everyone is happy type film that needed Cartoon colors and 20 stops of DR.

If you read the questions in this link you will find it is nearly your Only option for 10 bit 4K. Open up the first one in the Q&A section. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1250777-REG/atomos_atom4k60c5_hdmi_type_a_male_to.html

Oh don't worry about that. You are doing great.

I would imagine Any HDMI cable that has a Name you recognize is a good one. Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, on and on. Almost every one of those cheap ones on Amazon are the same HDMI cable with a different name you never heard of, or associate the name with cheap ass stuff. When I looked up Rocketfish on Amazon it looks to me they make kind of cheap overpriced stuff also. https://www.amazon.com/Rocketfish/b/ref=bl_dp_s_web_2530318011?ie=UTF8&node=2530318011&field-lbr_brands_browse-bin=Rocketfish

Yeah but you can get too damn cheap on stuff. There Has to be a reason it is cheap. I mean you have thousands of bucks tied up and you are going to spend 10 bucks for a HDMI cable?? There is video after video on YT that shows broken HDMI cables and worse, it screwed up you camera HDMI connector. Then you are Really screwed. If you go on the Sony website they say a lot of the cheap USB cables are missing one wire on them. To Only use the Sony stuff to do Firmware updates. And you know what they are right. I just tried to update my Sony A7s Firmware with 3 USB cables I had laying around, none of them name brands and none would work. I went down to Wal Mart and bought a 15 dollar Samsung micro USB cable and it worked the very first time I plugged it in, and the connection was a TON better fit. Wal Mart has some USB cables as cheap as 4 dollars. Probably the same crap I already had. I threw all 3 of the cheap ones in the garbage, and they is what they were, Garbage!

Out of likes. Yeah that is too long for anything I ever need. But better than Too short!