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I still don't see the data rates. I guess I too am old. Is that the data rate for Raw?

Your link is blocked on my computer??

Seems to me with a Drone like you have I would stick to a mirrorless m4/3 camera just for the weight savings. Some of the m4/3 lenses are amazingly light for what they are. And there is a lot of them used, along with bodies on the web. Not sure of your payload so that is a limiting factor. I mean on paper the original Sony A7, A7s with the 28-70mm kit lens is not that heavy either.

That is some encouraging good news.

50 to 150 dollars seems to be the norm.

The crazy thing to me is that I can't find Codec Specs for Any of the modes on this camera. So I have no clue what data usage is on it. I know it shoots in MPEG-4 AVC, but at what data rate? I am Guessing AVC-Intra 100 in 4k.

Nikon has taken heat from not making their mount Larger since Canon had the balls to introduce the lot more efficient EF mount. Nikon should have got off their Ass 15 years ago and did it. It's about time they do it! It is the main reason you can't hardly adopt Nikon lenses to anything but a Nikon and make all the electronics work.

Review of sorts of the New Canon Raw. https://***URL removed***/articles/0483301097/quick-look-canons-new-compressed-raw-format

There is the SLR Magic lenses also. Some not cheap, but you get what you pay for. I like the size of them.

Wow nice, that has a old school look to it. Great grade.

You could buy a D850 And a GH5s for what a D5 costs.

Panasonic has had Varicam cameras for years. But I think long time ago it was related to variable shutter speeds more than Dual ISO. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-AJ-HDC27HP-Varicam-HD-camcorder-viewfinder-EC3-remote-paintbox-case/282864775030?hash=item41dc0def76:g:MQ8AAOSwqARalgb-

The larger the sensor is the harder it is to stabilize it. So no FF is going to work as well as say a m4/3 sensor will.

Well this Long article pretty much explains how S log works. This guy knows his stuff. http://www.xdcam-user.com/2014/08/exposing-and-using-slog2-on-the-sony-a7s-part-one-gamma-and-exposure/

That sounds more like @mercer wish list more than reality LoL. I mean I hope like hell it is true with no big crop in 4k. Canon could Own the prosumer market if they just came out with a camera that is as good as the Sony A7 mk III. It doesn't have to be super groundbreaking, it just has to have 4k in it and not cost 3400 damn dollars. How the hell hard would that be to do. Shit easy as hell. Panasonic has been doing it for years on the cheap. Jesus just make it so. Hell I would buy one tomorrow just for the Colors Science and DPAF. Who the hell wouldn't.

Well Avid still sells this. I doubt a Television Station is going to use a Apple Pro laptop to run the station. Or run down to Micro Center and get a top end box computer for gamers. Sure for Bob at home it works. For big time stuff, no. I have not used Premiere in 5 years, so now they have real time trim editing in it?? http://www.avid.com/products/avid-fastserve?promo_id=Homepage,enterpriseteaser,NAMMAvidFastServe,01252018&promo_name=AvidFastServe&promo_position=enterpriseteaser

Yes but to use it you Have to use the Adobe Media Encoder. That adds another step, adding to render times. But you are right, it is possible. This is a really good video on the plus and minus of Avid and FCP. It is long as heck. Avid cost Tons times more money than FCP. Your are talking 2500 bucks for Avid. But the main benefit is live trims in Avid, among others. But FCPX is closer to Avid than FCP7 is by far. But most high rollers use Avid's complete system, computers and all that run up to 50 grand or more. The average person is Not going to use Avid. https://screenlight.tv/blog/2012/01/27/avid-media-composer-6-vs-final-cut-pro-x/

I tend to agree with that statement. Pretty much the reason cameras that shoot Raw Video are usually 2 to 3 stops higher in DR when shooting Raw. Raw is usually @ 12 bit, or higher. Even Photos have higher DR in Raw than JPEG. 14 bit is the average Raw in Photo these days.

I really think since the GH5s has come out, I think Panasonic has thrown down the gauntlet to say on paper there really is not a need for a Sony FS5, hell even the EVA1, Arri Micro, etc. in a sense. If Panny added a few more features, ND filters, Raw what else on paper do you need on a small form factor camera? And with a SB on the GH5s you are past the s35 size. The GH series has a big enough body to support Raw, ND, well not sure about that. I think the trend is going Really small instead of sort of small like a FS5, etc. And I think it is driven more by Gimbals and Drones to be honest. The days of Having to Have a 20 pound camera are over. I admit by the time you rig out a small camera it looks like Frankenstein, but so does a Arri Alexa in full shooting trim.

With the GH5s Only being behind maybe 1 stop is pretty damn impressive if we think about it. Normally a APSC camera is 1 stop behind a FF camera. For a m4/3 to be 1 stop behind is damn impressive, and yes the GH5s has way more tools video wise than Any A7xx camera out there. Throw a Speedbooster on it and wow, damn near FF sized also.

a DOF adapter cost more than the camera!

Yeah I THINK only the Blackmagic Video Assist versions will give you a .mxf wrapper. Never used one, but the specs say it might do it. It is Avid friendly. Yeah MOV. will be quicker because of less data usage. So yes you can get your wrapper. BM makes some damn nice stuff for a damn nice price. I Need to support them more often. We all do. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicvideoassist From DPR. Apple codecs ProRes Proxy ProRes 422 LT ProRes 422 ProRes 422 HQ AVID codecs (in either Quicktime or MXF wrapper) HD Codecs DNxHD 45 DNxHD 145 DNxHD 220x 4K Codecs DNxHR LB DNxHR SQ DNxHR HQX

I can tell you we both admitted we had more fun racing Go Karts than anything, toward the end we when we had the money, we had engines, I used one , he used two of them, that were 250cc each, and made around 54 HP They were called B Bomb Motors, made in Italy. 2 Stroke engines. My cart had to weigh a minimum of 212 pounds and his had to weigh 242 pounds minimum. And your ass was 2 inches at most off the pavement and you laid down in the enduro carts. We raced for 1 hour straight. Imagine his cart with 108 HP weighing in a 242 pounds! We took his one day to the drag strip and we put the lowest geared sprocket on it we could get and it ran the 1/4 mile in 10.2 seconds, I can't remember the MPH. the engines would Red Line at 18,000 rpm and he went through the traps at 14,000. We could not fit a lower gear on it because of how low the rear tires were. We took it to a local 1/2 mile Dirt track, Queen city Raceway, and the track record was 20.1 seconds. He went around it at 20.6 seconds and he could never get it up in RPM there either. It was crazy fast, scary fast actually. We raced at Watkins Glen on a Saturday before the F1 Grand Prix, and and NBC was there with Radar guns, and they clocked him at 160 mph on the back straight in practice one lap when we were trying out different gear ratios! It ran around 150 mph during the race to keep the engines from blowing up. But it wasn't cheap. He had over 8 grand in 4 engines, and probably 3 grand in the chassis, and this is in the mid 70's!! I had about 4 to 5 grand in my cart. I used most of his left over stuff LoL. He worked at the Camero, Firebird plant in Norwood, Ohio on the line, and I worked as a flat rate mechanic at a Jaguar dealership, we both made a ton of money and were both single at the time. But we had a blast on the damn things, and neither one of us Ever got really hurt. We started out in the Sprint Kart races with McCullough engines on them racing at fairgrounds, and street races. and we just wanted to go faster and faster. Back then Karts had centrifugal clutches on them, now they have gears and shifters on them. That was Just coming in when we got out of it. We would have has to change everything to stay with them. I raced motorcycles for awhile, just like my father did, and I spent two different times in the Hospital for extended times and gave that shit up LoL. I go crazy on motorcycles, even on the street! Funny because I drive on average pretty slow in cars. Not on a Bike. Fastest I have ever been was 188 mph in a Ferrari Daytona I was working on. I had a speeding ticket for 144 mph in Indianapolis, Indiana on the bypass in a Porsche 911 I drove back from California once that I hung on my wall for years Lol. And I had slowed down from like a 165 because of traffic. That was a trophy. I was a wild child. My mother still has no clue how I am alive yet. Me either. I came close to dying more running my heavy equipment in my Excavation Company than any motor vehicles I ever had. They are dangerous as hell. Moral of the story is, if you like toys, big and small, and have lots of money you are willing to piss away, you might die using one. But then you might get hit by a bus, so hell enjoy it while you can. Me and my younger brother still laugh our asses off at times thinking back to the crazy stuff we and our friends have done. He was pretty normal except for Motorcycles, he kept on crashing them and kept doing it. And you think I am crazy. But he never made the money I made, he owned a Music Store. Stuff, especially electronics, keep getting outdated and you loose you ass with it. But you Have to carry the stuff. And he is more laid back than I am.

Yeah you had to hesitate a bit by lowering the RPM just to up shift. You had to take pressure off the gears, and then just force it into a higher gear. No hesitation or it would grind like hell. I think the car weighed somewhere around 1200 pounds and had around 500 horsepower. I know some had even more HP than that back in the day. It was just pretty crazy. I have no clue how someone, and they did, drove one of those cars @ 100%. It was just every thing you did was a near death experience with it! too much throttle the tires spun anywhere anyplace, too much brake it was all over the place, miss a gear hell you just about had to stop and start over. It was a car you could make No mistakes if you were driving it hard, which hell neither of us could ever do. He was faster than I was in it, but he was a better driver on anything we raced. He had talent, not super talent, and I was just a average Joe Blow driver. I also was married with kids, and he was single with no kids when he had this race car LoL.. We both had about 100 near death experiences racing different stuff! And I can't exactly remember but he paid somewhere between 5000 to 7000 dollars for it. I seem to remember 5500 bucks. He owned so much stuff, he was worse than me, and that is saying something! Crazy. He was big on motorcycles. Not Harley's, we both hated them, British and Japanese 2 stroke, 4 stroke race bikes. We liked road race bikes. Car Probably worth a Million today. It ran great, and came with a ton of spares. Not much engine wise, but extra rims, tires, brake parts, extra nose, wings on and on. It had a 4 barrel carb on it, but the guy had the original Hilborn Injection, so that helped. Later in SCCA they made people put a 4 barrel on them to help slow them down. They were scary fast with the injection on them. So I put the Injection on it for him a little later after we Tried it in the Slow mode LoL.. Slow my ass. It probably ONLY made 400 HP then. I can tell you you were nervous before you drove it, when you were driving it, and after you got out for 15 minutes LoL. Seemed like your voice raised a whole octave when you got out!.It was a F ing experience. But it was addictive. You wanted more of it. We only drove it off and on for maybe 4 or 5 years. I drove it maybe 18 times, he drove it maybe 50 times. Both of us, maybe on the same day would spin it or run off the track in it at speed. We came to realize that we would probably die if we kept driving it. And a good friend of ours that had a car like it crashed Hard at the same track we raced at a lot. The Indy Speedway, the infield track. We did Mid Ohio a lot also. We got more scared it would be us. So he parked it in his garage for I guess 20 years or more, and when he got sick with Cancer he sold it. I have no clue to who or for how much. I never talked to him before he died, and I didn't Ever get along with his wife he married. I lived in Florida when all this happened. I was not even at his funeral. My Mother went to it, and she wrote me a letter about a week later and said, oh by the way, John died. Oh, OK LoL. Such is life.

The biggest problem we had with learning to drive the Gurney Eagle was the damn gearbox. It had a Hewland 5 speed crash box in it. Which has straight cut gears in it and No synchronizes. The damn shifter handle was about 3 inches long LoL, and the gate was about 2 inches long, and hell it was double clutch up and down, matching RPM's. Jesus LoL. Try doing that going into a hairpin turn at 180 mph! I Never got comfortable with it and the brakes were so Damn good they would upset the geometry if you stabbed them, and then you were swerving like hell..It was a Hairy ass ride I can tell you that.