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Hell during my career I shot weddings with film! And later with film and tape video cameras. I would have been a Billionaire if I had a a7s back then lol. I disagree with a Pro not having one, you have in your magic kit ANYTHING that will help when the shit hits the fan. I made most of my money in video doing TV ads. There is some damn good money in that. Everyone Has to advertise to be successful.

Man why Wouldn't you want to get rich? Are you doing yourself or your clients any good with that kind of mindset? Don't you want to try hard to do the best you can? And if you have that goal you can get rich, or at least well off. Skill ought to be rewarded. Time and stress ought to be rewarded. You can only have fun so long without adding a lot of stress. If I have stress I am going to get paid for it, and paid well, or go back to just fun and no stress, who cares, and then why buy all that gear...

I would think and hope that the R has a better overall focus capacity than the C100 mk II. Great AF is a must for weddings. SO I would lean more toward another R than another C100. Not counting the stealth factor of the R, and the ability of using a small Gimbal to boot. I don't see much reason to even go with the RF lenses. They aren't cheap or small, and I see no real gain on them for video. Plus using the EF adapter lets you use the ND adapter thingy. A big plus. I have shot a lot of weddings in my day and I have wrangled with dual setups and more cameras, but I am not sure at times the effort is worth it. If you are paying an extra operator, editing extra footage, stills, that adds more to the final cost and you can price yourself out of the market. Not counting the more stuff you have the more that can go wrong, and it will. There is enough stress in wedding work, is more Really worth it? No clue how you roll, but sometimes less is better, cost wise and sanity wise. The trouble with Wedding work is there is basically 3 tiers, cheap as hell, normal middle of the road, or OH MY GOD expensive. You Have to fit in one of the 3 or your toast. Moving up is Hard as hell. It takes a bullshitter personality from hell. Sort of like be a used car salesman mindset. I am going to screw the hell out of you and I will smile doing it. Not many can do that. It also takes lots of money to pull that off, double, maybe triple equipment as backups. Charging 20,000 bucks or more for a wedding is balls to the wall stuff, with NO errors, none. They burn out quick, or die from a Heart Attack lol. But there is always some jackass waiting to take their place when they die.

Avid is some good stuff, but too rich for my blood. But I guess if you are making some serious money the cost is justifiable, and a tax write off if you are a Pro. It's way cheaper than it used to be. "Media Composer (perpetual license) is available for purchase from Avid and Avid resellers for $1,299 and includes one full year of standard Avid Upgrade & Support. After one year, you can renew your Avid Support plan annually for just $299 USD to continue receiving updates/upgrades and support."

I would think if anyone is trying to make a actual living doing this stuff a lens combo like that would have to be a must in your kit. You Have to be able to make it happen whether you agree with the client or not. It is their money, so their call in the end. There is a reason the Sony a7s was so popular, maybe not the prettiest output, but a reliable low light output none the less. It can save your bacon. I would have to have one in the bag for do or die stuff like them or not. You get a reputation of not being able to make it happen and your goose is cooked. Pros make shit happen no matter the challenge with skill and gear, and that is why they succeed.

I can see a 0.95 lens in your future, maybe even on a Speedbooster lol.

Pretty amazing what some people come up with idea wise, and can actually pull it off. But the cameraman that jumped off the building getting that shot will probably Never be the same lol.

Really good real time usage review of the PK4. The Elephant footage is pretty awesome, among others.

Hmm lol. Your turn is coming. First thing is you Have to live that long. Not as easy as it seems. Eh maybe by then they will have a cure for just about everything and they will just have to start beating people to death.

Hey I have been on the Road to Florida LoL. I have been out of the loop for more than 2 weeks. Plus I am old. It was nice Not being "Connected" to be honest. Hell I didn't even know it was April till yesterday when you Bastards didn't recognize it Was my Birthday. ?

On Well. ☹️

Yeah it would appear as of late a lot of people have been paying a lot of money for a brand name more than hardware cost.

Why not go with ta speed booster? Better low light, bigger sensor on paper.

Philip Bloom seems to make a pretty good living shooting Cats. Maybe you need to change direction.

A pretty damn good video by Jason Lanier using the EOS-R for Photography. But his techniques work for video also I think. Mostly the utilization of lighting. I am in my Truck camper in Largo, Florida using my old laptop. So no clue how the output really looks like. Be I am sure it is good, no probably great. Man that zoom lens is a Honker!

I would have killed for that good of output at your age! 360p and Maybe 1.5MP was the norm, and that was Broadcast spec. Actually it was 360 interlaced to be honest. Progressive was just a dream back then. When I quit my ENG stint it was still 480 output. Most stations were Not going to spend all the money to go 720. Heh, who Needs SD. Nobody had a TV to even see it. I am not too sure they Ever made a Tube TV that was 720? First 720 I ever remember seeing was on like a $10,000.00 Plasma TV. You could fry an egg on the screen. First Plasma TV I ever owned was a 40" one that my wife pitched a bitch about because the electric bill jumped about 20% lol. They are great to own though in the winter. Thing weighed about 75 pounds it seems.

I am glad you are more educated as of now. She is the definition of squeaky clean. Nothing wrong with that but...

Well I guess Cellsea Northrup just became a Sony fanboy lol. Women are pretty smart.

Yeah nobody said video is easy. The big problem is it is Very hard to go out and be good at every aspect of video. My main beef is if the audio sucks in the first 20 seconds I am not watching another frame, good or bad. So what good is an Arri Alexa if you don't know shit about Microphones. I can live with goofy video longer than crappy audio.

When I was in the US Navy in 1966 I said when I get overseas I am going to buy a Leica M3. Well I saved up for like 6 months and when I got to Naples, Italy at the Duty Free store they had a brand new body. I think it was like 375 dollars. So I bought it. Well it took me about a year before I got back to Naples to buy a 35mm lens for it lol. So I had a virgin body in this beautiful box for over a year I could not use. I finally had a camera I could actually use, and the time to shoot with it. Me and my shipmates just about wore the camera body and box out admiring it before it ever had a lens on it..You were shitting in High Cotton like they said back then having a camera like that.

Doesn't seem like may have a clue how to grade it. I will say it looks nicer than ProRes out of the PK4. Maybe people are just going to have to learn it better.

Yeah they turned a unique, pure look into a mainstream look. Crazy long term plan to me? What, is every camera suppose to look like a Canon? It is nice for wedding, portrait stuff, but for filming shorts, indie stuff, nah. That stuff is suppose to have a bite to it, gritty, right in your face stuff. Not Marie Osmond looking. And that is what to me the PK4 looks like. Pure as the driven snow. WTF.

Well for the time being I am mostly going to be shooting stills with my Nikon D2Xs and the Sigma 150-500mm, Tamron 80-400mm, and a Nikon 18-105mm. It doesn't have video at all, so one less thing to worry about lol. My iPhone sure won't work that is for sure for birding.. Just about tapped out on money at the moment. Looking to rent or buy something cheap down here to live in. So toys sort of out of the question for a bit. Hard packing up everything in your life and moving at my age. But new adventures good or bad ahead. At least it is not boring, which it had become.

Trouble is with the Beastgrip , which I Had, is you might a well be carrying a Canon C100 around. You look like a Dingbat holding it, and you stand out like a sore thumb in public with a Mike with a dead cat on it and a LCD light hanging on it someplace. For stealth stuff the Moment stuff is the way to go. Now if you are trying to make a serious short with a 4 people, crew and cast or more, well head out with the Moondog and the Beastgrip Full speed ahead.

You have to remember someone my age has paid their dues on hard to handle, heavy as hell, manual everything, on and on cameras both hobby and Pro in my case. And being a sort of a one eyed bastard, and left handed to boot lol, decent AF sort of helps. And not having to stress out about a lot of stuff that I know makes for a better output, but hell I am running out of time using a light meter to determine exposure etc.. I have better things to do, well really not many, but you get the point. If I carried 7 batteries in my pants pocket I would have maybe a heart attack due to the extra added weight to my already added weight. If I was younger I can wholly see the draw of this camera, but I am more a candidate for the Osmo Pocket lol to be honest. I am in Largo, Florida now, made if without incident thank God, and going to get back to birding. I don't see that camera, the BMPCC 4K a good fit for that. But I can see the long term potential for you guys using it. A fabulous tool for the money now that BMD Raw is out. When they get on the used market cheaper if I live that long than I may give it a hard look..