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Excellent... The next 100 pages will be hard to fill otherwise

I love the assumptions here.. It's like there's only one type of film-making ??

If they do go triple-camera, let's hope it's not just 1x, 2x and 3x like those articles say. 28 and 56mm is a reasonable range, but adding an 84 when you already have a 56 doesn't really add as much as a 100+ would. I guess the problem is having stabilisation worthy of such a long focal length on a very small device prone to handshake. As I've said in previous posts, 28mm is general wide, 56-80mm is portrait territory and 100 and up are sports. Having two lenses for portraits and none for sports isn't a good 'set'.

I recently heard a wedding film-maker explain that they don't use NDs, and use Aperture priority and just let the camera expose with SS. I thought about it for a while and I guess with weddings there normally isn't much fast action during the day when SS will be short, and then after dark the SS will be longer anyway so the fast-paced dancing etc at the reception will be more cinematic. So weddings is particularly suited to that mode - if you're shooting sports it's not going to work. I'm contemplating moving to that style of shooting for my personal home and travel videos as having the camera auto-expose from full daylight to full dimly lit interiors would really make shooting that much easier. The alternative is full manual and having to expose with a variable ND, which is just another thing to think about while shooting.

Crop mode and Clear-image zoom compared... the clear image zoom looks pretty darn good to me. I didn't realise that the zoom goes beyond 1.5x - that means even more flexibility! And now with the A7IV, we can just get a 16mm F1.4 and with crop mode, clear image zoom, and automagical fractal AI interpolation modes, it's a 16-200mm lens!!

Very unlikely. The whole selling point of the A7S line was video, and having less MP meant larger photo sites and thus better low light performance. If they increased the MP count then they'd either just crop into the sensor (18MP is about 5K for video) or they'd have to downscale, which would add more processor requirement and more heat, which is the LAST thing that camera needs! If they did do that and implemented a thermal solution then they'd have taken a step to turning it into a cinema camera as no doubt they'd use the processors from their cinema line. I suppose they could just output 5K video, leaving people to deal with it in post, but that is so far away from the way the industry works I cannot even imagine it (although it would be a selling point for some, it would blow up YT with other people whose tiny little minds had been shattered!)

(Apologies if you already know these things) In audio they have a number of measurements related to relative volume levels or Signal-to-Noise ratios, maybe a similar mechanism would be good. No idea how to get an industry to adopt a standard term though! In line with my above comment, this is also a problem in audio, and unfortunately they haven't nailed it yet. Different types of distortion have different aesthetics but will measure the same in absolute levels. I suspect that things like Motion Cadence and Colour Science will be quantifiable, we just haven't worked it out yet.

@Charlie Nice work!! It's always nice to see a finished project come together and this one sure did, style and then some. I said in my post some time ago you were either a genius, or you were crazy, and I think it's somewhere in between, considering that it's pretty out there, but it still ticks the boxes for a wedding video in showing the right moments, showing the right people, and having a celebratory vibe that matches the couple but will still be ok for grandma. Everyone has an opinion, but there are only a few that matter, firstly the clients and if they were happy with it, and secondly if you were happy with it. If you were happy (with allowances for you taking notes on improvements for next time - none of us ever thinks a project was perfect!) then that is what will get you over the line with the next couple when they call and you start talking about what you could do for them. Absolutely. Walk tall, offer a reliable service where you deliver on what you promise and the world is your oyster. My wedding wasn't a traditional one and whenever anyone asks about it they always say things like "I wish I could have done that" or "wow, I'm not that brave" etc, so there is a latent desire in a surprising number of people to do something that's a bit more about them and a bit less like how things have been done for hundreds of years. Plenty of people get married and the Hallmark cinematographers will get the bulk, but live the dream and do it your way! ????

I'm sure that when Canon makes their Large Format consumer ILC (WHEN! - ha ha ha) they'll sort it out ???

I'd be amazed if there wasn't! The digital camera inside the "camera obscura" chamber uses T/S to view the projection, and the other lens may also be using it, I'm not sure (I haven't watched that video in a while).

In what way are they the ultimate? The resolution used to be the thing that differentiated them, but now the resolutions are matched in FF by A7R / 5DS etc. I guess you're still talking DR? If we're going for ultimate then why not a Large Format sensor? This guy showed that the physical size is manageable.. If you wrapped the guts of a cinema camera around that it would barely increase the size at all!

Should we start a petition for Canon to make a consumer Medium-Format video-centric ILC? Some would argue that if we're going to dream then we should dream BIG!

Here's the review: The shot at 6:57 of him in slow-mo with the light of a single match is just incredible!! Footage reminds me of the Canon 5DIII ML RAW 14 bit from @kidzrevil in places. Just lovely. Are people anticipating the Pocket 2 to have IQ like the T4K? and to all the people who think you don't need good IQ for home videos - see the lovely shot at 8:12

Filmic Pro has a couple of flat profiles, but not sure if it works on iPad. Be warned they don't work for higher frame rates - I think only at 24/25/30? oh, and the profiles are an add-on purchase on top of the app price.

Around the 50,000 images mark I did a bunch of analysis in LR using the metadata from the photos I'd shortlisted to understand more about what equipment / settings worked for me. One of the insights I gained was that when in nature I tend to want a wider lens as it's nice to be able to show landscapes and also do more environmental portraits when people were in them, for example when I went to Vanuatu the 14mm (28mm equiv) lens almost didn't leave the camera. However, when you're in a city where there is stuff everywhere and is very busy (in a visual sense) you're more likely to want to isolate things during the day with a longer or faster lens, and at night you often want to do wider landscape shots, or if you're shooting people at night a faster lens is nice. I ended up with a setup that consisted of: smartphone camera for wide and during the day (when there's lots of light so ISO performance isn't a problem) or for nocturnal city-scapes of the lights nicer camera with a long zoom for cities during the day and a fast medium lens for people at night In terms of what I would suggest for anyone else, if you're taking a smartphone with an acceptable camera then you could use that for wider shots where shallow DOF is less important and choose a fast mid-length prime for the people and isolation shots. I'd question your statement about F4 not being fast enough for night shots - the A7III has better low light performance than any camera I have could even dream of! Plus you mentioned a lighting kit.. I think it really depends on what you're shooting and the style you're going for - there are street photographers that use 24mm or even 20mm

Someone recommended this YT guy in the a6300 thread and I saw these two videos - very useful! I know people aren't fans of Sony menus, but some of that stuff is ridiculous!

I agree that it's not a 'swap out' replacement for any/many cameras, but it would be a great 'instead of' camera.. ie, instead of buying a budget-model RED you get 4K RAW for cheaper, or instead of using a full DSLR rig on full manual you get a camera with hugely better IQ. I thought someone said it didn't have AF-C (only AF-S) but when I searched I couldn't find anything and the BM website only says it will have autofocus, but doesn't say more. Do we know if it will AF-C? I've seen Sony vloggers manual focus by holding the camera just under their chin, holding out their arm with fingers outstretched and focusing manually on them before recording a selfie-shot. If you're using a Sony on MF, and of course without a flippy screen, then apart from IBIS that's probably the same functionality as the Pocket 2. I can't imagine vloggers taking to 4K RAW (or high-bitrate prores) in great numbers though. LOTS of vloggers tried 4K and then when it took them 4 times as long to edit and upload went back to 1080. Some will use it, mostly those who already have a RED or similar in a studio setup, but that's not a big market, to say the least.

Thanks. I asked because I randomly watched a YT review of one just the other day and the guy was using a super vintage lens with swirly bokeh for a portrait stills session and the AF-S was quite impressive. It wasn't lightening fast, but it was still perhaps half-a-second and it was obviously phase detect because it just went from where it was to the focus point and pretty much stopped dead, no hunting or anything. Considering the lens was completely manual it was really quite surprising.

Really? I haven't visited Korea - yet! I notice that people in most big cities seem to be less bothered than where I live, which is not big, either in population or mindset.. I looked at that and thought "if only!"

Included in the intro is "so this is based on that instagram TV update that everyone is excited about" This guy does heaps of tutorials for editing and especially breaks down heavy video processing from music videos and the like. I'd say he's probably hooked into the trendy end of the independent film-maker segment with people who make less traditional media.

BTS of how Brandon Li films. Relevant to the fact he's shooting without permission, a crew, etc. He's still a million miles away from how I shoot.. he can do multiple takes - luxury!!

FYI

I put -1 against my previous comments and replace them with agreeing with the above. This is completely it. Hi-fi used to mean something back in the day but now it's taken over by mediocre (and occasionally very poor) equipment providers and is now basically a marketing term. People that used to do hi-fi now either don't use that phrase anymore, or have replaced it with 'high-end audio' or 'ultra-fi' due to the inflation in the term. Hi-fi used to mean a minimum level of subjective quality across a range of different aspects of sound reproduction, and there were a few things that the technology of the day were weak on, one of which was frequency response. Then what followed was an arms-race of sorts to get the widest and flattest frequency response, but unfortunately the other things that used to be assumed fell by the wayside in pursuit of this very marketable measurement, and now hi-fi is basically populated with products that do this one measurement well and everything else atrociously poorly. The kicker is that frequency response (and a few other common 'marketable' measurements like THD) are actually very poor representations of sound quality.

How do these adapters work with multiple AF points and things like eye-detect AF. Do they allow all the smart focusing modes, or just a limited AF mode like a simple centred AF point or equivalent? People pay a lot for 4K, and considering that a shot out of focus is basically a 240p or worse video file, I'd say that you're not understanding what is at stake. Most of the vloggers I watch have mentioned that they bought their main cameras with their own money. Maybe they get a second much cheaper one 'on loan' but that's the minority. I think assuming that people are 'on the take' is easy to assume, but may not be true. Your point is well made and I totally agree, however there are quite a number of elitist ivory-tower snobs on here who insist that unless you're shooting in controlled lighting conditions on a set with a crew of dedicated people that you're basically not a real film-maker and you don't even deserve the soft 1080 that Canon gives you. They don't say it explicitly, but it's behind many of the posts here. Its been strongly implied that if I want better quality home or holiday videos then I need to: buy a cinema camera, hire a sound tech with a boom mic, learn to manually focus (including sporting events), control my DR via lighting and modifiers, use a tripod, and do multiple takes.. instead of asking for a DSLR sized camera with good IQ, reliable AF, audio recording and processing advances from this century, IBIS / OIS, and being able to enjoy myself while recording a clip.

A lot of the YT people I watch are professional youtubers, and I listen with interest when they reveal how they make their money (I am interested in business models). They typically have a business plan that has multiple revenue streams, but relies on creating quality content that gets lots of eyeballs, then using those to: get sponsorships for posts sell their own merchandise (t-shirts, hats etc) get affiliate income from amazon via equipment links ("I made this cinematic video with these pieces of equipment... <link> <link> <link> <link> <link> <link>") sell their own LUTs, Lightroom presets ("get the same look at this cinematic video you just watched") sell courses they've created (how to do video-related thing course / how to podcast) sell themselves on Patreon (not really compatible with the above) There's always an acknowledgement that getting in early to a platform gives you the best chance to build a following, so there will be a huge groundswell of these people trying to build an audience, which will mean that the platform will have a huge amount of quality content on it almost immediately. Vloggers often meet up with each other (at sponsored events, product launches, conferences, etc) and you get to see BTS on other vloggers channels through these. One thing I've noted that is interesting is that the RX100 style cameras are very popular with people who produce instagram content and they use them vertically. If you thought YT was disposable content then you're in for a shock about how disposable Instagram Stories - they automatically disappear after 24-hours, yet some people record them in 4K vertically, edit in PP/FCPX to music, and grade them before uploading. The comments from those people is that Instagram Stories are easier to do well in because it's the same work as a YT video but there are less people willing to edit and grade so you don't have to be as good to be in the highest quality content creators.