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Are you asking IronFilm for more links beyond those that Davide DB was already kind enough to provide you?

For the most part, measurements/comparisons won't matter too much. The Alexa 65 is going to get used on a bunch of Hollywood productions and the 12K/17K will get used will get used on sets where budget matters and where the entire cost of buying the 12K is about the same as renting the Alexa for 2-3 days. 🙂

The balloon lights that I got have replaceable batteries - so at least that saves the e-waste of throwing away the entire unit! The batteries not rechargeable, though, so it's still not ideal. The Black Magic version looks nice! And agreed that the blues are a bit nicer and less skewed toward purple!

Which other deals? Right now, the S9 is showing for $1,299 on their site - though with the free 26mm lens, as you mentioned. Not quite in the sub-$1k range yet (at least that I can see) https://shop.panasonic.com/products/s9-full-frame-mirrorless-camera-mint-green

He got less than 50% of the vote. You're not part of any "majority." At best, that'd be the "deplorable plurality." Either way, you're talking pure bullshit and making false equivalencies also about political prosecutions. You have dangerously impaired critical thinking skills and should excuse yourself from any sort of public discussion about complicated topics so that you don't continue embarrassing yourself and your country.

Balloon lights would have been my first suggestion and you already found them. I just shot a short film and for part of it, I needed a tiny light to fit inside a dessicated/taxidermied bird head (to show that it contained a demon's soul, as these things do) and it was perfect for that. Short of wiring up your own stuff, I'm not sure you'll find a lot of small battery-powered lights that are smaller than what you already found. If it were me, I'd use a very cool white light for the ambient light vs blue - right now, the nighttime vibe might be a little oversold, but otherwise that's all very cute! Good job!

Biden pardoning his son was wrong, obviously, but stop with the idiotic fucking false equivalency bullshit. Biden makes one obviously selfish pardon and you dumbshits are all clutching your pearls and acting shocked as though this shit never happened before - yet the other guy pardoned, among other things, his political advisor/strategist, his campaign chairman, the father of his son-in-law, his propagandist, and other allies - many of whom were prosecuted by his own department of justice, not the other team. https://www.newsweek.com/list-who-donald-trump-has-pardoned-1993998

MTF services are a lot more affordable, on the other hand. https://mtfservices.com/products/fuji-mk-lens-conversion-from-e-to-sony-fz-mount?_pos=1&_sid=b99bda7ff&_ss=r Pair that with a used price of about $1,400-1,500 each for the 18-55 and the 50-135 and you've got a $3.5k T2.9 lens set covering everything from 18-135mm (depending on sensor size, that's 24-27mm on the wide end and 180-200mm on the long end). Oh yeah, and each lens is fully parfocal (after about a 5 minute back focus calibration) and has 0 breathing. Oh, and the image is beautiful with great falloff and smooth bokeh, and imo it's sharp without being clinical, but also keep in mind that I've used mine exclusively on a Komodo-X which has OLPF which renders most lenses less clinically sharp than they really are. 😅 The only real drawbacks that I've found so far are that using the macro switch might knock my backfocus adjustment slightly out of whack (I still need to verify, but it seems to be the common factor in both cases - both times, I still had usable images, but with the focus noticeably slightly off) and that on the K-X, I have to take off the hood when using any lens wider than around 22mm or I'll get a hard vignette in the corners. With the hood off, there's plenty of coverage. Anyway, IMO a used MK set is the best value in cinema nowadays. And shoots are going a lot faster without me swapping primes every 20 minutes. 😅

Guess it was 90% of Avatar 2, from what I googled! Won't my collaborators be thrilled to learn that I'm shooting their films with the Avatar 2 lens! 😅 Also, no need to wait for a Fujinon MK for Z Mount if there's a decent APS-C that has it - there's already a Z mount to Sony E adapter and E mount MK. That or just wait for somebody like Duclos or MTF services to make an adapter kit. Swapping the mount is pretty straightforward (and used copies aren't too expensive)

FWIW, if you're using EF lenses (or lenses that can adapt to EF), the C70 is vaguely like full frame, as Canon's EF-RF speed booster is good and can be bolted on so that it doesn't wobble. It's a great suggestion. Gorgeous image. In the $3k range, one might also consider a used Komodo (still S35 so maybe not ideal for you) or if you want a camera radically different from your other cameras, a used Ronin 4D 6K (I just paid about $3k for mine thanks to the BF sale from lensrentals.com). Having owned it for one day, I can already say that I wouldn't have it as my only camera, but it's unique among my cameras. I also got a native M mount for it - swapping was easy and was quickly using my Leica glass. Now I just need to wait for the focus motor to show up (and to come up with some way of getting a focus gear for my 35/2 and 24/2.8 which have the silly Leica tab on them, but that will also fit in the small space available for focus gears.

Do you mean the Osmo Pro and Osmo Raw which used the Zenmuse X5 (shared with one of the Inspire drones)? They didn't come with any screen at all - maybe one was available as an add-on purchase, though. The way I used my Osmo Raw was with my phone as the screen (which does make for a big/nice screen). The Ronin 4D, FWIW, has a pretty big screen as well - not as big as a BM Pocket 6K, but definitely bigger than most mirrorless cameras.

I should add that the lensrentals code seems to work for more than one item - I added both the Ronin and the Leica M mount for the Ronin and the discount applied to both.

lensrentals.com has their BF sale going. Use code LRBF2024 for 20% off any of their used gear. It brought the Ronin 4D 6K down into the $3k price range where I always thought it made sense - so... I guess that in a week or so, a Ronin will be at my door. Now the hard part comes where I try to figure out which of my existing cameras I should sell...

Apple, among others. With Airpods, you can spend $49 per Airpod for "battery service," but from what I've been told, they just swap them out for entirely new Airpods and recycle the old ones.

There are 31 functional bodies on mpb in the US right now ranging from $4,100 to $4,600. Though Komodos are also $4,000 to $4,500 and more than a month ago after the price drop on new models, I bid on one on ebay and got it for $2,950. A few months after the A1 II starts shipping, I'd be willing to bet that you'd be able to score one for <3k on ebay. 😄

"I vOteD for tRUMp bEcauSe i wAnTeD to REduCe INflAtIoN!" https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/11/20/walmart-lowes-may-raise-prices-if-trumps-tariff-plans-take-effect-cfos-say/

Maybe they did? Feedback on the new firmware seems positive so far. Now waiting to hear some actual use reviews beyond what some YouTubers do in their house or yard.

It's a little bit of a trick question, I think. Sony seems to have mostly skipped 6K for their cameras (unless there is one I'm forgetting). They have 4K and 8K available. As for Canon, the R6 Mark II can do 6K raw internally. Used prices are usually around $1700 so about 2x your S5 kit, but a lot more convenient to use, and with good autofocus - both with native lenses, but also with adapted EF lenses. Spend about $200 more than that and you can have 8k internal raw with the EOS R5. Anyway, there's no doubt that a used S5 is one of the best deals around right now in terms of FF video. But the target market for the Sony A1 is not the budget-minded filmmaker. 😅

US labor costs more than foreign labor. Bringing jobs into the US does not reduce the cost of goods. Also, factories don't build themselves (that costs a bunch of money and will take time) and people won't instantly be trained to do the work. So yeah, years of major inflation. Learn to read. I said "immigrants" and didn't qualify their documentation status. Shit for brains said he wants to also revoke citizenship from a number of people who entered the country legally. We're also talking about inflation here and when farmers and slaughterhouses, etc have to suddenly start paying 5-10x the prices for labor, the prices of food will go up. Yes, there isn't specific evidence of Trump fucking children with Epstein. There's also no evidence that he didn't. There is, however, evidence that they were buddies, Trump brags about sexually assaulting women, and women who were in teenage beauty pageants that he judged said he used to like walking into the changing room while they were undressed. Also, Matt fucking Gaetz. Don't be a cherry picking dipshit. Who is asking about fucking opinion polls? Trump's convictions weren't through the DOJ anyway. It was through the state courts of New York. Learn how the fucking legal system works. I'm asking, specifically, what's wrong with you and your dangerously impaired critical thinking skills. Do you get all of your information from a steady diet of right-wing news sources? What the fuck? He proved the first time that he is completely incompetent at running a country which is why, specifically, people voted him out of office. Also, I'm not talking about the "American voter." I am talking about you, specifically, and the dumbshit reasons you're giving for supporting a sex predator. Bill Clinton, FWIW, lied about receiving a blowjob from an intern. There is a big difference between "questionable morals" and "rapist." If you can't tell that difference, kindly remove yourself from any public discussion of anything. You are an embarrassment to my country. If you think Trump will "protect freedom," you are truly idiotic and I won't bother responding to any other pablum that you want to post. Trump will protect "Donald J Trump" and will be glad to fuck over anybody else in order to enrich himself and his cronies. Here you go again with dipshit comments about Ukraine. If somebody invaded the US, most people wouldn't be OK with us just giving up a few states to avoid further conflict. But yet, you think that the only solution is for them to do just that, any you wring your hands while shedding crocodile tears about their generation of young men that will be lost because the big bad US had the gall to arm them to defend themselves against Russian aggression. Note also that BIden escalated jack shit with military strategy. Our military is not in Ukraine. You'd know that if you pulled your head out of your ass long enough to actually pay attention.

I'm not yet, but I don't want to have multiple apps for my lights on set so I mostly buy Aputure/Amaran. I'm interested in being able to integrate some other vendors, though, without having to constantly reconnect all day. Since I have some Aputure gear that only supports Sidus link, Sidus One seems like a good path forward to getting lights from other vendors (among other things, while I like my B7C's, there have been two occasions when they wouldn't fit in a light fixture - Astera makes some that would have fit).

Aputure BF deals live now. This year's sale looks an awful lot like last year's sale. Like I think the LS600X bundle is the same I got last year at about the same price. Also worth noting that last year, on actual BF, they had some extra incentives like throwing in an MT Pro on orders above a certain amount. If I decide to order anything, I'm just going to hold out to see if there are any extra things. https://aputure.com/EN-US/collections/black-friday-sale

The tariffs and mass deportation of immigrants proposed by Trump are likely to cause an inflation nightmare. Nearly every economic expert agrees. But be sure to enjoy your gas costing a little less at the pump. Great logical thinking skills on display there. Congratulations on electing a candidate who was friends with Epstein and just put an alleged sex trafficker up as his head of the DOJ, then. What a great step ahead in the fight against trafficking! Being convicted of 34 felonies and still running is, frankly, a stupid fucking reason to elect somebody. What the fuck is wrong with you? You do realize, right, that had he dropped out of the race, he would likely have been convicted for election interference in Georgia as well as having to face trial for his federal crimes relating to the 2020 election? Staying in the race was fully motivated by his own self-interest. And hey, now that he's going to be in control of the DOJ, he can demand that it settle his own 100 million dollar lawsuit. Nice that he'll directly take tax dollars from every individual in the US and put it in his own bank account. The recordings of him talking about how much he liked sexually assaulting women? How great that we have a sexual abuser in office - confirmed in court, as part of the trial for him defaming a woman that he sexually assaulted. Once again, what the fuck is wrong with you? The problem is that I do believe he will follow through on a number of the things he said he would do. Most of them are fucking awful. Elon Musk is an expert in almost exactly one thing - hiring smart people and exploiting them. He's invented exactly one thing - the hyperloop, the dumbest form of mass transit that has been proposed in more than 50 years. He's a shithead who failed upward by owning part a company that he was driving into the ground, getting fired as its CEO, and profiting when Peter Thiel actually made it successful. Oh yeah, the guy with a history of putting his own interests ahead of quite literally everybody else really has your back. Great reasoning there. He definitely won't fuck the common person and do a bunch of stuff to enrich himself and his cronies. Even if it means he'll have a few dollars less, he'll definitely look out for the little guy. 🤣

The Amaran portion of Aputure's BF deals dropped. Some decent deals - now kicking myself for having paid normal prices for a couple of T4C's + extra battery + grid a couple of months ago. Still picked up another. Also finally grabbed an F22C. If I didn't already have the B7C 8-light kit, I'd have jumped at the sale price for it too. Now hoping that Sidus One is included in Aputure's BF sale once it hits. https://amarancreators.com/collections/black-friday-sale

I'm certainly interested in the EU, but I don't think that's what you meant. 😉 You might want to include a price, at least as a starting point for interested parties to negotiate. Helps to avoid wasting time when both parties are living in different worlds.

Maybe a lot of the reviewers are just thankful to do an easy review so close to the holidays. No need to do much work reviewing the camera when it's basically just like the last one. "The last one was just fine and this one, being basically the same... is also just fine."