FHDcrew

I’m leaning toward selling my camera setup as I want something to record internal 10 bit. May end up getting the glorious Panasonic S1 or ponying up a bit more cash for an FX30. Anyways I don’t want to sell on Adorama, B&H or MBP because I won’t get as much money as I could. I also want to get my gear sold fast. How easy and reliable is eBay for selling gear? Is Facebook Marketplace preferable? What is the best route for maximizing profits?

Agreed. If you want to rely on Digital IS, the best option is to shoot with a high shutterspeed to avoid motion blur. Of course that won't work well for indoor footage, and if you want motion blur still you will need to apply it in post. Davinci Resolve Studio and RSMB both can give you decent post-motion blur, and I've heard RSMB is essentially the best out there in this regard.

Wow with the low NR and zero-sharpening the GH5 II is shaping up to be an organic beast! The thing is cheap on the used market too!

I saw a used copy at Adorama for $79 and almost jumped on it. It’s rated “good” though which is one of the lower conditions.

Actually the 14mm is full frame! The 12mm F2 is the one that is crop sensor.

For sure I should have acted on those stupid cheap Samyang lenses. The 14mm 2.8 was like $130! And it’s a full frame lens too!!!

This is hilarious. I intended this to be about how the C100/C300 codec holds up in 2022. We are talking about something SO DIFFERENT now

For me the context is moreso the Nikon Z6 with an Atomos Ninja Star bolted to the hotshoe

True there is something very unique with 14 bit RAW. So much depth to the image.

Awesome man. I feel this is truly the first successors to the 5d Mark III with ML 14 bit RAW

FS5 isn’t a bad option for 1080p use because it’s 10 bit 422, might be oversampled too. Formfactor gets weird if you use an Atomos recorder for the 4k CDNG or Prores RAW

True. Still though, if we assume I get this super high bitrate then I wonder if 8 bit will be a big issue given the lovely canon colors and CLOG’s magical 8 bit handling.

What about a C100II with an Atomos ninja star for 220mbps prores? Still 8 bit though but you do gain 422

True though I shoot oversampled 1080p anyways with the Z6 to the Atomos ninja star. So if anything resolution should be comparable. And is dynamic range at least decent in CLOG1? Like decently better than Nikon FLAT? I know NLOG is worlds Bette than Nikon FLAT, and I feel CLOG1 might have a solid highlight rolloff too?

A used canon c100 II or c300 could be a dream camera for me. They are so cheap, built in ND filters, downsampled 1080p. How does the CLOG image hold up? If I went fro my Nikon Z6 10 bit NLOG to say the C300’s 8 bit 50mbps image, would I lose much you think? Or if I got the c100 mark II and paired it with my Atomos ninja star to record 8 bit 4:2:2 prores in clog1?

That Micro HDMI life

The FZ1000 is cheaply made but otherwise a solid poor-man's HQ camcorder setup. My church uses two plus a Panasonic G7 and a PTZ camera for a live-stream setup. Gives us great zoom flexibility with a 1 inch sensor, very nice shallow DOF on the long end if you are in the 300-400mm equiv. range. HDMI out does work, yes it's fragile (we've broken the ports before and needed to get them fixed) and it shuts off when recording (so I've heard, we never record internally) but otherwise the HDMI output fully works, cameras don't shut off and you can output 720p, 1080p, 4k or oversampled 1080p with decent control over framerate. Except for FHD you only get 24p or 60p output, for 30p the camera still outputs 60p. But in OBS you can just drop every other frame and get right back to 60p. 720p has the lowest latency so for live broadcast usage it actually can be a useful mode.

At this point I’m going to need to shoot some more footage first..

Ok gotcha. The lut is just a basic rec709 conversion lut, doesn’t put a stylized grade on it. I made it in Resolve using the CST node and an exposure compensation. But yeah I can send you some TIFFS

No?

Want some ungraded TIFFS from a Nikon Z6 shooting oversampled 1080p NLOG? Also a dope lut made from Davinci resolve, that works worlds better than Nikon’s rec709 lut? I can hook ya up

Ok good point. I was not aware it used a different sensor, that definately changes my opinion then!

Valid. But to counter your point, despite this being a large DSLR it is still going to be a compact, well-distributed package considering there is internal RAW. Yes the R6 ii is smaller, but slap an Atomos Ninja V on there to record Prores RAW and you now have a large, heavy setup with awkward ergonomics and balance. I guarantee the 1dx ii will be more enjoyable to use, as the RAW recording is internal, thus not requiring a large external recorder to be bolted to the top of the camera.

Slightly off-topic but for not terribly more one can purchase a used Canon 1Dx Mark III to get 5k internal RAW, a similar image to a Canon R3

Everything I ever do goes online to YouTube. No one is going to see the benefits of 4k or 8k. And to be honest, often 8k downrezzed to 4k or even 1080p is just too sharp; I sometimes find 4k on my Nikon Z6 to be too sharp; I can see too many pores in the skin. As I've said before, downsampled 1080p I think is a perfect medium, great detail without looking too sharp, small file sizes, still great image flexibility. Plus I can literally get away with cropping in on this 1080p image and it still holds up to an extent. To me dynamic range and color are much more noticable to me than are a more detailed image. And again, it's all going online where people just won't see the difference, even if I scale up my 1080 to 4k for YT delivery.