Balancing getting the shot, vs film fetish

[Andrew Reid]

I think it's more wise to choose your camera and stick with it. Ignore the other releases, it's just distracting (but a bit fun of course!).

Yes I see what you're saying. The main reason I have so many cameras is because I run EOSHD. It would be a bit unwise to have stuck with just one, a GH2, for the past 5 years

 

I spent a significant amount of funds on a new lighting setup, all battery operated. Lenses too. Both of these are much more important than the camera. Last much longer and have a bigger impact on the image (than a camera).

Yes, a good plan.

If too much focus is going on operating the camera on a shoot, then things won't turn out so good. The real beauty happens when the tools become second nature and 99% of your attention is on the subject matter. 

Yes but as the recently departed great Haskell Wexler ASC said:

"It’s important to be master of our devices so we don’t have to think about them,which frees up our creativity"

So all this time spent focussing on operating our cameras is time very well spent in my view.

[Mattias Burling]

 

If the D5 has 4K but the lovely codec / flat profile of D750 then it will be a winner... oh no here we go again!

Exactly!

It will be the absolute bomb. The great Nikon stills, awesome colors, crazy quality/bitrate performance, slowmo, Utopia!!!

..but peaking, super slowmo, Raw, built in ND, A7s Lowlight... wonder if the D6 will have it..

I think it's more wise to choose your camera and stick with it.

Or at least pick a lens system and stick with it. Thats why I switched to all Nikon glass. I can get the GH5, BMPC mike or what ever. But I won't buy new glass.

[Oliver Daniel]

Yes I see what you're saying. The main reason I have so many cameras is because I run EOSHD. It would be a bit unwise to have stuck with just one, a GH2, for the past 5 years

 

Yes, a good plan.

Yes but as the recently departed great Haskell Wexler ASC said:

"It’s important to be master of our devices so we don’t have to think about them,which frees up our creativity"

So all this time spent focussing on operating our cameras is time very well spent in my view.

I understand why you buy so many cameras. It's blindingly obvious. This is more aimed at non-camera bloggers. 

Tools should be second nature, ideally, if you can. I don't want to have to think about what button to press. That Haskell Weller quote is spot on. 

[Lintelfilm]

You are more or less describing a C300 mk II

Unfortunately, the price for what you want is relatively high.

Price is usually the "pain in the ass" factor.

I'm really not convinced by that camera. Weirdly I prefer the colours from the previous Cinema EOS cameras (yes theoretically it can be graded to almost anything but in practice it never quite works like that). And in low light it's really kind of poor. It's not much like the other CXXX cameras in anything other than form (and perhaps actual dynamic range!). Still, if someone gave me one as a birthday present I'm sure I'd make it work. Actually I lie. No I wouldn't. I'd sell it and buy a C100 MkII, an Ursa Mini 4K, an A7S MkII, an XC10 and a whole load of lenses and lights.

 

..but peaking, super slowmo, Raw, built in ND, A7s Lowlight... wonder if the D6 will have it..

I'm still waiting for Nikon to release a Cinema EOS competitor. You'd think the extra number of lenses they'd sell would make it a no-brainer. I guess they just don't have the video-industry experience of Canon.

It would be a bit unwise to have stuck with just one, a GH2, for the past 5 years 

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Yes but as the recently departed great Haskell Wexler ASC said:

"It’s important to be master of our devices so we don’t have to think about them,which frees up our creativity"

Don't those two statements kind of contradict each other?! 

I'd love to stick to one camera for 5 years, you'd know it so intimately (but no I haven't found the right woma... camera yet). There are actually people out there who still favour the GH2 over the GH4 and I can kind of see where they're coming from - it does have a special something. Upstream Colour still looks great.

[Ed_David]

the red one if you kit it out pretty small - just the camera, 15mm rod system, variable nds, and 2 batteries on a 15mm brick back will weigh about 7 KG.  it's heavy but not the end of the world if you have an easy rig.  It's really quite managable.

 

The reason a lot of these cameras aren't smaller are probably heat issues, however the Alexa Mini, even though I haven't used it yet, probably doesn't overheat, so I guess it's a matter of time for more smaller and powerful cameras.

 

But I think for now, the Alexa Mini is what you want, just for a lot cheaper.  So wait five years

[DBounce]

I think it's more wise to choose your camera and stick with it. Ignore the other releases, it's just distracting (but a bit fun of course!). 

I spent a significant amount of funds on a new lighting setup, all battery operated. Lenses too. Both of these are much more important than the camera. Last much longer and have a bigger impact on the image (than a camera). 

If too much focus is going on operating the camera on a shoot, then things won't turn out so good. The real beauty happens when the tools become second nature and 99% of your attention is on the subject matter. 

 

Agreed, we just picked up a set of Aputure Light Storm Bi-Color lights, a slider and new glass. All of which I believe are sound investments in the craft. Pick a camera, learn it, shoot with it and then focus on the art of story telling. Weather in stills or motion, you need to convey the story, the emotion, the art.