What is the maximum number of cameras you need

[Andrew Reid]

Any tariffs on Canon yet?

To think people voted for this 🤯

[Snowfun]

20 hours ago, mercer said:

 

As a hobbyist, it becomes a bit tougher to justify multiple cameras compared to someone who is making money with their tools

 

To some extent I disagree. As a hobbyist I am always wanting to try something different - not being constrained by what I need to do. And, inevitably, that gets me thinking about what I need to buy to do it. Ok, yes, it isn’t possible to “justify” it but my cupboard tends to fill up with bits and pieces I used (probably badly) once. As a hobby it’s fun to play and having toys make playtime so much more fun. But you are correct, it isn’t justified. I’ll stop…

[mercer]

46 minutes ago, Snowfun said:

To some extent I disagree. As a hobbyist I am always wanting to try something different - not being constrained by what I need to do. And, inevitably, that gets me thinking about what I need to buy to do it. Ok, yes, it isn’t possible to “justify” it but my cupboard tends to fill up with bits and pieces I used (probably badly) once. As a hobby it’s fun to play and having toys make playtime so much more fun. But you are correct, it isn’t justified. I’ll stop…

Don't get me wrong, I agree wholeheartedly. I love cameras and want to try them all. But I am fairly poor, so I need to only have what I need. So, for me, as a hobbyist, wannabe, narrative filmmaker, I can only justify so much.

That said... I have been itching to try something new. Have been thinking about looking at cameras and their picture profiles like different film stocks as opposed to shooting Log and creating a look in post. I suppose the smartest path would be Fuji for that endeavor.

[Django]

1 hour ago, mercer said:

That said... I have been itching to try something new. Have been thinking about looking at cameras and their picture profiles like different film stocks as opposed to shooting Log and creating a look in post. I suppose the smartest path would be Fuji for that endeavor.

Sure but why limit yourself to the 8 or 9 film simulations only two of which are cinema film stock? The best for that approach would be LUT recording enabled cameras, assuming you have a favourite/custom LUT collection in your NLE. S9 has as far as I know best implementation with stackable LUTs, opacity etc and a phone app to edit/manage them. I think you can even add film grain to video. you can also use the LUTs on stills which is pretty cool as it even differentiates log from standard sources. 
 

I really hope more manufacturers use this approach. Never been a fan of stock picture profiles especially for video. 
 

 

[MrSMW]

1 hour ago, Django said:

S9 has as far as I know best implementation with stackable LUTs, opacity etc and a phone app to edit/manage them. I think you can even add film grain to video. you can also use the LUTs on stills which is pretty cool as it even differentiates log from standard sources

Yep and this may have also been in the most recent S5ii firmware? Not sure…

 

[IronFilm]

13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Have you thought about a full frame camera to replace those Nikons? D700 can be had for $200 these days.

I certainly have been thinking about that a lot! Especially as I'd like to use my Sigma 50-500mm sports lens with something better than a D90.

Unfortunately shipping all the way to NZ means I might need to add as much as nearly 50% extra on top of that sale price after purchasing it. (there are benefits but also drawbacks to living in the world's most remote city)

Currently keeping my eye out for a keenly priced D700 locally, but pickings are slim and most people want too much for it. (such as nearly three hundred USD for a well used and only semi functional D700)

But that's ok, the longer I wait, the more affordable the D750 will become 😉 

13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

A Canon 5D Mark II for video perhaps? Magic Lantern Raw still very nice looking today.

Ehhh... OG BMPCC / FS7 is preferable in my personal opinion / preferences. (which reminds me, I've got a Canon 50D for ML Raw, I probably should ditch it and pass it along to someone who'd like it. Doesn't work for stills!)

13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

I would also sell the GH4, X-A3, X-T2 and get an X-T3 which is a big step up from both and under $600 used.

I would like having two Fuji cameras, either to use them for quite different purposes, or so I can use them both at once. 

Although I agree, the X-T3 is a big step up! But overkill for my needs.

13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Not sure what the price is in Aussie dollars though 🙂

I also have no idea what the pricing is over on The West Island 😉 😅

 

11 hours ago, MurtlandPhoto said:

It's a pretty good infrared camera if you're into that. I dust mine off every few years for it.

 

It's great also for high speed flash photography , if you're into that. 

The Nikon D50 does 1/500!! Not even the latest and greatest Sony A1 can manage that, instead the Sony A1 "loses" to the ancient and lowly D50 due to its 1/400 speed. For further comparison the Nikon Z9 is only 1/200

 

 

[BTM_Pix]

22 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Any tariffs on Canon yet?

To think people voted for this 🤯

Not a camera obviously but Behringer released a new mic pre-amp/compressor today and I was having a look at the review.

German company but now do all of their manufacturing in China.

The reality is now realitying about who’s paying.

[mercer]

22 hours ago, Django said:

Sure but why limit yourself to the 8 or 9 film simulations only two of which are cinema film stock? The best for that approach would be LUT recording enabled cameras, assuming you have a favourite/custom LUT collection in your NLE. S9 has as far as I know best implementation with stackable LUTs, opacity etc and a phone app to edit/manage them. I think you can even add film grain to video. you can also use the LUTs on stills which is pretty cool as it even differentiates log from standard sources. 
 

I really hope more manufacturers use this approach. Never been a fan of stock picture profiles especially for video. 
 

 

It is a very cool option to have, but I think I want to be more basic about it. I kinda miss the days when you just used a picture profile in camera and kept it simple. With log footage, you can sit at the computer and try a ton of different LUTs or grade a ton of different ways. For me, by having that option in camera may give me more options but I want less.

But it is something to think about that I didn't consider. Thanks. 

[QuickHitRecord]

I've cycled through a lot of cameras to get here (including Blackmagic, Sony, and two REDs) and ended up selling off about a dozen cameras last year. I think I'm finally happy. I can't think of anything else that I really want and I haven't purchased a camera in almost two years, which is a record for me:

WORK/DOCUMENTARY/NARRATIVE CAMERAS

• Canon C70 x2

FUN/EXPERIMENTAL CAMERAS

• Canon 5Diii with ML
• Canon EOS-M with ML
• Lumix GH1 (hacked)
• Lumix FZ47

STILLS CAMERAS

• Canon EOS-R
• Olympus E500
• Fujifilm E900
• Canon Elan (Film)

If I could snap my fingers and add a camera to this list, it would be the Ikonoskop A-Cam. Or, I'd probably buy an Octopus16 if they ever get around to releasing it.

[IronFilm]

13 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

Not a camera obviously but Behringer released a new mic pre-amp/compressor today and I was having a look at the review.

German company but now do all of their manufacturing in China.

Behringer is "a German company" but in reality they've been an ultra low cost dirt cheap audio company since forever ago, would have always been using China (or maybe perhaps something similar like Thailand or whatever). 

 

[BTM_Pix]

12 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Behringer is "a German company" but in reality they've been an ultra low cost dirt cheap audio company since forever ago, would have always been using China (or maybe perhaps something similar like Thailand or whatever). 

I know.

From the get go they used sub assemblies made in China and finished in Germany but within a couple of years they’d moved it all there and eventually built an actual city there for manufacturing.

The point being that purchasers in the US of a broad range of brands they consider European (the parent company also owns Midas, Klark Teknik, TC Electronics and Tannoy to name a few) are in for a rude awakening with the tariffs imposed on them due to where they are actually manufactured.

However, after their practices particularly in their first ten to fifteen years of existence, there won’t be many tears shed for Uli if this heralds a big downturn in sales.

[Andrew Reid]

It will be 4 years trying to bully everyone into manufacturing stuff in the US not realizing that they will have to pay the factory workers US wages instead of Chinese or Thai, and the increase in costs for the manufacturer from what will make 50% tariffs look like peanuts. I hope the US consumer enjoys their inflation.

Having already crashed the stock market and let Russia off the hook, soon with the sanctions lifted, there's a lot of other unintended consequences to come from voting for a convicted fraudster that people may not have realised at the time when they voted for a senile Russian asset.

Of course there's a ton of Japanese cameras made or assembled in China and certainly shipped from China, Thailand or Vietnam rather than directly from Japan so the US will be seeing massive price hikes on all that as well, and that's the best case scenario for the US - as at some point importers may choose to prioritise other markets over them, and there's plenty of stuff in short supply like Fuji cameras which will be withheld and sent to the many other markets without tariffs.

There's also the problem of raw material resources if MAGA want to make manufacturing great again and do large quantities of modern electronics on a farm in Alabama, they will have to import a ton of it from China or plunder Ukraine (maybe snatch a few gold watches and gold teeth from dead bodies whilst they're at it?).

The whole bullying of Canada and Greenland thing is all so these nazi crooks can dig them up for raw resources and access Canada's hydroelectricity on the cheap. It isn't going to happen, not if Mark Carney wins.

I hope people who voted for the nazi party feel the hit in the bank accounts. YOU DESERVE IT 10x.

[MrSMW]

I'm not really into politics or what's going on in the world, but even I think there's an enormous amount of dumb shit going on right now and it's not going to end well.

Not end well for whom remains the big question and all I can do is hope the right people end up losing out for their own self-made madness...

Anyway, never mind cameras, how many mens fragrances is too many? I just went over the 20 bottle mark 😵

[Tim Sewell]

1 hour ago, MrSMW said:

Anyway, never mind cameras, how many mens fragrances is too many? I just went over the 20 bottle mark

I don't own a single bottle - but I do have over 20 cameras!

[Clark Nikolai]

4 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

The whole bullying of Canada and Greenland thing is all so these nazi crooks can dig them up for raw resources and access Canada's hydroelectricity on the cheap. It isn't going to happen, not if Mark Carney wins.

Yep. We've been their neighbour for a few centuries and know their tendencies (expansionism, etc.) We were fine for over a hundred years before we had a free trade agreement so we could do that again I suppose. I think it's okay for a country to protect its own industries, I just don't like the territory expansionism part. Like why can't they just buy minerals from Greenland? Why do they need to own it?

I think Canada will be in this world longer than Trump will.

[eatstoomuchjam]

1 hour ago, Clark Nikolai said:

Like why can't they just buy minerals from Greenland? Why do they need to own it?

My guess is that Canada and Greenland both have environmental rules that would make extraction of minerals/resources difficult, time-consuming, and expensive.  On the other hand, if shithead succeeds in erasing what poor environmental laws we already have in this country, he'd give the corporations carte blanche to do as much repercussion-free damage as they want (as long as he gets a taste of the profit).

[Andrew Reid]

These Trump voters, they are all for manufacturing in the US but I doubt any of them actually wants to work in a Foxconn factory... let alone have one next door and the same air quality the industrial areas of China 'enjoys'.

None of them want to pay double for their next iPhone either.

Never has the disconnect between reality and opinion been so wide as it is right now.

Tough times coming.

[eatstoomuchjam]

They're the same people that deny that tariffs will increase prices (they will) because it will bring manufacturing back to the US (that doesn't happen overnight) and increase competition (yes, US companies will need to be price-competitive with the cost of foreign products + tariffs which is still more expensive than what things cost before the tariffs were enacted).

Those same people seem to think that the stock market taking a big shit on the announcement of tariffs has something to do with "Biden's economy."

 

[Andrew Reid]

I remember when Apple made the Mac Pro in Texas because it had such a high price tag and massive margin they could afford the American wages for the factory.

Same doesn't work with smartphones, consumer electronics, cameras, and so on. Not anything under $4k anyway.

Imagine the number of people you need to build 2 million smartphones a month?

Wage bill if they are all on $50k+?

I think the only intelligent American is an embarrassed American at the moment.

I feel for them. The amount of people who have been hoodwinked by propoganda, Fox news and social media is incredible.

And the rest of the world is just angry. The UK, Canada, Mexico, Germany, and so many others are allies of the US.

We are being treated very very badly.

But that's not really surprising if you read the Christopher Steele report into Trump's Russian holidays, with FSB filmed prostitute Kompromat, golden showers and all the dodgy dealing.

[KnightsFan]

It's more depressing than embarrassing being American. Helplessly watching government institutions crumble one by one. Republicans have become the doublespeak party, talking about rule of law while favoring criminals, talking about freedom while banning parades, talking about balanced budgets while having the largest deficits, complaining about "mainstream media" from the largest broadcast company, and so on. And as much as Trump was the worst possible outcome, Biden being the actual candidate for so long shows that we have no one competent to turn to.