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LaFemmeEnVert

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  1. Who knows who cares. Go Google it if you want to find out a lot of special filters will end up gathering dust on a shelf or inside a drawer or box
  2. with your m50 camera that has a crop sensor? what do you plan to film with the lens because it may be useful for certain shots but not all shots
  3. Cool. I thought maybe you use them to record major sport events like World Cup or Super Bowl or shows like eurovision in 8K when you say replay 8K signal as is, you mean playback in real time ? the ob truck crew we rent when we need to work with broadcasters we compress the signal but we record in a format less compressed than the signal that goes on air I hate to think the cost of storage for using the recorder to record 2 hours of 8k 60 uncompressed raw Im so happy the 3 week hybrid event we are producing is only in 1080p and the client doesn’t expect us to record all the events in uncompressed raw. Each day there are parallel events happening in different rooms and at least 3-4 hours of recording and streaming in each of then primary rooms currently we expect when the event ends next week friday we will have a bit under 80 terebytes of recorded files
  4. nice, I don’t remember if we yet used any of there products because most of them are purposed to be used in a broadcast studio or ob truck and our studio use blackmagic, aja, sonifex and other brands and we don’t have a ob truck and our broadcast setup is for internet live streaming amd it’s very rare we do productions higher then 4-6K how do you use it?
  5. Our teams’ plan for hybrid event during this times of corporations staff remote working but need to host a convention 4 broadcast cameras 19 ptz cameras 153 computers About 20 webcamera 21 vision mixers various models 1500m optic fibre cable 19 NDI encoder/decoder 100+ Dante audio adapters 5 video producer, 7 camera operators, 9 sound tech, 14 assistants, 30 zoom/teams moderators, 50+ interpreters 8 vmix computer Overall layout of rooms Main ballroom converted to primary event stage And small studio green screen wall+floor for making a virtual
  6. cheap battery for cheap monitor? go ahead but do nbot use these batteries to power cameras or other expensive and delacate equipment that may be sensitve to power instability
  7. I will use canon 5d mk iv camera as example which has a 30megapixel sensor 1 still image from that camera has more resolution than 1 frame from 4K video taken with the camera 1 still frame can be shoot as raw image even if the camera can film video at 120fps if the object is moving very fast 1/240 shuttter speed from 1 frame of video will still have motion blur while 1 photo can be taken with up to 1/8000 shutter speed if the plane is a properller plane and the camera has rolling shutter there may be strange look of how propellers spin in the video so 0 frame from the video may be perfect
  8. the f55, f5 and f65 and now the Venice are there line of cine cameras part of the cinealta range but this is Sony’s internal category of products the fx3 is like and advanced version of the a7siii with certain additional features, the FS5/7 and fx6/9 are hybrid design that can be used for multiple uses like broadcast, live, eng, cine and the f5/55/65 and Venice are design to be dedicated for filming with the Venice, to access all features you need to buy add-on licenses to activate. You don’t get everything out of the box because just buying the camera. A feature we love about the Venice is to detach the sensor lens mount from the main body and becomes flexible for mounting a variety of ways the first camera I use professionally was a panavision film camera with studio that gave me my first job in 1996, it was the same camera used in to film the 1997 movie Contact first fun/hobby camera was a old rca camcorder firsr camera I bought with my own money was a Sony pdw f800
  9. You need to figure this yourself another way to do manual focus with a manual lens if the lens has accurate distance markers is use a tape measure and mark out distances from the camera if the camera is fixed in a single location all the time
  10. My supplier offers me equipment in advance with up to 30 days delay in payment if we need equipment and cannot pay immediately if your budget is limited look at monitors made by Chinese like feelworld or Ikan or some other, they will not be the same quality as a Smallhd
  11. Smallhd focus is a fantastic monitor if yowant to work you will need to invest in time to find resources and establish connections
  12. Australia has a video production industry, it’s the home of blackmagic, Atomos sand decimator. Where do corporations or video production, event production company’s, indie filmmakers in Australia source their equipment? The shop doesnt have to be in the same town it just has to be somewhere in the region close enough that they can overnight deliver a replacement or rental if it’s urgent https://www.videocraft.com.au/shop https://www.videoguys.com.au https://www.dragonimage.com.au https://www.lemac.com.au https://secure.johnbarry.com.au/film-television-productions
  13. Pro tip: if you really want to work with your camera for paid job avoid ordering essential gear from Amazon. Look for a local professional equipment supplier who can quickly repair or replace any equipment immediately or has rental equipment when you truely need it on a job its ok to buy small adapters and cables from Amazon but any essential equipment must be from a reliable supplier
  14. If you use accessories then yes you can magnify the image to help with focus. my previous responses assumed you dot have any budget for accessories
  15. If our supplier stocks zcam, we will do tests ourselves to see if the camera is something we can add to our inventory. Right now we have a few red cameras on the shelf so we don’t have any plans for adding new cine cameras yet our priority right now is to add some broadcast and ptz cameras because we are now renting over 20 cameras and 150 computers for a virtual event. If the production is successful and the client corporation is happy we will sign a long term agreement with them and we can cover the cost of getting new cameras
  16. try to achieve focus very carefully or increase depth of field to make sure subject is inside focus range
  17. Without a focus screen in viewfinder for a photo camera like old film cameras or without a very accurate and sensitive focus assist and sufficient large screen it is not simple to do manual focus with digital cameras because of this sometimes we turn on autofocus and let the camera achieve focus and then we turn it off to lock it in place
  18. If we’re going to try a camera like the zcam it would be so we can make use of all features available including zraw…
  19. I will also use any of these 1500-3000 cameras for video work, not always for cinema but for general video work over any of the DSLRs or Mirrorless cameras you listed https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Pro-Camcorders-Cameras/ci/1881?sort=PRICE_HIGH_TO_LOW&filters=fct_price%3A1500..3000 integrated XLR audio inputs to connect a variety of mic systems, power zoom lenses with some lenses are parfocal some have internal ND filters, comes with ac power adapter, shotgun mic mout all video ready with need for few extra accessories
  20. looking at zcam the cameras are interesting but the lack of support for editing the native files in most common editors is going to be a major issue, even with zraw plugin in premiere use proxy instead of natively working with the file. Need to find sample files to test if it’s a big problem
  21. BM pocket 6K, the only extra accessory I will use at the bare minimum witt this camera will be my sound devices mix pre for audio ursa mini and c300 mk 1 should go to the below 1500 price range category ursa mini 4.6k, I can film with this without needed an external video or audio recording sony FS5, no need to carry my mixpre, only take my shogun for raw video canon c300 mk ii, same as the FS5, no need for mixpre, just a shogun for raw video dslrs and Mirrorless cameras you listed in the same 1500-2900 price range, I will take both external video recorder and audio recorder. I will not consider them without these accessories if I need much better audio, I will bring a sound person with my sound devices 633 or Scorpio or their big sound cart for video work, these cameras I list are capable and require less accessories to use and get files that can be pushed to the extreme in post and they do amazing work event the Sony a7siii I may or may not get, will require both external video and audio recording devices for me to consider it as a tool for work. If I wanted a smaller camera kit than using my F5 or Venice or the arri and red systems we have at our studio we even still use a canon 5d mk ii in our productions because it still provides a great image in the right conditions but obviously no longer as a primary camera in any project. Though I may be giving the 5dii to my niece since she wants to do photography we will add a few more cameras to our inventory For the zcam, I don’t know them. our supplier doesn’t sell them so the only thing I know about this camera is what is written on paper. Our supplier sells a system called kinefinity but we haven’t tested them yet. We only trust cameras we have tested and only carried by our supplier so if there is a problem, they will fix, replace, substitute, quickly
  22. majority of options available for the 1500-2900 range are DSLR or Mirrorless cameras which also need external recorders to do the same job and they will also need external audio recorders to record good audio with Those cine cameras only accessory needed most of the time will be just the external video recorder, besides lenses which all cameras will need they won’t need external audio recorders or adapters since they include good preamps for audio and they are made for video so no 30minute recording limit if someone wants to record video non stop internal and recent cameras that are better than those cine cameras also cost the same price of those cameras whene they were brand new
  23. Obvious you know limited about video work. I didn’t specify which specific serie of the Ursa mini or c300 but they are still good cameras. Ursa minin4.6K can be found used for about 2300 and shoots braw. c300 for canon color science and FS5 outputs 12-bit raw files. All of them still amazing cameras for video work
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