Recent content by DustinSchmidt

As long as the bowl size is the same it really shouldn't be a problem, I'd think. I don't specifically have the exact items you're listing, but I've gone the other way and put Sachtler heads on Miller sticks.

This is more of a Zaxcom transmitter post than a DCiRX one, but it's a bit adjacent. I just finished shooting some NIL content for Oklahoma State University. The brief had asked for super fast, run and gun shooting with a VERY small and nimble crew (myself and a single assistant). We had four...

RMD's certainly look to be an interesting issue. As you said, having money that you have to withdraw is a good problem to have. I'm curious, what ARE you going to do with the RMD's you have to take? Put it back into the market? Invest in other assets? Or just spend it? Obviously not something...

I was leaning pretty heavily toward getting one back when they launched. But I was also going to wait until the FX5 was actually shipping before I made any final decisions. Looks like I'll have more time to figure it out. I am definitely debating if I need to do anything at the moment when...

I also found a global shutter to make very little impact on my work as well. I just recently sold my Komodo OG. I know that one of the things that made it unique and was a strength of that system was the global shutter. But it was something that just didn't show up in the type of normal...

These are honestly some of my favorite posts on this site. Appreciate the updates Paul! We have dental insurance through my wife's corporate job. But I've pretty much figured out that our Dental insurance is good for our 6 month standard checkups and that's about it. All of our larger dental...

These Sony production issues with the FX5 are giving me some slight flashbacks to earlier Blackmagic pocket cameras. Amazing image quality and processing power, accompanied by some slightly under-whelming camera build quality. Sony's too big of a company to let this derail a camera that looks...

Well, you know two now. Those are the exact sticks I have to go with my ArrowX5 Miller head. ;) I love my Miller Tripod. They actually have some absolutely unbelievable deals on their website right now, for the going out of business sale. I picked up some more gear from the sale and I know it's...

Are you talking about LTC (Linear Timecode) that the PR-4 is sending to one of the camera's audio tracks?

Those look to be at least two valid issues that I'd love to see addressed. (floppy screen, camera body separating) It's a big part of why I've been waiting and didn't pre-order the FX5 when it was announced, just to see what popped up. I remember the C70 floppy screen issues when it first...

Very nice! I was initially looking at the PR-4 myself, although I eventually went a different way. If you already don't own any timecode boxes then the ones made by Deity would seem to make the most sense in this situation. They would work the most seamlessly with the PR-4 and should allow you...

I'm still quite interested in checking out the FX5...but one of the prerequisites for people to buy and use a camera is for it to actually ship one of these days. 😂

Here's my current storage setup. I thought it might be helpful to know how others are handling their data as well, so if anyone else has their setups to share, I'd love to hear what you're doing. 84 TB OWC Thunderbay 8 in a RAID 5 configuration. I'm running 8 x 12 TB Toshiba MG07ACA12TE drives...

I'm curious, how many of you all are just passing this cost along to the client? I will typically list the price for a drive in all of the estimates I put together, along with a note that if they want to provide their own drive for offloading footage/data then I can take that expense off of...

Looks like Resolve just released a new update that will read the FX5 X-OCN files natively, fyi. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion