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Maybe for fun, try also recording on your phone next to the boom and seeing for yourself which audio sounds better? Some years ago I produced a multicam concert and fed the board audio into a Shogun on my monitor cart. Unfortunately one of the channels recorded really hot (my bad for not...

I just registered, but have pretty much no plans to go unless someone invites me to jump in their car last minute and we have a place to stay already (i.e., minimum spend). I have nothing much to anticipate at the show itself and the parties...well, I get enough of those during Cinegear week...

I'm sorry...Mr. Zacuto?

A friend gave me an old PC laptop to manage the programming software for those radios. I'm incredibly inefficient at anything Windows-based but I muddled through it. Hardly ideal though.

I've had a couple of Blackbox Pocket radios for some years now, they can be programmed to work on the same bands as CP200's and they are so much smaller on my belt, I found them helpful for longer run jobs. I've never used their more typical long range radios, but have had a decent experience...

The F65 is pretty power-hungry if I remember correctly, drawing something like 8 amps. That 95W battery should only run it for around 45 minutes, I would think. A shark fin running dual batteries for hotswapping would probably be a good choice, but you'd need at least four batteries for it to...

That's essentially how I've been working with the Connex since 2018, when I had both transmitters and receivers mounted into custom 3D housings with AJA converters (at the time, the only ones that could convert 24psf signals). I've never had grounding issues powering this system off cameras...

Rob: each receiver needs to be paired to a single transmitter, so in the instance you describe you'd have to re-pair each time you switch cameras unfortunately. And it's a bit of a wiggly process compared to more recent systems, involving a paper clip and going back and forth between tx and rx...

Golly, that is a lot! I still have an absurd number of Decimator MD-HX's for working with older ATEM's to convert signals to the same format, which I don't really need any more, but good to still have around. Such a handy box!

It was definitely the case that older switchers required all cameras to be outputting the same signal (and that format needed to be selected in the switcher software, whereas newer versions had individual input format processing. Did you determine if yours was one of the former, which is why it...

Everything is relative. I'd consider a full shooting package with that camera to be between 30 and 40 lbs (remote lens controls with 2-3 motors depending on prime or zoom, transmitter, Cinetape or Light Ranger). It's not undoable but it will preclude certain methods of shooting, and heavier duty...

I can't remember "fixing" a video camera, but I did go into the chassis on some film cameras over the years. After all, they were basically sewing machines with a few more buttons on them. The Arri SR 1 and 2 were a bit notorious in that they only had a single 3/8-16 tie-down on the base, which...

I'd be curious what the servicing options are on an F65 at this point. Probably worth looking into what it would take to get Sony or anyone else to work on it, and how many spare boards and parts are still out there. I don't think they made too many of those bodies.

fantastic!

That has been my experience. I am given project specs most of the time and it is literally never RAW. Some years ago I made a point of asking colorists how often they see RAW files, they said most of the time if a project was shot that way, the footage would have been transcoded to 4444 before...

The approved camera list for Netflix originals (they were the first to initiate this) was initially created around resolution--they allegedly wanted to ensure that if they were promising UHD to their consumers, the images had originated as true UHD and not upscaled internally as was the case...

The Skypanel was a huge hit when introduced and quickly became an industry standard. For the next few years, Arri owned the flat-panel space for higher end production work, as it had done with their HMI's for decades. Their curious refusal to come out with a newer version with better color...

I think it's always been a little debatable how much "formal technical education" one gets at film school, much depends on the given professor's knowledge. I think I got about as much out of the books I read outside of class than what I learned within it. And then a few years later, getting an...

that's the right thinking these days. I did one year at NYU and dropped out, having talked my way onto a number of large scale productions in NYC and eager to start working instead of sitting in a classroom, or fighting with the guys in the "cage" about getting the gear I needed for my student...

I think the point Claudio was making is that the 4D's ecosystem is compact and efficient. When discussing a lens motor system "slow" can be misconstrued as the max speed the motors turn (what I thought you were saying, and I would have been quite surprised to learn that the DJI system was...