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Thanks guys. I remember that camera now. I had forgotten about it. I forgot how heavy it was too.
I don't really need a screen *that* large, but it sure would be nice to have better than the low res 3.5" we usually get
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My problem with Atomos products is that a lot of them only go up to 422HQ. Including the Ninja V today.
However, I find the media and product to be extremely stable. More so than my two Video Devices PIX-E5's.
I also wish that Atomos could do a deeper zoom for focus checks like the latter.
 
NorBro said:
One of the most underrated (and laughed at) cameras/screens of all time...however...I never, ever missed focus and composition was borderline perfect at all times.
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Focus I can well imagine, but the composition part is an interesting one. I found that screen to be too large as it required me to constantly scan back and forth across it--my eyes couldn't take it all in at once. Similarly, I prefer eyepiece viewfinders that allow for zooming the image so I can find the sweet spot of size where I don't have to scan.

There is something to be said about getting immersed in the image to help feel the scope of what you are shooting. But it is largely a mental process that one can train onself into. When I was teaching Steadicam we used to tell the students to think about that tiny image as being a 40 ft. wide movie screen. No small feat considering the early Steadicam monitors were 3 or 4 inches wide and monochrome, and with film taps, had very little detail and the flicker of the shutter!

These days a 7" monitor is just right for me, assuming I can keep enough distance from it to not need my reading glasses (sigh).
 
I never had the pleasure of working with a camera with a high-quality viewfinder (either a part of the system or third-party), but everyone always says the same thing...nothing like it.

The closest I got was a magnetic loupe on DSLRs and that was pretty awesome!

The bigger screen simply provides more real estate. I used 7" monitors pretty much my entire career so a few extra inches was even better. I mostly used that camera on a tripod and it was very easy to see everything, especially the edges which I analyzed the most. Sometimes you don't want half of a painting in a talking head shot or part of a tree/building in b-roll, etc...just random everyday stuff you may miss on smaller monitors. Good for boom mics too.
 
NorBro said:
I never had the pleasure of working with a camera with a high-quality viewfinder (either a part of the system or third-party), but everyone always says the same thing...nothing like it.

The closest I got was a magnetic loupe on DSLRs and that was pretty awesome!

The bigger screen simply provides more real estate. I used 7" monitors pretty much my entire career so a few extra inches was even better. I mostly used that camera on a tripod and it was very easy to see everything, especially the edges which I analyzed the most. Sometimes you don't want half of a painting in a talking head shot or part of a tree/building in b-roll, etc...just random everyday stuff you may miss on smaller monitors. Good for boom mics too.
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The best were the optical VFs on high end film cameras. I loved framing shots on my Arri SR2 and shooting with the Arri BL or 435 made the best EVFs look still pretty bad.
 
In the financial statement, did anyone catch this:

RED.com LLC (“RED”) has alleged that the recording and/or playback of two of five video codec
standards currently implemented by certain Company products infringe four RED patents. RED
has offered the Company a license to rights under those patents with respect to the implementation.
The Company denies RED’s allegations and the parties have engaged in discussions to attempt to
resolve the matter including in respect of the proposed license. If the parties are unable to resolve
the matter, RED may initiate litigation against the Company in an effort to enforce its patent rights.
Patent claims or litigation against the Company, regardless of their merits, could, amongst other
things, be time consuming and expensive to defend, force the Company to remove the prospective
format from certain products, delay shipments of Company products and require the Company to
pay damages or settlement fees.
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And does anyone know which codecs are the issue here?
 
Re the original URSA, I seriously looked at buying one of these but my work is mainly run and gun and the weight was an issue but I loved that screen, real estate is everything for me the number of times I have missed crap in the background on smaller camera screens.
 
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