scorsesefan
Veteran
Small cameras just keep showing up in my daily work. Every time I think I want to just haul out the big guns, I find another reason to roll with something lighter instead.
I just shot a gig this past week on my Canon C50 and was once again reminded how great of a little camera it is.
The job was a pretty heavy ask in my opinion, to capture 2 hosts doing man on the street interviews with just myself running one camera and also handling sound, and a second camera operator getting another camera angle. With that much audio going on I'd prefer to have a sound person 99 times out of 100, but sometimes I just need to take the job and make some money.
4 channels of audio going into the C50:
2 xlr through the handle (shotgun on camera, split to both channels, 1 at a lower level for safety track) for on-camera atmosphere and backup.
2 tracks through the 3.5mm mic input, DJI Mic 2 with 2 transmitters going to independent tracks, so that I could film 2 hosts for man on the street stuff, each with their own stick mic. Also recorded the 32 bit float on the transmitters themselves as backup.
I also put a Zaxcom TRXLA transmitter with a lav on each of the hosts recording to its internal micro SD for the times where they didn't speak into the handheld mic, which was often actually. These were not "professional" hosts.
Shooting 7K, 3:2 open gate in 4:2:2 10 bit Long GOP. Extra height for a vertical 9x16 deliverable and then also outputting a standard 16x9. I need to do some punch-in's on occasion in the edit, so I opted for the extra resolution.
Second camera (C500 II) was just running a shotgun mic on camera.
Timecode to both cameras to help with post-sync. Another example where the C50 really shines with its built-in timecode port.
Who needs an FX5 at this point?
Still waiting on my fx5.