NAB 2019 rumors (and releases)

morgan_moore said:
... Lens - what is the cost of rehousing a 24-105 and booster, not $100k
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I took your mentioning ENG too much to heart. That meant parfocal, proper manual rings for iris, focus, zoom, and constant aperture across the zoom range. But sure, a 24-105 and speedbooster is doable.
 
morgan_moore said:
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Part of it is just lazy rigging. I hate messy, inelegant cameras and I take the time and spend the money to set mine up the way that I like.

17-120, 2-ch wireless receiver, Teradek transmitter. The only things missing are the nat mic and sync box, which I just didn't happen to have on it in this picture, but they fit nicely, too. The mic is the tiny Sanken CS-M1 and the Tentacle tucks right up in front of the wireless RX behind the SDI ports.
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puredrifting said:
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It's pretty much what we thought during the first few years of the Digital Revolution, a LOT more video will be produced, but the amount of it produced by working FT Pros will drastically fall as the DIY and "everyone is a DP/Director/Producer" reality sets in. And lastly, you've been hearing about the new reality of producing gear in the CIPA numbers, Canon rumblings about layoffs, closing facilties and plans to introduce new models for the foreseeable future highly curtailed. And this is from an industry giant. We're also seeing other subtle echoes of this from Sony, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and others...
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Here's some more "good news". That new Oly monster cam is already offering $500 trade-in, Canon's new EOS R is $300 off, Nikon Z6 is $200 off. All are brand new cameras but that's what a 20% drop in sales does to the old market calculations.

PS. I do think the high end production market will settle at a much higher level than now. Too many players - Netflix, Disney, Apple, YouTube, Amazon, Hulu - with a lot of cash to burn. Of course, as Marissa Mayer found out much to her dismay, making crappy product doesn't sell well either and the law of diminishing talent base, especially in writing, has been quite evident for a long time.

PPS. I will occasionally watch a 1970's drama on one of those nostalgia channels and quickly catch a far superior dialog even on shows like Charlie's Angels, let alone Kojak or Columbo.
 
DLD said:
PPS. I will occasionally watch a 1970's drama on one of those nostalgia channels and quickly catch a far superior dialog even on shows like Charlie's Angels, let alone Kojak or Columbo.
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My good sir, I’ll have you know that only the finest of scribes toiled away on the likes of Charlie’s Angels. Those bikini scenes don’t just write themselves.
 
... and I sold my Steadicam for about $15k before the market got totally killed by cheap Chinese knock offs where complete rigs were in the $3-5K range. The rental market on Stedis just died after that other than for the very high end film jobs. Ah the green bright line CRTs. At least they were pretty good in the sunlight.

Chris Young
 
Mitch Gross said:
My good sir, I’ll have you know that only the finest of scribes toiled away on the likes of Charlie’s Angels. Those bikini scenes don’t just write themselves.
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The writers were old time pros. I looked up the 1978-79 TV schedule and there were around 20 one-hour dramas and about two dozen sitcoms on three main networks. (the daytime soaps absorbed a lot of talent then, however). Now, there are, as Paul F mentioned, about 500 scripted shows and going from 50 to 500 dilutes the talent base.

PS. I never said Charlie's Angels was a superbly written show but it was competently done. The acting of its stars was the weakest part. The appearance of its stars was the strongest. And you can't get that type of a cast together these days either.
 
soarprod said:
Delayed until 2020 or later
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The reports of the delay were apparently the result of a mistranslation that confused the model to be released this year with a different 2021 model with a mini-LED display. Kuo seems to be saying the 16 inch model he discussed should still be happening this year.

Kuo isn't perfect but his relationships with Apple's supply chain supply chain makes him one of the better sources for rumors so hopefully this one will pan out. I dream of an 16.5 inch MacBook Pro running Intels's new 8-core i9-9980HK in a chassis that cools well enough to avoid thermal throttling.

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/macbook-pro-16-inch-cancelled
https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...acbook-pro-16-inch-rumor-delayed-ming-chi-kuo
 
DLD said:
The writers were old time pros. I looked up the 1978-79 TV schedule and there were around 20 one-hour dramas and about two dozen sitcoms on three main networks. (the daytime soaps absorbed a lot of talent then, however). Now, there are, as Paul F mentioned, about 500 scripted shows and going from 50 to 500 dilutes the talent base.

PS. I never said Charlie's Angels was a superbly written show but it was competently done. The acting of its stars was the weakest part. The appearance of its stars was the strongest. And you can't get that type of a cast together these days either.
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You may feel that the quality of TV writing has gone down as the volume has gone up, but this is not the general consensus. There was plenty of crap then and there’s plenty of crap now. But the increase in production and prestige channels has meant that HBO, Hulu, Netflix, AMC, FX and other entities have been able to support quality shows as a way to distinguish themselves from the pack. There’s always going to be mediocre filler out there, but we are currently in what is widely regarded as a golden age of TV production.
 
Mitch Gross said:
You may feel that the quality of TV writing has gone down as the volume has gone up, but this is not the general consensus. There was plenty of crap then and there’s plenty of crap now. But the increase in production and prestige channels has meant that HBO, Hulu, Netflix, AMC, FX and other entities have been able to support quality shows as a way to distinguish themselves from the pack. There’s always going to be mediocre filler out there, but we are currently in what is widely regarded as a golden age of TV production.
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Couldn't agree more. From the onset of the The Wire, The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, television began to usurp cinema for quality character development. I would say in many ways the series has become long form cinema and with huge investment in short form projects like Roma, there is no question that there has been a paradigm shift in the industry.
 
The best character development arc I've ever seen is in Misfits, and it takes three full seasons of slow, meaningful, motivated personal change that also requires effort and sacrifice from that person, and still feels natural and even uneventful for most of the way. Unless you're shooting a 16-hours movie, that's something you can only do in a TV series.

(well, OK, the MCU is 36 hours, but it's mostly one-personal-arc-per-movie, at most, and uses the combined length to build a GoT-like intricated web of relations)
 
Samuel H said:
The best character development arc I've ever seen is in Misfits, and it takes three full seasons of slow, meaningful, motivated personal change that also requires effort and sacrifice from that person, and still feels natural and even uneventful for most of the way. Unless you're shooting a 16-hours movie, that's something you can only do in a TV series.

(well, OK, the MCU is 36 hours, but it's mostly one-personal-arc-per-movie, at most, and uses the combined length to build a GoT-like intricated web of relations)
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Exactly, this is the way of the future. We want character development to be more and more credible. The sophistication of audiences is growing, despite what Hollywood thinks and markets to.
 
yoclay said:
Exactly, this is the way of the future. We want character development to be more and more credible. The sophistication of audiences is growing, despite what Hollywood thinks and markets to.
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Apparently the feature writers never got that memo. Agreed, there is a lot of good TV out there now but in the theaters? Ughh. I personally have worked closely with the writing teams for some of the best shows on TV and the amount of research and thoughtful discussion about character arc, story elements, etc. is impressive these days.
Most of the shows i have worked on are fairly topical and they address real things happening in the world, they don't tend to write a in a vacuum anymore as they might have 20-30 years ago.
 
Yes. “TV shows” have been challenging and besting a lot of theatrical release features for years now in both story and cinematography. Even some “long” movies feel very rushed to me, with some important parts just glossed over, because they would be development of the story or characters instead of flash-bang action scenes that they think the audience wants instead.

In the postmortem after this weeks GoT, one of the producer/writers said that you can’t just have an endless battle, because people will get bored with it. And he is absolutely right and I thought it was very ironic that he said it, because, and I know it may be heresy for me to say this, I actually got bored with it at one point while watching.
 
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