Varicam pricing

Well thats a little different. At that time there was no one else who had 60P in addition to the Varicam colour gamut.
 
But it shows that 60fps is desirable to a lot of people - and the £5,000 FS7 can do it at 4k, while the £15,000 C300II can only do half of that. Maybe not a big deal to a lot of people, we'll see how it sells - I just don't see it taking the market by storm like the mki did - and OT I think the same goes for the new Varicams.
Steve
 
I'm curious to know how well is the dual recorder workflow is working out for real Varicam users out in the real world? I read that the main and sub recorder file naming will not at all match and users have to spent days renaming and matching up the file names Has this been addressed or Panasonic bury it just like their 2/3" broadcast cam with their proxy recording that's not fully complete in development.
 
Just analyzed Geof Boyle's test. Key points, the highlights on the varicam seem to have the exact same character of the Alexa in how the image is over exposed and now they roll-off, while all the other cameras have a very different highlight roll-off. Glad someone figured that out besides alexa.

The resolution on all these cameras is indistinguishable, they're all pretty much just as sharp (F55, varicam, Cion, BM4K, C500), so I wouldn't buy any of them based on resolution.

The Varicam is the best lowlight performer of all digital cinema cameras, and he mentions he did not even include all the other cameras because they are not usable at that ISO (5000) (Alexa, Red, Cion, BM4K, F65), and mentions the only one that comes close to the varicam is the C500.

Each camera has a different interpretation of colour, Canon leaning towards saturated and warm (over simplification), alexa neutral with colour but with creamy skin, Varicam dead-on neutral everything. It shows weird consistency under different light sources and shooting different colours at different exposures, they all look spot-on neutral and flat ready for grading.

The overal colour and aesthetic of the image is closest to the alexa than any other camera, just with slightly more resolution, slightly more ''neutral'' colours and much better lowlight performance. Very similar image and very very filmic, perhaps the most filmic image outthere with modern resolution, DR and ISO performance.

From the images I am seeing I am starting to believe we're witnessing the birth of a new legend.
 
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