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Bob Zelin wasn’t too kind to X
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[Bill Davis] “It’s also notable that in their entire press kit, there’s not a single picture of the thing being handheld.
THIS is how you’re supposed to mount it I think… “
To their credit, they came right out and told me that it was a tripod camera… that you can’t hand hold it.
What? Don’t these guys know they are supposed to tell everyone what they want to hear so they can maximize sales? His candor actually through me off… I had to process it twice to realize what he had said…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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This was an NAB I was insanely proud to be in the AJA booth as the CION camera was a true shooters design – comfy on the shoulder, enough heft (10lb lighter than URSA) to steady out your shots and true 4K, not just UHD.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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I have to say, not having been there this year, that the CION by AJA was the one I would go for. I have a partner who plans to get one with Fuji Cabrio glass.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.1.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.5, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1 TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD -
Yeah experienced shooters just loved the design and balance – can’t wait to get mine too!
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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Wow, that is a pretty camera and very flexible. Is that $8995 number for body-only?
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Scott Witthaus] “Wow, that is a pretty camera and very flexible. Is that $8995 number for body-only?”
See… If you’d have gone to NAB you would know 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] “[Scott Witthaus] “Wow, that is a pretty camera and very flexible. Is that $8995 number for body-only?”
See… If you’d have gone to NAB you would know ;-)”
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Love the Cion, but WHY didn’t they put an ND wheel on the thing?? Some days I can’t count the number of times during a shoot that I cycle thru ND. Now someone has to go find the ND pouches, carefully slide out the old, put in the new, confirm that’s just right, carefully put the ND pouches back, and now we can continue. Instead of… click/click done.
Really, I’m interested in the “why not” of this.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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[Bob Woodhead] “Really, I’m interested in the “why not” of this.”
Just a guess, but with the world moving toward RAW workflows – getting the exposure precisely correct at the camera is perceived as “less” important than it used to be?
Not saying this is correct thinking. Just saying that if – in post – you can salvaged perfectly good shots out of stuff that’s a couple of stops over or underexposed because you have a lot more latitude than we did before – It’s understandable if you push “perfect exposure” a bit farther down your “must have” list in the field.
And yes, I know that it’s STILL totally possible to permanently screw up footage by getting exposure seriously wrong. And shooters will screw up and expect to pull detail out of stuff where 50% of their pixels are brick walled at 255 and wonder why the software won’t “fix it.”
But I still think this is a part of the reason exposure is seen as a bit less a “big deal” these days – right or wrong.
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But RAW is still not unlimited dynamic range and you do want to bring in to sweet spot of the sensor. And while RAW does allow more flexibility in exposure, the camera can switch between RAW and other codecs where such a filter would be great to have.
Michael
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