Bill Bruner
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Joshua – If you want to shoot events with an inexpensive interchangeable lens camera, and don’t want to wait for the Black Magic Cinema Camera, you can get unlimited video clip length with the £600 Panasonic GH2 and the Kasilev ptool hack.
Cheers,
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Christopher – you may want to consider the $5400 Sony NEX-FS100. The thing can almost see in the dark (watch in 1080p):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXnUcMMcGJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2xqYeKkVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCmOOaYMH8
And you may find this low light test between the FS100 and a Canon 5D MkII useful: https://vimeo.com/22977540
Hope this is helpful,
P.S. – just saw that the camera is $4200 at B&H until December 31st!
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Noelle – I’m saving up for a DLC Swivi 5.6″ swivel monitor ($280 refurb’d at Amazon)
It’s like a giant version of your GH2’s LCD, with peaking and stereo speakers. Andrew Reid at eoshd thinks highly of it: https://www.eoshd.com/content/8189/an-affordable-articulated-screen-with-peaking-for-the-5d-mark-iii-the-swivi-usa
Hope this is helpful,
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Adam – I don’t know what kind of videos you shoot (event? narrative?), but if you’re considering the $1530 7D or the $890 60D for video, you should be aware that the Canons have a 12 minute video clip duration limit and no headphone jacks. The $3500 5D MkIII takes the clip length limit up to 30 minutes, has a headphone jack and gets rid of the Canon moire problem, but, sadly, it wasn’t on your list.
And none of the Canons have clean, uncompressed, recordable HDMI out. The Nikon does.
With the anti-aliasing filter, the D800 is probably the best large sensor, interchangeable lens video-still hybrid camera you can buy between $1000 and the $8000 Sony NEX-FS700 (which, at 8MP, is not much of a still camera :)).
Cheers,
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Adam – although it’s somewhat above your $1100 budget, the $3000 Nikon D800 is the best hybrid still/video camera on your list. With its amazing 36MP sensor, it is a class-leading full-frame still camera – and with its clean HDMI out, manual audio level control and headphone jack, it is a world class video camera. Add a soon-to-be-available VAF-D800 anti-moire filter from Mosaic Engineering, and you’ll have a moire-free, near-broadcast quality video camera after your cruise job is done.
See Philip Bloom’s full frame shootout between the D800, Canon 5D MkIII (which is not on your list) and the Nikon D4 to see what the D800 can do in video mode with the anti-moire filter: https://vimeo.com/42065372
Hope this is helpful,
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[Martin Verona] “Thanks for the suggestions. Does anyone have any experience with the Bescor LED-70 Dimmable 70W Video & DSLR Light?”
Martin – I don’t have any experience with the Bescor, but I do have this 70 LED light – and I can tell you from experience that 70 LEDs don’t produce enough light for most situations. If I had it to do over, I would get one of the 160 LED lights recommended above.
Cheers,
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Howie – I’ve shot HD with the T2i and the GH2 and I’ve used just about every brand on your list & had no problems – so now I shop for cards based on price. My brand is now Komputerbay from Amazon. 32GB SDHC for $19 and 64GB SDXC for $40.
I have a Komputerbay 32GB in my camera right now, and I am as confident in it as in any of my Sandisks, PNYs or Verbatims.
Hope this is helpful,
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Martin – the Litepanels are good, ad use AA batteries, but they are pretty expensive. The Fancier/Cowboy Studios made in China lights get good reviews, use camcorder batteries as well as AA batteries, and are a lot less expensive.
Hope this is helpful,
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Chris – it can be done. You can put 2/3″ B4 lenses on the $3600 AF100, and with a power supply, you can use the servo zoom. Take a look at this video from Abel Cine: https://vimeo.com/19839954
I love the guys at Abel – but their approach was pretty expensive ($750 Hot Rod PL adapter plus a $5500 2/3 to PL adapter).
There’s a better way. I would use a relatively inexpensive $300 B4 to m4/3 adapter, a $55 power supply and a $60 cable to power the zoom. If you already have Anton Bauer batts, you can skip the power supply and get this cable instead.
Darren, over at AF100 User Central, chose the less expensive option:
https://af100central.com/?p=226
And here is a field report with ungraded SOOC sample video:
https://af100central.com/?p=240
You won’t have camera-controlled autofocus with this approach. If you absolutely need autofocus, Panasonic does make a couple of autofocusing power zooms for the AF (a 14-42 and a 45-175), but they have consumer-style controls and are relatively slow at f3.5 and f4.0, respectively.
Hope this is helpful,
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Casey – I paid $33 for an Opteka 77mm variable ND filter with step rings for smaller lenses. As Phil says, it is a lot easier to rotate a variable than to screw and unscrew individual filters. I have had no problems with resolution or chromatic aberration. Out of stock at 47th St Photo through Amazon, but you can get it from their eBay store.
Hope this is helpful,