Re: 18 October - New Camera from Sony.
 

Sony has an official press event on Wednesday, 10AM, EST. (not a rumor but fact)

Sony A7S-III or A9S?

Whichever it is, it better have a minimum of 4k 30p output over HDMI. Internal recording would be asking allot of Sony....and 4k 60p?, I doubt Sony has the marketing guts to do it.

Re: 18 October - New Camera from Sony.
 

No need to sell the house. The camera they did announce has its place but its not for most of us on this board. I work with that series (and others) on my AV shows. We use studio configurations for live shows to record and project i-mag. An engineer runs CCUs to paint and switches so they all match. The lack of true 4k on an expensive camera like that does not surprise me. There is a whole world of work out there that is always years behind caring about catching up with the latest in resolutions and codecs. Yet it is still a very professional world were operators and engineers work with gear that costs as much as a house.

Maybe my work with that gear is why you never hear me complaining about what 5 grand or less cameras don't have. All of the amazing things we can get at an affordable price for my smaller productions blows my mind. Bang for the buck is incredible these days. I have to focus on ROI and not worry about what new features will be released a year after a new investment is made. It is about clients needs for me. I was cured of gear lust a long time ago. Of course, maybe I feel this way because I learned to shoot with $30,000.00 Beta cams on my shoulder. I did not own one, most of us operators didn't back then. The technology curve that makes the gear we can own today so incredible is also what makes it affordable.

Has anyone of you ever had a client say "are you shooting in 4k 30p or 60P?" If you have clients that care about that then I suspect your not shooting with an A7S, A9 or FS5....just sayin....

Kind Regards,

Steve

Re: 18 October - New Camera from Sony.
 

Yeah,..its funny. None of my paying corporate clients have ever even asked me for 4k. Let alone 4k, 10bit 60p! (I shoot, edit and master everything 4k anyway and store it that way)

I'm actually hoping for Sony 10bit 4k for my "vacation" videos. I have Yosemite and Glacier National Park on my bucket list for next spring and summer. I shot Yellowstone this year on my GH5 rig with 10bit ProRes in V-log and I was absolutely blown away by that footage.

So yeah, for me it's not about getting paid for 10bit 4k, it's about the joy of shooting epic shots and color grading them for personal use. I purchased a GH5 and 3 Leica lenses for that one single vacation and will use it again next year if Sony doesn't answer the GH5 challenge.

If Sony "does" answer the GH5, I'll gladly and very quickly switch to them. (I still have my A7S-II and several Sony lenses.)

CT