Just.... no. Or buy the right equipment for the job. This thread is about cinema cameras. Please, enough with the overheating garbage and these armchair solutions.
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Actually, EVERY CAMERA is right for the job! We've put Canon 1Dc's with Zeiss Otus lenses into high and low orbit! We've put 25 year Sony VX3's camcorders under the wings of bombers. Even those TOUGH AS NAILS VTech cameras made for kids, we've strapped to diving bells in emergency conditions for cheap but good 480p or 720p footage of underwater operations.
Whatever it takes, we do it! We're not gonna put a bunch of $100,000+ Sony Venice or Red Monstro systems on the side of a space rocket to be wiped out by solar radiation so instead we bought all the Canon 1Dc's and 1Dx 2s and Sony A7s2s we could off Ebay and put in 500 gigabyte memory cards stuffed into external heat-resistant/rad-hardened metal and ceramic boxes with some delayed wireless transfer gadgets instead of Atmos external recorders and THEN strapped them to the side of a bunch of rockets and spaceplanes!
The C70 might actually work out for us if they release it this year.
Right now we're kinda stuck since we're only able to snipe so many Ebay camera sales. Our parent company is literally the single-handed-reason WHY it's pretty hard-to-find decent used Canon and Sony camera gear online. We snipe almost all the major auction sites and buy it all up! We buy THOUSANDS of used APS-C and Full Frame 2K and 4K cameras for our projects! If you can't find it used online, you can probably BLAME CANADA cuz we're likely the LARGEST source of the problem!
So once A**** finally does release those fancy Global Shutter Medium Format 60 fps DCI 8k/50.3 megapixel combined stills/video cameras with that super-fancy visually lossless codec in it THEN we can finally use those super-duper new cameras instead of the Canons.
But right now, we're stuck with our inventory of 5D mk2/3's, 7D2s, 1Dx/1Dx2's/1Dx3's and Sony/Fuji cameras which we can afford to destroy if we want point-of-view videos on high performance aerospace systems. Like I said earlier, we're not gonna put our C500/C700's or Phase Ones, Venices, Reds or Arri Alexas on the outside of an aerospace platform where it will be TOASTED to a nice sunburnt crisp!
Heck, we even use smartphones as cinema-style cameras! We've strapped a LOT of Sony Xperias with the OS'es modded for full RAW 10-bit video capture (the DSP on Xperia smartphones can handle RAW 10-bit HDR easy!) to the outside of jets and under the keels of boats. It works GREAT!
And again, once A**** finally releases their fancy new large-sensor DCI 8k super-smartphones with APS-C and 2/3rds inch global shutter sensors to the public, we can finally transfer the lower end jobs for skydivers, airplanes, robots, cars, boats, UAV's, etc to get GREAT footage from those! For now, we still rely on hundreds of modded Sony Xperias stuffed into polycarbonate boxes to do the lower end jobs!
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So our suggestions come from LOTS OF EXPERIENCE! We're like the Marines! We make do with what we have! We modify, build/rebuild, change, add, re-configure, etc to MAKE old camera gear work for OUR HIGHLY CUSTOM NEEDS!
And YOU CAN TOO if you're willing to void your warranty conditions!
Anyways, this C70 sounds like a half-decent Stunt Camera and even at $3000 to $6000 would likely work GREAT as a "Crash Cam" or strapped to the underside of an F16/F18 !!! Can't wait to get a few samples. We'll put a few on pre-Purchase Order and I'll play with it when it comes in!
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