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I saw this on a video production forum in my home town. Not sure if I agree with it all, but it sure gave me a chuckle. Enjoy:
Too bad, Canon. Sony (and panny to some extent) beat you to it. The big-sensor pro video cams are upon us. The DSLR is now in its rightful place--as a consumer toy for "aspiring" whatevers to pretend they are video professionals.
As soon as the 5d2 splashed (or even before), Canon should have gone into overdrive to bring the large sensor to the professional video market. Now they're just playing catchup (assuming they're even playing). Unfortunately, now we've got this uneducated client base who see all the pretty shallow dof clips of flowers and sunsets and closeups of people smoking to some funky soundtrack on vimeo. Only catch is, they have ZERO awareness of just how comically inadequate these contraptions are as production video cameras.
Go ahead, tell me how I'm wrong, and the DSLR revolution is still upon us. The truth is that persistent ignorance of the now well-documented "shortcomings" have created a chaotic marketplace in which any photo-joe now thinks he can handle a professional, commercial-grade video project because he has a $800 toy and learned imovie on his mac mini. Yeah, you know who you are. You're the same bottom feeders who charge $200 to shoot a wedding with your nifty new "professional" camera and single on-camera speedlite.
Consider: I just lost a job to some doofus who (for 1/8th the price of my bid) shot a series of 16 dirt-bike tests over three days. The job called for on-camera interviews, run-and-gun captures and a few other requirements. The end result is now scattered on vimeo (with glowing comments to boot). No nat sound of course. Just some pirated commercial soundtrack, a circus of half-assed pull-focusing, seizure-inducing moire patterns and jello cam up the wazoo. All beautifully titled in a canned, comical spinning serif font. The client called me, actually, TO APOLOGIZE for their ignorance and greed. But they had already re-allocated their budget. I have no idea if I'll ever land a contract with them in the future. They were pretty sour about video projects of any kind.
Oh, you want your car engine rebuilt? Forget the trained mechanic down the street. Go to my buddy. He does good engine repair. He just bought a new engine repair kit that is all the rage right now.
Oh, you want a tummy-tuck? Forget the ..... oh... blah....
My biggest complaint about the new large sensor cams (hs100.af100.f3) is that they don't cost enough to keep out the riffraff. Now my marketing costs are going through the roof just so I can convince my current and prospective clients that there is still a huge diff between professional visual arts and fly-by-night hobbyists.
Anyway, hats off to Sony, especially, for the F3. (Jury is still out on the NEXFS.) Between a super 35 sensor and my workhorse ex1r, I think I'm set for the foreseeable future. As long as I can afford to stay in business as the overpriced a-hole who doesn't appreciate the "game-changer" of DSLR technology. (Yeah thanks "Reverie," thanks a lot. Can't wait to see the next gen of redrock micro/zacuto frankenstein rigs on your blog. Freaking joke.)
Too bad, Canon. Sony (and panny to some extent) beat you to it. The big-sensor pro video cams are upon us. The DSLR is now in its rightful place--as a consumer toy for "aspiring" whatevers to pretend they are video professionals.
As soon as the 5d2 splashed (or even before), Canon should have gone into overdrive to bring the large sensor to the professional video market. Now they're just playing catchup (assuming they're even playing). Unfortunately, now we've got this uneducated client base who see all the pretty shallow dof clips of flowers and sunsets and closeups of people smoking to some funky soundtrack on vimeo. Only catch is, they have ZERO awareness of just how comically inadequate these contraptions are as production video cameras.
Go ahead, tell me how I'm wrong, and the DSLR revolution is still upon us. The truth is that persistent ignorance of the now well-documented "shortcomings" have created a chaotic marketplace in which any photo-joe now thinks he can handle a professional, commercial-grade video project because he has a $800 toy and learned imovie on his mac mini. Yeah, you know who you are. You're the same bottom feeders who charge $200 to shoot a wedding with your nifty new "professional" camera and single on-camera speedlite.
Consider: I just lost a job to some doofus who (for 1/8th the price of my bid) shot a series of 16 dirt-bike tests over three days. The job called for on-camera interviews, run-and-gun captures and a few other requirements. The end result is now scattered on vimeo (with glowing comments to boot). No nat sound of course. Just some pirated commercial soundtrack, a circus of half-assed pull-focusing, seizure-inducing moire patterns and jello cam up the wazoo. All beautifully titled in a canned, comical spinning serif font. The client called me, actually, TO APOLOGIZE for their ignorance and greed. But they had already re-allocated their budget. I have no idea if I'll ever land a contract with them in the future. They were pretty sour about video projects of any kind.
Oh, you want your car engine rebuilt? Forget the trained mechanic down the street. Go to my buddy. He does good engine repair. He just bought a new engine repair kit that is all the rage right now.
Oh, you want a tummy-tuck? Forget the ..... oh... blah....
My biggest complaint about the new large sensor cams (hs100.af100.f3) is that they don't cost enough to keep out the riffraff. Now my marketing costs are going through the roof just so I can convince my current and prospective clients that there is still a huge diff between professional visual arts and fly-by-night hobbyists.
Anyway, hats off to Sony, especially, for the F3. (Jury is still out on the NEXFS.) Between a super 35 sensor and my workhorse ex1r, I think I'm set for the foreseeable future. As long as I can afford to stay in business as the overpriced a-hole who doesn't appreciate the "game-changer" of DSLR technology. (Yeah thanks "Reverie," thanks a lot. Can't wait to see the next gen of redrock micro/zacuto frankenstein rigs on your blog. Freaking joke.)