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at the moment I have this weekly slot shooting video and stills for a comedy club, it started off just one camera on a tripod in the centre of the room with camera mic, then it progressed to external mic hooked up to the camera, now it's audio recorders taking a feed from the mixer and multiple mic's and recorders recording the room noise, and now we're also adding in a 2nd angle off axis, which is doubling the amount of cameras, lenses, and tripods I have to take with me- so, since I dont drive, so turning up via public transport for the purposes of shaving off as much carry weight as possible.
I switched from a 5d3 with 70-200 2.8, to a sony a7ii and a manual focus 70-200 f4, I was blown away at the increase in clarity but also the noise wasn't great at iso 3200 so the image was simultaneously better and worse. I did a shoot out between all my cameras at f4 iso 3200 and the a7s takes the crown, looking amazing, a7rii looks great in 4k mode but not as good in 1080p, so would have to downsample in post because I cant keep hours of 4k footage, a7ii looks ok but only at lower iso's and the canon looks the worst, and also looks noticably different to the others (all the sony cameras are shooting the same picture profile), so it's not great to cut between the 2 angles
since i'm taking stills too i'm doing that with the 5d3 and the a7rii, leaving the a7ii and the a7s doing video, but, i'm wanting to sell my a7ii possibly for the a7iii, but that's a long way away, so as an interim since i'm not really using the a7ii for stills much, i was thinking about getting something either affordable enough to use only for this specific job, or something multi-functional enough to use for other jobs/projects too- but it definitely needs to have higher quality than the a7ii in low light (and tbh, even in good light the a7ii isn't fantastic), and i need to get a smaller lens than the 70-200 2.8, maybe just another old school manual focus lens
I was either thinking a6300/a6000, or something with a built in lens, like a camcorder or bridge camera, which would also solve my battery life problem recording for 2 hours at a time, or I was looking at the sony rx10- I need quite a lot of reach, about 150mm-200mm on full frame, and the footage has to look good at around iso 3200- i'm really not sure how the rx10 or the camcorder would look at such a high iso- i'm sure the 6300 would look fantastic at 4k, but i'm wondering how good the a6000 looks compared to the a7ii it would be replacing because I don't mind shooting 4k and down-sampling, but, it's an extra step i'd rather not do tbh
I switched from a 5d3 with 70-200 2.8, to a sony a7ii and a manual focus 70-200 f4, I was blown away at the increase in clarity but also the noise wasn't great at iso 3200 so the image was simultaneously better and worse. I did a shoot out between all my cameras at f4 iso 3200 and the a7s takes the crown, looking amazing, a7rii looks great in 4k mode but not as good in 1080p, so would have to downsample in post because I cant keep hours of 4k footage, a7ii looks ok but only at lower iso's and the canon looks the worst, and also looks noticably different to the others (all the sony cameras are shooting the same picture profile), so it's not great to cut between the 2 angles
since i'm taking stills too i'm doing that with the 5d3 and the a7rii, leaving the a7ii and the a7s doing video, but, i'm wanting to sell my a7ii possibly for the a7iii, but that's a long way away, so as an interim since i'm not really using the a7ii for stills much, i was thinking about getting something either affordable enough to use only for this specific job, or something multi-functional enough to use for other jobs/projects too- but it definitely needs to have higher quality than the a7ii in low light (and tbh, even in good light the a7ii isn't fantastic), and i need to get a smaller lens than the 70-200 2.8, maybe just another old school manual focus lens
I was either thinking a6300/a6000, or something with a built in lens, like a camcorder or bridge camera, which would also solve my battery life problem recording for 2 hours at a time, or I was looking at the sony rx10- I need quite a lot of reach, about 150mm-200mm on full frame, and the footage has to look good at around iso 3200- i'm really not sure how the rx10 or the camcorder would look at such a high iso- i'm sure the 6300 would look fantastic at 4k, but i'm wondering how good the a6000 looks compared to the a7ii it would be replacing because I don't mind shooting 4k and down-sampling, but, it's an extra step i'd rather not do tbh