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I'm not a big video person and more stills but recently I've been getting on well with my phone and a DJI gimbal but this setup is obviously poor in low light. With DJI releasing the Ronin SC gimbal which is lighter weight version for mirrorless cameras, I've been looking at a new camera for the gimbal and was initially toying with a Sony APS-C camera (I have an NEX-6 and few lenses already) but I've been drawn to the A7S which is reasonably cheap second hand and its low light video performance still seems outstanding. I have looked at the A7S mk2 but it's around double the price which I don't think is worth it for my use, I tend to downsample my 4k video to 1080p anyway, the camera will be on a gimbal so no IS is less of an issue, it's going to be short clips I use it for so the short batterylife shouldn't be a problem and the shots will likely be static so the slow AF also shouldn't be an issue. At the moment it's the Sony 28mm F2 I have in mind. The camera will be purely for video as I've other better cameras I use for stills.
My concern though is how good the video is straight out of camera as often with sample videos they're taken by people who really know what they're doing and straight out of camera, I may not get as much benefit as I'm expecting. With stills photography I find with FF sensors that in full auto on jpeg mode the large sensor is almost entirely wasted and you need to be working with the raw files to extract the immense capabilities of the sensor. Can I just boot the iso up high and get great low light videos or is this likely a waste of money? The videos are only for myself and sharing with small groups so I'm not fussed about ensuring they are at a professional level or anything like that.
My concern though is how good the video is straight out of camera as often with sample videos they're taken by people who really know what they're doing and straight out of camera, I may not get as much benefit as I'm expecting. With stills photography I find with FF sensors that in full auto on jpeg mode the large sensor is almost entirely wasted and you need to be working with the raw files to extract the immense capabilities of the sensor. Can I just boot the iso up high and get great low light videos or is this likely a waste of money? The videos are only for myself and sharing with small groups so I'm not fussed about ensuring they are at a professional level or anything like that.