though business-wise I agree that Red was a bad decision business-wise regarding new brains. They've screwed so many people with Monstro going from 80+k to less than 10k in 4 years. But used is another thing, a steal.

Cool insight mate! I opened an old one up one time but didnt know what I was doing haha. I've had a guy over in the US called Josh Wilson ([email protected]) service and repair some DSMC1 brains for me - he's the only guy around still touching them as far as I know. Cheers for dropping by, interesting hearing about your journey and the heating issues

Ahhh thats rad! I've never used Discord will have to suss it out

I did also notice some Jello effects! Some shots I stabilised again in post using the 'similarity' option in resolve and that worked well - but the other modes would have strange results. And yes - I also noticed it seemed worse on wide shots funnily enough. But with that said - the short bit where I'm talking to camera around 2:50 - thats 85mm handheld - and also a few shots of boats on the harbour - are around 70mm handheld too - I found that pretty impressive. So yeah.. IBIS works well but you have to be carefull, and its probably more prone to jello than Sony or Canon

Good insight man! Fully get it, and your kind of reasoning is why my thoughts have changed a bit a long the way as well. I hope I didnt come across as too negative towards certain types of creators.. Only really referencing professional reviewers with some of those comments, and even then you can take it with a grain of salt. I think these days when you're starting out it makes total sense to put a lot of focus into KZfaq! At the end of the day making work that scratches the creative itch and starts some convos is what its all about - cool chatting with people like yourself on here, cheers for sharing your thoughts - good luck with the journey!

Haha yep, cult classic! Funnily enough for a few years to come after moving onto other cameras after the 5d.. I still found a lot of footage I shot on the 5d seemed to look nicer

@@calebgrahamfilms Have you tried shooting on a 5D original for photos? Those colors were magical

@@ArnoldGia Not the 5d Mark OG! but the mark ii was the first SLR I ever owned and I was pretty blown away. Shooting wide open with the 50 1.4 and those colours.. compared to the images I'd been used to getting out of more camcorder style cams, I couldn't believe it

@@calebgrahamfilms Yeah kids these days dont know what it was like to see that leap and just take it for granted haha.

Noted Arnold! Kinda new to sound mixing in resolve instead if PP so that feedbacks good to know

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Looking at my head rant on for north of ten minutes on a Monday morning.. A controversial start to the week

Haha ahh cheers Jed stoked to hear it! Yep - seems like forever ago. We really put the Canon 5d's and 7d's through their paces on that one

Cheers David! Yep for sure - I enjoy that part of the journey as well. I've more or less hidden behind my work for the last 10 years or so, so its been nice to start to share the journey with people and force myself to get over the 'putting myself out there' part haha. Plus little interactions like this with other filmmakers. Appreciate the support!

Haha deadset? Thats super interesting. Yep - 100% - for a long time it was a routine watching videos in the staff pick section for a bit of daily inspiration. A cool period for sure. Its definitely harder on here to get those projects out there - but it just felt like there was no real reason to stay over on Vimeo in this era. Cool hearing your parallel tales mate!

@@LoungearoundTV ahhh its nice to hear that! To this point these kind of videos havent really got anywhere close to the audience of the more gear focussed ones haha so good to hear people are watching. Cheers!

Cheers Stewart, appreciate it

Cheers David!

Haha cheers bruz! Yeh I was thinking at some point I'd do more of a run through on that side of things, so will definitely do that one in the future. Ahhh you and me both! Funnily enough one of my filmer mates in Sydney is an avid blader so it was epic to reconnect with a few from that background when I moved here. Let me know if there's ever any cool little stories that would be good for a Doco down around Griffith/Point.. I'd love to come back down sometime

​@calebgrahamfilms not much happens around this way that would warrant a task of that nature lol but I just remember the days of the flying fox down the back near the Levi and the room like cubby yous had in the top of the shed. BTW, your old house still looks exactly the same lol haha

@@jangz08 Haha ahhh yeh the flying fox and bmx jumps at the bottom of the levi bank where so good! I was driving from Adelaide to Sydney a few years ago and drove through to check it out, even went down the river to check the beach I used to ride down to swim at. Good times!

Cheers Jon! Yeh would definitely recommend renting one and shooting a test project on it, its definately capable of some good results. Coming from an FX6 you'll love the different dual ISO setting.. a lot of potential for pushing more detail into highlights or shadows by playing around with those settings, and the XOCN is super nice to work with. Let me know if you give it a a spin!

Cheers Jeff, appreciate it Bruz!

Yep for sure! I think the tech stuffs probably lower down the ladder than people realise, I think a lot of them time you're getting chosen for productions more so for your people skills, attitude, etc. Cheers for checking out the vid

Cheers Markus!

Cheers man stoked you liked it! Yeh thought itd make a cool little story, plus a good chance to get out there myself. That water was colder than it looks ahah

@@calebgrahamfilms did u do any gold searching?

@@jangz08 I didnt unfortunately! But Luke gave me a piece to bring home, so got a little memento at least

@@davechild3526 yeah Dave, appreciate it!👊 SAE Boog-men going strong haha🕺

Ahh cheers man stoked you liked it! You'll love it down there in Tassie. Pumped to see what we can come up with film-wise in a few weeks!

Ahh cheers Jeremy appreciate that! Unchartered waters for me doing something more serious/personal like this haha so was shitting myself a bit posting it tbh, so good feedback means a lot

Facebook Marketplace(and the Red groups on there), Reduser.net, Newlifecine.com - those are main ones I know of. A lot of good deals around, but of course always do some research

Cheers to another fellow boog X filmmaker enthusiast haha! Hope you're well mate

Really interesting! I was personally recently thinking about the Monstro and Gemini and how good they are and will continue to be as bang for buck options with an amazing image. How do you think the end results from the Mini and Amira compare to the other cams in your kit? I know there's still people in my area buying both of those cams used and being super happy. Being a doco shooter the Amira was always a camera I would of loved but I felt like I left it to late, would love to hear your thoughts on how they stand up at the moment

Yeah Beau! Appreciate you stopping by man. Hope we get to catch up one of these days, if you ever come to Sydney def hit me up.

@calebgrahamfilms will do man. Keep grinding!

Definately agree! It's a shame that Red marketing worked so well to convince people they need all of their new products to be honest, the older ones are great. Yeh I'd love a Raptor too, but just doesn't make financial sense for me at the moment!

Own a Komodo and I absolutely agree with you on this. Want to see how a scarlet Dragon will look with modern glass like DZO Arles or supreme Primes or Signatures

@@blackicestudios For sure! Would love to test those out as well. The DZO's will probably be more within the budget of this channel haha so will see if I can get my hands on some for some tests!

Yep, loved that rolloff on the Burano as well! No denying they do have a nice image - just a shame its at such a premium. Interesting to hear you put Blackmagic over FX6! You prefer the warmer colour science?

@calebgrahamfilms I'm a grader, the first thing I would do is rescue the highlights on the braw file, every time the fx6 or fs7 mxf files pop up, I'm stuck with it if it hasn't been slightly underexposed when a sky is in the scene.

@@LoungearoundTV Yeh ok that's interesting! I know I had similar good experiences with live music footage captured in braw. Especially FS7 era Slog-3 was super sensitive to being perfectly exposed I used to find when I owned one, its gotten better but still easy to mess up

Ahh cheers Dean! Thats the goal of these, stoked you enjoyed it.

Cheers Jeremy! Super niche haha but something I've spent a lot of time with over the years so thought a few people might get something out of it, glad you liked it

@@calebgrahamfilms Yeah but it shows, pretty cool how unique the gear and skill level is for different pockets of the industry

All solid points. I've personally shot Doco work with Red Raw before - and although thats not for everyone (Especially broadcast networks doing the post inhouse) - The end results have been great and I wouldnt say its made the post process any harder other than using a bit more data. So if you where shooting a project happy to pay the rental for the Burano and run with 6k XOCN - I do think you'd get some great results - but just at least in my world thats not a super common scenario

@calebgrahamfilms I Agree with you, I had a doco shot in RAW and every time a non raw inage comes up in the grade we cringe!

Cheers mate!

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Lol cheers Allen✌

Cheers Ruben! Ahhh you know what I've had a similar experience. When I bought my used Dragon it came with the Skin tone and Low light OLPFs - I naturally thought I was going to love the Skin Tone one, but had weird results - I would say in general worse results than just the standard OLPF. I then read something online about a DP swearing by leaving in the Low light OLPF in all the time and loving the results (You might need to fact check me - but Im pretty sure the film Palo Alto (2013) was shot with this exact setup). Personally I've never looked back from rocking this setup - to me it makes the shadow tones so much nicer and just works well all round, I never seen any colour issues and id say it lets you push the iso to 1600 without ugly noise - side by side looking way better than the Komodo at those ISO's north of 1000

@@calebgrahamfilms Hi Caleb, thanks so much for your info! Good to know others have a similar experience with the STH OLPF. In some cases it can look good but then in others it indeed looks weird color wise (and noisy). I’m now hunting for the LLO and Standard, really looking forward shooting with them after seeing your results.

@@RubenStuveling No worries! Yeah its not what you'd expect hey. But yeh - I used the standard for years on the Epic-X and never had any issues, so it seems like the skin tone one is kind of the anomaly amongst the three versions.

Cheers mate! So with the exception of my 50mm Im on all MMJ's. AE's are sweet as well though - I love my 50 1.4 and didnt see the need to change it over, it matches the others fine the only difference is the 'ninja star bokeh' when you're wide open - People talk a lot of shit on that but I reckon its fine, and you can just stop down to 2.8 if you're not into it

Cheers! Im with an Australian broker called PPIB - photoinsurance.com.au/

Framerates and Red Raw also to be fair

100%, will be super interesting to see what they bring to market!

Haha I do offer that funnily enough, super easy to batch things out in Resolve. Reality is.. I'd say on 70% of my shoots data is dumped on the day and then out of my hands

@@calebgrahamfilms My heart goes out to you. Producers who know nothing about tech should stop making tech decisions. 4K Prores even plays back slower on any PC younger than 2008

Nice. I know..never would of predicted that comeback hey haha. Actually really wish I had of kept mine, unfortunately at the time I was a broke student who needed the funds to roll into the next camera purchase🥲

@@calebgrahamfilms I guess I wondered whether the Canon HV30 made it into your camera arsenal at one stage 🤣

Ahh man end of the day you've got a solid, pretty future proof cam capable of producing some super nice images - ready to go straight out of the bag instead of needing building up/rigging all the time like Red's. Market perceptions of different brands can be super annoying but I feel like that's changing a bit and will be less and less of a thing as time goes on. Good motivation to go shoot some work that looks better than what other people have shot on Red;)

Cheers for the comment! Yeah all fair points and I definitely agree Arri has a bit of an unfair.. I guess you would call it 'prestige reputation bias'.. that is a bit more subjective rather than factual. I think they only make sense as a camera choice when you are operating in the budget range where the daily rental of a camera is in the scheme of things a small part of the budget. So I agree on what you're talking about. But I will say.. the other thing to keep in mind is I think sometimes Red have placed too much emphasis on high resolutions. Anecdotally - I think its fair to say the end image out of a 2.8k Alexa Mini, would stand up against a - for example - 6k Camera from other manufacturers like Red or Blackmagic. There is a bit of testing out there to support this kind of theory - eg some of the testing done in reports like this: 24x7.com.au/mtf-camera-comparison/ So I guess thats what I was basing my one liner about testing off - that sometimes it can feel like there is more to 'perceived sharpness and resolution' than just bringing out cameras with more k's like Red do. But thats just one aspect of what makes a great image, and there's a bunch of great films shot on Red that show they are up there with any other cinema camera and can produce super nice images.

Cheers for the reply Glen! Yeah hoping that some personal experiences will give a bit of industry context to people. Thats it - higher res means slower post pipeline, and bigger costs for data storage. Good to cut through all the marketing noise. All this aside - def agree on Sony making big improvements in colour science! They've definitely got a package of camera options for all budget levels of the industry now

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