Hahaha, awesome!

Thanks Ben! Trying out shorts to see if I can get into it lol. I like the idea of being able to make more videos and having them go out much sooner so we'll see!

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I wish! Definitely not...Paid for the camera out of my pocket and I did it outside of the BB sponsorship. If you want the full story, I actually purchased the camera before the BB sponsorship but hadn't opened the box because I was trying to sell my A7IV first (Selling it now if you're interested!). When BB inquired about a sponsorship in a video and I saw they had the camera on sale, I was like...I should just open the box and use the camera because I wanted to make a video on why I bought the camera anyway, and with it being on sale, it would tie in perfectly!

Actually at the time I made this, you could not take the middle piece out and they did not make shorter wires for it. I asked them and it was not even in the plans and they recommended not doing that because for some reason it decreased the amount of weight it could carry (I think because this doesn't have adjustable counterweights). A few months ago they ended up adding that ability and I'm really glad they did because the long setup was pretty dangerous even on this closed track and they would only let a professional operator use the arm. But when I made this they said it was not possible and they did not recommend it

@@learningcameras they still don’t make shorter wires for it. If you read my comment you’d see that I said you need to make custom cables. Making an arm shorter reduces its overall requirement for strength, and also reduces the amount of strain on the arm. At the time of filming this video you absolutely COULD shorten this, you just decided to trust the manufacturer instead of attempt it yourself. Not a surprising thing to do. If you still have it I highly suggest going to find that other review so you can see how he changed his cables.

@@learningcameras the arm is light enough that it doesn’t need a counterweight. It doesn’t have a wind fin either, it just doesn’t need it.

@@learningcameras in other words making the arm shorter makes it exponentially stronger

That used to be the case...before the Mac M1 chips and the most recent intel ships, editing h.265 (the only codec option in most Canon cameras) was a nightmare. But if you have a Mac with an M1 chip or later or a PC with the latest intel 14th gen processors, you should be good. H.265 is very high quality and takes up less space, but it's taxing on the computer processor. Otherwise Sony let's you shoot in both h.264 and h.265

Awesome! Spread the word...doesn't happen for long

Thanks! Was using the Sony A7SIII for this one and primarily shoot most of my video content on the FX3/A7SIII. Only issue with it is the resolution is low so it's not a great hybrid/photo camera so I have to bring something else along when I also need to shoot images

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I am newer to Apple laptops so I have never had to reset the security profile so that was a first but I'll assume I'm not the only one. I had to do the firmware update twice (I never updated to the last version) and the update itself took over 15 minutes each for some reason which was long and obviously they recommend not using your computer while updating. Add to that the 3 USB cables I went through before finding one the computer would recognize and it was a process. I have about 30 cameras in my office and firmware update pretty often and this is by far the worst firmware update process ever and worthy of the title of this video which says it's a "mess". Typically you put a file on an SD card and toss it in your camera and hit go or the latest stuff you connect to your phone and hit update. Also, not a fan of the permissions the Sony app forces just to connect and while it's not mandatory, they were not clear why they were pushing it to set up your camera settings to know what you were missing it to not use it.

Get the Nikon Z8/Z9. 😜

I honestly don't think the A9III is better for flash in the real world unless you NEED faster shutter speeds with flash so keep that in mind. Sure, you don't have a flash sync speed but the higher ISO means you need to push shutter much more to get the same exposure and eventually you will hit the limit of the strobe for maximum output because most strobes can't shoot full power faster than 1/1000sec. You get a little more room on the A9III but the minimum ISO shift to 250 cancels out some of the gains. But yeah, Sony has gone very specific with it's cameras lately so there isn't 1 camera that's great for a bunch of stuff