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Sony’s FX lineup has become one of the most interesting camera families in professional video. Line up the Sony FX3 vs FX6 vs FX9, and the first difference you notice is size. The FX3 is tiny. The FX6 is tiny-ish. And the FX9 is… well, now we’re getting into serious production-camera territory. All three can…

Sony just dropped a camera that is going to make a lot of FX3 owners uncomfortable. Meet the Sony FX5. And yes, it is impressive. But is it revolutionary? That’s a different question. Answering it means separating what Sony actually changed from the numbers that simply look good on a specification sheet. What Sony Actually…

Full-frame cameras are everywhere right now. And if you listen to camera marketing, you might think Super 35 suddenly became a terrible format. It didn’t. So when it comes to full frame vs Super 35, what’s the actual difference? Super 35 has been used to make some of the most beautiful movies and television you’ve…

Canon’s C70 was already one of the most interesting compact cinema cameras on the market. Then Canon released the C80, and suddenly the question became Canon C70 vs C80. Is the C80 actually better, or is the C70 still the camera to use? The short answer? The C80 is more advanced, but the C70 can…

If you’ve ever looked at footage straight out of a professional cinema camera and thought, “Why does this look terrible?” then congratulations. You probably just discovered LOG video. LOG video often looks flat, gray, low-contrast and slightly depressing. And that’s intentional. So What Is LOG Video? LOG, short for logarithmic gamma, is a way of…

There is a dangerous question that filmmakers ask themselves when choosing a cinema camera: “What camera should I buy?” Once you start researching, you’re about 14 minutes away from watching a 47-minute YouTube video comparing dynamic range charts from cameras you’ve never heard of. And somehow you’re now considering spending $18,000. The truth is, choosing…

With the Canon Cinema EOS C-Series, Canon has built one of the most confusing, and also most useful, cinema camera lineups in the industry. There’s the C70, the C80, the C300 Mark III and the C500 Mark II. And then there’s the C400, and now newer models are entering the lineup too. Canon Cinema EOS…

Documentary filmmaking is one of those types of production where the camera needs to be ready for basically anything. That’s why the best cameras for documentary filmmaking aren’t simply the ones with the highest resolution. Picture the kind of day a documentary can throw at you. You might be inside a dark room at 8…

Canon vs Sony for video. It’s a debate that has probably started more arguments in camera forums than almost anything other than “Should you shoot LOG?” Both sides have their people. Sony people swear Sony is better. Canon people swear Canon is better. And then someone shows up with an ARRI and tells everyone they’re…

You may have heard that professional cameras should shoot 10-bit 4:2:2. And you may have wondered: “What does any of that actually mean?” Let’s fix that. 8-bit vs 10-bit The “bit” number describes how many levels of tonal information each color channel can represent. 8-bit gives you 256 levels per channel 10-bit gives you 1,024 levels…