Five new video cameras are coming from Sony:
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The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 is out soon and this a camera we’ve been waiting for. Having owned and loved the Pocket 3, I have to say that the launch of the Pocket 4 is bittersweet. It is better, but not so much better we’d tell owners of the 3 to upgrade 4. It’s an iterative improvement. Better low light, dynamic range, and slow motion. But in a lot of contexts the footage will look similar or the same. I guess I was hoping for a bit more, enough to make owners of the 3 feel a strong desire to upgrade. The 4 is objectively better but don’t feel you have to get it. The 3 remains an amazing camera.
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If you can live with the wide focal length this might be the only camera you need for certain video purposes.
The long awaited successor to the Canon C70 is here, the Canon C80 Cinema Camera. The only disappointment to us is that it doesn’t have DGO (dual-gain) sensor like the C70. However, it does make a few quality of life improvements, a full frame sensor, and provides some additional outputs, all at $5500, so we aren’t really complaining.
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This small cinema camera is targeted at a niche audience with its $30,000 price tag. It’s still good news for all of those who produce video as technology, given enough time, tends to trickle down and become more affordable. An affordable full-frame global shutter sensor may come our way given enough years and demand. Those who shoot RED will likely find this camera interesting. They’re stating this is the worlds’ first large format global shutter camera.
This camera is an achievement and RED should be praised for that. The previous Raptor’s were and still are excellent cameras, and perhaps more will become available used now.
Octopus Cinema has a camera in development that looks amazing to us. There hasn’t been a good 16mm digital cinema camera for a while since Blackmagic abandoned that sensor size and let’s not talk about the Bolex D16. And the price is said to be under $1000. The unfortunate reality here is that this product is in development and may never see the light of day. But here’s to hoping.