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Well when your camera doesn’t offer nothing that your competitors cameras can’t anymore and it’s overpriced….

Thanks for the helpful video. May I ask who makes the tool you are using? Also is that a special kind of mat you have laid out on the table?

Red sucks ass lol … be a Man… Get an Arri

My Nikon Z6iii was quite expensive considering what the Z6ii was first priced at but the video specs are considerably better. No doubt Nikon will have a sale on it before Christmas.

Great perspective 👏🙏🏼

Love the mindset about the 50% going down or buying used. I need to learn that. I have such bad buyer’s remorse sometimes.

"its not 30% less than of a camera" - very well said

It's like they hate people who purchase from them 🙃

Well, It's nice to see you are not having the expected reflex reaction of protecting your purchase that others in the space are doing. I appreciate the honesty. I thought about the KX. I waited. I'm invested in Canon. I ordered the C400. I hope I made the right choice. I think I did. We'll see.

Crazy discounts! Being a C70 owner since it's out it's very tempting to try it out. Anybody here use it with the DJI lidar as a solo filmmaker? Wondering how you guys deal with the focus and ND filters?

I'm a weird person and I don't want one only because I want a RED Pro 5.0 sized screen from the DSMC2 line, and I think the new DSMC3 RED Touch 7.0 is too big. I have no idea if they're making a DSMC3 5.0 screen some day or not, but if they do, I'll totally pounce on a KOMODO X. I know I could go with a SmallHD touch, but, that seems like an incomplete solution to me. That old 5.0 screen was pretty good for what it was, back in the day when I got to play with the EPIC. Of course I'm most interested in an FX9II coming out more than anything right now. Price drop is pretty cool though!

Just ordered one. Needed a new webcam

Your opinion is very valuable to many of us, and I agree 100% with it! Good share, man. Imma keep rocking and learning with my used Komodo and my 6KFF for the time being and see what the future brings. Cheers

Good perspective and solid advice. Thanks for sharing!

Love my KX:) It's been such an amazing camera.

It would suck for me since I am on the RF mount but it only makes sense for Nikon to move RED over to the Z mount.

I love my KX. I think some people forget that none of the accessories went down in price. If you buy the Komodo-X, you'll still have to spend a billion dollars on accessories for it=)

Everyone see if you can spot a cine7 in this video.

I've been doing a lot more corporate work this year and the Komodo/X price drops are so tempting. Probably won't do it though (because my current clients still won't care), but - it is tempting.

very honest video 😊

I just made a video about why I invested in the Komodo-x (or a cinema camera in the first place) You touched on a lot of my points. I could have gone Sony fx6 or any other camera but chose the KX because of the jobs I wanted to do. Not that it will necessarily get me more work, but it makes sense to own a system that will be in your workflow regardless. Agree that you shouldn’t buy based off resale value, but it would sting a little bit if I just purchased it new and couldn’t get it for the new price. Would sting even more if I were trying to sell and immediately have to drop the price by a large margin. Haha but it’s part of owning tech I guess!

It depends on how much money you make per project. If I made 60k so what about losing 3 grand. If you are not making money you should be renting anyway.

Amaran is truly portable solution, you can hold it in your hand, you can carry it in a bag, while walking in the woods, filming some autumn scenes, you can attach it to the cheap stand you bought 12 years ago for your first Yongnuo 460 flash and $8 umbrella. LS 60d/x at the time of its release was positioned like portable light too, but this is far from the truth. With the power supply it is a very heavy unit. And it has some disadvantages: You can use amaran as a soft source, but LS 60 is not able to fill a regular 90cm softbox. The tilt mechanism with teeth is very "stepped", it constantly irritates me. The lens is very effective, but you can use a fresnel attachment on a regular source and get a good result. Also Bi-color X version of the LS takes a huge penalty for the output, but this is not the case for Amaran lights - D and X versions of Amaran almost equal in output. And it is worth to mention that at the time of release, a spotlight mini zoom was advertised along with LS 60d/x, but this is a bulky, heavy and not very effective combination. I think that Amaran spotlight made it obsolete. Overall, it seemed like they wanted to develop some system of these fixtures and accessories for them, as an alternative to Dedolights, but then they changed their minds and abandoned this system, along with other relatively consumer grade and inexpensive products from Aputure brand. Given all that, and the fact that they released a new, "S" version of the amaran, i would advise not to bother with the LS 60d/x if you just a mere mortal creator, and not some gaffer guy. It's a good product, but amaran is much more versatile.

Loving the videos bro. Is the KX autofocus actually reliable now?

Does it shoot cinema/film style video like the R5C?

1:23 @whoismatt 😂

Looking forward to further updates, super interested in lowlight capability! I'm definitely in need of a lower spec camera to hand off footage to churches faster! Currently own a Komodo and Komodo X, have been entertaining the idea of trading my Komodo for a canon body and just having the KX + a Canon. I've done a lot of work with the Fx3 and it's amazing but I don't know if I'd own one just due to me having canon glass. Been trying my best to not just fall into the cycle of constantly buying gear and using what I've got. Appreciate the time you put into youtube as well as your involvement on the facebook group!

You saved my life. This is such a helpful tutorial. Thank you

Camera CZcams is full of people just criticizing every camera for what it lacks and what others apparently do better. Your video was very informative and fair. However I myself have *one* criticism of the Zf: Nikon made this as a retro and thus of course photo centric camera. Their decision then to go with a rotating screen instead of a tilting one just doesn't make sense to me. The possibility to hide the screen cannot be reason enough for this decision. And if it would have been that important to the designers I would've liked to get a tilted screen that turns fully around.

timecode is unnecessary if you use a program like pluraleyes or syncaila. it's 2024, timecode is obsolete for any serious filmmaker

Interesting! I don't know anything about Diety, man. I've been rocking with my boom mic for about 2 years. I got the Sennheiser mke-600 and that was love since day one. It's, as you probably know, an XLR mic, so I got a converter XLR to mini XLR for my Blackmagic, but now with the new boy in the house (the Komodo) I was thinking about getting an external audio recorder (by the way, the audio in the Komodo sounds pretty good), and I was thinking to get the Zoom H5, then the H6, to hook my mic directly into the external recorder, but they're a bit bulky..... then I heard about the Zoom F3, which also has 32 bit float, but I don't know where to place it.... ALL that to say that I'm confused and need to advise, lol. Thanks for all the good info as always!

Great video man! - weather is starting to get better around here to where it actually feels good to be filming outside 😂

you ever use the zoom f3? wondering if this has better sound quality, the size and internal timecode is tempting

I’m loving the PR II as well. Looking forward to grabbing a few more

It's hilarious the early previews of r5 ii say the wobble was fixed. Not even close, still terrible on the corners at in first minute of video. Pretty cool recorder though. Enjoy your content.

How are you find the camera for panning? Is there a jelly effect?

Here for you brother. +1 on a kick ass future.

Great video. Thumbs up for full size HDMI and Folder Organization. I apprecate getting to watch you turn the gain all the way up and down, that was helpful. Hope you're well brother!

I want it!

How do you find the 4k60 and 4k120 quality compared to other cameras like the Z8?

Don‘t you miss an assignable button to toggle waveform on and off? For me it‘s annoying to block a huge portion of my composition (especially in the evf)

I Custom mapped buttons to enable false color *shrug*

For film makers I wouldn’t even consider this camera. The Z8 has reached a peak in terms of what a hybrid camera can achieve. The R5C too with its many downsides such as the lack of IBIS, terrible AF and battery life. Now that red will ditch rf, it’s time to go Sony or Nikon. Canon is not gonna be the leader in hybrids.

Dynamic range is worst that the original R5….🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️canon sucks

Thanks Tyler.. with the recording time limits and file formats what is the best quality you think you can go to where overheating and camera turning off wouldn't be an issue? (1080p only..4k in a simpler format?) Ie. I would film the occasional long event like a wedding or a school concert.. so wondering if this camera could cope if I don't mind a bit of compromise on the really high end file formats? Thanks!

Thanks for sharing 👍

WATCHING "4K VIDEO" ON SMALL PHONE SCREEN, VERTICALLY.