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An Ikonoskop A-Cam DII for my personal video projects/films........or film itself with a S16 Aaton Xtera.

For work projects I rent/hire whatever camera bests suits the project at hand. With digital video equipment things change so much and so often that I've found it's foolish to try to buy gear, it's outdated as you are unpacking the box.

 

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The SL is quite good, the Olympus EM-1.2 with stabilization is also good, and both had nice lenses and are paid for.  They are certainly not state of the art, but handle family events with near professional quality.  In order to handle recording beyond 29 minutes, I invested in a separate external audio recorder which can run continuously, but that may be overkill for most of us.

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I am considering a camcorder maybe sony. I think it is smaller that having another camera w video. I have the oly em5.2 but af is not great.

Mainly using it for family events and to see faces drift out of focus is a bit annoying.

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besides cell phones? Why?

I own Sony cameras as well, but I rarely use the video feature and would have purchased them even if they didn't have it.

I wouldn't buy an m10 if video was the least bit important. My preferred tool for motion actually is the iPhone but I only use it for nonsense stuff once in awhile. 

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I have only rarely done video capture, but almost all the useful bits I've done were done with an iPhone, with an occasional stab at it using Leica SL, Olympus E-M1, and so forth.

Lately, though, I purchased a RYLO 360° spherical action cam and am having a ball learning how to use it (which resolves down to learning how to edit the files it produces). For giggles, here's a little video of a ride over a nearby pedestrian/cycling bridge that I rendered in in the maximum wide-angle mode called "tiny world": https://youtu.be/R3EknrOFhqU

:D

 

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Sony DSC-RX100 for ultimate portability. However, I usually prefer an external shotgun-type microphone. So for more "static" situations I use my Canon EOS 5DS R and for moving subjects a mirrorless with a microphone port. For this purpose I recently upgraded from a Sony NEX-5 to a Canon EOS M5. In my opinion, on-sensor phase detect autofocus (dual pixel) is a very useful feature combined with larger sensors and faster lenses (more shallow DOF), particularly when shooting fast-moving subjects like children. This technology is not likely to show up in an upcoming M...

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On 12/1/2018 at 5:43 PM, ianman said:

SodAll 2.0

Would like to try this sometime. I presume it is software of some kind.

 I use an iPhone or a Huawei P20 (these are not cell phones where I live - we used to call them mobiles, now they are just smartphones) in the unlikely event that I need to record something etc. The quality is good enough for me, but it is not something to which I give any thought. The last time I shot any extensive video was about 9 years ago and I used a Lumix GH1, now long gone.

William

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