Hi Guys,
I feel my head hurts right now... for the past few years I have had great pleasure in using my Canon 600D for small projects and building my corporate videography business, I have built up a good collection of lenses, lights and stabilisation.
However I am getting to the point now where I feel the 600D is finding its limitations and I want to move up to the next level. I have shot a few times with a rented 5DMK3 and it blew me away image wise and I instantly noticed the difference in image quality especially in low light (filmed a music concert).
I also over the summer used a C100 for filming the Tour De France for a client. Again I loved using that camera and felt at home with it, I like it felt a bit of a move away from the DSLR style and back to a video camera of sorts.
Now on to today, the 5DMK3 and C100 are out of my price range... The 3 cameras that have caught my eye are:
Panasonic GH4
Sony a7s
Blackmagic (BMPCC, Cinema or Production)
They are in my budget range.... I just feel I am going around in circles with deciding and I feel its a big decision to not get right.
The bulk of my work is corporate/wedding which is obviously sometimes a bit run and gun and also a lot of the time I do not have time to set up lights etc and kind of just film with the environment I have got.
The GH4 seems a good all round camera (but does still look and feel like a DSLR), The A7s has really attracted me with the image look and quality, the low light capability and some of its options, finally the Blackmagic cameras I really like esp the Pocket Camera due to its price would allow me to get some nice glass too.
On the down side... The a7s is the top end of budget, am I paying just for the low light capability, I have no lenses for Sony.
The Blackmagic has some issues that worry me, like battery life! (20 mins really?) and the small sensor size so inability to capture nice wide shots, which I do like to use a lot.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I know I could scour other threads and I have watched so many youtube comparisons and videos, I just feel a bit lost with it all! haha
I feel my head hurts right now... for the past few years I have had great pleasure in using my Canon 600D for small projects and building my corporate videography business, I have built up a good collection of lenses, lights and stabilisation.
However I am getting to the point now where I feel the 600D is finding its limitations and I want to move up to the next level. I have shot a few times with a rented 5DMK3 and it blew me away image wise and I instantly noticed the difference in image quality especially in low light (filmed a music concert).
I also over the summer used a C100 for filming the Tour De France for a client. Again I loved using that camera and felt at home with it, I like it felt a bit of a move away from the DSLR style and back to a video camera of sorts.
Now on to today, the 5DMK3 and C100 are out of my price range... The 3 cameras that have caught my eye are:
Panasonic GH4
Sony a7s
Blackmagic (BMPCC, Cinema or Production)
They are in my budget range.... I just feel I am going around in circles with deciding and I feel its a big decision to not get right.
The bulk of my work is corporate/wedding which is obviously sometimes a bit run and gun and also a lot of the time I do not have time to set up lights etc and kind of just film with the environment I have got.
The GH4 seems a good all round camera (but does still look and feel like a DSLR), The A7s has really attracted me with the image look and quality, the low light capability and some of its options, finally the Blackmagic cameras I really like esp the Pocket Camera due to its price would allow me to get some nice glass too.
On the down side... The a7s is the top end of budget, am I paying just for the low light capability, I have no lenses for Sony.
The Blackmagic has some issues that worry me, like battery life! (20 mins really?) and the small sensor size so inability to capture nice wide shots, which I do like to use a lot.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I know I could scour other threads and I have watched so many youtube comparisons and videos, I just feel a bit lost with it all! haha