Thanks Jan, that’s super helpful. I’m definitely not planning on filling it up and wiping it daily :-) Michael Sanders: London based Cinematographer/Director of Photography. reel/credits/kit: www.mjsa

Andy, I’ve just taken delivery of a new MacBook Pro with a 2TB SSD. I went for a larger SSD as I’ve read that the new unified memory architecture means you could edit with footage on the system drive

I insist assistants put cards in the plastic card case and then wrap the tape around the case. To me it has always felt more secure (especially if you go round the case a few times) and it stops bits

FWIW Sync n Link for FCP X from Intelligent Assitant is also very good and very quick. Obviously there are other tools but it might be worth investigating. I can imagine FCP X, Compressor and and new

Alfonso. Have you done a comparison between Scinetone at 320 and at High base 1600 ISO? I’ve struggled to see any difference between the two but would love to know what you think. Michael. Michael San

Andrew. All very good points, I was thinking purely along the lines of picture matching but off course its not just the pictures. The weight is a real problem, I’ve just come of the phone to a friend

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Roberto.. It maybe worth trying to get your hands on an A7s3 or an FX6, effectively the same camera but the FX6 has TC in and Variable ND where as the A7s has no variable ND or TC in but does has IBIS

Interestingly by default if I’m supplying drives I’ll now just supply SSDs (either T5 or Sandisk). When clients baulk at the cost I just send them the difference in time to offload a card to SSD and t

This is especially true in the corporate world, a lot of whom now have in house post prod departments. There are lots of factors at work there such as availability of storage (when getting IT to sign

One thing about LED Walls to watch is morie. I was filming at an event a few weeks back and the person was standing about 6 foot away and the wall was dancing away. FWIW I was on an F55 shooting HD on

There’s a presenter in the UK (who is an absolute joy to work with) but she has skin that verges into green sometimes. We’ve discussed it a lot a and she’s changed make up several times but it still h

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Annoyingly Panasonic have removed the Vimeo app from the App Store so I can’t help :-( Michael Michael J Sanders London based Cinematographer/DP Mobile: +44 (0) 7976 269818 Web: www.mjsanders.co.uk

In case no one seen this: Nikon are to add raw to the Z7 https://nikonrumors.com/2019/01/07/breaking-nikon-to-add-cfexpress-eye-af-and-raw-video-support-to-the-z-mirrorless-cameras.aspx/amp/?__twitter

Didn’t Canon have it for a while as well, where to download the driver you had to put in a camera serial no... really helpful when under pressure in an edit. Michael Michael J Sanders: Director of Pho

Have you tried Catalyst Browse? That shows a lot of metadata, possibly including filter settings. Michael Sanders: Director of Photography. London based but works globally. reel/credits/kit: www.mjsan

As I understand it, the sensor on the FS7 is the same as the F5, and they can certainly produce great pics, especially if you over expose a bit. Michael Sanders: Director of Photography. London based

Different light possibly. Shape in the eyes looks subtly different and there’s less wrap on the top shot as the shadow feels marginally harsher. Michael Michael J Sanders: Director of Photography Mobi

Thought I’d linked to this already but it’s amazing.. This, I kid you not is where I was watching the RAF 100 flypast from.. http://w3w.co/films.waving.camera Michael Sanders: Director of Photography.