Originally posted by normhead So, you think that Sony has a better reputation than Canon in ILC cameras, and that is going to save Sony? That seems to be the implication. Maybe you've lived in some TV studio realty that has nothing to do with consumer cameras and that makes a difference to you, and maybe to all the other studio techs, but i doubt the bunch of you are enough to save Sony from Canon moving into MILC.
We've been hearing Canon for video for at least 10 years.
At the high end, broadcast television does use Sony professional cameras. Indies do often use dSLR’s and MILC’s.
My daughter* tells me she tried to produce broadcast news with 5D’s. They liked the Canon color profile, but the videographers couldn’t pull focus as well with the ergonomics. The Canons went away, the Sonys came out of the storage closet and the togs were happy. More relaxed feature piece Producers sometimes order stringers who shoot Canon 5D’s. The network wrote a color emulator to process their Sony B-roll and eventually started processing the live feed real-time for Breaking.
My son sees sports videographers shooting Sony MILC’s using complex viewing loupes (instead of using the EVF), complex wind-shielded mikes and ‘Steadicam’ rigs at every College and High School Lacrosse game he shoots**. As complex as these rigs are it isn’t clear to him why they don’t shoot pro video cameras. (They don’t like the weight and size of the traditional video gear). He shoots a 7D / 24-70 and runs. Pro still shooter teams he knows - the first uses two bodies, one with a medium zoom and one with a 70-200 or a 300, and the second shoots a 600 on a monopod, usually APSc.
IMO there is an honest divide between how practical professionals use gear and how advanced amateurs / enthusiasts use gear (and how they
think professional use it).
* Daughter was Operations Producer for a Network nightly news broadcast for ten years until last summer. Operations Producer manages the team that processes the B-roll, assists with arranging remotes (mostly the satellite feeds), and schedules the live news broadcast to the second.
** My son owns a Lacrosse Equipment retail business and shoots games to promote the business on social media.