I used the Alexa 35 and regret it..

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[eleventhvision]

Good on you for being honest about this payload. Most ppl would just boast about how they used the Alexa and how amazing it was 😂

[mittaw]

Alexa 35 is a heavy duty cam. Especially if you chose to film it with an Angenieux zoom lens. Every time I've used that cam, I'm exhausted at the end of the day, but the footage is so beautiful and very forgiving. Not every production needs an Arri, but some projects deserve that image quality.

[maxmuster]

Holy, that was a ride, thank you so much for making this video, situations like that are so typical on each and everyone filmmakers journey, but it's not shown often. It was very informative and I am sure it helped a lot of people, easy subscribe

[thegospelcallTGC]

Great advise for all most of Hollywood and a lot of indie filmmakers. I need to learn this lesson myself.

[CineDailies]

Great insight on the 35 with a skeleton crew. Thanks for sharing!

[PandoShiro]

great retrospective and very very true that if you've went with FX3 package, you'd def get more padding for lens options, lighting, portable power and an AC to help you on the shoot, huge lifesavers!

[mark.tipple]

Rigged out two Gemini's with Canon 17-120's and shoulder rigged Ezyrigs for a 17 day shark shoot, on and off boats and jetskis and choppers, on day 2 we ditched the 17-120's for Rokinon primes to lighten the load then were handheld by day 5, the footage became way more on theme without the bulk.

[germanl]

I see the boys are killing it!! Great stuff bro. 👌

[frederickgomoll]

Next time use the lightweight handle. You will loose a lot of weight. 🙂Also loose the Dovetail system below the camera completely. Plus you can loose the production kit Lemo port on the back.

[TheJ_G]

I made this mistake recently for most of the same reason’s with a fully rigged out Blackmagic 12k. It was a fast paced shoot with limited time available to the location/actors and I foolishly brought a 20+ LBS camera setup. I know better, too, which makes it especially painful in retrospect.

[_jesam]

I think on this project you should have gone for something like fx9, Burano, Fx6, CANON c70, C400 etc this are cameras perfect on the Go. Since you don’t have much crew and you’re the one doing most of the work.

[palpafilms]

Great video buddy, loads of great advice.

[LuisGrolez]

Blackmagic also has a super intuitive UI & UX

[scon]

i think the sentiment of this video is important and a valuable lesson, but tbh, these images, along with your grade are stunning and would be very hard to emulate on a sony fx3. Its not to say the video itself, or the experience working on it, might not have been better with an fx3 overall, but the image fidelity is something very special.

[G_Gued]

Man, pulling focus on an Alexa 35 and Angenieux with a Hollyland Mars TX/RX is crazy work. How was the latency?

[antonzavarzin]

Is manual focus worth a hustle for solo filmmaker without a AC puller? Thinking about buying sigma/sony 24/70 or a set of vintage lenses or cinema glass.

[hudsonhower]

i have an alexa35 and i grab my fx6 75% of the time

[psysword]

Panasonic gh6 comes in very close to PQ and I love the light lenses. This is all unnecessary.

[diegofjedi]

Bro hollylands have latency but is it posible to take focus with it. Go wired sounds like an excuse

[thisisfilmatic]

why am I not subbed to you bruh...fixd that.