Which Cinema Camera is Best? Sony Burano vs Sony FX9

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This is a longer test and review of the much anticipated Sony Burano. Being a long time FX9 owner/operator (and FS7), I wanted to see how these camera matched up in an outdoor wildlife setting without lights, gimmicks and glamour.

In this camera test, we shot in Super 35 to see how this camera would perform and because it's wildlife (specifically Bald Eagles) we wanted to punch in to get more distance. Wish I had a longer lens in some instances but pumped to get these images.

My initial thoughts - I thought the Burano image was superb and in a lot ways was much more easier to operate than my FX9. I hope to buy one...one day.. ;)

Cameras: Sony Burano, Sony FX9, Sony A7S3 (BTS)
Lenses: Sony 100-400 GM, Sony 200-600 GM, 1.4 teleconverter
Thanks to: Alex Anderson (DP), and Vault Rentals (for the cool shirt!)

0:00 Intro
0:59 Using the Sony Burano
1:39 Ergonomics
2:07 Using the Sony FX9
3:07 Autofocus
4:53 Image Quality
7:57 Which Camera is Best?

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Agreeded! I’m super happy with my Fx9’s. I have two of them and i love the fact that my two fx9’s with accessories is still a few grand cheaper than 1 Burano with no accessories. Both cameras are so close in performance and image quality i feel no need to chase a Burano. Even though i respect what it is and i do (even on YouTube) see the slightly more cinematic image quality. Not much more Sony can do if they release a fx9 mk ii so I’m hoping to get another few years out of my fx9’s. For the shows I do Reality and live shows it’s all we need for the foreseeable future.

corey

Burano user here. Wish they add eye tracking for birds / animals. Great job Zach! Keep the videos coming!

nimrod

Great video, My experience is different. At super 35, both of these cameras are very similar, but the xocn is amazing in post from the burano. I also started using 8k for socials so we end up with a close and wide shot at the same time, and of course the Ibis for wildlife. The Ibis on the burano is amazing, I am yet to experience anything remotely close to that on a PL or cine glass, and it gets even smoother sony master lenses. I've been using 6k 50fps for wildlife in xocn, so much data but the grades on the final product is just mind blowing.

LoungearoundTV

I completely agree with your point on auto focus. Shooting with autofocus makes me nervous because I don't know when its gonna fail on me. It does not really matter how accurate or fast it is, when it ruins your shot its on you. For me a camera that can't be confidently operated manually is not really a professional camera. And people these days get way to reliant on tech. I once hired a guy for a sports match just to cover a crowd, he came with gimbal and A7SIII and nearly all his shots were unusable due to autofocus constantly refocusing, jumping from face to face.

jeffsaffron

Manual focus will always be king when you've only got one chance like wildlife.

joelawryDOP

Just sold my FX9 as I am going to C400. My main issues with the FX9 is that I must crop in on the sensor to get slowmo, and once I do that I lose the amazing autofocus. With that said the camera loses its main point by being full frame for me. And every time you switch between different crop modes the camera forgets what FPS you had set in S&Q mode. That’s just so bad.

All this while they release FX6 barely a year after the FX9 where they actually fixed most of the issues that plagues the FX9. Did Sony at least release an update for us FX9 users? Nope, they just ignored us.

I reached out to several places to see how much I could get for my FX9 if I traded it in for a C400, and 3 out of 5 places didn’t want it at all. They said that FX9 sales have dropped to almost zero.

I had my FS7 for 8 years, loved it. FX9 made me walk away from Sony to Canon. The C400 does almost everything the Burano does for 1/4 of the price.

sa.t.

Just picked up an FX9 for great price. Looking forward to shooting some footage with it.

chris

did you try touch focus tracking with the eagles, sort of a pain as you would have to tap the EVF once, but wonder if it would hold better that the normal AF mode . Or does Burano have bird / animal eye setting ?

robinprobyn

Interesting comparison Zach, thanks. What do you think about the new Blackmagic Ursa Cine 12K? It looks great for wildlife cinematography: you can shoot in 4K, 8K or 12K using the entire FF sensor without cropping, retaining the full field of view of your lenses. And the Super 35 mode is 9K! In terms of high frame rates, you can shoot 100 fps in 12K, 17:9 or 120 fps in 12K, 2.4:1 widescreen. For higher frame rates, you can shoot 144 fps at 8192 x 5360, 180 fps at 8192 x 3408 and even capture 8K 2.4:1 widescreen at an incredible 224 fps at 8, 192 x 3, 408. Sensor read-out speed is like 6 ms (Burano is 18 ms). And it is $10K US less than the Burano at $15K US (including 8TB of internal media) . Since you prefer manual focus the lack of AF shouldn't be a deal breaker for you. And the B-raw workflow with Davinci is more straightforward than dealing with XOCN.

phrasalsyntax