I'm utilizing the R5C more these days just to get familiar with it.The idea that one changes from stills to video with the flip of a switch is kind of an over simplification. Setting either camera up to do quality video, unless you happen to be in the perfect lighting situation, requires a minimum of putting on a microphone, variable ND filter, and if one really wants to do it right, a rig of some sort and an external monitor recorder. I was shooting yesterday with the R5C and I thought that I'd get a quick video clip, switched over to the cinema mode and found myself having to shoot at a shutter speed of 1250 at iso 100 in order to get a decent exposure.
I'm thinking about configuring the "C" for video, fully decked out, including a V Mount battery and the Ninja V+ and using it solely for video. Even if you have all that stuff sitting in the case with the camera, it takes 20 minutes or so to bolt it all up and configure it.
The R5 and R5C, along with RF glass has me wondering if I should hang on to my beloved 200-400/1.4 EF. I imagine its a bit faster focus than the 100-500RF, and it's sharp as a tack, but so is the 100-500RF. I'm going to run a few tests and based upon what I discover, the EF might be on it's way to a new home. The EF 200-400 is a stellar optic, "but the times they are a changin' "
On the off chance anyone here would love to have a brand new Ronin S2 Pro gimbal stabilizer set up, I'm going to sell mine for $500, a couple hundred under B&H pricing. It's an incredible gimbal and will carry any DSLR up through the 1DXII and some cinema cameras. This gimbal has had a camera on it once to balance it, it is out of the box perfect.
Last week while photographing a G-550 jet for a client, this Airbus A-350 was departing back to London Heathrow. Austin, TX has TWO non-stops a day to LHR, one with BA and another with Virgin Atlantic. My how things have changed with this long range, fuel efficient aircraft like the A-350 and B-787.
Thank you Karl! Those flights with these little ones are really precious. The responsibility is tremendous, I hope it means as much to them as it does to me. Chandler and I have flown that Cub well over 100 hours together and now when we're up, he does most of the flying.
