Re: The new Nikon Z8 vs the Sony A7RV and potential A9III
molson wrote: Steve Spencer wrote: molson wrote: Steve Spencer wrote:
You do realize that most Hollywood movies are shot with primes.
You do realize more and more Hollywood movies are being done in CGI - no lenses required.
As for birds and wildlife, which are the more prevalent subjects for cameras like the A1 and Z9, that genre of professional cinematography is done using zoom lenses 99% of the time.
The number of Hollywood movies being done exclusively with CGI is still minuscule and when they do use shoot images with lenses and almost all such movies do they almost always use primes. My point was simply primes can certainly be used for video work and they often are. What matters is the what, where, and how you are shooting. Certainly wildlife, in wild settings, in less than optimal light is video that will almost always use a zoom. I'm not much interested in that type of video, but if you are then yes by all means definitely consider a zoom for that type of work. That is consistent with my larger my point, what lens makes sense for video depends on the subject, setting, and the extent you can predict what is going to happen, and there is a ton of video work when a prime makes a lot more sense than a zoom.
The even larger point is, what does anything done in fantasyland have to do with either the Sony A or the Nikon Z8/Z9?
Well since asked I would have thought that it was obvious if primes are used in the highest level of video shooting, then that demonstrates that primes are not "a fail," as was claimed.
May 21, 2023 at 10:01 AM
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