In auto racing they can film cars going 150mph, slow down the video, and it's so clear you can read the words on the tire. I remember seeing that one time and thinking that's why the cameras cost so much. That's just incredible.
Technically that’s possible with other cameras as well. You will need to use faster shutter speed to get sharp photos of fast moving objects and big aperture with good sensor to account for the lost light.
now do that in a slightly dark place, you'll capture nothing, even in a well lit place, the video will look much darker. Fast shutter speed doesn't capture a lot of light . @@themisir
As a professional camera operator myself, with 20 years of experience, I have to say that the info on this video is absolutely correct and up to date. Excellent camerawork, sound, directing and video editing also.
It’s been a dream of mine for a while and I was wondering how you get into the business. I know so much about the production industry apart from where to start!
As a cinematographer, its impressive when it come down to convenience to manning the rig alone. Where I need to orchestrate a few people to achieve the same thing with a focus puller or someone racking the f-stops on my old arriflex set up. The thing i wonder is why the camera is still using 2/3? Is there disadvantage moving the camera to larger sensor and lens manufacturers? edit: also call me old fashion, but i never trust a servo lens or a lcd screen, I still bust out my light meter and measuring tape when I plan out accuracy which of course can't be done efficiently in broadcast
The production is indeed very good, but I would point out that at 0:11, 0:21, 1:29, 6:45 and 6:54 the lens cover is still on the lens which is why the poor camera operator can't see anything in the viewfinder - except at 0:21 where it's a replay via the return feed.... just sayin'
O sir i learn from u.... It is really very overwhelming that how a great personality ever know the another great one around... So much thanks for ur best Photoshop tutorials...helps alot...
Finally a camera operator who doesn't want to sound smart by throwing a bizzare range of lingo about all the technical stuff. Rather gets to the point. And does an extremely good job at that.
"throwing a bizarre range of lingo" isn't trying to sound smart. They are smart and doesn't need to bring themselves down to your level to satisfy your lack of vocabulary.
@@WoodiePlays Real smart person should have the ability to make complex things sound simple, so more people could understand it. They're not bringing themselves down by doing that, but lifting other people together to achieve equal understanding. Being arrogant and condescending on the other hand, only vocalise your insecurity towards your own intellect.
aluisious I agree. It almost didn’t seem possible, the speed that the lens could go from wide to ultra telephoto (while perfectly maintaining focus), snapping back and forth like that... Live TV has such different requirements than narrative productions that can take a year to shoot.
Knowing very little about cameras, filming etc. wasn't enough to stop me from enjoying this video. Absolutely amazing and something that's enjoyable for all to watch
Why would that make sense? The most popular channels are streamers with zero quality... The biggest blockbuster films tend to be shot the worst... Quality does not go along with popularity very often. Usually safe and bland is needed for anything to be popular.
Why would you even press dislike button when this much effort and information is put in one single video for absolutely free? Thanks man, great job and informative video!
Because that is how you guide the UA-cam recommendations? Like and dislike are not supposed to reflect quality but if the video fits what you personally want to have recommended to you or not. Video popularity in general goes up with interactions but the like and dislike will shape what UA-cam decides to show you.
Disgruntled introspective hipsters that are too cool for broadcast TV (probably still angry that Final Cut Pro self destructed) these were probably the same that left AVID for FCP. hahahahaha
Red spends most of its effort in taking consumer level, off-the-shelf components and making them proprietary and then many times more expensive. (Like their scammy storage bits and "custom" connectors)
Those episodes about the broadcast camera-lens-systems are so incredibly well produced, nice sounds, nice images, nice pacing, nice narration. Very well done, I really was tied to the screen!
After the lens part: "I understand why they cost so much". ..... and then we have the camera, which has a bunch of features not available on anything else.
@@57thorns I didn't knew the part about the buttons, but it makes sense, if you want certain setting tweaked like right NOW, you don't have time to navigate menus, just touch a button. I guess that's why cameraman is a job, not a hobby, you need lots of training to operate that thing.
They're really not. the only part of the camera that is expensive or hard to manufacture is the Processing in the camera and the lenses. All of that other stuff is dirt cheap and common place in pretty much every industry.
As a professional Cameraoperator working with these lenses I have to say that this video is absolutly briliant. The next time when I will be asked why this cameras are so expensive I will give them the link to this video. Thank you for your great job on this. Your channel is added now.
20 years ago I started as camera and technical assistent in a big Austrian television and Filmproduction. After 7 years learning from many great cameraoperators and DOPs, I got the chance to do camera by the first daily soap in Austria. I did a good job, lucky me. if I did a bad job , maybe today I would not be a cameraoperator. Till that I do camera on sportevents, konzerts, tv shows, news, and so on. But I also do documentaries and ENG stuff.
Can you please tell me how can a person can get into the jobs like this? And how do you earn and how do you and how much you earn from this? Please make a video for that if possible
@@thr6453 Honestly, it's all down to experience and who you know. Start building up a portfolio of work that you can show to potential employers. Get involved with any opportunities you can to do this kind of thing, paid or unpaid. In the UK, the salary for a camera operator is about average or a hair above. It's okay, but nothing amazing.
This video has shown up in my feed for 3 years. I never clicked it because it's a topic I'm too familiar with. Great graphics and the sound design was superb.
@@teamsconcierge3177 "Unless you live in New Zealand and then it's the same as a deposit on a house." Or Vancouver, BC. Current Vancouver MLS® stats indicate an average house price of $1,335,771 and 1,773 new listings in the last 28 days. As of today, Vancouver housing data shows median days on market for a home is 19 days. P.S. New Zealand seems very nice, but like Vancouver, very very expensive.
@@GalileoAV having done multiple parts of sound and lighting in school, i quickly realised spot is not as easy as it seems, its heavy and dang hot work without decent ventilation.
As a former broadcast camera operator, thanks! This video does a great job of clearly explaining the kind of work I did and equipment used for over 20 years.
@@starmorpheus oh yeah? Have you tried recording the moon with your phone camera? You’re talking out of your ass buddy, phone cameras can’t capture any level of detailed required when what is being recorded allegedly are tiny lights in the sky lmao.
@@macberg5806 Then why was there an influx of home-made videos of supposed "proof" of UFOs since the early 2000s to mid 2010s? People believed those videos then, and still believe them now. Even when there is unrefutable proof that all those videos (Aside from the ones disclosed by the Pentagon) are all false.
But how much do ABC sports make in advertising revenue during a football game? Your equipment budget directly correlates with your revenue or expected revenue. How much does it cost to get a good camera person to operate that and a production manager to manage multiple cameras as well as the assorted technicians that support them? The equipment is part of the whole package. As you saw unless you're doing this every day you rent the equipment and hire the people on a project basis with upfront money for the initial setup and then count on making a profit on the back end. You only buy it when you are big enough to need it for every event you film and produce on a daily or weekly basis or if you're making a dozen films in a studio a month. Its all about scale!
@@kerndama No doubt, you need a $1/4 million camera with focus stabilization out to 300 meters to record a reporter sitting behind the desk in a lighted studio like you need a Lamborghini to go to the bathroom.
@@kerndama this is for tv not film, film has equally expensive lenses that are much less versatile but have even fewer tradeoffs, its not uncommon to spend several million on film lenses
That zoom just so satisfactory and so unreal. It actually doesn't even feel expensive anymore when you see what it can do instead you wonder how the hell did Fuji manage to make it within under this price range.
@@Nordlicht05 When the audience starts to care then UA-camrs will film these things with their own cameras or phones? That is what you wrote. What were you trying to say though?
My daughter did photography at College and took Amazing close up pictures of the craters on the moon with nothing more than a Nikon Digital camera £50 and a brick wall for the tripod. I know I'm biased but penny for penny her pictures were very impressive.
@@stephenjones9153 Pictures and video are two wholy different animals. A camera can be cheap as dirty. cause it only needs to snap 1 frame. where as these cameras need to take 24 frames every second in 4-8K resolution with RAW data. often peaking 700Mbps. Anything you can obtain from best buy or stores the like is amature stuff and cant even be compaired to production cameras from the 80s...
I actually shot a couple of college games for ESPN, and here's a fun fact: We didn't control the apertures on our cameras. There was a person in the control room (if we needed them to do something, their call sign over the radio was ISO) who managed the exposure and color balance of the camera. They'd deal with (as their name implied) the gain of the camera, the aperture, color balance, ND, you name it. That way the operators only had to worry about composition (and very occasionally focus). Also: lifting one of those $250K box lenses onto a scissor lift was VERY nerve wracking.
This is very common in a broadcast setup. This, as you indicated, allows the operator to focus on getting the shot. But more importantly, it allows one person in a controlled environment to ensure all the cameras have a consistent look. They have a calibrated monitor for each camera, a vectorscope to check color, and a waveform monitor to check the brightness.
Quite right. But we had ours managed via the software automatically while shooting fight nights. I must admit as well, that we were achieving reputable results on gear worth a fraction of the cost. As in less than 1/10th of a $150k cam.
Thats mainly because once you gain a bigger audience, more people are converted from first time viewer to subscriber faster compared to small channels that need the quality to impress a smaller amount of people. No doubt anyone would just go vlog style if it didnt matter.
No, it's overproduced to the point of wasting the viewer's time. He could have conveyed this information far more quickly. He never gave us a good look at the tripod. As they say: "SHOW us, don't TELL us." He also forgot power and storage.
@@jaythunder551 TV lenses only needed to be good enough for TV broadcast, which was low resolution. Today broadcasts are done in much higher resolution than before, but I don't think it's as high resolution as film. So, this lens, and the camera, might not be sharp enough to make a modern movie.
Amazing video. Never knew I was curious about this, but you broke down everything clearly to where now I'm super excited about broadcast cameras. You look at them and you immediately think old/outdated (at least I did). Definitely flipped the script on me with this one. Great job man.
Yet the DSLR is an IQ that's WAY better than a broadcast camera (rolling shutter etc aside). I laughed my ass off when I found out how TINY the sensors they use are. 4:21
I didn’t have high hopes for the accuracy or pertinence of information contained in this video, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Very well done indeed and highly accurate! I spent 35 years working with these beasts with a major broadcaster in North America. The video brought back some good memories and reminded me that I didn’t miss carrying all that bulky (but necessary) weight. Not at all 😉 Again, well done!
It's deffinitly one of those cases where you just can't shrink everything, it's the same as people wondering why DSLRs still exist, phone cameras are actually pretty terrible in some situations such as long focal lengths, manual controls, long exposure, and so on. I got a Canon Rebel T6 mostly for astrophotography and learned first hand just how much more it can do. Having done that now, the capabilities of those broadcast cameras make a lot of sense.
I'm pretty sure my local network station just shoots its broadcasts with cell phones and does its audio production through Air-pods with a couple of potentiometers. This is to match both the quality of the content and the quality of the broadcast over the air. If anything more is needed, they just depend on the national network or an independent contractor who has a Wowgo.
I used to work for a full service TV broadcast studio. Every time we got a request for a smaller production I had to discuss our camera rental prices. People just didn't understand that the technology is much more complex and high-end than a small DSLR for a UA-cam production. I wish I could have just sent this video along at the time.
It seems that the bandwagon of 'cheap digital gear' creates a mentality that is oblivious to engineering aspects of lens functionality and camera control that is much harder to do on the cheap!
The costs have come down quite a bit though that you can now get cheaper gear that will often outperform the big, bulky ENG cameras from just a few short years ago. Like you're paying tens of thousands for an XDCAM, which still only has a 2/3'' or even a 1/2'' sensor, where as Sony's own FS7 has a full frame sensor that produces some really nice cinema quality video, and costs nearly half as much. But it largely depends on what you're doing with it. I'd still use a proper EFP setup for sports. I don't think those cheaper cameras work with CCUs. Plus the big boys support those monster lenses. But for news and documentaries, those bulky ENG cameras should be relegated to the scrap heap. Camera operators have given enough money to the chiropractic industry. lol
@MLWATKK Yes, I have a Canon, and my whole setup, probably would cost around $8K, for camera, both lenses I have, tripod, mic with wind-reduction cover, LED light, extra battery, carry case, etc. Thankfully I got some of that on trade in, and I won a giveaway at a store for some gear, but that would still assume being able to change lenses. And for affordable video, the Sony camcorders are about $1000, but they don't have good depth of field, the lighting often needs to be edited, and they're super sensitive to motion meaning you need a really fancy tripod. I used one on hard wood floor, and a kid ran by it and shook it. My dad was able to wire up a way to be able to control zoom on his Sony camcorder from a greater distance, but most aren't compatible with that, so you also need whatever staging to put the operator into the right position to do everything. It's a lot of post-production work, to get anything under $20K to look anywhere as good as live TV.
@@MmntechCaThese Sonys were around for years now and produce a extremely more pleasing picture imho compared to cropped sensor cameras like the usual big ones in the studio. And yea they are cheaper but you know what the problem is? It’s just not compatible with the control room equipment and the whole studio environment. And most studios only invest big numbers every 20 years or so. Like my ex employer has upgraded the equipment the last time when broadcast stations switched from SD to HD. Some studios are still upscaling from SD 16:9 to HD to save money on equipment. TV is just it’s own universe 😅
Lens manufacturing is one of the disciplines our current civilization has truly mastered, controlling both material properties and surface shapes down to such precision that we can often even reach the limits of physics (diffraction limit), and then we even use these marvels to create artistic and emotional expression. It's something we should keep feeling wonder when we encounter it.
Wisdom is knowing that you can't be correct all the time.... Even after knowing this much about camera n all ...he said correct me if I was wrong somewhere... Amazing man .. I wish his channel gets millions of subs ...
"in broadcast, the camera has to adapt to the environment". Great summation that really drove the point home. This was a great video. I am not even interested in the subject but I found it very interesting the way you explained the features of each component that made it more expensive that the "prosumer" market camera components.
One time I was at a wriggly rooftop that is across from wriggly field in Chicago, and on one of the TVs I saw they got bored and cut to a camera zoomed in on someone painting their house
I’m not even in the industry, but the amount of knowledge I gained from watching this and the fact I was glued to the entire video is a testament to the presenting style and effort that must have gone in to this. Absolutely amazing!
I'm a helicopter broadcast camera operator for years and this video opened my mind about why the hell it's so expensive.. yea, aviation makes the prices go even higher (3x higher in my case) since it has ultra gimbal stabilization included, imagine all this zoom without shaking even with helicopter making turns, wind speed changing, rain, etc. And it being steady just like a high end tripod
Just out of curiosity, does helicopter gimbals still use enormous gyroscopes for stabilization, or have you all moved over to motorized gimbals like drones use?
@@Excludos at least the one I operate has 5-axis gyro + stabilization w/ laser feedback (same laser tech used in missiles), so it won't lose calibration while in use
@@LucasSantanaLopes Holy moley those things are gimbals? I always thought they were just a motorized base and yoke like a moving head light. How are they so much more compact in design than marine gimbals?
Yes, and keep in mind that the market for those cameras is also tiny. A major metropolitan area probably has fewer than a dozen news channels buying them.
As a stills photographer, it's interesting to have a look in to the other side of the industry and drool over all the fancy expensive equipment film makers have. This kit makes my DSLR and lenses look like a kids toy. :D
I'm not over exaggerating when I say I'm 99% sure you have the most professionally made videos on this entire platform in terms of solo creators... hands down.
so that's how those cameras work. that is just a fantastically high spec piece of equipment. I'm just such a huge fan of the extremes of high tech equipment and I love that zoom lens more than anything. I'm amazed that the bulk of the cost is that lens alone. so thanks for getting all those parts together to make this video for us
@@vnkt_yt man, if you don't know who desinc is, then I guess you aren't into the half life community, which is quite unfortunate. I suggest you check his videos out!
TV cameras shrunk quite a lot actually. The benemoth you're seeing is the lens. There's little margin to miniaturization in such item, as you have two constraints fighting against each other. Physics on one side and the need of performance on the other.
@@ClausRust I'm not from the USA and my organs are not in so good condition anyone would want to use them. And if there is anything like cannibal black market, I would have discount price label on me I guess.
It might be online but process of learning it is still point of going to college. I have a degree in mathematics and in a pub when someone wants to sound intellectual by quoting some element of maths of physics they usually get it wrong and I mean simple things like understanding words like "linear" or using the word "exponential" when something increases rapidly. All the knowledge is online and stays there and doesn't enter people's heads unless they go through the difficult process of learning it.
@@matthewbaynham6286 "...when someone wants to sound intellectual by *quoting some element of maths of physics..."* Huh? "they usually get it wrong and I mean simple things... like 'exponential' when something increases rapidly." There's a mathematical definition of exponential and there's a layman's definition of exponential, just like the term 'theory' as it relates to science and as it relates colloquially. You are literally wrong about other people being wrong in the pub.
As a photographer, I clicked on this not to actuallt watch it but to read the comments. I don't think anyone in the main is really asking this, but it does amuse me when people are so blown away by the quality of phone cameras. Phone cameras will never be able to produce what a camera lens that foes on your SLR or mirrorless camera will, so it isn't a surpise that the cinematograpgy and TV cameras haven't got smaller or much cheaper. Take a look at the technology that goes into ARRI Signature Prime Lenses and you will see why they're expensive.
yes, it is often difficult to explain to people why I bought a camera and take pictures with it. they just don't understand why I don't take pictures and can't take pictures on my phone as well.
I'm a landscape photographer and it's pretty common these days to be told by random members of the public that their phone can take the same photos my mirrorless camera can, I just try and explain you can't miniaturise a lens because of the laws of physics, photography is all about capturing light so the more light the better, so a small lens will always limit the range and quality of pictures you can take with it and technology will never override that.
Well, that’s only if your broadcast is live. If you have the chance to take the footage to post, then you don’t need such a specialized gear. You know, if you are no live you can cut camera, move it closer, avoid in camera zooms, etc. Hence you won’t need that fluid head, that tripod and that lens. Not even that monitor.
Kind of a sad statement, isn't it? We're such an advanced species we can create an electrical picture box that's worth more than a human life and designed only to enable couch-dwellers to watch men kick an inflated pig's bladder around in crystal-clear 4k, but we can't solve world hunger.
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III World hunger can probably be solved, but it wouldn't be within any system most people want besides perhaps those going hungry if even them. It can be seen in some non-white immigration to USA, where once someone has moved to the USA they don't want other non-whites to come in because they've already made it. They may even describe anyone else trying to come in as dirty and whatever, because why do they care as they've already made it in. I think this was something that could occur near the Q3-Q4 of 2015. Or just at any time if you bother looking in the right places. Basically anyone that works enough or are lucky enough does not want anyone else to gain as much as them while not working as much or being as lucky as them. Or gain anything at all, as is the case with immigration. They probably know what type of people may come in. If enough people wanted that it would have already happened. One could ask a large group of people, but you can't verify that it is the truth, so you'll have to look at what actually is rather than what people are saying it is. Even if some are honest, it can't be verified and can't count. Some say stuff like "If I work as a surgeon and someone works at McDonald's and make the same money, why would I waste my time working as a surgeon if I could earn just as much at McDonald's?" Which is funny because they're implying you spend all that time in the hopes of saving lives just to..get money? I would think you become a surgeon to save some lives, but I guess it was all about money in the end. I tried to write some stuff about the end of finite resources but eh, it all feels so pointless. I find writing comments fun but not when it turns sour like that so it's all gone now. I edit my comments a lot and UA-cam doesn't update the section so if someone has replied to the text I just deleted, oops. Oops for all the times someone has done that. Just the comments you've commented on in the current page..It sounds easy for UA-cam to implement that.
@D What Herkan said was completely valid and legit, and isn't a result of merely "western philosophy" either. The phenomena of peoples competing and fighting over limited resources occurs worldwide and has throughout time, and even occurs among groups claiming to be altruistic or egalitarian. Even when there's enough to go around, one group may want to hoard more because they're motivated by self-interest. Furthermore, one group trying to help another group can easily step on the toes of a third group, which then causes conflict between the first and third due to differing interests. Human psychology and politics makes tribalism inevitable, and one could look at it in dialectical terms of _Thesis-Anti-thesis-Synthesis._ There was a time when Irish, Italians and Poles were looked down upon in the US, but now they're part of the dominant society who may look down upon another group. There were times when French and later German speakers faced discrimination and were forced to abandon their language, but now those languages and identities are seen as positive or harmless with others now looked at with suspicion. This is what Herkan was talking about.
Just realizing I should have put affiliate links in the description so that way I could get a 5% commission if you buy that kit :) ! Of course most of this is just rental I only own the URSA Broadcast camera and could never afford this insane lens ! Also when I say DSLRs are not expensive, I mean not expensive IN COMPARISON to this setup. Wished to share a lot of things around live production so I hope you'll learn a few things along the way. Anyways, planning to seriously spending more time on Zebra Zone channel and make editing tutorials. Thank you SO MUCH for your everlasting support !
that would be awesome! I think that Davinci Resolve is the future. We just need more tutorials as there is a big gap in the Davinci tutorial market at the moment
I still cannopt figure out why and how are you so good in terms of editing, shooting and as an information source :O Missed ya dude! Don't want to hurry You since it might affect the quality but damn me, please post more often
I'm an editor, and you can spend a lot of time fixing bad camera work and stretching very few good shots to go a long way. But if you plan and take the time to practice, have good takes, and a variety of shots; you'll have a far better foundation to edit from. An editor will appreciate it and try to honour the effort by editing it at its best. Now I'm new here so I don't know if he edits it himself. But one major advanced step you see in these edits is that there is added audio under the transitions and visual beats. Making them more digetic. Editing works best when it flows and goes unnoticed. So when you stop to wonder how he does it? It's technical, yes, but the main force behind it is that he has a healthy edit. He's adding a feeling to it. That's a good editor. But even if you're not a good editor you can just copy from a good one and get along. I'm not a good editor actually, but I've tutorialed my way through and have been doing paid work for 5 years. If I were to do a video like this I wouldn't have turned it out so nice. I'd have to steal ideas from a lot of others. And at a certain point you do steal whether you notice or not. Editors tend to use the same sound effects, music, transitions, and plug-ins, and even fonts. Unintentionally you can't tell the original ideas from the templated ones. But just doing it, gets you there. Have tons of video, audio, software, and time. And block out all distractions. You'll find out if you're as good or even better than Zebra.
@@Chiszle Well I will at least try ( actually just started learning premiere [ Just for AE link and C4d ] ) but I actually doubt I will be at this level!
@@Chiszle I think your answer brings a tremendous amount of value ! Thank you very much. Sound design is very important I like doing it. Yes I edit everything myself. But for graphic animations etc I use bits of templates or things I've already done in the past. It's quite rare to do an animation from scratch.
Used to work in broadcast and I can tell you that almost all of our cameras in studio were robots. They were operated by a couple guys in a room 20 yards away, Next to the colorist. Also, our cameras were all genlocked so that the various set monitors wouldn't show artifacts. This was network news so we had LCD panels all over the set. One of my jobs was maintaining that setup and helping to load graphics on them. Another major difference is that pro cameras have major heatsinking and fans. They do not overheat like DSLRs and mirrorless cameras do!
One of the best satisfying Video I had never came across. From this video I realise that all Canons, DSLR and Sony are just a tiny play toy story. Hope to see the latest version of the video.Well done Zebra Zone.
Only half the battle. You could give me those and you're question would be "why does this video look like shit?". Obviously has a lot of skill and experience.
This is what I love about UA-cam! I’ve been educated on a subject I have little interest in and something I will probably never need, but I enjoyed it, and I’m a smarter person as a result of it! Awesome!
It’s funny how things change: the studio cameras we had when I started working in 1982 were enormous by comparison - General Electric PE-350s. The camera alone weighed several hundred pounds and required a rack full of equipment to make a picture. The cable was about an inch and a quarter in diameter, and so heavy that you needed a separate puller if you were doing a truck shot of any length. Of course, these were tube-type cameras that pre-dated any kind of automatic setup, so getting them registered and color balanced took about half an hour after they had warmed up. Our cameras today need very little attention, and the more challenging setups for the geometry of each color’s pickup tube (plus the luminance channel’s tube on some cameras) are totally eliminated nowadays: your registration never changes, unless you drop the camera and damage the optical block. Hooray for progress!
In 1982 we still had landline phones with rotating dialer and now look at what we're up to ? Any "smart"phone has more power in your pant's pocket than an 1982 Cray computer !
This video is just amazing. Perfect Music Perfect Sync Perfect Humor Perfect Explanation I cant even remember how many time I said wow. I am just blown away.
It's a GREAT video but i don't know about perfect. It's just because we're so used to cheap and rushed out crap on UA-cam, that has nothing more to offer than eye-canding and click bait. This is a well-informed, balanced, unbaised and professional video, not made for profit, but out of *passion* and it really shows with the result here. It's awesome when you find these kinds of videos
I found it jarring for somebody to talk about 'pounds' without a US accent (at least the second time, there was a translation into standard units on screen) but other than that, I was very impressed.
Even though I didn't really need the answer to the title or learn a lot of useful information (for my daily life, I'm sure a lot of you are actually interested and that's great), the video quality is just insane, and the well-written script and well explained information got me hooked to the screen throughout the whole thing. Amazing job.
I'm not even involved with this topic at all but this was one of the most interesting and well made videos I've watched in a while. Great content, keep it up!
@@Billy_Darley so if they were given a shitty camera to do the same job they should be paid less? How expensive the equipment is does not correlate to how skillful the job is, or the demand of that job
When I worked as a broadcast cameraman, it was always good fun to hear 'don't forget that lens costs more than your house!' while climbing up a stage or ladder with that lens... Good old times!
Can we just appreciate the level of effort put into this video from a relatively smaller channel?
As he talks about a camera, we keeps seeing sick zoom and pans and hearing well timed sfx
Split Dimension I said relatively in reference to subscriber count
Really appreciate that work. It's awesome
@@plopalopadop2858 yeah, when i watched the vid i thought that it is a BIG chanel. then i saw this coment and i blew up
he must have rich parents :)
This answered so many questions I didn’t even know I had.
Same
exactly LOL
Raised them then answered right after hahaha
Lol bruh you are thinking the same as me!
But I knew them. Pretty old knowledge.
It's unbelievable you rent all that gear just to make the video series! Dude this is the dedication I admire. Huge respect.
Thank you man !!
Why is there only 1 comment ?
@@sbhgaming1196 idk, who knows?
He owns them
@@Eswarr Even so, by my standards, it is an achievement to have such equipment.
In auto racing they can film cars going 150mph, slow down the video, and it's so clear you can read the words on the tire. I remember seeing that one time and thinking that's why the cameras cost so much. That's just incredible.
Technically that’s possible with other cameras as well. You will need to use faster shutter speed to get sharp photos of fast moving objects and big aperture with good sensor to account for the lost light.
@@themisir right like he said you can do that. But also can not switch between a bunch of different quicksettings and broadcast fiberopticly
now do that in a slightly dark place, you'll capture nothing, even in a well lit place, the video will look much darker.
Fast shutter speed doesn't capture a lot of light .
@@themisir
Entertaining people into submission, has long been recognised as a very serious business indeed. No cost is too great.
@@BrownDaddy007pacify the masses
As a professional camera operator myself, with 20 years of experience, I have to say that the info on this video is absolutely correct and up to date. Excellent camerawork, sound, directing and video editing also.
It’s been a dream of mine for a while and I was wondering how you get into the business. I know so much about the production industry apart from where to start!
Very professional profile pic
@@kevinyu3863 ha ha
Just one thing. Where is the headset? :) Brilliant video, you have absolutely right.
As a cinematographer, its impressive when it come down to convenience to manning the rig alone. Where I need to orchestrate a few people to achieve the same thing with a focus puller or someone racking the f-stops on my old arriflex set up. The thing i wonder is why the camera is still using 2/3? Is there disadvantage moving the camera to larger sensor and lens manufacturers?
edit: also call me old fashion, but i never trust a servo lens or a lcd screen, I still bust out my light meter and measuring tape when I plan out accuracy which of course can't be done efficiently in broadcast
When you're filming a muscle car but realise your camera is more expensive
Imagine someone drifting a Lambo and smashes a camera like this. Pulls out his wallet and asks how much for a new one...
I'll take the car thank you!
Until you film the ultimate muscle car. The Equus Bass 770
@@Douken Until the ultimate muscle car get filmed by the ultimate camera
@@Douken from moon distance.. again, camera much more expensive..
Film the camera with a mirror :-P
the production of this video is brilliant.
Agreed.
The production is indeed very good, but I would point out that at 0:11, 0:21, 1:29, 6:45 and 6:54 the lens cover is still on the lens which is why the poor camera operator can't see anything in the viewfinder - except at 0:21 where it's a replay via the return feed.... just sayin'
Voiceofreason sounds like somebody else works with these on a regular basis ;)
@@monkeh22222 Good point ! We left it on every time we didn't record because we were so scared of dust / unfortunate accidents.
Minority Nomad, I was about to comment the same as well.
Incredible production of this video
"Why is your camera so big and massive?"
"Because it looks badass, ma'am."
I can only imagine the effort, cost, and overall dedication that went into creating this extraordinary video! My salutes to you, sir!
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O sir i learn from u.... It is really very overwhelming that how a great personality ever know the another great one around...
So much thanks for ur best Photoshop tutorials...helps alot...
Mann i meet you here too...my inspiration
Finally a camera operator who doesn't want to sound smart by throwing a bizzare range of lingo about all the technical stuff. Rather gets to the point. And does an extremely good job at that.
"throwing a bizarre range of lingo" isn't trying to sound smart. They are smart and doesn't need to bring themselves down to your level to satisfy your lack of vocabulary.
@@WoodiePlays another smart ass idiot.
@@WoodiePlays Real smart person should have the ability to make complex things sound simple, so more people could understand it. They're not bringing themselves down by doing that, but lifting other people together to achieve equal understanding. Being arrogant and condescending on the other hand, only vocalise your insecurity towards your own intellect.
Great way of demonstrating why TV Cameras are big. This video was great. Liked without a reminder... 👍👏
@@haziqq i was wrong, I agree with you.
The moment you zoomed in on that girl in the field I understood why the lens is so expensive. Those are crazy good optics.
aluisious I agree. It almost didn’t seem possible, the speed that the lens could go from wide to ultra telephoto (while perfectly maintaining focus), snapping back and forth like that... Live TV has such different requirements than narrative productions that can take a year to shoot.
@@tyroney2 yea, that zooming in and out on that windsock, I was like "wait, that's impossible" lol
rich perverts now know where to spend money on...
@@coffeemakerbottomcracked Only a poor pervert would think like that.
Yea I understand the whole thing is better but A HOUSE tho? Really a whole HOUSE? FOR a lens?
Knowing very little about cameras, filming etc. wasn't enough to stop me from enjoying this video. Absolutely amazing and something that's enjoyable for all to watch
When a camera lens is more expensive than your house.
when the camera lens costs 10 times more than your 5 room apartment LEL.
You must not live in California 🙄
@@matthewkuhl79 i dont live in USA :D
i think this is for hollywood..
Kilo Byte are you german ?
I thought this guy had 1 million subs after seeing the production quality
i think our guy deserves multiple million!
@@tanmaisaxena7642 1 more here
Subs have noting to do with quality of work the work remains wat it is even if he had 0 subs you UA-cam folks base life off of subs and likes 😂🤣
@@goyardgod7388 *what
Why would that make sense? The most popular channels are streamers with zero quality... The biggest blockbuster films tend to be shot the worst... Quality does not go along with popularity very often. Usually safe and bland is needed for anything to be popular.
I didn’t get any ad even with this level of dedication in this production. Why?
I feel like I need it pay for such high quality of video
With his skill he’d probably never need the money
Even if the video is monitized, sometimes no one wants to pay for an ad. About half of ad slots on youtube are filled.
Because today is you lucky day. Get out of the bed any go buy a lottery ticket.
Why are you complaining about not getting an ad? I use an adblocker all the time.
We need more humble content creators here on UA-cam like this guy.
Humble?? 🫤
Why would you even press dislike button when this much effort and information is put in one single video for absolutely free?
Thanks man, great job and informative video!
Because that is how you guide the UA-cam recommendations? Like and dislike are not supposed to reflect quality but if the video fits what you personally want to have recommended to you or not. Video popularity in general goes up with interactions but the like and dislike will shape what UA-cam decides to show you.
Those dislikes are flip-phone owners.
Disgruntled introspective hipsters that are too cool for broadcast TV (probably still angry that Final Cut Pro self destructed) these were probably the same that left AVID for FCP. hahahahaha
@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 um you do know there is button that says "don't recommend this"? You should not dislike the video, this was amazing.
some men just wanna watch the world burn ~Alfred from Batman
TV camera: $250,000 extreme high tech alien technology
TV broadcast: 480p
Hahahaha
Real talk
SO TRUE
extremely true.
So true here in the Philippines
*RED CINEMA CAMERAS ARE SO EXPENSIVE DUDE*
TV: Hold my lens
Red spends most of its effort in taking consumer level, off-the-shelf components and making them proprietary and then many times more expensive. (Like their scammy storage bits and "custom" connectors)
@@adriankoch964 the apple of cameras
Joshua Heffernan even Apple aren’t as scant as red
@@HowtoComputer if apple made studio cameras they wouldn't have removable storage
@@joshuaheffernan4374 true
Those episodes about the broadcast camera-lens-systems are so incredibly well produced, nice sounds, nice images, nice pacing, nice narration. Very well done, I really was tied to the screen!
That looks more like a freaking missile launcher than a TV camera.
Martin-OnTheWeb you spelled it right.
Wtf... I had the exactly same thought
That's why he named it "shooting" with a $250k camera setup
You know what just disguise a missile launcher as one of those.
heek yeah
Before the video: "Yeah, why the hell are they so expensive?"
After the video: "Wow they're a bargain."
After the lens part: "I understand why they cost so much".
.....
and then we have the camera, which has a bunch of features not available on anything else.
@@57thorns I didn't knew the part about the buttons, but it makes sense, if you want certain setting tweaked like right NOW, you don't have time to navigate menus, just touch a button. I guess that's why cameraman is a job, not a hobby, you need lots of training to operate that thing.
Hahaha
I know that's right, lol
They're really not. the only part of the camera that is expensive or hard to manufacture is the Processing in the camera and the lenses. All of that other stuff is dirt cheap and common place in pretty much every industry.
As a professional Cameraoperator working with these lenses I have to say that this video is absolutly briliant. The next time when I will be asked why this cameras are so expensive I will give them the link to this video. Thank you for your great job on this. Your channel is added now.
Tikki Nash how did you get the job if you don’t mind me asking?!
Yeah I’m curious, how do you end up with a job like that?
20 years ago I started as camera and technical assistent in a big Austrian television and Filmproduction. After 7 years learning from many great cameraoperators and DOPs, I got the chance to do camera by the first daily soap in Austria. I did a good job, lucky me. if I did a bad job , maybe today I would not be a cameraoperator. Till that I do camera on sportevents, konzerts, tv shows, news, and so on. But I also do documentaries and ENG stuff.
Can you please tell me how can a person can get into the jobs like this? And how do you earn and how do you and how much you earn from this? Please make a video for that if possible
@@thr6453 Honestly, it's all down to experience and who you know. Start building up a portfolio of work that you can show to potential employers. Get involved with any opportunities you can to do this kind of thing, paid or unpaid.
In the UK, the salary for a camera operator is about average or a hair above. It's okay, but nothing amazing.
This video has shown up in my feed for 3 years. I never clicked it because it's a topic I'm too familiar with. Great graphics and the sound design was superb.
The quality of these cameras are beyond godlike
Why, are, you, everywhere, fellow, malaysian.
Yes I enjoy it very much on my 1080p TV. Which is broadcasted in 480p
OMG, it's you again.😠
Kenapa ek
Kau ni lagi aye..
When the lens is more expensive than your house
With that spec, I wouldn't complain. It's basically miniaturized hubble telescope
Unless you live in New Zealand and then it's the same as a deposit on a house. Still a hell of a chunk of change though.
@@teamsconcierge3177 "Unless you live in New Zealand and then it's the same as a deposit on a house." Or Vancouver, BC. Current Vancouver MLS® stats indicate an average house price of $1,335,771 and 1,773 new listings in the last 28 days. As of today, Vancouver housing data shows median days on market for a home is 19 days. P.S. New Zealand seems very nice, but like Vancouver, very very expensive.
@@focusedeye yep i was about to say 😹 vancouverite here
@@focusedeye Yeah I'd heard that. I suppose these places being so expensive keeps the riff raff out. Haha. I doesn't really, they still let me in. ;)
No idea why UA-cam Recommended this but it’s interesting to say the least!
Probably that T H I C C ass!!!
@@actualfactual8737 what the fuck
Agreed!
They are getting better day by day.
Thought the same thing. Why? *click* well damn that was interesting. Well played UA-cam.
I am a student at a TV-school that uses equipment like this, and i am happy that i found this channel, very educational!
This gave me a whole new respect for cameraman in sports .
Now you see they like a suggar daddy sitting in the most expensive muscle car?
Why does this comment not have more likes?
And in the same kind of skill, spotlight operators in theater and live production.
@@GalileoAV having done multiple parts of sound and lighting in school, i quickly realised spot is not as easy as it seems, its heavy and dang hot work without decent ventilation.
As a former broadcast camera operator, thanks! This video does a great job of clearly explaining the kind of work I did and equipment used for over 20 years.
This is exactly the type of cameras UFO hunters around the world need.
Now thats funny!!!
A 2021 smartphone can give you solid footage. Funny how UFO/UAV video footage dropped to nothing after high quality cameras became common place.
@@starmorpheus oh yeah? Have you tried recording the moon with your phone camera? You’re talking out of your ass buddy, phone cameras can’t capture any level of detailed required when what is being recorded allegedly are tiny lights in the sky lmao.
im sure the camera on the jets that followed those UFOs were millions of dollars and people still try to discredit the fighter pilots.
@@macberg5806 Then why was there an influx of home-made videos of supposed "proof" of UFOs since the early 2000s to mid 2010s? People believed those videos then, and still believe them now. Even when there is unrefutable proof that all those videos (Aside from the ones disclosed by the Pentagon) are all false.
Interesting the budget you need.
But how much do ABC sports make in advertising revenue during a football game? Your equipment budget directly correlates with your revenue or expected revenue. How much does it cost to get a good camera person to operate that and a production manager to manage multiple cameras as well as the assorted technicians that support them? The equipment is part of the whole package. As you saw unless you're doing this every day you rent the equipment and hire the people on a project basis with upfront money for the initial setup and then count on making a profit on the back end. You only buy it when you are big enough to need it for every event you film and produce on a daily or weekly basis or if you're making a dozen films in a studio a month. Its all about scale!
"Need" is a big word. Almost no filmmaker needs this kind of a camera.
@@kerndama No doubt, you need a $1/4 million camera with focus stabilization out to 300 meters to record a reporter sitting behind the desk in a lighted studio like you need a Lamborghini to go to the bathroom.
@@cipher88101 so you need it badly. Right? Or am I the only one driving his Lamborghini to his bathroom?
@@kerndama this is for tv not film, film has equally expensive lenses that are much less versatile but have even fewer tradeoffs, its not uncommon to spend several million on film lenses
That zoom just so satisfactory and so unreal. It actually doesn't even feel expensive anymore when you see what it can do instead you wonder how the hell did Fuji manage to make it within under this price range.
I'll keep this video in my 'why smartphones can't replace cameras' list
lol
xDDDDDDD
And than comes the Moment the audience gives a shit and UA-camrs filming these things with there own DSLR or Handy cameras.
@@Nordlicht05 When the audience starts to care then UA-camrs will film these things with their own cameras or phones? That is what you wrote. What were you trying to say though?
smartphone sensor is too small, too much noise for indoor shot
This video is for those who says "Will smartphones ever completely replace cameras?"
sur if it will be 50kg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
the answer is - partially
So true haha
The answer is no. Smart phones will never have lenses that massive you wouldnt even be able to carry the phone if they did
@@wilismatrix9847 Then it will not smart, hahaha...
0:40 When he said DSLRs with zoom lenses were not expensive, a single tear rolled down my my eye😭
Yeah, but compared to that Broadcast Camera Setup it is cheap
My daughter did photography at College and took Amazing close up pictures of the craters on the moon with nothing more than a Nikon Digital camera £50 and a brick wall for the tripod. I know I'm biased but penny for penny her pictures were very impressive.
Compared to 200 grand lens, heh.
@@stephenjones9153 Pictures and video are two wholy different animals. A camera can be cheap as dirty. cause it only needs to snap 1 frame. where as these cameras need to take 24 frames every second in 4-8K resolution with RAW data. often peaking 700Mbps. Anything you can obtain from best buy or stores the like is amature stuff and cant even be compaired to production cameras from the 80s...
True .
The dedication and effort you have put in to making this super informative video is so amazing. I wish you all the best !!
I actually shot a couple of college games for ESPN, and here's a fun fact: We didn't control the apertures on our cameras. There was a person in the control room (if we needed them to do something, their call sign over the radio was ISO) who managed the exposure and color balance of the camera. They'd deal with (as their name implied) the gain of the camera, the aperture, color balance, ND, you name it. That way the operators only had to worry about composition (and very occasionally focus).
Also: lifting one of those $250K box lenses onto a scissor lift was VERY nerve wracking.
Definitely!
it’s on CCU
Fascinating stuff. I had no idea it worked that way. Thanks for sharing.
This is very common in a broadcast setup. This, as you indicated, allows the operator to focus on getting the shot. But more importantly, it allows one person in a controlled environment to ensure all the cameras have a consistent look. They have a calibrated monitor for each camera, a vectorscope to check color, and a waveform monitor to check the brightness.
Quite right. But we had ours managed via the software automatically while shooting fight nights. I must admit as well, that we were achieving reputable results on gear worth a fraction of the cost. As in less than 1/10th of a $150k cam.
worth watching.. good job..!
Please promote me aap nhi karoge mujhe pata hai paiso ka chakkar hai babu bhaiya
yes because of 2:03
Anyone make lewd comments about the chick yet?
It reminds me of the *_cougar in this video_* ua-cam.com/video/U2rNnzVotS0/v-deo.html&.dqii
This is a top tier video.
Even biggest channels, can't do half of this.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Thats mainly because once you gain a bigger audience, more people are converted from first time viewer to subscriber faster compared to small channels that need the quality to impress a smaller amount of people. No doubt anyone would just go vlog style if it didnt matter.
Can this Camera be used for movie production??
@@isaacandrews5330 if I'm impressed by the first video like in this case I immediately subscribe. As obviously I want to see more.
No, it's overproduced to the point of wasting the viewer's time. He could have conveyed this information far more quickly. He never gave us a good look at the tripod. As they say: "SHOW us, don't TELL us." He also forgot power and storage.
@@jaythunder551 TV lenses only needed to be good enough for TV broadcast, which was low resolution. Today broadcasts are done in much higher resolution than before, but I don't think it's as high resolution as film. So, this lens, and the camera, might not be sharp enough to make a modern movie.
Amazing video. Never knew I was curious about this, but you broke down everything clearly to where now I'm super excited about broadcast cameras. You look at them and you immediately think old/outdated (at least I did). Definitely flipped the script on me with this one. Great job man.
Guy : DSLR is cheap.
Me : HUH?
Hears quarter million
Me : yeah DSLR is cheap indeed.
😂😂😂😂😂
Zabuza!
LOL. I was thinking the same thing
Yet the DSLR is an IQ that's WAY better than a broadcast camera (rolling shutter etc aside). I laughed my ass off when I found out how TINY the sensors they use are. 4:21
I’m not even a camera guy and I found this video highly informative, easy to understand and entertaining.
Finally, a budget camera that’s actually decent
It reminds me of the *_cougar in this video_* ua-cam.com/video/U2rNnzVotS0/v-deo.html&.fnbo
lol
...said Bill Gates.
That animation that split the different components was stunning.
Yep!
I didn’t have high hopes for the accuracy or pertinence of information contained in this video, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Very well done indeed and highly accurate! I spent 35 years working with these beasts with a major broadcaster in North America. The video brought back some good memories and reminded me that I didn’t miss carrying all that bulky (but necessary) weight. Not at all 😉 Again, well done!
It's deffinitly one of those cases where you just can't shrink everything, it's the same as people wondering why DSLRs still exist, phone cameras are actually pretty terrible in some situations such as long focal lengths, manual controls, long exposure, and so on. I got a Canon Rebel T6 mostly for astrophotography and learned first hand just how much more it can do. Having done that now, the capabilities of those broadcast cameras make a lot of sense.
@@UNSCPILOT The abilities of the broadcast cam+lens is simply stratospheric ... and priced accordingly.
I'm pretty sure my local network station just shoots its broadcasts with cell phones and does its audio production through Air-pods with a couple of potentiometers. This is to match both the quality of the content and the quality of the broadcast over the air. If anything more is needed, they just depend on the national network or an independent contractor who has a Wowgo.
I used to work for a full service TV broadcast studio. Every time we got a request for a smaller production I had to discuss our camera rental prices. People just didn't understand that the technology is much more complex and high-end than a small DSLR for a UA-cam production. I wish I could have just sent this video along at the time.
It seems that the bandwagon of 'cheap digital gear' creates a mentality that is oblivious to engineering aspects of lens functionality and camera control that is much harder to do on the cheap!
The costs have come down quite a bit though that you can now get cheaper gear that will often outperform the big, bulky ENG cameras from just a few short years ago. Like you're paying tens of thousands for an XDCAM, which still only has a 2/3'' or even a 1/2'' sensor, where as Sony's own FS7 has a full frame sensor that produces some really nice cinema quality video, and costs nearly half as much. But it largely depends on what you're doing with it. I'd still use a proper EFP setup for sports. I don't think those cheaper cameras work with CCUs. Plus the big boys support those monster lenses. But for news and documentaries, those bulky ENG cameras should be relegated to the scrap heap. Camera operators have given enough money to the chiropractic industry. lol
@MLWATKK Yes, I have a Canon, and my whole setup, probably would cost around $8K, for camera, both lenses I have, tripod, mic with wind-reduction cover, LED light, extra battery, carry case, etc. Thankfully I got some of that on trade in, and I won a giveaway at a store for some gear, but that would still assume being able to change lenses. And for affordable video, the Sony camcorders are about $1000, but they don't have good depth of field, the lighting often needs to be edited, and they're super sensitive to motion meaning you need a really fancy tripod. I used one on hard wood floor, and a kid ran by it and shook it. My dad was able to wire up a way to be able to control zoom on his Sony camcorder from a greater distance, but most aren't compatible with that, so you also need whatever staging to put the operator into the right position to do everything. It's a lot of post-production work, to get anything under $20K to look anywhere as good as live TV.
@@MmntechCaThese Sonys were around for years now and produce a extremely more pleasing picture imho compared to cropped sensor cameras like the usual big ones in the studio. And yea they are cheaper but you know what the problem is? It’s just not compatible with the control room equipment and the whole studio environment. And most studios only invest big numbers every 20 years or so. Like my ex employer has upgraded the equipment the last time when broadcast stations switched from SD to HD. Some studios are still upscaling from SD 16:9 to HD to save money on equipment. TV is just it’s own universe 😅
Funnily enough, I saw a show on Discovery shot entirely on an Alpha mirrorless and 2 go pros. It was a travel show though
Can this guy have a Netflix show? His videos are more well produced and more interesting than 99% of Netflix shows.
"Give this man a Netflix Show"
Lens manufacturing is one of the disciplines our current civilization has truly mastered, controlling both material properties and surface shapes down to such precision that we can often even reach the limits of physics (diffraction limit), and then we even use these marvels to create artistic and emotional expression. It's something we should keep feeling wonder when we encounter it.
Wisdom is knowing that you can't be correct all the time.... Even after knowing this much about camera n all ...he said correct me if I was wrong somewhere... Amazing man .. I wish his channel gets millions of subs ...
I thought the same thing. A great presentation overall - and the 'nice guy' came through - which is rare.
That was what made me subscribe. I'm like damn this man has so much knowledge and is still humble.
And he wasn’t wrong about anything he said.
Yes, best presentation and very humble
"in broadcast, the camera has to adapt to the environment". Great summation that really drove the point home.
This was a great video. I am not even interested in the subject but I found it very interesting the way you explained the features of each component that made it more expensive that the "prosumer" market camera components.
Well said, same goes for me
Now we know how they film people eating hotdogs at a baseball game
🤣
One time I was at a wriggly rooftop that is across from wriggly field in Chicago, and on one of the TVs I saw they got bored and cut to a camera zoomed in on someone painting their house
I like how it zoomed in to the drone so fast like it was faked in After Effects. Seeing it for real is just awseome
Welcome back to:
*Random things you can't afford*
In this episode:
*$250.000 Rocket Launcher Camera*
LOL pretty funny random joke 😉
Lol
well, it costs like a cheap(ish) house. So you kinda can. You can get a mortgage or a big loan
I actually enjoy videos which are not just commercials aimed at old white guys with to much money...
Unless if you are a wealthy person
I don't really comment that often but...man....this guy's effort and dedication made me do this...what a great video...
I was like "can this really be an interesting video? Oh ok, I'll click." Totally worth it. Very cool equipment. Thanks for this vid!
6:00 the cow shot's gorgeous! Especially when paused, the bugs looked like dust particles, it's so good.
I’m not even in the industry, but the amount of knowledge I gained from watching this and the fact I was glued to the entire video is a testament to the presenting style and effort that must have gone in to this. Absolutely amazing!
I'm a helicopter broadcast camera operator for years and this video opened my mind about why the hell it's so expensive.. yea, aviation makes the prices go even higher (3x higher in my case) since it has ultra gimbal stabilization included, imagine all this zoom without shaking even with helicopter making turns, wind speed changing, rain, etc. And it being steady just like a high end tripod
Just out of curiosity, does helicopter gimbals still use enormous gyroscopes for stabilization, or have you all moved over to motorized gimbals like drones use?
@@Excludos at least the one I operate has 5-axis gyro + stabilization w/ laser feedback (same laser tech used in missiles), so it won't lose calibration while in use
@@LucasSantanaLopes Holy moley those things are gimbals? I always thought they were just a motorized base and yoke like a moving head light. How are they so much more compact in design than marine gimbals?
Yes, and keep in mind that the market for those cameras is also tiny. A major metropolitan area probably has fewer than a dozen news channels buying them.
that was absolutely fascinating to read! thank you for sharing.
As a stills photographer, it's interesting to have a look in to the other side of the industry and drool over all the fancy expensive equipment film makers have. This kit makes my DSLR and lenses look like a kids toy. :D
Trust me it's still great
and yet the difference in the finished product is marginal
This specific isn’t really for film making though. This camera is used in Television.
my thoughts exactly
@@cboyslim5490 It seems that way, right up until you need the sort of tricky shots where you'd definitely know it was missing.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. Very informative and extremely well shot. Great job!
I'm not over exaggerating when I say I'm 99% sure you have the most professionally made videos on this entire platform in terms of solo creators... hands down.
Hes not a solo creator... rarely none of them are.
Check out Captain Desilussion
damon harris-Brennan
Quit being such a kiss-ass.
Still though... 100%
It's great but... Captain Disillusion. Yeah.
That’s the most french shirt Ever.
sacré bleu
Oui
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I thought it was a Russian thing.
No idea why UA-cam recommended this video but I'm glad they did.
I think the title icon is perfect, with the 250,000 in big letters. Plus he got lucky it's in the home section of recommended videos.
This is broadcast level quality production. This could be a TV episode! Incredible job.
so that's how those cameras work. that is just a fantastically high spec piece of equipment. I'm just such a huge fan of the extremes of high tech equipment and I love that zoom lens more than anything. I'm amazed that the bulk of the cost is that lens alone. so thanks for getting all those parts together to make this video for us
Never thought to find you here
@@hansdietrich83 same here
Id like to show you a little trick
@@vnkt_yt man, if you don't know who desinc is, then I guess you aren't into the half life community, which is quite unfortunate. I suggest you check his videos out!
They missed a HUGE opportunity to unzoom at the end and show they have been recording this from far across the room. Im not mad, im disappointed.
They would've had to have two cameras since one is in the background, but it would have been worth it, I agree.
Only would have really worked if they could zoom all the way out from the lenses max zoom, and theres no way that room is big enough for that
^^ big brain on this one
Ive been wondering about this for 0 seconds, but now I'm satisfied somehow.
DJ Stapler agreed.
TV cameras shrunk quite a lot actually.
The benemoth you're seeing is the lens. There's little margin to miniaturization in such item, as you have two constraints fighting against each other.
Physics on one side and the need of performance on the other.
The only way to shrink the lens is better glass science or much much better image sensors
This setup is much more expensive than my house, my car, my computer and my organs on black market combined...
False, just a heart and a liver cost more than this camera. Not including a kidney in the states. Just that alone is more than this camera
@@ClausRust I'm not from the USA and my organs are not in so good condition anyone would want to use them. And if there is anything like cannibal black market, I would have discount price label on me I guess.
You are so FUNNY XDDDDD You must be a comedian or somthing like that
@@ClausRust obviously i am not talking to you
@@ClausRust Jokes on you. His Ex broke his heart and the insuing alcoholism destroyed his liver and kidneys.
The production quality of this video is off the scale.
Ok
@@Fusion991 stfu I win
@@Fusion991 OK
@@terrell3664 Ok
It reminds me of the *_cougar in this video_* ua-cam.com/video/U2rNnzVotS0/v-deo.html&.uibn
And boom. Everything I learned in college is now free online.
Why I didn't go! Hahah enjoy that loan bruh🍻🐈🔥
Sorry bud
Haha but at least you understand the why and why nots while someone like me just understands...big box makes you zoom in and out and don’t touch lens
It might be online but process of learning it is still point of going to college.
I have a degree in mathematics and in a pub when someone wants to sound intellectual by quoting some element of maths of physics they usually get it wrong and I mean simple things like understanding words like "linear" or using the word "exponential" when something increases rapidly.
All the knowledge is online and stays there and doesn't enter people's heads unless they go through the difficult process of learning it.
@@matthewbaynham6286 "...when someone wants to sound intellectual by *quoting some element of maths of physics..."*
Huh?
"they usually get it wrong and I mean simple things... like 'exponential' when something increases rapidly."
There's a mathematical definition of exponential and there's a layman's definition of exponential, just like the term 'theory' as it relates to science and as it relates colloquially. You are literally wrong about other people being wrong in the pub.
As a photographer, I clicked on this not to actuallt watch it but to read the comments. I don't think anyone in the main is really asking this, but it does amuse me when people are so blown away by the quality of phone cameras.
Phone cameras will never be able to produce what a camera lens that foes on your SLR or mirrorless camera will, so it isn't a surpise that the cinematograpgy and TV cameras haven't got smaller or much cheaper.
Take a look at the technology that goes into ARRI Signature Prime Lenses and you will see why they're expensive.
yes, it is often difficult to explain to people why I bought a camera and take pictures with it. they just don't understand why I don't take pictures and can't take pictures on my phone as well.
I'm a landscape photographer and it's pretty common these days to be told by random members of the public that their phone can take the same photos my mirrorless camera can, I just try and explain you can't miniaturise a lens because of the laws of physics, photography is all about capturing light so the more light the better, so a small lens will always limit the range and quality of pictures you can take with it and technology will never override that.
All that just to be seen in a 480p tv standard.
Jose F Pirela damn that hurts 😂😂😂👌
Yeah i had the same thoughts
Lol. They have to maintain quality
Who has a 480p TV these days? I cringe when I see a 720p.
SiriusGD How would u cringe?
I feel like I need to pay for this quality of production
Well, that’s only if your broadcast is live. If you have the chance to take the footage to post, then you don’t need such a specialized gear. You know, if you are no live you can cut camera, move it closer, avoid in camera zooms, etc. Hence you won’t need that fluid head, that tripod and that lens. Not even that monitor.
@@brucetrappleton6984 uhm, he was talking about these videos
@@SirDella uhm, this video was made with that gear.
@@brucetrappleton6984 bro what you didn't get the comment at all 😂
@@brucetrappleton6984 I believe he is referring to he feels he needs to pay to have watched this video because it was so high quality.
When I worked in Sports Production, we had a saying, “Sony Parts cost more then body parts.” A broken arm is cheaper to fix then damaged gear.
Kind of a sad statement, isn't it? We're such an advanced species we can create an electrical picture box that's worth more than a human life and designed only to enable couch-dwellers to watch men kick an inflated pig's bladder around in crystal-clear 4k, but we can't solve world hunger.
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III World hunger can probably be solved, but it wouldn't be within any system most people want besides perhaps those going hungry if even them.
It can be seen in some non-white immigration to USA, where once someone has moved to the USA they don't want other non-whites to come in because they've already made it. They may even describe anyone else trying to come in as dirty and whatever, because why do they care as they've already made it in.
I think this was something that could occur near the Q3-Q4 of 2015. Or just at any time if you bother looking in the right places.
Basically anyone that works enough or are lucky enough does not want anyone else to gain as much as them while not working as much or being as lucky as them. Or gain anything at all, as is the case with immigration. They probably know what type of people may come in.
If enough people wanted that it would have already happened. One could ask a large group of people, but you can't verify that it is the truth, so you'll have to look at what actually is rather than what people are saying it is. Even if some are honest, it can't be verified and can't count.
Some say stuff like "If I work as a surgeon and someone works at McDonald's and make the same money, why would I waste my time working as a surgeon if I could earn just as much at McDonald's?"
Which is funny because they're implying you spend all that time in the hopes of saving lives just to..get money? I would think you become a surgeon to save some lives, but I guess it was all about money in the end.
I tried to write some stuff about the end of finite resources but eh, it all feels so pointless. I find writing comments fun but not when it turns sour like that so it's all gone now.
I edit my comments a lot and UA-cam doesn't update the section so if someone has replied to the text I just deleted, oops. Oops for all the times someone has done that. Just the comments you've commented on in the current page..It sounds easy for UA-cam to implement that.
@@Herkan97 it's literally just human nature. For there to be winners, there need to be loosers.
Is that why they didn't help much that stunt double on resident evil?
(She crashed on a camera on highspeed and lost an arm)
@D What Herkan said was completely valid and legit, and isn't a result of merely "western philosophy" either. The phenomena of peoples competing and fighting over limited resources occurs worldwide and has throughout time, and even occurs among groups claiming to be altruistic or egalitarian. Even when there's enough to go around, one group may want to hoard more because they're motivated by self-interest. Furthermore, one group trying to help another group can easily step on the toes of a third group, which then causes conflict between the first and third due to differing interests.
Human psychology and politics makes tribalism inevitable, and one could look at it in dialectical terms of _Thesis-Anti-thesis-Synthesis._ There was a time when Irish, Italians and Poles were looked down upon in the US, but now they're part of the dominant society who may look down upon another group. There were times when French and later German speakers faced discrimination and were forced to abandon their language, but now those languages and identities are seen as positive or harmless with others now looked at with suspicion. This is what Herkan was talking about.
Wow, now the sentence "we lear every day" just made sense to me. That's why the word PROFESSIONAL EXIST and you are one. ❤
Just realizing I should have put affiliate links in the description so that way I could get a 5% commission if you buy that kit :) ! Of course most of this is just rental I only own the URSA Broadcast camera and could never afford this insane lens ! Also when I say DSLRs are not expensive, I mean not expensive IN COMPARISON to this setup. Wished to share a lot of things around live production so I hope you'll learn a few things along the way. Anyways, planning to seriously spending more time on Zebra Zone channel and make editing tutorials. Thank you SO MUCH for your everlasting support !
that would be awesome! I think that Davinci Resolve is the future. We just need more tutorials as there is a big gap in the Davinci tutorial market at the moment
From the very first day I found your channel I knew you were 'French' from your accent
I leave in French speaking area in Switzerland
I don't see a random shot. The fast zooming? It contributed to what you're saying...
@@handelhumphrey8596 Managed to get the issue removed using UA-cam studio thankfully !
so cool 4K HDR
ua-cam.com/video/Xk6RZ4GipnY/v-deo.html
I still cannopt figure out why and how are you so good in terms of editing, shooting and as an information source :O Missed ya dude! Don't want to hurry You since it might affect the quality but damn me, please post more often
I'm an editor, and you can spend a lot of time fixing bad camera work and stretching very few good shots to go a long way. But if you plan and take the time to practice, have good takes, and a variety of shots; you'll have a far better foundation to edit from. An editor will appreciate it and try to honour the effort by editing it at its best. Now I'm new here so I don't know if he edits it himself. But one major advanced step you see in these edits is that there is added audio under the transitions and visual beats. Making them more digetic. Editing works best when it flows and goes unnoticed. So when you stop to wonder how he does it? It's technical, yes, but the main force behind it is that he has a healthy edit. He's adding a feeling to it. That's a good editor. But even if you're not a good editor you can just copy from a good one and get along. I'm not a good editor actually, but I've tutorialed my way through and have been doing paid work for 5 years. If I were to do a video like this I wouldn't have turned it out so nice. I'd have to steal ideas from a lot of others. And at a certain point you do steal whether you notice or not. Editors tend to use the same sound effects, music, transitions, and plug-ins, and even fonts. Unintentionally you can't tell the original ideas from the templated ones. But just doing it, gets you there. Have tons of video, audio, software, and time. And block out all distractions. You'll find out if you're as good or even better than Zebra.
@@Chiszle Well I will at least try ( actually just started learning premiere [ Just for AE link and C4d ] ) but I actually doubt I will be at this level!
@@Chiszle I think your answer brings a tremendous amount of value ! Thank you very much. Sound design is very important I like doing it. Yes I edit everything myself. But for graphic animations etc I use bits of templates or things I've already done in the past. It's quite rare to do an animation from scratch.
@@Chiszle well said
Someone for the love of God, please have this set up when a ufo flys by.
Ugh no?
nah for those type of events they always pull out the big guns like a nokia 3220
@@traph1852 true lol😁
Or at the very least when Sasquatch pops up, instead of getting him on a potato camera lmao
The problem is that with this camera the UFO will stop being an UFO
He's wearing that shirt so we know he's French.
Just needs some onions round his neck….lol
well gotta say... there are times when UA-cam recommendations teaches you something new.
I’ve watched this video before. I just had to watch again cause the quality is Netflix quality!
Danko
isn't this video like 10 years old + ?
@@rockmusicvideoreviewer896 its 3 years old, look at the date
Netflix is garbage.
Man I just love this video and the effort you have put in. Was just amazing and mind blowing.
Used to work in broadcast and I can tell you that almost all of our cameras in studio were robots.
They were operated by a couple guys in a room 20 yards away, Next to the colorist.
Also, our cameras were all genlocked so that the various set monitors wouldn't show artifacts.
This was network news so we had LCD panels all over the set.
One of my jobs was maintaining that setup and helping to load graphics on them.
Another major difference is that pro cameras have major heatsinking and fans. They do not overheat like DSLRs and mirrorless cameras do!
All this time i thought it was an all in one huge camera😂
Nope, it takes some time to set up these cameras and trust me most parts are heavy and very expensive.
@@DominikMBlock I'm pretty sure he knows that now captain obvious. :D the video explained it all.
Dominik M. Block Yes the parts are very heavy and trust me they are very expensive as well.
@@balakex wrote my comment before watching the video
@@balakex i know, i work with these :D
imagine seeing someone try to clean the lens with their t-shirt
As someone dives at them FULL SPEED screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have a cover over it. It would be fine.
I do that all the time with my camera. But it costs only 300 euros 😅
Can I sign your lens - it'll be awesome LOL
epic prank
Real estate = location, location, location
Photography = lens, lens, lens
Hotel= trivago
It's free real estate.
It's expensive real lens.
@@phrodendekia free real estate? where?
Photation Photation Photation
@@kadafi4lyf Amazing comment.
One of the best satisfying Video I had never came across.
From this video I realise that all Canons, DSLR and Sony are just a tiny play toy story. Hope to see the latest version of the video.Well done Zebra Zone.
As a tv director for 30+ years, I can comfortably say you’ve nailed it perfectly. Well done 👍
He did his homework
that's an amazing career! hope you enjoyed it
@@merunasg it has been fun and have seen some remarkable events around the world. The biggest has been the change of technology.
Me: Why is this video so well shot?
Oh right it's about high quality cameras
Only half the battle. You could give me those and you're question would be "why does this video look like shit?". Obviously has a lot of skill and experience.
@@curtisbme it's a joke man... Get it?
Guy: Have you ever wondered why TV....
Me: No I haven't, why is this video in my recommendation. Imma watch it anyway.
I had wondered about this funnily enough. Many times in fact throughout my life :D
Scorpion King I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
@@thethirdman225 I meant that I have never thought of this question and but still I'm going to watch this video. It was a joke
This is what I love about UA-cam! I’ve been educated on a subject I have little interest in and something I will probably never need, but I enjoyed it, and I’m a smarter person as a result of it! Awesome!
It’s funny how things change: the studio cameras we had when I started working in 1982 were enormous by comparison - General Electric PE-350s. The camera alone weighed several hundred pounds and required a rack full of equipment to make a picture. The cable was about an inch and a quarter in diameter, and so heavy that you needed a separate puller if you were doing a truck shot of any length. Of course, these were tube-type cameras that pre-dated any kind of automatic setup, so getting them registered and color balanced took about half an hour after they had warmed up.
Our cameras today need very little attention, and the more challenging setups for the geometry of each color’s pickup tube (plus the luminance channel’s tube on some cameras) are totally eliminated nowadays: your registration never changes, unless you drop the camera and damage the optical block. Hooray for progress!
In 1982 we still had landline phones with rotating dialer and now look at what we're up to ? Any "smart"phone has more power in your pant's pocket than an 1982 Cray computer !
This video is just amazing.
Perfect Music
Perfect Sync
Perfect Humor
Perfect Explanation
I cant even remember how many time I said wow. I am just blown away.
Well, he had a good camera.
Except for his ugly french accent
It's a GREAT video but i don't know about perfect. It's just because we're so used to cheap and rushed out crap on UA-cam, that has nothing more to offer than eye-canding and click bait. This is a well-informed, balanced, unbaised and professional video, not made for profit, but out of *passion* and it really shows with the result here. It's awesome when you find these kinds of videos
I found it jarring for somebody to talk about 'pounds' without a US accent (at least the second time, there was a translation into standard units on screen) but other than that, I was very impressed.
Anon nomous the videographer and narrator was really articulate. I have respect for him
Even though I didn't really need the answer to the title or learn a lot of useful information (for my daily life, I'm sure a lot of you are actually interested and that's great), the video quality is just insane, and the well-written script and well explained information got me hooked to the screen throughout the whole thing. Amazing job.
Good stuff. I really enjoyed this.
I'm not even involved with this topic at all but this was one of the most interesting and well made videos I've watched in a while. Great content, keep it up!
And yet there's never one around when the UFOs come.
Becuse it's usually in a remote place and no one is carrying a 150lb behemoth $200,000 camera.
Besides, I don't believe in ufo crap.
wooferjr is an alien confirmed
Because good video equipment and/or a person who knows how to use a camera turns UFOs into IFOs.
@@wooferjr169 says the cartoon mouse.
Wait a minute..
there is its just the image quality is still crap.
When I interned for a sports broadcaster in college, my director told me that my lens "costs more than you."
makes a lot of sense, huh? "lets pay someone pocket lint to operate something outrageously expensive."
It's true. We budget about US$120,000 for a human life.
Oh, you meant your wage.
@@Billy_Darley so if they were given a shitty camera to do the same job they should be paid less? How expensive the equipment is does not correlate to how skillful the job is, or the demand of that job
@@Adlore Well, at least they might care a bit more.
When I worked as a broadcast cameraman, it was always good fun to hear 'don't forget that lens costs more than your house!' while climbing up a stage or ladder with that lens... Good old times!
Very good! I've wanted to know how broadcast cameras worked since I was a kid, many decades ago. Thank you.