Concerning the FX3 - If your church is a smaller church like mine, where the lights are less than 20ft up and away from the stage/platform, it might be better to stick with the cameras you have, and use the money you'd spend upgrading to 1 or 2 FX3's on buying some rigging and like 6 Amaran lights and fresnels lens modifiers.
Hi Brady, thanks for the info. what are the 3 lenses that support power zoom for black magic 4k plus g2? I need a lens that can zoom from the back of church to stage like 50 feet or 80ft.
May I ask, I'm a newbie to this world of photography. We have a small house of worship. We're installing a BlackMagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2 at a fixed location with a view of the stage (20 feet wide). The camera is positioned 30 feet from the stage and attached to the ceiling (10 feet high). What's the ideal lense to buy? I want to set the zoom and focus and leave it alone. Every Sunday morning, turn on BlackMagic without adjusting the lenses, and be ready to go. Perhaps Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH Power O.I.S. Lens ($499)?
With the FX30, there is no need for a dummy battery. I personally use the USB C port for power delivery. I just my plug MacBook USB C charger in and it keeps the camera going for however long I need. Hope this is helpful, but if you use the dummy battery for a different reason, I'd be curious to know why :)
This is actually a bad idea because you are killing your battery. USB-C is charging the battery while the camera is draining it, thus putting the battery under more load & stress and degrading the batteries health This means your expansive genuine battery when you actually need it as battery will poor battery life. You will need to then buy a new one which expensive. Using a dummy battery means power deliver is direct and the battery isn’t being cycled unnecessarily. This is why dummy batteries exist, so you don’t kill your expensive batteries.
Hey! Sorry to ask a dumb question. You use an effect in this video at 1:16 where you "push" the video to the right and bring in a graphic on the left. I don't need you to tell me HOW to do that, but I would love to know what it's CALLED so I can watch a video and learn how to do it. I'm editing in DaVinci. Thanks so much - I was able to pick up a couple of cameras because of your recommendations. As always, you guys are the best!
Excellent point! I also mention this as well as the BMPCC 6K Pro under the BMPCC 4K in my article. Both are great upgrade options from the original BMPCC 4K.
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Concerning the FX3 - If your church is a smaller church like mine, where the lights are less than 20ft up and away from the stage/platform, it might be better to stick with the cameras you have, and use the money you'd spend upgrading to 1 or 2 FX3's on buying some rigging and like 6 Amaran lights and fresnels lens modifiers.
Hi Brady, thanks for the info. what are the 3 lenses that support power zoom for black magic 4k plus g2? I need a lens that can zoom from the back of church to stage like 50 feet or 80ft.
May I ask, I'm a newbie to this world of photography. We have a small house of worship. We're installing a BlackMagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2 at a fixed location with a view of the stage (20 feet wide). The camera is positioned 30 feet from the stage and attached to the ceiling (10 feet high). What's the ideal lense to buy? I want to set the zoom and focus and leave it alone. Every Sunday morning, turn on BlackMagic without adjusting the lenses, and be ready to go. Perhaps Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH Power O.I.S. Lens ($499)?
With the FX30, there is no need for a dummy battery. I personally use the USB C port for power delivery. I just my plug MacBook USB C charger in and it keeps the camera going for however long I need. Hope this is helpful, but if you use the dummy battery for a different reason, I'd be curious to know why :)
This! There is no reason to use a dummy battery! You can plug it straight into a wall and be good
Fascinating. We actually had a third-party vendor suggest we go with the dummy battery so we just went with it. Great tip!
@@prochurchtools you can actually charge the battery this way to lol.
This is actually a bad idea because you are killing your battery.
USB-C is charging the battery while the camera is draining it, thus putting the battery under more load & stress and degrading the batteries health
This means your expansive genuine battery when you actually need it as battery will poor battery life. You will need to then buy a new one which expensive.
Using a dummy battery means power deliver is direct and the battery isn’t being cycled unnecessarily.
This is why dummy batteries exist, so you don’t kill your expensive batteries.
@@DarrenAllatt people run their camera off a vmount battery all day using the usb-c PD.
Great video help full ❤
Glad it helped
@@prochurchtools yaaa because we are also in budget church we are trying to buying a new camera in budget.
Hey! Sorry to ask a dumb question. You use an effect in this video at 1:16 where you "push" the video to the right and bring in a graphic on the left. I don't need you to tell me HOW to do that, but I would love to know what it's CALLED so I can watch a video and learn how to do it. I'm editing in DaVinci. Thanks so much - I was able to pick up a couple of cameras because of your recommendations. As always, you guys are the best!
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If you want a Pocket Cinema Camera from Blackmagic that is slightly more expensive, the 6K PCC is ef mount.
Indeed 🫡
Excellent point! I also mention this as well as the BMPCC 6K Pro under the BMPCC 4K in my article. Both are great upgrade options from the original BMPCC 4K.
Big wins for Sony today
They've been winning big for several years now. I was resistant to them for long before finally making the switch. So glad we did.