Samuel Berger

Everyone is retiring or dying off. It's up to Tye keeping things going

It's hard to believe how far the price has fallen. Once every three months, B&H sells it for $2999. They liquidated their C500 Mark II stock and aren't getting them back. I bought a C300 Mark III new, from them, for $2999. I'm still in shock. That thing used to go for $10,999, and that was back when money was worth a lot more.

I have a 1TB lost in the mail, when it arrives I'll let you guys know what I find out.

Okay so this is kinda crazy. I bought a cheap old card and inserted in my camera. I didn't bother closing the card door because I already imagined the card wouldn't work. Well, for this card it wouldn't even let me try to format it. With older cards it said "No card" but at least the format card icon was not greyed out. I don't know what happened, if it had anything to do with the door closed or open, but I followed up with my Kingston 64GB SDS2 Canvas Select Plus card that I had already tried several times before, and this time, I thought I'd try to format it again in-camera for comparison. So, for the first time, it actually went through and formatted! I couldn't believe it! It actually worked. I then tried the SDS2 512GB and that also worked in spite of not having worked 100 times before. Somehow trying to format the cheap card with the door opened did something. I can't think of what, but there it is. I then tried a number of other cards. The surprising thing is that nothing makes my Lexar 512 95mbs/s card work. It appears as formattable and I just know that it used to work, but it fails formatting. Sandisk Extreme Pro 32GB 95mb/s works again. Sandisk Extreme Pro 200mb/s doesn't. I still haven't received my Angelbird card but I'll report back when I do.

Yes, still nothing. I ordered an Angelbird card that is supposed to work. But before that, I ordered a Kingston card that was "supposed to work" and didn't, and then a Sandisk Extreme Pro that was "supposed to work" and didn't.

It's just so bizarre of a problem to develop. I've heard of BMPCC OGs falling apart after a few years but never this. I looked into it with a flashlight and I can state the pins are not bent at all. I cleaned them with a sensor cleaner stick and still nothing. What makes this weird is how the cards used to work before and now they don't. I might have to buy another BMPCC OG,

If I find out the pins are bent then what do I do?

I'm not sure I would know how to take it apart. But yeah I remember you did the documentary about furries and you used it along with your Aaton XTR. Can't believe how long ago that was! Is it easy to just take it apart?

My BMPCC OG won't recognize any SD cards, even cards that used to work in it. Is there any sort of fix for this?

So how hard is it going to be to match footage from all these three cameras? In a perfect world, I would want A, B and C cams to all be exactly the same. Unfortunately that's not in the cards for us. How jarring is it going to be, cutting from one shot to another? Is it going to be like "oh wow what the hell is that?" We'll likely be using the C400 for the wide shots, the C500 Mark II for the mediums and the C300 Mark III for for the close up, multicam shoot.

They still stock the camera. Do you mean the EVF?

But at least, you can get a usable image out of a Canon. 😂

I wonder if I'm the only person around here who cares about Canon enough to have an emotional attachment.😁 opinion on the op? @Tyler Purcell

I hope you're not asking too much for that evf-70. I was trying to find one for a reasonable price today and couldn't.

I'm really curious I keep hearing that the C300 Mark III is so much better than the C500 Mark II. They say it's the DGO sensor. I own a C500 Mark II and a C50. But I keep hearing from people that the C300 Mark III has the most gorgeous image "because DGO." Seriously, am I missing out? I was going to buy a second C500 Mark II dirt cheap but they have a C300 Mark III for the same price, low hours. I almost feel like I should go for it just because there seems to be this consensus online. I actually have a theory, I think that this is because back when the C500 Mark II was unattainably expensive, a lot of people bought the C300 Mark III instead based on price alone. So what that means is that there were more of them out there in the wild through those years and there was probably a lot of cope involved. What do you guys think? @tylerpurcell chime in bro!