Hey y'all,
Needing some help regarding the acquisition of my first camera. I've been working in the industry heavily for 3 years but my intention is to now start spending more time building a reel. I have a decent bit of money saved and want to purchase a decent camera, lenses and some basic grip gear.
The main projects I imagine shooting will be music vids, spec ads, small docos, and maybe some small shorts. I don't have any paid work lined up at this stage.
So what I really want from a camera is;
* Simple workflow, capturing a format like prores which grades well and can be handled on my quadcore laptop, but doesnt cost an immense amount to manage.
* Decent slow motion capabilities (mostly for music vids)
* Excellent latitude and filmic quality image. This is very important to me, I hate trying to work around the 5-stops-of-latitude DSLR look.
* See no need for 4K, nothing i will be shooting at this stage will be viewed in a 4k medium.
It would be nice to keep the camera sub-$5000, and I'd like to get something within the next few months. I don't really feel like there's any solution just yet which fulfils all those needs, but I'm keen on your thoughts and if you know of anything coming up I should hold my breathe for.
thx for yo help!