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Comment by 1ikigai

Thank you so much! It's Nikon Z7 ii, but if I'd be picking a camera today I wouldn't take this one.

The big selling point of this camera for me when it just came out was a generous 45.7 MP sensor that meant I have a decent freedom for cropping stuff or printing my works on billboards (never happened) if I ever need to.

But now all the AI upscalers like the ones from the Topaz Lab disrupted the market and it's no longer an advantage really. It's still a great camera for pictures, don't take me wrong!

But if I'd be in the market for a video camera, I'd be looking at cameras from Black Magic or RED. They give you a cinematic look and actually have a proper RAW video file format for color grading.

If you want to achieve a similar look, here is a small lifehack we've used for most of the videos: smoke machine. You can get one off Amazon for like $50. It creates this cool deepness and light diffusion in the atmosphere. Just need to play around a bit with the distances between smoke and subjects, intensity and lights.

parent 1ikigai 2 years ago

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