Is the EPIC almost perfect... ?

[Timur Civan]

I agree...

The epic reminds me of the days when the Hvx200 first came out. DVCpro100, p2 media, variable frame rates, different resolutions, fit in my hand, did over crank Slow motion in camera, hell it even had a tape drive. It made sure I never had to say to a director, no I can't do that.

It was the Swiss army knife of video.

The epic is the swiss army knife of cinema. It's everything all at the same time, and unlike most systems, it's isn't jack of all trades master of none. It really is awesome at everything.

[C.H.Haskell]

yeah...what he said. ;) cheers.

[Max M.]

totally agree, the epic is absolutely the best possible deal right now, but indeed, there are points of improvement which would make it a lot better:
- half the weight
- build in ND's
- half the power draw
- 90% less sound from the fan
- choice of codec and/or raw recording
- better low light senitivity

All of the above points are where some others camera's beat the the epic (of course you can't compare a 5k raw camera with a 8 bit HD camera, but people do it, and base their choice also on point as the above...) A lot of these things can't be changed in the current epic, but maybe a future epic successor could have this, making the choice for epic really easy and obvious :)

[Mark Toia]

totally agree, the epic is absolutely the best possible deal right now, but indeed, there are points of improvement which would make it a lot better:
- half the weight
- build in ND's
- half the power draw
- 90% less sound from the fan
- choice of codec and/or raw recording
- better low light senitivity

All of the above points are where some others camera's beat the the epic (of course you can't compare a 5k raw camera with a 8 bit HD camera, but people do it, and base their choice also on point as the above...) A lot of these things can't be changed in the current epic, but maybe a future epic successor could have this, making the choice for epic really easy and obvious :)

- half the weight
- build in ND's
- half the power draw
- 90% less sound from the fan
- choice of codec and/or raw recording
- better low light senitivity

as well as clean Audio..
Then it would be perfect... But like I said, I'm very very happy already

[Rob Ruffo]

Since we often do our own editing, and do so on Premiere, we don't need Prores - and we don't even have a Rocket.

But I otherwise agree. My milestone was realizing that we almost never rent other cameras anymore. We have all we need, for almost any shoot, right here.

[Josh Beadle]

I knew that "I did my edit on a laptop in a hotel room during the commercial breaks in Family Guy" was hoax . . . nice edit suite my friend!!!

[Aleksandar Colancevski]

As I said, I don't dare to ask for more after 20 years of expensive agony with Sony and Arri. Epic is dream come true.
Still can't believe my eyes after 4 years the pictures that I am producing, editing and color correcting in 4K on a 6000$ computer.

[Sergio Perez]

I agree...

The epic reminds me of the days when the Hvx200 first came out. DVCpro100, p2 media, variable frame rates, different resolutions, fit in my hand, did over crank Slow motion in camera, hell it even had a tape drive. It made sure I never had to say to a director, no I can't do that.

It was the Swiss army knife of video.

The epic is the swiss army knife of cinema. It's everything all at the same time, and unlike most systems, it's isn't jack of all trades master of none. It really is awesome at everything.

Word!

[Lee Saxon]

Well said, Mark. Great post as always.

The biggest enemy of the perfect camera, even bigger than the incremental-update/planned-obsolecence business model, is that everybody's definition is a little different.

Sometimes that's okay. Adding a pro-res option I would never use doesn't hurt me. Go for it.

But not always. Give someone the built-in NDs they want and you're giving me a bunch of added size I desperately don't want.

[Sailas Vanetti]

HEHEHE, Mark. Holy words Dude...