Article about using the Red One video cinema camera (for stills too). Very positive, with a few caveats.
McLain and Thelia were also surprised at how much bigger and heavier the Red One was than they had imagined. Thelia estimated that with a battery and lens attached along with other assorted hardware such as a viewfinder, the camera weighs about 25 pounds. "It's pretty damn big and pretty damn heavy," McLain says. "You're not a fly on the wall with that camera."
"One of the limiting factors is motion," he notes. "Anything you can't freeze is going to come out as blur when it's extracted as a still."
Hmmm... can't you adjust the shutter speed on an upmarket video camera?
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I have routinely used cameras weighing 25 lbs. and more, carried them on my shoulder for entire days in hot weather, and it's not a problem.
I am not some hulking behemoth, either. I'm a normal guy, in his 50's, who is a bit used to doing that, to be sure, but right in the statistical middle physically.
The critical issue is not the weight, it is the balance. Holding a 5 lb. miniDV camera out in front of you is harder after 10 minutes than carrying 30 perfectly balanced lbs. on your right shoulder. Try it!
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