The DR-10L has been my go-to recommendation for years, and the Zoom F2 is coming for its crown. Weight, build, battery life, audio, file sizes, that missing screen, and who should actually buy which.
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The Zoom F2 and F2-BT record 32 bit float audio, which means you should never have to think about levels again. Here is the battery testing, the cost cutting, the genuinely strange way you have to format the card, and who should actually buy one.
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The Practilite 602 has lit my wedding films for three years. The Aputure 60x matches or beats nearly every feature of it, includes the case and the Bowens adapter, and costs less than half as much.
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Three wedding filmmakers who have been inspiring me lately: Sara Canducci in Italy, Hello Tomorrow Films in Canada, and Shawn Yang here in Texas.
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Zhiyun sent me the Crane 2S and I filmed two weddings and an elopement with it. The improvements over the Crane 2 are real, but they are not the two improvements I actually wanted, and that is what makes this gimbal a hard sell.
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Filmmakers kept asking Sony for the a7S III in a real cinema body, with mounting points, XLRs and built-in NDs. The FX6 is that camera. Here is what it adds, what it is missing, and who should actually buy it over the a7S III.
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