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    A Hot Pixel?

    It depends how many, and where, for the manufacturer to consider a replacement. From memory, I think iphones require 6 or more stuck or hot pixels to be replaced as a bad screen, except if it's in the center of the screen. As I said earlier, though, camera firmware can sometimes fix it...
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    HELP PLEASE! The right camera??

    You did post in the newbies section, so I suspect you are a newbie. Frankly, a good comeback would've been something like "yeah, I'd almost die if someone told me to open the aperture, when it's really called the iris." But actually, knowing your way around a dslr for still images is...
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    about to buy a7s. best ND set (or variable)?

    Ouch. Wait.. the a7s is $1600 now? I thought it was only $500 cheaper at $2500. I guess you can find it used, unlike the a7sii
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    about to buy a7s. best ND set (or variable)?

    Hope you held off a week on the a7s purchase, now that the a7sii is announced with some great new features. They also are shipping the a7rii, and despite not being as good at video, I probably want one of those.
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    ANyone want to diagnose thi video problem? link provided

    That looked like an encoding or sensor issue. Check the source footage and see if it's there.
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    Mounting DSLR to Glidecam

    One thing you need to watch is lenses that change balance when focusing or zooming. It will totally throw off the balance.
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    Hiring police officers

    Did you just pull one over on us, cuz that was kind of funny. Or is your original post still serious?
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    Time to buy a camera!! ?

    Only thing I'd add is that it's a poor workman who blames his tools. If you can't state exactly (and I mean exactly) what you'll be able to do with more expensive gear, you lose all rights to complain about it. As a photographer, I hear people saying crap like "dang, I wish I had a nice camera...
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    A Hot Pixel?

    http://nofilmschool.com/2010/06/how-to-remove-stuck-pixels-from-video-footage That might help. It's definitely correctable (although you'll lose that specific pixel of course, but really, your camera interpolates all sorts of data from nearby pixels including all the color data).
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    Canon 70D a good choice?

    I personally think the 70D looks good, although I've seen people depend on it to focus in video and got back a lot of crap. I was shooting a YouTube series, and the master footage I shot had to be subbed in because the guy running the 70D just wasn't pulling focus properly. Don't know if it was...
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    24-105mm Canon L lens, darker when zooming in?

    I saw your post earlier and couldn't figure it out. It appears you are a bit confused. Because f stop is affected by focal length in addition to the size of the aperture, its far cheaper to sell a variable fstop lens, as the actual front element doesn't have to be larger. What you were told...
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    24-105mm Canon L lens, darker when zooming in?

    Looking at the histogram and adjusting the color temp to match, the 105mm is almost exactly 2/10th stop darker. Some of that could be from vignetting, shot wide open, because I had to crop in the 24mm (so the darker edges would've been removed). I'm not sure why it's darker. It might be one of...
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    Looking for advice from experienced filmmakers...

    ^^^ As far as ambitious, make sure you write it within your budget and reality. If you need your actors swimming down a dam that just broke, you might have more problems than just sitting around a campfire.
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    Filming inside of a car?

    Old school was to put a movie screen behind the car and project the background, then have people on the sides occasionally moving lights down the side as if it was the headlights of other traffic passing, and other crew rocking the car now and then. I actually wired sound for a car, and planted...
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    Filming inside of a car?

    I'm pretty sure that's Wayne's World. It's definitely Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey doing either the movie or a skit. They did a movie spinoff from a SNL skit. Party on, Garth! edit: here ya go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe30habM0ls
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