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Cameras
Bodies that shoot a film — from the Pocket 4K up to the cinema cameras people buy used.
36 products · 3 groups · 12 makers
Cinema bodies
- ARRI ALEXA Mini — The industry’s workhorse, now reachable second-hand
- Sony FX9 — 6K full-frame shoulder camera
- RED KOMODO-X — The faster KOMODO: 6K 80fps global shutter
- Canon EOS C400 — Canon’s 6K full-frame production body
- Sony FX6 — Full-frame, variable ND, the documentary workhorse
- Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K — Shoulder-mount 12K Super 35
- RED KOMODO 6K — Global shutter, R3D, the cheapest way into RED
- Canon EOS C70 — Super 35 DGO sensor in an RF-mount body
- Canon EOS C80 — Full-frame back-illuminated, built-in NDs
- Canon EOS R5 C — A stills R5 with a cinema camera inside it
- Blackmagic PYXIS 6K — Full-frame box camera, swappable mount
- Z CAM E2-S6 — Super 35 6K box camera, ZRAW
Mirrorless & hybrid
- Nikon Z8 — A Z9 in a smaller body; 8K raw
- Sony FX3 — Full-frame Cinema Line in a palm-sized body
- Sony a7S III — The low-light stills body crews shoot video on
- Sony a7 IV — The all-round full-frame hybrid
- Canon EOS R6 Mark II — The affordable full-frame RF hybrid
- Nikon Z6 III — Partially stacked sensor, N-RAW internal
- Fujifilm X-H2S — Stacked APS-C, F-Log2, open gate 6.2K
- Sony FX30 — The FX3’s Super 35 sibling, half the price
- Panasonic LUMIX S5 IIX — The S5 II with raw out and ProRes internal
- Panasonic LUMIX GH7 — Micro Four Thirds, ProRes RAW internal
- Sony ZV-E1 — Full-frame, tiny, built for one-person crews
- Panasonic LUMIX S5 II — Full-frame, open gate, phase detect at last
- Panasonic LUMIX GH6 — The last GH before phase detect, cheap used
- Sony a6700 — APS-C hybrid, a first serious camera
- Fujifilm X-S20 — Small, cheap, 6.2K open gate
Pocket & gimbal
- Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro — The 6K with built-in NDs and a tilting screen
- Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 — Super 35, EF mount, BRAW to a USB-C drive
- Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K — The camera that put raw in a student’s hands
- Sony ZV-1 II — Pocket 1-inch with a proper wide lens
- DJI Osmo Pocket 3 — A gimbal and a 1-inch sensor in a pocket
- Insta360 X4 — 360 capture you reframe afterwards — a crew of one
- Insta360 Ace Pro 2 — Leica-co-engineered action camera, flip screen
- GoPro HERO13 Black — The mount-it-anywhere camera, with swappable lenses
- DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro — Action camera that shoots usable log
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