Camera with Screen Difficult to see the screen in a strong light or sun light a full focus can be go out

ut of focus coz of correct preview issues. Alternatives - Z-Finders, Hoodman shades or loupes.

I think in the future we'll see a swing back tape-based cams after people realize it's just too easy to blow away stuff accidentally from cards, or when enough cards go bad, or when people realize what a pain it is to back up all of the raw footage files somewhere. Tape provides that solution perfectly - and although tape can and does go bad, it's rare that an entire tape goes bad vs. maybe just a millisecond or two - but if a file gets corrupted, good luck getting the file back into shape.

Why to go for a Brand New Camera Yes it is, and yet it happened to me half a year ago with my (then) 5 months old xh-a1. I always use the same hd tapes and never re-use them and at a wedding I lost almost 80% of one hour footage (one cassette) from a church recording. The camera never gave any warning whatsoever but gave me over 100 unrecoverable drop-outs. Thats' why I purchased a hvr-dr60 after that to record to tape and harddrive simultaneously and even though it was a costly upgrade I have not regretted it

Audio capturing device -In terms of capturing audio we use the Zoom H4N, which has XLR inputs
There is the option of recording sound on the 5D itself, but there is no way to monitor it properly so we have avoided doing so. I'm not entirely sure if the same is true of the 7D as we don't use it.

Working with ProRes Proxy isn't really a good idea for us, for various reasons, so we use ProRes 422 LT, which works great. Anything above that (422, 422HQ etc) is overkill with bitrates that are over and above what the DSLR's shoot at.