The Sony Venice!

[Johnny Karlsson]

Last week on a shoot with 3x Venice 2, levels randomly vanished from the monitors. Both myself and DIT thought my reference hop batteries had died, but the receivers were still going, and level was showing on the side display on the camera body. Moments later, level was suddenly showing on the monitors again. DIT commented that the camera is still new and things probably will get better in upcoming firmware updates. Apparently, there were other issues they were dealing with on these cameras.

[Matthias Richter]

shooting CUs with a short lense on a Venice - the fan noise is driving me nuts. It does go „silent“ when in record but is still way too noisy for my liking. Having 3 bodies they are all the same. 
The Cedar does help me here and gives me an idea what post will accomplish later on.
 

[jan00147]

Hi, I will be shooting with the Venice next week. Does anyone have any new experiences with the timecode drift in 2024?

[Fred Salles]

Hi Jan00147

I did a feature film end of last year with Sony Venice 2. No TC problem that I heard of. Fan not really an issue unless with boom very close.

My only issue with the camera was that the SDI out would output the frame without "look around". If I understood correctly (and if the cam 1st AC did not bullshit me 😉 ) if you want to use the full 6k def or 4k 2.39 you cannot have lookaround space around your frame. It is limited to some format only (3k and 4k 4/3, Sony calls it "Surround view")

It was annoying not to be able to give frame and/or warning to my boom op using my own video monitor. Once you see the boom in, it is in...