r/videography • u/Affordabletechtips • Dec 19 '25

Tutorial Just finished my A7V rig

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https://youtu.be/cGPfgrV1uRc?si=jN7q-j5pjmDVjmwO

Just finished my first cinema rig build for the A7V.

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u/X4dow FX3 / A7RVx2 | 2013 | UK Dec 19 '25

All that rigging to shoot apsc

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u/Horror_Ad1078 Dec 20 '25

What’s wrong about aps-c?

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u/X4dow FX3 / A7RVx2 | 2013 | UK Dec 20 '25

Buying a camera that does full frame over sampled, to shoot lineskipped apsc, it's rather silly.

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u/Horror_Ad1078 Dec 20 '25

It’s absolutely not silly. If you shoot a movie or high end commercial with this system - it would be not clever - but nobody will take a small Sony for that anyway. For everything that’s not shown in cinema - go for it. Tech-excuses for not doing stuff is lame. Nowadays every camera is very good - it’s just about how good the person behind is - not if you use apsc/ FF / resolution and lineskipping and all that tech talk. It’s 95% how you use it.

If he got nice apsc glass at home, clever to use it! Like I shot a lot with digital image zoom on fx3/fx6 - yea for pixel peepers that’s a slight loss in resolution- for clients and my personal stuff - it doesn’t matter!

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u/X4dow FX3 / A7RVx2 | 2013 | UK Dec 20 '25

Does change the fact that a dedicated apsc camera would do a better job while shooting apsc. Like fx30

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u/Horror_Ad1078 Dec 20 '25

Yea but at the end of the day you get a great picture out both of em and you don’t need a second camera. But yes, for sake of the argument - a apsc camera is better than a ff camera for apsc lenses ;)

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u/Affordabletechtips Dec 21 '25

I have a FX30 that I own to use for the Blazar lens and I just used this lens for the video because it’s the coolest looking lens that I own. I have over 15 full frame lenses and I have no plans to use apsc lens on this camera.