One cinematographer takes the majority of commonly used, video-centric or cinema cameras, and assembles them in a tier list from “God Mode” (of which there is only one), to “The group that shall not be named”. Do you agree with the rankings?
Whilst I love cinematography, I haven’t had much time with any cinema cameras, and certainly not enough to rank them all. However, wolfcrow, a cinematographer and YouTuber, releases regular content on the topic and has decided to follow a tier list trend, creating his own rankings.
There were a few surprises for me. Firstly, I did not expect the Panasonic S1H to be ranked as low as it is. The S1H is widely revered as a brilliant cinematography camera on a budget, with a decent selection of great cinema lenses available for it. The second surprise for me was the Fujifilm GFX 100S featuring at all, let alone reasonably high. Perhaps I am completely out of the loop or just naive when it comes to the 100S, but I didn’t realize it was considered by videographers. It does have a limited but decent video spec, and it does provide the (close to) medium format look, but it’s fairly inflexible with settings.
What do you make of this tier list? Were there any cameras you think are too high or too low? Share your thoughts in the comments below.