The Sony Burano - A camera that as a Documentary Cinematographer, makes me its prime target market. But is it worth the price tag? I had an opportunity to rent the camera to shoot a recent boxing documentary project headed for ESPN, so thought I'd share my experiences.

I kept the grade super simple to give a more accurate representation of how things look straight out of camera - using the colour transform tool in Davinci Resolve to get everything into a standard Rec-709 profile, and then doing some minor adjustments for levels.

Everything is handheld, with IBIS set to standard. The majority of the shots in the film are shot in 6K X-OCN LT (Apologies for the 8K typo in the video - I forgot about the sensor crop I had to change to unlock the higher frame rates).

Hope you like it and hit me up in the comments if you have any questions.

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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Background
3:28 - Sample Footage - Helios
3:49 - Made for Doco Shooters?
4:08 - Financial realities
4:40 - The project I used it on
5:14 - What did I like?
5:49 - Autofocus
7:09 - Sample footage
8:17 - What I didn't like
9:21 - Worth the money?
10:18 - Rent it
11:14 - Outro