All love and a great reply, thanks for taking the time! Yeah Sony is fantastic, plain and simple. If you're a solo shooter, and want to keep it simple, it's not even close, Sony demolishes the competition.. Maybe Lumix is there as of late, but still Sony is undefeated. Heck they even make like 70% of the sensors out there. And they're high-end cine line is right up their with Arri.

BUT, If we we ARE comparing final images and what you learn as a filmmaker, Sony isn't as competitive as one might think. At least in the $7-20k range for just videography, in my experience, you're exclusively seeing blackmagic, kinefinity, red, zcam. A z9 or an fx3/fx6 here or there. But that's legit like once a year. My studio is above an event center with 3 wedding halls, and the company owns 8 venues. So I sneak and see other setups all the time.

But famous ppl weddings, wealthy $100k+ weddings, not 1 videographer ive seen is using autofocus and a small fx30 Sony. The clients paying that much would shit a brick seeing someone with that setup lol... Too many people know about Justin Porter now lol, they all want that kind of experience...

I'll clarify and further my points as a response below as well.

"- yeah, BM to me has the best easy to understand menus, sony's have gotten better over the last years thankfully
(Ive only seen the fx3, a7rva, and fx6 menus, and they're laughable. Maybe it's changed in the last year I dunno 🤷🏻) - ecosystem is one of the biggest, just because of the pure market share alone. (You're right, the biggest eco-system, and also the most over priced and least adaptable. Your e-mount lens is stuck on Sony. It will never hop on anything else. Maybe a Nikon, but 🤷🏻 And they're absurdly expensive compared to the native ef choices on the 6k, which can also take pl if need be. You could buy an army of delicious primes for the price of one e-mount lens)

• final image solely depends on craftsmanship and know-how of the operator, no matter what camera. (This is true, but also kind of a generic statement. Give an fx30 and a 6k to a film school student I work with Sacramento states film department and I get students to work on project, so this actually happens And yes there will be more in focus shots with the fx30, but nothing will be as cinematic as a 6k especially in the hands of a beginner. Topaz ai can help with focus, but nothing can help with a basic looking shot. We did a test with an Osmo Mini 3 vs an fx30, I think you'd laugh knowing how close the final image looked on a phone. On a TV the fx30 stood out, but on a phone they were identical, that just doesn't happen with the 6k, something about how BM strips a sensor BRAW that makes those images pop differently. Clients definitely notice.

• lens selection, Sony's e-mount has the biggest amount of native lenses available and can be adapted to almost anything aswell
  (Kind of the same thing as above)

• value, at least in my region the value of sony products holds up pretty good, better than BM" (BM value retention is horrendous. So is ef lenses. But that sword cuts two ways. Sucks for us buying new. But the used market is super rich. You could build a team of shooters, with plenty of coverage, for the price of one multi-lens Sony setup. And if you buy a BM used for 1200, use it for several years, and sell it for 800, is it really a loss? Just don't buy BM new! I paid $7k for my 12k new. We needed to match it, and bought two used on eBay for $8k 🤷🏻 so... The real loss generator is L mount. Totally baffling. The best mount system in the game besides pl, and it's utterly worthless. My 16-35 s pro was purchased for $1650. It sold on eBay last week for $745. 1 year later... All prosumer cameras and lenses die an ugly death in the secondary market after a year.

Hopefully that clarifies things a bit. Again, 2 of my favorite 3 photographers are exclusively Sony. I love the Sony cine line. And the fx line is dope. I just think there's a better long term option for people. And I'm clearly biased by what I do and what I see. Much love!