By the time you put it to paid work, you'll be grateful you had the time to use it when no one's looking over your shoulder. Learning how you should expose may be different.

Just getting a good feel for the rolling shutter for example is likely different than your other camera. So the winter months may be a blessing for you to test and practice with it. And when it's at its best and when it may not be ideal.

I've had the camera since early April, and I'm still learning about it and what I need to do to get what I want. Understand that you may not be as busy in terms of doing work on the URSA Mini for clients in the winter months, but if you do proceed with a purchase when units are readily available in retail stores off the shelf, you will have a few months to become intimately familiar with the camera both from an operational perspective and in terms of understanding its strengths and weaknesses and how to get the most out of the camera including the codec flavours for recording and the post processing of the footage.

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