Several months pass – rapidly coming to the conclusion that you can’t do this on your own, and I live in a small town where fuck-all happens, so to get anything done, I’m going to need to move to a big city. Everybody leaves. I left… then I came back, but now I think I’m going to need to leave again.
Anyway – in the last month or so, two new cameras have been making a bit of fuss… Canon C300 and Red-whatever-it-is. People initially were saying that Red ate Canon for breakfast (or whatever) until they looked a bit closer at Red and realised that you have to spend a small fortune on various bits to go with it. You need to do that with cameras anyway, but with Red it seems to be all Red-proprietary add-ons, so it’s so much worse.
If I’ve got that right. I haven’t been looking too closely because all of this is about 10x out of my price-range, so I’m more interested in things happening at the punk/DIY-end of the scale.
However… starting complex, winding down… here’s a video of Peter Jackson using (a different type of) Red to do 3D stuff. This is what it looks like if you’ve got a budget of several hundred million dollars.
Dial it down a notch… here’s an excellent demo of the Canon C300, which pisses all over the “official” video, which is obviously bogus and manipulative because it’s made by a corporation.
Exactly what Philip Bloom predicted a year ago – that the still and video markets would diverge, and camera producers would start making machines specifically designed for video, rather than trying to walk both sides of the line. Whether this happens in totality remains to be seen. Personally I think stills-only cameras are a thing of the past – and that in a couple (or 5) of years, an offspring of the T2I will turn up that doesn’t have rolling shutter or moire. This video is pretty convincing though. Your film budget wouldn’t have to go very high at all for it to be barmy for you not to use one of these over a DSLR
Finally… a film shot on an iPhone. Had to happen sooner or later.
Although they have a shit-load of supporting hardware
Fairly big budget – $300k apparently – about 1/2 of which (allegedly) went on a “star”, which in this context is basically a type of advertising I think.
So there you go – as someone, somewhere else said, “the best camera is one that you’ll take with you everywhere, and use”… which may or may not be true, depending on whether or not you’re trying to make a spectacle-movie. More on that later.
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