$10K for a CMOS camera?

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Permalink Reply by grinner on February 18, 2010 at 9:43am

I could not tell ya why someone would spend RED money on that camera. Lack of research is the bottom line answer.
There are many that gravitate to it because they had 30k in their old betacam and find this camera familiar feeling and looking. The difference is their old betacams were worth it at the time and they paid for themselves with no problem. They see this camera as better and cheaper. Both true. But then there are a bunch of cameras better and cheaper than this one.
Taking us back to the lack of research answer.

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Permalink Reply by Pierre Samuel Rioux on May 26, 2010 at 2:12am

take a look of this device Earl

http://www.convergent-design.com/VideoGallery/tabid/1663/VideoId/32...

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Permalink Reply by Earl Chessher on May 26, 2010 at 2:44am

Pierre, that is one sweet little tool. Thanks for sharing the link. This is an exceptional piece of hardware that will, as the man said, serve well into the production future of any video producer in business today.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon Lamb on May 26, 2010 at 3:47pm

I'm using a Sony EX3 right now and I won't ever go back to an XL2. Granted, it belongs to the National Guard, but I am working towards replacing my personal XL2 and Nikon D80 with a Canon D5 MII which as I'm sure everyone knows shoots video as well as taking amazing stills. For under $10K, I can get the D5 and some rigs for it and shoot far superior video than my XL2. I figure I can use that until I can afford something like the EX3. The EX3 just blows me away. Here is a link to a video I recently produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkklbDiFccs

This was shot on the EX3. This is the raw footage too, no color correction or filters either. I know I said a few years ago (and Earl can contest to this) that the XL2 was all I needed. Don't get me wrong, it's a great camera, but after using the EX3, I'm hooked. The picture quality is amazing, hands down. What I love is the ability to control my frame rate. I can shoot at 60fps and get true slow-mo or shoot at 1fps and get a nice stop-frame effect.

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