I've recently been shopping around for 35mm motion picture camera. This is the fucked up part of Los Angeles. The insurance for a weekend shoot if you want to rent from any place and if you rent something even as small as a director's chair is over the cost of what a film camera cost now. Smart choice is just to shop around for camera.
However...I've been insulted, laughed at, and ignored for the low-ball nature of what I want to spend on a film camera. Here's the deal:
If I were to buy a digital camera, the cost would be roughly the same, give or take a lens here or there, BUT...HUGE BUT...No one gives a flying fuck about a digital camera. If I sold you a 5D mark 2 or even a Sony CineAlta camera from 2 years back, you'd think I were giving you a flaming pile of shit. It's just as useful. MEANWHILE, here I am haggling like some rabid gypsy over a camera that was introduced in 1974. Yes. 1974. Let's get to the core of what we're thinking here...
digital does not last.
Film has already been proven to last
OR...maybe people who own film cameras are just douchier? Not. It's because it's still FULLY functional. It still surpasses cameras that are built today.
People in this business are so fucking stupid. The newest is NOT the best. The best already exists. And has a track record. Again, what this business is doing is training people to see lower quality and paying the same price. And they've proven, yes they have, due to you idiots...that it doesn't matter. You'd watch an epic on your smart phone.
Anyway, I'll keep plugging away at acquiring film cameras, you keep re-buying the same fucking camera year after year. Except maybe next year they'll add another button that doesn't do anything and call it something cool. Fuck you digital shooters. You're retarded.
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