It’s Q1 2006

[Lars Wikstrom]

I have to agree and disagree with that. For the past 15 years since film school everyone says that. “Don’t worry what you shoot it on just finish it, if it’s good it will be good no matter what it is on”. I also read a good book a while back “How to make an action movie for $99” That was a good book and I recommend it for low budge film makers.

But for me this camera opens up the ‘what if’ door. What if I shoot my movie and it’s a hit, picked up and transfered to 35mm. I have seen SD to film and it looks bad. Even though 99.99999 % of films are right to DVD or TV. The low budget creator has a dream to make the best posiable motion picture he can. I never like approching projects saying “Ahh, it’s only going to be on DVD so who cares.” Even though your point are valid and people have heard them before, this camera opens the ‘what if’door a little wider and that gets me a little excited. It’s about the dream.

-Lars

[Blub06]

Check out some video/films shot by AFI grads. I have seen some that were shot on DigiBeta and transferred to film, WOW! If it were not done by a friend of mine I would not have believed it was a video transfer. Who ever they hire for the transfer is the place to go.
Maybe you have seen transfers done elsewhere.

Chris

[Mike Schrengohst]

It gets down to a point of convenience.
Imagine if you had to book and rent a computer
to write a script??
You might have to write on paper with a pen
for gods sake!!
I remember many friends in the printing
industry saying how much business they
were losing to people with computers.
I said why don’t you hire some of them
or get your computers??
I don’t expect a $6,000 camera to hurt the
Hollywood box office, but for those of us
in back of the line I see some light
at the end of the tunnel.
(It’s probably the SuperTrain)

[Illya Friedman]

Jan Wrote:

“The guys from Moviola, Plaster City Digital Post did a film out of the footage that they shot just prior to DV Expo. While I did not see it, I heard it looked very good. I did see the footage on a 20′ screen at Plaster City, and it looked unbelieveable. Hard to image that the images came from a $6,000 camera.”

I am the producer of this project. If anyone has questions, feel free to contact me directly.

I.

Illya Friedman
circle_of_confusion@yahoo.com