Man, I don’t own it at all. Geez a Spirit’s like a million bucks on it’s own not to mention a Da Vinci. Just rent the time. We own one Arri 235, but it lives at Panavision where it gets rented out when we don’t use it. We even rent the digi deck from Pani. It’s a little bit of a hassle to pick up the deck every couple of weeks, but I can’t see buying or leasing one when I feel that the use of decks will die off coming soon. I see a day around the corner that we paid so much money for these huge machines just to move data around. My bet is on the technology that IBM’s been working on where a TB of info fits on a credit card. It would be nice to go to a transfer session and leave with all your footage at 32 bit to slide in your wallet 🙂
Chris Smith
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