Sometimes I'm startled to witness old cameras still in use. Yesterday
I worked a shoot for NBC, which included a live feed to the "Today"
show plus a bit of b-roll. (In North Attleboro, Mass. on the Aaron
Hernandez story.) I asked the DP, an old buddy of mine, why he was
using his old Panasonic HDX-900 camera, instead of his Alexa, which
would have handled the high contrast standup much better. He told me
somebody at NBC insisted they want "real 1080i, not captured
progressive." Oh yeah, they also want to have tape, not files. Tape
to carry back to New York 6 hours after they fed the tape up from the
satellite truck. Go figure.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with you, though not about cars. And phones are rather cheap. And
> older computers can be demoted to more mundane but still useful tasks (of
> course, I don't buy a facility's worth of computers, so it's easier for me
> to migrate one or two computers downard). But an older camera gets pretty
> hard to hire out.
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