I shot on an old bl4 recently. Pictures were fine - course to be fair we used modern film stock. I guess that's what they mean by a sensor upgrade.
Mike
On 22 Jun, 2013, at 1:24 AM, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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