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Posted by William Davis on 02/02/06 20:00
In article <IPyDf.15462$_S7.3906@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
"Nappy" <noemail@all.com> wrote:
> "William Davis" <davisbill@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:davisbill-192498.15525630012006@news.west.cox.net...
>
> > My personal thought is that the whole debate is remarkably stupid.
> >
> > It's like arguing that a small skip loader that you rent at your local
> > home improvement center isn't AS GOOD as a full fledged monster piece
> > of construction equipment that your city owns for working in the
> > landfill.
> >
> > For doing WHAT exactly?
> >
>
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> Bill.. if you assume that everyone wants the cheapest, easiest to use, best
> low light, best audio best overall camera in a price range to shoot
> whatever.. Then this discussion makes sense. The idea that everyone, even
> those just beginning, can qualify a camera based on their needs rather than
> relative performance seems to me to be an unreal expectation.
>
> This thread revealed an interesting fact regarding the low light performance
> of a HDV camera vs a DV camera. That's good to know regardless of what you
> are shooting.
>
> Gear is NOT everything of course.. but starting with quality gear can be the
> difference between inspiration, success and failure.
>
> Otherwise you may not be using whatever camera you have chosen.
Fair enough.
But I'd still wager that in a situation where one crew is using gear
that rates 80% on the "perfect equipment" scale - and another crew using
gear that achieves 95% on the same scale - the best video will come out
of...
(pause for dramatic effect)
whichever crew that has someone on the team who really understands how
to make videos.
Period.
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