How many camera's

[Rich Schaefer]

I last week heard Clairmont now has 14 D21s. I think they also have 10 Reds

 

[Oli Laperal Jr]

Survival of the Species.

Survival of the Species.

Charles Darwin:
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most ADAPTABLE to CHANGE.”

Oli

Oli Laperal Jr
R.S. Video & Film
Philippines

 

[Roxco]

It's all about the Standards!

It's all about the Standards!

The individual disciplines needed to make films will remain but the tools are undergoing rapid, reactive change. Old market leaders are going to quickly become irrelevant as these changes hit the street. The operative word for success in this climate is "Agility". Red has it, Sony doesn't, Panasonic doesn't, Panavision doesn't. Red is so agile, they made their next generation of cameras literally agile.

You can't make a living shining shoes when everybody is trading in their Florsheims for Nikes. Make good decisions.

If Red gets to set the standards for the new "film" workflow then they will do fine even if they get out of the sensor business. Eventually Red = Microsoft!

Ducking for cover,

Rosco

 

[podrush.net]

Great post Jeff, lucid and well developed- acquisition technology is truly at the forefront of the modernization of the film industry as we know it today, and indeed all other disciplines are affected by the consequences.
Good reading, even though we still don't know how many of the things there are out there. I agree, numbers for sure are not everything, but they are good solid indicators of where the rate of change is. The facinating thing is that we are at the nascent point of this process, and in 25 years time, it will be inconcievable for all participants not to shoot on high resolution camera's as much as it will be inconcievable that anything should be accidentally lost from a disk ;-)

 

[stateofeight]

expendible media

expendible media

Let us also not lose sight of the fact that companies like Sony Pana etc. have had to try to figure out how to re-align their business models so that they are not reliant on disposable media. This area of the market represents a serious area of loss for these manufacturers. The tape formats disappearing and being replaced with solid state mechanics that need little replacement/repair mandates downsizing and reduction.