I agree with that, i like the mil spec theme. But onset "Weapon" means a bunch of specific thing that effect cost & safety(i.e. if weapon is on the daily shot list, better be approved by exec, often add's a extra person to the crew like the weapon wrangler, add's time to all shot times to hand out and gather the weapons, different times depending on weapon type, etc ..]. I think the huge films have those processes in place and the extra people are onset anyway, but for me I avoid like a plague anything on the shot list like weapon, car crash, explosions - since it will drastically effect my small budgets. Also very few people onset will realize that weapon is a camera, or worse will get confused, which basically means people can't use the word "weapon" to refer to the camera. Also a lot of sets are mixed camera's, so it's common for someone to ask to "bring overthe epic" rather then bring over the red. I have noticed that professional crews are very specific on the words they use onset so using the "red" word for everything goes a bit against the grain(i.e. i can't follow half the words the grips & lighting guys use, also these words are used by the rental house and entire chain to make sure the right stuff is at the right place on the right day ... so i can't see using the word "red camera" to replace the word "red epic camera").
