Michael Hastings
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Re: 8R ultraprime - coop?
Re: 8R ultraprime - coop?
Now the only problem is putting together the cash for a couple of Ultraprime 8Rs.
I wonder if there would be a possibility of using the user group to organize sort of a coop where we could purchase some of these things that most users would only be using a week or two out of the year and set it up almost like a time share where you would own a certain amount of time and say commit only a portion of the time and leave the rest where the owners could rent it and the rent would be paid into the coop. For example the ultraprime 8R costs about 25K US so we sell 20 shares at $1250 apiece. Each user would "own" say 10 days per year (we would have to initially draw lots and also put some rules of about booking or making changes say 30 days in advance). Outside of that any user could rent it for say $75 for additional days and at the end of the year whatever "profit" there was could be distributed. If we wanted to think about 3d we could double the number of "owners" so there would be 2 lenses in the pool and someone who was sure they were going to do 3d could buy 2 shares. (By the it would be okay to buy several shares if you anticipated greater usage) We'd have to talk about outside rentals but it's possible that by renting outside it could pay for itself. The idea of selling only 200 days would be so that everyone has at least a shot at some flexibility in moving days around.
12 mm T2.0 is about 19K US
10 mm T2.1 is about 20K US = about a 16mm on 35slr
By the way - forget Cameron - let's do it ourselves! I'd like to see IMAX size on that baitball of Mark's.
Re: 8R ultraprime - coop?
Now the only problem is putting together the cash for a couple of Ultraprime 8Rs.
I wonder if there would be a possibility of using the user group to organize sort of a coop where we could purchase some of these things that most users would only be using a week or two out of the year and set it up almost like a time share where you would own a certain amount of time and say commit only a portion of the time and leave the rest where the owners could rent it and the rent would be paid into the coop. For example the ultraprime 8R costs about 25K US so we sell 20 shares at $1250 apiece. Each user would "own" say 10 days per year (we would have to initially draw lots and also put some rules of about booking or making changes say 30 days in advance). Outside of that any user could rent it for say $75 for additional days and at the end of the year whatever "profit" there was could be distributed. If we wanted to think about 3d we could double the number of "owners" so there would be 2 lenses in the pool and someone who was sure they were going to do 3d could buy 2 shares. (By the it would be okay to buy several shares if you anticipated greater usage) We'd have to talk about outside rentals but it's possible that by renting outside it could pay for itself. The idea of selling only 200 days would be so that everyone has at least a shot at some flexibility in moving days around.
12 mm T2.0 is about 19K US
10 mm T2.1 is about 20K US = about a 16mm on 35slr
By the way - forget Cameron - let's do it ourselves! I'd like to see IMAX size on that baitball of Mark's.
The shot I want to see is when Cameron uses a pair of Redone cameras 4K with the new Arri 8R lenses in 3-D underwater in a cave then projected in 3-D IMAX...it will envelope the audience.
Check out the sample footage clips:
http://www.arri.de/prod/cam/ultra_prime_r8/ultra_prime_r8.htm
I'm sure this lens costs more than a new hybrid car from Toyota
