Re: Screen shots from JAG

[Simon Wyndham] "In the mean time I don't really care a whole lot about this business. Use whatever camera you need to. I'm sure that most people here who really do do video for a living will hire a camera out if someone wants something in particular, or in fact hire out all the time anyway! This whole comparison thing is very 'consumer' orientated."


I couldn't agree more, Simon.

That is the whole point in this: The guy that got the shot and also the money for doing it, did so and it was accepted and used in the series. Perfect brush for the painting? -- if I might borrow the metaphor. Probably not. But we do not live in a perfect world and in the end, real pros know that these are merely tools -- some better and some worse than the others. There are few things in this market today that can be deemed useless. But the tired rhetoric of some of these threads seems to derive from, as you said, from a consumer point of view.

Expecting one tool to be *the* answer is comical in the world of working pros. The goal is to get the job, perform to client satisfaction and hammer the check. It isn't any more glamourous than that. Standing around bragging that "mine is bigger and badder than yours" is for little kids in the school yard.

Thanks for bringing things down to the real basics, Simon -- where tools are just tools and the real issue is performing the job and fulfilling the obligations well enough to support your family and/or household.

Now *that's* prettier than any of the cameras or other stuff that I've owned over the years.

Ron Lindeboom