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Luis Villalon-MeunierDSLRs
by on Mar 20, 2010 at 11:11:12 am

It baffles me that all the comments have been about aliasing, lack of focus, a camera being better than another, and not about what they are for, which is to help tell a story. I started in Photography/Film school using 4x5 view cameras and 16mm B & W (Color was too expensive). My last feature (and 5 others before) was shot with a Panavision camera 35mm with all the goodies, but I am looking forward to my next to be shot in April with the Canon MKII5D, Matte Box and Follow Focus gear, and I'll use it like the Panavision. The problem with digital, to me, has been that too many diletantes think that by pressing the record button, no lights, no tripod, auto focus, sound on camera, and placing something on You Tube tonight you qualify as an instant filmmaker. No camera is going to replace experience, talent or knowledge of the film language. When I got my Panasonic 100a a few years ago, I was hired to shoot a Low Budget police drama with 3 one hour episodes. The producer almost fainted when I asked for 2 cam assistants, a lighting and grip package, dolly and tracks, and, for several night sequences, 2 18k HMIs on Condors...."I thought for video you didn't need lights". My answer was and always is..if you want your footage to look like a security camera at a 7/11 or police surveillance...that's true. Needless to say, everyone said that the video looked "like a movie" and "all in focus". I am still using the 100a, and none of my clients is the wiser.
One of my film instructors always said "It's not the car it's the driver"


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