My Camera will beat up your camera.

Ok I am going to vent here. I don't mean to but this is just stupid. THE CAMERA DOES NOT MAKE THE MOVIE THE TALENTED PEOPLE INVOLVED DO. Ok there I got it off my chest. Look one of my biggest pet peeves is when you talk to a videographer and they talk about how great their cameras are, how and why their cameras are better then everyone else. Wait still have more on my chest. IF YOU ARE NOT TALENTED NO CAMERA NOT EVEN THE RED CAMERA WILL HELP YOU. Ok I am done. (deep breath)

Ok here it is plain and simple. The camera is not the talent. A camera can not center the picture, a camera can't see the smiles, can't capture the moments that need to be captured. The person behind the camera does this. If the person behind the camera can't manage to do any of this no camera out there will help. To compare cameras is impossible. I know what your thinking, there is a difference between vhs, hi8 and mini dv. There is a difference between 1 chip, 3 chip, HD, AVCHD, blah blah blah. Sure these camera are all different, and there is a difference between Cannon, JVC, and Sony cameras. But in the end it is the person running the camera that makes the difference. I have seen footage from a single chip camera that looked way better then one from a fancy 3 chip camera. I have seen footage from a BETA camera that looked better then one from a HD camera. It has nothing to do with the camera. It has to do with the talent and eye of the person behind the camera. Plain and simple.

Personally, a professional, doesn't talk about their equipment. Why? Because it doesn't' matter. If an artist paints a picture that is amazing do you ask them if they bought the paints from walmart? If the art work is amazing, do you really care if they bought their paint from walmart? Does it matter?

I know there are all kinds of benefits to certain cameras, but the way I look at it, the camera one uses is a personal choice. Let me give you an example, the cameras we purchased, have a ton of features, and some down sides. But we chose the camera because it felt right. Yep I said it the camera felt good. The buttons where in the right places, the tape ejected from the top instead of the bottom, along with other little things that just worked for us. From a critics point of view did we buy the best camera, nope. But we bought a camera that works for us, does what we need it to do, and we as the talented crew takes care of the rest.

Let me leave it at this "You can't prepackage creativity- you either have it or you don't" -Christopher Adams. The biggest, baddest, chromed out camera won't help you either.