An open letter to Canon, or, to dreamers who believe DSLR cameras shoot video well

May 20, 2014 forum topics
This one made me smile.

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Here’s the article I read with a lot of good advice about why DSLR cameras just may not cut it for people wanting to actually make a dollar shooting video…unless they are into weddings. 😉

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"I, like many of you, rushed out and bought a 5D2. We were off to the races to become the next movie director, documentary maker, or whatever. Everything could be pushed to the web and the world was ours to take! Then most of us quickly found that it was not so easy. “You let me buy these dreams Canon. Knowing they were lies.”

Suddenly a cottage industry of “****-to-bolt-onto-your-camera” popped up. DSLR video was getting expensive and becoming a royal pain in the ass once you started adding rails and follow focus rigs and audio and sliders and jibs and on and on. I started watching people build the biggest, ugliest, and most expensive Frankenstein camera rigs on the planet. I went to one of Laforet’s workshops soon after buying my Canon gear and I quickly realized that I didn’t want to do this. I mean, I wanted to shoot video. I wanted to work with motion again but not like this."

For full article…
http://dedpxl.com/moving-to-motion-part-01/