arrgh need HMC150 but do'nt want to buy it.. Need to rent one!
- Thread starter booggerg2
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rogar-Dum(DBG):I'm in Hoffman Estates. What type of work would you be using your HMC on?
as of now just weddings/parties and stuff. never owned a real camera before. my first was a hand me down which was a old phillips that recorded on standard vhs cassettes and my second was a sony hi8 and a mini dv. and from there i went straight to the hmc150. im actually starting school in april for visual effects and motion graphics. thats what i have been wanting to do all my life. unfortunately i wasnt able to pursue it out of high school so 8 years later after graduating im going back to school. lol. what do you do? and as a hobby or a profession?
booggerg2 you should'nt lose a whole lot on it. unless panasonic comes out with something new that drops the price on the hmc by alot then you should be good. are you planning on upgrading to a different cam or just getting rid of it?
Justyn how in the world did you recover its cost in only a couple of weeks after? lol. you must have alot booked this year. btw what do you do?
Justyn how in the world did you recover its cost in only a couple of weeks after? lol. you must have alot booked this year. btw what do you do?
Justyn
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I had a christmas concert that I produced and I got the camera for doing the work. It was about two weeks of work and I also had a couple of high end shoots. I do broadcast, corporate, and independent features/media events. Most are multicam shoots and I'll package the whole crew with equipment.
The economy is kicking me in the bollocks though. I've lost work that I've been able to count on for the past 15 years. It's a very weird market and I have to really be eager and pro-active to land the work. Every month I'm hearing of some friend or family member who's loosing their job.. and these are productive people.. man, what is going to become of us...
Well... something will come up again. I did work probably 9 or 10 months out of last year and that's a full year for me so it was a good one financially.. Would like 2009 to be the same.
The economy is kicking me in the bollocks though. I've lost work that I've been able to count on for the past 15 years. It's a very weird market and I have to really be eager and pro-active to land the work. Every month I'm hearing of some friend or family member who's loosing their job.. and these are productive people.. man, what is going to become of us...
Well... something will come up again. I did work probably 9 or 10 months out of last year and that's a full year for me so it was a good one financially.. Would like 2009 to be the same.
mcsmooth
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Its funny that you posted this question, then purchased the camera less than an hour later. Don't worry, you made the right move! If you could afford buying it in the first place, you should be able to make proper use of it before it loses much value. These cameras are almost non existent on the used market, probably because nobody wants to get rid of them 
That is a good sign it should have a decent resale value for some time. DVXs lost a bit of value for being tape based and not HD, but I can't see many major improvements over the 150 in the next few years other than maybe a sharper picture. Biggest factor on tape camera resale was time on the heads... that doesn't exist anymore.
I live in Chicago, but couldn't imagine trusting something like this out!
That is a good sign it should have a decent resale value for some time. DVXs lost a bit of value for being tape based and not HD, but I can't see many major improvements over the 150 in the next few years other than maybe a sharper picture. Biggest factor on tape camera resale was time on the heads... that doesn't exist anymore.I live in Chicago, but couldn't imagine trusting something like this out!