NorBro

Hey I'll take that Aputure light you have listed. What was your PayPal again?

From CML . . . .
Good luck.

On Jun 27, 2023, at 3:15 PM, Steven Bradford wrote:


Hi All
I took over an advanced High School film program just before the start of the pandemic. We're a little different from most HS media classes. We don't do daily announcements, we do short films and enter them in festivals.
I've received a grant for $10k to upgrade cameras for my 3rd and 4th year students. We currently have Canon 80D and Lumix GH4 camera with manual lenses. So those are good, but I'd like to a pro camera that is a cinema camera first, with features like built in NDs, etc etc,

I was looking at getting two Canon C200s, which BH is selling now with handle and vf new for $3500.
But Because this is a private grant and not the district paying for it, I have the option of buying used. I'm fantasizing about instead getting An alexa classic package, (like this? https://visualproducts.com/product/a...amera-package/) or a couple of Red epic Dragon 6k from 2015 which has also been recommended to me. My thought is that this would be a way for my best students to get experience on fully pro gear, And that we'e now at the point where we were with 35mm cameras for decades.
Did the feature films shot with an Alexa Classic or plus a dozen years ago now look bad or unacceptable?
What do you all think? Thoughts? Alternate suggestions? Stick with new and get the C200?


If you're wondering why a HS would need an alexa, we are ambitious. Some of our students are with us for 3 to 4 years, and so they can get quite good. We have won 7 National Student Production Awards in the last six years from the Natl. Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (informally called student Emmys).
For examples of the level of work our students have done:

https://vimeo.com/333002053
https://vimeo.com/371051258
https://vimeo.com/336715544
Steve Bradford
Ballard HS Filmmaking Program
Seattle WA

Sorry, forgot to include my e-mail address: dway@twcny.rr.com

I'm interested in your 16mm RF lens. We've done business before: I bought a Canon 5DMIV body from you a few years back. How do you want to do the deal?

David Way

The ingenuity. Price not a problem as I'm drinking more these days and they just installed a new can deposit machine in my lobby.