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1. Don't ask questions that don't pertain to the topic at hand.
2. The odds are high because I will bid whatever it takes, and it's not like I'm going to tell you folks that there's an Alexa 65 for sale online. I would say I have inside knowledge, but I'm not admitting to insider trading, so as stated, my official story is "I just happened to be looking online for an Alexa 65." To corroborate my story, I will have already been searching for months for Alexa 65's on Ebay so my Internet search history will establish to the police that it was a regular habbit of mine, such that it truly was a coincidence when I do eventually find one for sale online.
3. Diarrhea is very plausible, but if you thought for a moment that I would make up such a story, think again. No, the morning of the big shoot, I will eat a pile of chicken that I left out for two days, that the flies have had their way with, and when the police question me regarding the stolen camera, as I continue to go to and fro the restroom, they'll feel a swell of pity for me as well as an urge to get me out of the station so they can reclaim the bathroom.
4. Are you seriously suggesting taking an Arri Alexa 65 into a diarrhea fest at a public restroom? I can just now see you out with a stunning woman on a first date, and being like, "Wanna come to the restroom with me?" She's thinking one thing but then you get there and out comes your explosive diarrhea, and yeah, no second date. At least the actual thieves should treat the camera better than the horrors that you're suggesting.
5. According to Google, a private detective costs $40 to over $100 per hour, so that gives 5-12.5 hours per detective. Think of it like a manhunt; perhaps you saw the movie Prisoners where they have a large group of people searching for one man, and they find him pretty quickly. The hood is not huge, and I feel that 2000 people spending one day of time scouring the hood will likely be sufficient to find the camera. If not, the PI budget would need to be increased until results result.
6. Already answered, but I assume they're breaking down costs in terms of hourly rates.
7. Since I am not familiar with private detective gear I would hope they'd be giving me a package rate which includes their gear instead of an a la carte list along with a labor rate.
8. Again, I'm not familiar with their equipment, but I imagine their number one piece of gear is their brain, which they use various items such as intuition, questioning, strong-arming, blackmail, hostages, prison terms, murder, etc. I don't ask their methods, they don't tell me. I just want results, and to be legally in the clear as far as I'm concerned.
9. I'm not familiar with all these camera detectors that you speak of. I suspect you're just making it up as some kind of joke because you're not taking this seriously. I get no respect.
 
The only flaw in your otherwise bulletproof plan is that you wrote it all down here on DVX User. So you're going to have to somehow delete all your posts and then erase all the memories of all the readers of this forum using one of those Men In Black doohickeys so that NorBro doesn't rat you out to the cops.
 
Eric is clearly dry-humoring folks, just like buying a $250,000 F35 and selling it for a profit to a film student.

Eric- perhaps start a website called AbsurdOrama.eric (after u get .eric pushed thru as a TLD or after u purchase ICANN from your lottery winnings).
 
Jim Martin said:
Yes...it's awesome to be back at Filmtools, by far the place in LA for everything including cameras in stock from RED, Sony, Pany,JVC and Canon.......and yes. hopefully Eric will throw the love this way instead of NY!

Jim Martin
Filmtools.com
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Welcome back to Burbank Jim!
 
DLD said:
True but it's not an irony. At the highest level, they audition any cameras they want and then they buy/rent whatever they feel like.*

*This probably excludes those aligned to a given brand like Fincher and Cronenweth to Red or Deakins to ARRI.

No. Why? I would say that no one in the audience either cares or understands the technical aspects of film making, aside of it being in black&white or color.

PS. When I was selling electronics, most customers had no idea what they were shopping for. The internet era changed that, so it's much easier to get educated on the consumer products, but to go above that is extremely rare. Let's look at cars. How many people understand twin-charging or the electronic limited slip differential? Very few. And why should they? It's like knowing how sausages are made.
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Do you care what spreadsheet software your accountant uses?
 
mattmealer said:
I'm curious about the history of this custom of charging separately for labor and gear.
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For years this was the practice in Europe and the UK. If you were a trained ex-network cameraman and you were booked for a job you would or sometimes the production company would hire the gear. Sometime the requirement was for 16mm and a set of lenses. Sometimes it was 35mm. You also invoiced separately for film stock. I used to end up with a fridge full short ends of different stocks. Very few of us could afford to buy an ARRI 35BL and lenses or the like. Maybe the next job was 16mm so you would still have to dry hire 16 kit if you owned 35. Also from a tax point of view what you could claim made it more beneficial to hire in many instances. It wasn't really until the first of the ENG type three tube cameras started to come out of Japan that people started to buy cameras. When that development came about you could then hire a 3/4" U-Matic pack or even a 1" portable AMPEX or for real low end a VHS portapack. So the practicality of owning your own camera head that could output to a number of different recording devices started to become a little more feasible. This is 70's remember.

Let's put this into a little perspective. In the early '80s A Sony BVP-30, three tube camera, with a BVV 1 Standard Betacam back and broadcast glass here in Aust was around AU$55,000. My house at the time cost me $24,000. My first SP Beta CCD camera kit a BVP-70 with a BVV-5 back and Fuinon 16 x broadcast lens lens was just on AU$75,000. Unless you were very sure you had a fair amount of contract work it was a big risk to put your family and yourself into that much debt with the bank. No finance company would touch TV equipment as they had no idea what they would do with the kit if it was repossessed.

Then came the revolution with cameras like the Sony DXC-3000, the first affordable CCD camera head, and its partner the Sony Hi-Band, 5MHz BVU-100 3/4" U-Matic portapack. Now you could get into the broadcast freelance world for around $15,000.00. Now people started to offer "package deals," of cameraman and kit together because they could to compete against others doing the same in this new emerging market. Tempting ad agencies who required videos for their clients which in turn opened up a new corporate market as production costs became cheaper. I've never billed a corporate client or TV station in later years other than as package price. When it became viable to own your own kit is when the rates started to drop as more shooters got into the game.

Wistfully he say's "Ah the good old days." :)

Chris Young
 
bill totolo said:
Do you care what spreadsheet software your accountant uses?
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For me personally, I don't. But if I was running a multi-million-dollar operation, I'd expect them to be using actual accounting software, not a spreadsheet.
And yes I'd shoot a feature on my p4k, but I don't want Deakins doing that (unless there's a strong reason for it to be a good idea).
 
NorBro said:
The little joystick on the EVF is cute.
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And the position is perfect to operate it with a nose.
 
puredrifting said:
Audiences generally don't know or care anything about production equipment?
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Yep. We’ve already had this discussion.

Do you think on auto-mechanic forums when they’re discussing Mac vs Snap-on tools, someone jumps in and says what about the customer? Does anyone that frequents my buddies deli care what brand slicer he uses to cut the meat(except maybe if they used to work in or own a deli)? Or what brand lawnmower their yard-man may use?

These are all “inside baseball” discussions among industry professionals. Virtually no one on the consumer side of any of these types of discussions cares one little bit.
 
Mitch Gross said:
There is a difference if there’s overtime. And even if not you may wish to ask your accountant if there’s a difference or not. I certainly hope people are smart enough to form an LLC or sub chapter S and charge out clients via that entity. Ask a lawyer and an accountant why.
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Mitch, I actually did mention OT and everything is billed through my company(S Corp) to the clients, with one exception. I do have one client whom I’m actually considered an employee of when I work for them, so my labor and equipment(when I use mine vs. theirs) are billed and paid on separate invoices with my labor being taxed and paid directly to me(not through my company) and the gear package untouched.
 
Mitch Gross said:
Because they don’t want to pay unemployment benefits, health insurance, social security and any other fringes on your gear rental. Those fringes are meant to be a percentage against salary.
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Depends. If they W2 you and take taxes out, yes. 1099, no.
 
I've noticed some clients switching from 1099's to W2's to pay. Maybe it is just me. I don't have an opinion or want to talk politics, but is it just a personal anecdote or are more production companies moving to employees vs contractors?
 
And to be a downer on the hilarious ALEXA 65 discussion(being semi-serious), because I had a friend go through unknowingly buying stolen equipment on eBay, it doesn’t matter if you are aware it’s stolen or not. They can take it back and you can/will be out of whatever money you paid for it.
 
Run&Gun said:
And to be a downer on the hilarious ALEXA 65 discussion(being semi-serious), because I had a friend go through unknowingly buying stolen equipment on eBay, it doesn’t matter if you are aware it’s stolen or not. They can take it back and you can/will be out of whatever money you paid for it.
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Why wouldn't eBay refund your money?
 
cpreston said:
I've noticed some clients switching from 1099's to W2's to pay. Maybe it is just me. I don't have an opinion or want to talk politics, but is it just a personal anecdote or are more production companies moving to employees vs contractors?
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I’ve heard Dan talk about it getting harder out in CA. I actually have a client that, we’re all pretty sure is in the wrong based on discussions with CPA’s and lawyers, limits most of us to only working for them 100 days a year and using health insurance and benefits as the argument, even though most of us are incorporated, provide our own health insurance and are paid through our companies. Without getting political, it was originally claimed that they were implementing this because of the ACA and it’s regulations. I personally think that it’s either misinterpretation of the law and regulations or there is an ulterior motive and they are covering it with that.
 
NorBro said:
Why wouldn't eBay refund your money?
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I meant more in the broader sense of you buy stolen goods from wherever/whomever. Just because you’re unaware of the stolen nature of the goods doesn’t protect you. If I bought a car from Kevin down the street and it ended up being stolen, the police are going to take the car from me and return it to the owner and unless they catch Kevin and I’m able to get the money back from him, I have no legal recourse and I’m out however much money I bought that car for and the car. And I’m sure there are limits to eBay’s liability.
 
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