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There is an astounding amount of cool gear. None of it is mandatory.

You will be surprised what a DJI gimbal, duct tape and house hold objects could accomplish.

The limiting factor is now very much creativity and passion.

I was just on a poorly planned shoot where the iPhone saved us. The camera we used was too big and heavy to actually get the camera movements we had planned. We had just gotten a new DJI phone gimbal to test and we ended up using it with the iPhone. This was on a green screen stage so we didn’t want character from the lens or a shallow depth of field. All the shots were within the focal range of the phone too. I’m guessing about 70% of the final shots were shot on the phone. And because it’s LOG and ProRes, the footage fits right into the pipeline. Now even though we shot on a phone, we didn’t turn off the lights or send the actors home so maybe that’s cheating…

Sure, a company milking its customer with a Pro laptop starting with 8GB of RAM to save at best 20$ per unit is willing to pay up to a million dollar of gear "just because". No no no, totally unnecessary. Apple apologists should really listen to themselves, like seriously.

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