Answers on camera questions.....

I get an unusual amount of email, for somebody who is basically a professional grandfather... One of the questions that many recent emails seemed to want to know is, what kind of equipment we use to do our filming? The answer is kind of complicated....



My family and I, sold off some belongings, and real estate, and basically just came up with money to make equipment purchases. We began collecting motion picture equipment years ago, we knew we would end up being in the business due to my being an author, and due to my sons also being writers....

On the camera end of things, we started out buying the bigger cameras that have been used for decades to film movies with. Most of those cameras are still in storage. We tried Arriflex, Panaflex, Bolex, and a few other larger cinematic cameras. These dinosaurs have to have a great deal of other equipment to get a good product together. We then decided to use smaller, digital type cameras. We chose two brands to experiment with, JVC, and Sony.

We do a lot of night filming, and Sony seems to fit the bill on everything we are trying to do. This is not saying JVC makes a bad product, we just like our Sony cameras a lot more. The equipment set up is much easier, and the end result when editing is greater. We are still using our JVC cameras to film daytime shots on OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS, WITH DUSTY COUNTS, but on all night shots, we shoot with the Sony cameras. I hope this answered the questions I have been getting.

One final answer, no, we will not be giving any equipment away to film students, or other interested parties wanting to become film makers. My simple reason for this is that we always keep extra equipment as back up, in case we end up needing it for a project. We do not view other companies as competition, we view ourselves as competition.

PEACE!