This has been bothering me, and all my googling has not given me a proper answer yet so I thought I'd bring it here. I still don't understand the retardedly expensiveness of some of the heavy duty professional filming cameras out there.
For example the RED ONE camera, it's to my understanding the body by itself is roughly $17.5k and if you want it to actually shoot anything you'll probably be spending around $30k. WHHYYYY?? I get that it shoots 4k, but I mean honestly how MUCH of a difference does everything else make? Why is it so special?
I've seen footage with the Red, and it all looks really nice, but not $30k worth of nice, I feel like if I spent enough money on a 5dii and some good quality lenses I could almost get the same quality, so how do cameras like the RED still exist? Is there something I'm missing?
I used to think that maaaaybe they had some sort of technology that would allow a person to export directly from the camera the motion and rotation the camera went through, and the process of tracking would be obsolete, obviously that isn't the case...yet () but what else could it possibly be SO special that I would pay almost 10x the price for a seemingly fraction of visual enhancement?
Am I colour blind or something, am I missing something extraordinary about these cameras?
Please, someone fill me in on this stuff.
EDIT: THE FREAKING STICKERS COST $50!!
For example the RED ONE camera, it's to my understanding the body by itself is roughly $17.5k and if you want it to actually shoot anything you'll probably be spending around $30k. WHHYYYY?? I get that it shoots 4k, but I mean honestly how MUCH of a difference does everything else make? Why is it so special?
I've seen footage with the Red, and it all looks really nice, but not $30k worth of nice, I feel like if I spent enough money on a 5dii and some good quality lenses I could almost get the same quality, so how do cameras like the RED still exist? Is there something I'm missing?
I used to think that maaaaybe they had some sort of technology that would allow a person to export directly from the camera the motion and rotation the camera went through, and the process of tracking would be obsolete, obviously that isn't the case...yet () but what else could it possibly be SO special that I would pay almost 10x the price for a seemingly fraction of visual enhancement?
Am I colour blind or something, am I missing something extraordinary about these cameras?
Please, someone fill me in on this stuff.
EDIT: THE FREAKING STICKERS COST $50!!