Aphorisms 1 & 1a
1 - Darwin taught us that adaption is crucial to survival.
1a - Embrace new technologies or go the way of the dinosaur.
I've been working with a lot of contemporaries who are bemoaning the newer low cost alternatives to "conventional" digital broadcast cameras, fearing that DSLR's, iPhones, GoPros, and the like are going to put them out of work.
In the last year I've used footage from FS700's, 5d's, 7d's, GoPros, Flips, 120 & 30 fps from my iPhone 5s, and the Sony QX100 Lens Cam on narrative broadcast shows intercut with Reds, Alexas, F55's, C300's and Sony 1500's. Usually the intent is not for the footage to be seamless with the "real" cameras, but sometimes it is, and it works.
Can't wait to get my hands on Sony's new alpha 7s full frame mirrorless dslr/4k UHD camera.
It isn't using these tools that will threaten your career. It's not knowing HOW and WHEN to use them that'll make you irrelevant.
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