Of course doing donuts in a vintage car doesn't help so much.

Actually, the camera you see in the shot here is a Canon HG10. In my opinion, the best bet for anyone looking to buy an HD camera right at the moment. And its only about 600 bucks. I personally guarantee that when this short action film I am working on is finished, you won't be able to tell a difference in our moving image presentation from anything playing at the cinema. 

The actual video above, however, was shot on a Hitachi Digital 8 that is nearly 6 or 7 years old. 

John

Funny that you seem disapointed in our gear in spite of our exellent results. The point of what I do is to show people that the idea of great results being dependent on how much money you spend is a really silly illusion. 

Our camera's are amazing. We just picked them up and you can see one of them in this video. The material we are shooting here is top notch production quality and yet the cameras came in at roughly six hundred dollars. 

We use a 20 dollar tripod because. . . a tripod is a damn tripod whether you pay 500 dollars for it or you make it out of toilet paper rolls.

We use a dolly track made out of PVC pipe purchased from the hardware store because. . . how is it any different from a pre-assembled track that costs ten thousand dollars?. . . There IS no difference. It does the same damn thing!

Never pay attention to what equipment a guy is using. Pay attention to WHAT he MAKES with it. It isn't money or "crappy" equipment that stops us from being great filmmakers, its our foolish belief that those things ever had anything to do with it in the first place. 

John