when a director uses a weird camera

When people say “gear doesn’t matter” this is exactly what they mean. Vision and skill over gear.

Blue Ruin 4 life

Great video, totally valid!

I mean this is what Casey Neistat always says, how he really doesn't care about the gear but that everything else is what interests him

soderbergh is the king of camera movies

Like you say, the "gear doesn't matter" commentary only works if you know well what you're doing. It's what most people forget to grasp and then shoot okay stuff with okay cameras but think it's perfect because they indeed used okay cameras and not high end gear.

Reminds me of a quote, "The best bike in the world is the one you're riding."

Lol soderberg not as famous as anyone involved in the Creator is crazy mang.

To be honest, I don't understand why any of the Creator couldn't have been shot on the fx6. Same sensor, better image quality from the raw readout, and the camera's not as small. Using something with global shutter in a small form factor actually does kind of make sense for the reasons you said. Camera just moves different

saw blue ruin because of you mentioning it in this video and it was a great and wrenching experience. thanks!

What's that song at the end?

its not the utensil, give da vinci a stick in sand and see

I remember David Lynch hot off Mulholland Drive started using the Sony PD 150. I was blown away that one of the greatest directors ever was using an affordable camera to shoot an entire movie.

They didn’t use any Sony Venice? I’m asking cause the dude who did their black and white bts film shots took one when they are driving in the car and there are two Sony Venices mounted on the hood.

ngl i thought this was gonna be a skit

Hear hear!

Civil War is a gem-coming from a pro film/digital event photographer

I picked up a panasonic s5iix, an entry level ff camera recently. I plan to use it for at least 10 years. It's FAR more capable than I am.

Hi Patrick great video, i have a question how you record your video and talk with that mic?

just subbed for that doggo

I love that the c300 is still relevant to this day. That lamp in the background is kind of distracting.....

reminds me whn sean ellis shot Metro Manila on a Canon 5D Mkii, as well as Jason Momoa shot Road to Paloma...we are getting more and more free from the gear.

Stop shitting on FX3 homie

"Victoria" movie was the same, shot on C300 and in ONE TAKE!

Great content, but duuuuude. That flickering lamp in the background.

Civil war had cool shots but god the story sucked ass lmao

Someone sounds a little bitter

Excellent video💯

Hot take, this video is actually a massive promo for lamps

if I did video I would love that canon camera

The problem nowadays is that stories suck.

Thank you Patrick for you work. This was inspiring and helpful.

The Bokeh in civil war was sometimes horrible. But I don't know, what it was shot with in those scenes.

There are hundreds of reasons why one would choose an Arri over on dji whatever. People with experience in light/color/grading/accessories/postprocess/... in connection with this camera. A camera company not changing the chips every other year. Repairability, serviceability, ruggedness. And so on and so on. Maybe technically we are there, to get the same image quality from mentioned cameras. But it is still hard to find enough people who know this cameras in and out and know how to get to that picture.

I always recognize Sony images out of the box based on the poor skin tones. Will have to watch Presence.

maybe camera is 100th important thing in movie making process

I loved dune part 2 because i really like Denis. It's one of my favourite directors. I've seen the movien directly from the film and....i didn't like it. Seeing in a big screen so much film noise i've found was kinda anachronistic. The details where obiously there but with that amount of noise was for me bad.

Okay... the whole "shot on a potato" was funny the FIRST time it was said... now everyone and their mom just finds it soooo hilarious.. yall can just stop saying that stupid shit now..

Great to hear Jeremy Saulnier shouted out! We took Michael Carmine's cinematography class at NYU film school together back in the 1990's. He is a good guy.

If you have these clients — bump your rate up at least 3x. It’ll naturally filter them out. And then it won’t hurt so bad :)

Soderbergh famously went through a phase where he was shooting movies on iPhones. High Flying Bird and Unsane.

4D for the win !

I forgot the name but there's this movie who is just one continous shot all filmed on an iphone X

Democratizing at a level I don't think most people get yet.

love how they keep showing shots 50 to 500 feet in the air like EvERyOne CaN afForD to DO thIs

This movie was the perfect example that gear absolutely matters. I saw it in imax and tgought the projectors were broken

I remember when I was in film school back in 2017. We all made a short film using Arri Alexa and top tier gear. Almost every single one looked like shit.

The C300 was revolutionary for its time. Check out Jonathan Yi's promo video 'Canon C300 = Awesome' for how different it was from DSLR's. VICE shot much of their early high quality content on the C300.

Gareth Edwards shot The Raid on the Panasonic AF100 micro four thirds cinema camera, which used the same sensor as the GH2.

Upstream Color by Shane Carruth was shot on the GH2 with Voigtlander and Rokinon photo lenses.

I love how you concisely present the information here. Learning about some of these cameras makes me want to track them down and try them out. But, I appreciate you telling it how it is. Great shots and storytelling require experience, skill and talent, the gear is just the tool we use. Thank you.

Another important aspect is to have a good DOP, as a director myself I know nothing about cameras but I really know what I see in my mind and the DOP knows what to use and what is possible with the budget available.

color grading goes crazy tho

Can you do a video essay on how to know which camera to use, based on the feeling you want your film to give off? Maybe specifically for beginner film makers? (affordable cameras)