professional video cameras
Way back when I was in college, a young director came to speak to my class and share his experiences with making, for the time, a moderately budgeted film. Nearly 30 years later, I can still remember him saying that a location day costs $150 a minute. That meant arriving on set, walking over to craft services, and getting a cup of coffee—cha-ching! $150. Drinking the coffee—cha-ching! That’s another $150 (think about that the next time you get a Grande, iced, sugar-free, vanilla latte with soy milk at Starbucks.) That comes to $9,000 an