I am making an indie, kinda, film and I was wondering whether I should get mutliple cameras?
Thanks Gdot

Well your question is very vague, but I will say most filmmakers at our level have enough trouble trying to manage 1 camera. Unless you are doing something that is very hard or impossible to repeat (explosion, etc) or very pressed for time, I would suggest sticking with one camera.

Save money and learn to manipulate one camera. See El Mariachi to see how well a one camera setup can be used.

Filmmaking is almost exclusively a one-camera affair. Don't get more than one camera unless you've got a special effects scene that can't be repeated and you need multiple angles on it.

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Originally posted by Perry:
Filmmaking is almost exclusively a one-camera affair.

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Originally posted by Michael Bay:
Filmmaking is almost exclusively a one hundred camera affair.

So, possibly I am in a minority view on that one

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Originally posted by Lars von Trier:
Filmmaking is almost exclusively a 1000 DV-cam affair.

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Originally posted by some pretentious troll:
You don't even need a camera. Filmmaking is art. All you need is true emotion.

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Originally posted by some pretentious troll:
You don't even need a camera. Filmmaking is art. All you need is true emotion.

I know. I can't wait until they finally come out with "emotion players" so I can finally watch a movie that actually means something.

I recently used a two camera setup for a scene I shot.

We used a CP-16 as the main camera and an arri BL as the slow motion camera. Here are a few pics.

How did you get that transferred? It looks pretty good.

Video Post and TRansfer in Dallas.

They look pretty sweet. How much did it cost you, and what was the output format?

$300 an hour to digibeta