I have a client that has a very large charitable foundation within its corporate structure. A few years ago they started a tradition on September 17th called North Texas Charitable Giving Day. They ask me to capture the event every year and the momentum builds as the years go by. There were thirty or so non-profits with tables set up for this year's gathering. I set up an R5II with the 24-105Z as a back up, but I knew that the OSMO Pocket 4 was really the perfect tool for this job. One feels a little funny shooting with a camera anyone can pick up at Best Buy, but I'm getting over that mindset because the OSMO keeps proving itself to be a worthy tool, even the best tool for a lot of situations. kind of makes me wonder if I shouldn't be looking at a Ronin 4D.................but I'm not going to even look.
Exactly Mike, I decided that the memory of what camera I used will fade, but the product that it produced will endure. In the case of my shoot with the Secretary of Transportation, any other equipment choice would have been disastrous so nobody is talking about the little "Best Buy" camera that one old guy was using and the major networks are broadcasting the footage all over the place. And....I'm guessing that everyone else's footage didn't turn out so great so they are all happy that I used an OSMO instead of all that cinema gear out in my car.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
...kind of makes me wonder if I shouldn't be looking at a Ronin 4D.................but I'm not going to even look.
I remember shooting weddings with couple of my Hasselblad 500CM's. I asked the studio owner that I was contracting with "do we really need this setup for what we do?". I also owned Canon F1's at the time which would be perfectly fine. The response was "No, but we can't charge good money when we look like the bride's Uncle Joe".
I will be the first to admit that I shoot Hasselblad for me, the client would probably never know the difference. That being said, when you do shoot with that level of gear, especially if the end product is a display print, they will see something different. I see something different, and if I'm happy I know everyone else will be.
I felt like that when I showed up with a DJI Phantom 4 Pro. Mike has said the same thing, you launch the P4P and it looks like what your client bought for his kid from Best Buy, you pull an Inspire out and launch it and everyone is mesmerized.
The Houston show continues to get better, "Rook" Isaacman Nasa Administrator will be flying his MiG 29 Fulcrum and the NASA F5's with the 250 paint schemes will be along side him for part of the show.
