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I was doing some research the other day on different video cameras and equipment just out of curiosity. I was blown away. I knew stuff like this was expensive but I didn’t think it was THAT expensive. Heres an example. I went to Chris Bryan’s professional website. He is one of the lead cinematographers on mostly all of John John Florence’s videos. This is the URL to his website:

http://www.chrisbryanfilms.com/

and here is one of his latest videos:

MOCEAN. A film by Chris Bryan from Chris Bryan on Vimeo.

He has a really cool website, it was very aesthetically pleasing and at the bottom of the home page he can a continuous rotating gallery of the equipment he uses to shoot his videos.

Lets look at the first 6 cameras listed (all retail prices based on google):

• Phantom Flex 4k
  •  Retail Price: $109,000 – $164,000
• Red Epic-W 8k
  • Retail Price: $49,500
• Red Weapon
  • Retail Price: $50,000
• DJI Ronin 2
  • Retail Price: $10,000
• ARRI Alexa Mini
  • Retail Price: $36,000
• Gates Phantom 4k
  • Retail Price: $20,000

So in review, that is only half of his camera collection and that is $274,500. More than a quarter of a million dollars in cameras and that isn’t even including all the different customizations and accessories. I know that Chris Bryant had to start somewhere and that he is a professional now but its just hard to imagine how he got started and what he first used to get started because me trying to improve my cinematography skills looking at how expensive these cameras are is very discouraging. I know I just have to keep doing my thing but its just crazy to think of.