Best use of Varicam or F900 after you buy a RED?

[I Bloom]

I've heard boat anchor.

I was considering whether kids could use one to slide down a hill in the snow, but I don't think the Varicam would stack up to one of those plastic things. Maybe the F900...

You could throw one at an attacker in order to gain time to run away.

Any other ideas?

[Kevin Halverson]

You can always send them my way. I will find 'something' to do with them!

[Mardi_Gras]

Bolster your rental kit... the more the merrier, right?

[I Bloom]

Bolster your rental kit... the more the merrier, right?

Or you could use it to stand on while you trying to reach something on a high shelf.

[Robert Sanders]

Behind-the-Scene stuff.

[Ivan G]

I was always wanting to update my iSight camera

[Darwin]

Behind-the-Scene stuff.

That one is my favorite one so far....lol

[chuck colburn]

Would make a very impressive security camera.

[Eirik Tyrihjel]

You could use it as a counterweight on a Jib arm maybe...

[chuck colburn]

You could use it as a counterweight on a Jib arm maybe...


Hahahahahaha!

And get a reverse (kind of) to boot.

[Gunleik Groven]

Originally Posted by Eirik Tyrihjel:
You could use it as a counterweight on a Jib arm maybe...

... to record the behind the scenes stuff simultaniously.

Gunleik

[Chris Nuzzaco]

Easy....

Coffee table item. Great conversation starter :biggrin:

[Zakaree Sandberg]

sell to a shitty film school

[chuck colburn]

Speaking of coffee tables...I've got a friend in L.A. who has a pair of Oscars (no not the fish) sitting on his coffee table and glued to the head of one of them is an alligator clip making it the worlds heaviest roach clip. Mayby something practicle could be done like this.

[BLUESPIDER]

I'll use it to shoot weddings and birthday parties.

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

sell to a shitty film school

Los Angeles Film School would love to have another one of these! That way they could brag in their marketing text that they've increased their high-end camera department by 25% in the last year! [which would just mean they bought one more nice camera]

This thread is awesome.

I think giving the F900 a dignified death would be proper, dress it up a little bit, add a few trinkets to the side, and make it a movie prop, I'm thinking like a specialized gun in a sci-fi movie or maybe a motion tracking device, or sonar imaging.

[Jeff Deveraux]

Send it to a taxidermist for mounting. Then wall mount it in the den between the 3/4" tape reel display and the petroglyphs.

Or you can put in a time capsule.

[Jeff Deveraux]

I think giving the F900 a dignified death would be proper, dress it up a little bit, add a few trinkets to the side, and make it a movie prop, I'm thinking like a specialized gun in a sci-fi movie or maybe a motion tracking device, or sonar imaging.

Agreed. With a few modifications, it would make a convincing Interdimensional viewer.

[Corrado Silveri]

Sell them to the Pana or Sony representatives. They know what to do.

[chuck colburn]

Mount two of them together and you have a 3-D Interdimensional viewer!

[Tom Lowe]

http://www.chem.uidaho.edu/safety/dumpster2.jpg

They really wouldn't even be good for behind the scenes docs, because they are too bulky. You could get a Canon HV20 for a grand, and it's like ten times lighter and easier to use. Plus the HV20 has higher resolution than the Varicam. :)

[chuck colburn]

Tom did use use to do picture framing?

[PaulClements]

Put it in a museum for historical reference :)

[chuck colburn]

You could try the ASC clubhouse... then again they might not want it.

[Barry Gregg]

Put it on your desk next to your 4 gang synchronizer to remind your self that the only constant is change.

[goldyprog]

If you own at least one, write them off to charitable organizations. Depreciation will bring a Varicam package down quite a ways, and its value often pushes former owners to the limit (as a side example, I was offered $500 the other day for my GY-HD100; ~160 drum hours plus Anton Bauer kit). You can probably get some type of value for the write-off, which can certainly go to your Red investment. Just a thought.

Have you tried Green Sheet in Minneapolis?

[Keith Nealy]

Make it an exhibit at the Smithsonian... under "it seemed like a good idea at the time..."

Or maybe the PT Barnum Museum under "there's a sucker born every minute"

Or in the RED Museum - "R.I.P - Like fish in a barrel" exhibit.

:biggrin:

[I Bloom]

I was thinking use it as a club for the whack-a-mole game. But it might be too heavy for that...

It sucks because theres no bottle opener on an F900. They weren't thinking ahead.

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

Yeah I think they should have built more features into the F900 to make sure it would never be totally obsolete. Like let's say you stuck a toilet paper holder on the side of the camera and right next to that you had a bottle opener feature, when the heck are those two things going to be obsolete?! Not for a long freakin' time!

Maybe on the other side it could have a compass, those can always be useful, and perhaps a little compartment you can open and close to fit your keys or loose change. With all of these little features, not only would the F900 have made a great camera when it came out, it would have had a solid retirement plan, too.

Look at the picture Tom posted. See this is what happens when you don't plan for retirement. ;)

[Ramesh Jai]

I was always wanting to update my iSight camera
LOL! funny...

[Ramesh Jai]

So what exactly are we pissed out about the F900? I actually wanted to buy one when I saw the DVD but I just couldn't afford it..

Oh now I know..I think we all hate Sony and co. for selling us overpriced cameras..or?

[Bret Weeks]

Our Varicam will replace our rear view camera we use when backing up the Grip truck to the generator. A DVCPRO HD rear view mirror, if you will.

[Bruce Allen]

Give the camera to a good person who has a good story to tell, who has the skills to tell it?

After that person's first movie is a hit, then they can use Red for their second one?

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[chuck colburn]

They don't put old DPs in the dumpster do they? No they have a very nice retirement facility in Woodland Hills. I'm willing to provide a nice place here in semi rural Oregon for all the F900s out there. There is also plenty of room for 65mm, 35mm, VistaVision and other archaic forms of media recorders. Lets not forget early (no older then mdl. 3As) Steadicams. Also any related support equipment (gearheads, 10x Cooke, Angenieux etc. zooms and pre T1.3 Zeiss primes) These elder statesmen of the industry deserve this and they will be lovingly cared for.

[kozmo]

You could try the ASC clubhouse... then again they might not want it.

I like this idea, it could be fashioned into a trophy with a plaque that reads; In recognition of your visionary and extraordinary nay saying of the Red camera project in its early stages of development.

[Tom Lowe]

Tom did use use to do picture framing?

haha, no. i cannot take credit for that lovely framing work. :)

[Joe Aurili]

I pay $20 for any F900!

[Tom Lowe]

jlaurili, if you are in the market for a high-end doorstop, i can sell you a really fancy looking brick for $1.50 :)

[Zane Roach]

Give the camera to a good person who has a good story to tell, who has the skills to tell it?

After that person's first movie is a hit, then they can use Red for their second one?


I second that. Why are we bashing good cameras?

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

I don't think anyone here is bashing the F900 in seriousness, come on, lighten up! Some people really cannot see a joke if it runs up and bites them in the butt.

[Tom Lowe]

I don't think anyone here is bashing the F900 in seriousness, come on, lighten up! Some people really cannot see a joke if it runs up and bites them in the butt.

Welcome to reduser, where half the humor flies right over the natives' scalps. :)

[Greg Voevodsky]

I think Sony's F900 should sit in George Lucas' Digital Museum...
right next to another famous digital creation - Jar Jar Blinks.

We'll leave it to Historians to determine: masterpiece, ahead of it time, or just a bit misunderstood.

"Me thinks thats a goody idea!"

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I would love to have an F900. Give it to me.

[Gunleik Groven]

I realy need to make that "behind the scenes while I shoot a feature" jib, so I can help anyone who wants to be releaved -;)

G

[Chris Gearhart]

I can relieve myself, thank you. :sarcasm:

[tj williams]

All this is pretty funny until Sony offers you a repair on the F900 that exceeds the base cost of the RED....

[chuck colburn]

All this is pretty funny until Sony offers you a repair on the F900 that exceeds the base cost of the RED....

OUCH!

Does the invoice come with a tube of KY?

[Obin Olson]

I was thinking of shooting weddings on an f900 after i get my RED. I mean, consumers have 1080p TV sets now right? what better cam to shoot with

No, I don't shoot weddings. I just have respect for the people that must.

[Kenn Christenson]

Pull the guts out and have yourself a cool looking lunch / tackle box.

[Erik Bien]

lol why not pull the guts out and stuff an HV20 in there?

[Kenn Christenson]

"Smart Bomb Cam"

[Kenn Christenson]

Decorative planters for Red HQ.

[Ramesh Jai]

You guys have no respect for F900.. shame!

It gives such wonderful pictures, sound is brilliant...what more do you want for $75,000.00?

(red for $35,000?)

WHO SAID THAT!!?!!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

OUCH!

Does the invoice come with a tube of KY?

No, that's extra too... And it's most likely on back-order.

[chuck colburn]

No, that's extra too... And it's most likely on back-order.

Hahahaha
and no pun intended!