I once spent four hours on a documentary set in a damp basement in Leeds, watching a kid half my age stare at a $50,000 sensor readout like it was going to tell him how to fix a muddy, flat image. He had the most expensive kit in the county, but he hadn’t even looked…
I spent three weeks on a documentary in the Highlands last year, working with a kit that had half the dynamic range of the latest flagship sensor, and I still walked away with better images than the kid I saw last month using a $50,000 rig in a studio with nothing but overhead fluorescent lights….
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