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Greg Laves · June 29th, 2009, 01:41 PM

Last week I shot footage for a local car dealership. In this case the footage has always been edited by another company. That production company owns a Sony EX-1. Their editor spends 95% of his life editing footage shot with that EX-1. After the editor had downloaded my footage, I called to make sure everything went all right and I asked him how the footage looked. His response: "Oh man, your footage looks great. That camera is awesome." It made me feel pretty good. I thought I would share that with you.

Rob Morse · June 29th, 2009, 03:45 PM

It's not just the camera, you have to know what to do with it.

Greg Laves · June 29th, 2009, 04:58 PM

Well, yes that is true. And his compliment did make me feel good on a couple of levels. But their shooter is one of the best DP's I have ever had the pleasure of working with. So that editor has seen lots of good work before. If you watch Nat Geo or Discovery you have probably seen their photog's work.

Rob Morse · June 29th, 2009, 07:30 PM

It's always great to hear good things about your work from peers or people you have respect for. It's confirmation of the quality of work you're putting out.

Greg Laves · July 1st, 2009, 07:40 AM

BTW, the only reason I posted this was because I felt it was a strong compliment to the camera's capabilities and potential, not as an opportunity to fish for compliments for me. As you Z7 faithful probably already know, the Z7 is an terrific piece of gear.

Ervz Tia · July 21st, 2009, 01:17 AM

I agree, Z7 is one of our best assets.

The image, controls...the performance is just awesome. Oh yeah, cheap CF card! It's actually my first taste of HD and a total memory based workflow. I mean we have Firestore but i used to still run it with a tape. We have it for just a few months now.

cheers!

June 29th, 2009, 01:41 PM	#1
Greg Laves Major Player Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Corpus Christi, TX Posts: 640	Compliment Last week I shot footage for a local car dealership. In this case the footage has always been edited by another company. That production company owns a Sony EX-1. Their editor spends 95% of his life editing footage shot with that EX-1. After the editor had downloaded my footage, I called to make sure everything went all right and I asked him how the footage looked. His response: "Oh man, your footage looks great. That camera is awesome." It made me feel pretty good. I thought I would share that with you.

June 29th, 2009, 03:45 PM	#2
Rob Morse Major Player Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 427	It's not just the camera, you have to know what to do with it.

June 29th, 2009, 04:58 PM	#3
Greg Laves Major Player Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Corpus Christi, TX Posts: 640	Well, yes that is true. And his compliment did make me feel good on a couple of levels. But their shooter is one of the best DP's I have ever had the pleasure of working with. So that editor has seen lots of good work before. If you watch Nat Geo or Discovery you have probably seen their photog's work.

June 29th, 2009, 07:30 PM	#4
Rob Morse Major Player Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 427	It's always great to hear good things about your work from peers or people you have respect for. It's confirmation of the quality of work you're putting out.

July 1st, 2009, 07:40 AM	#5
Greg Laves Major Player Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Corpus Christi, TX Posts: 640	BTW, the only reason I posted this was because I felt it was a strong compliment to the camera's capabilities and potential, not as an opportunity to fish for compliments for me. As you Z7 faithful probably already know, the Z7 is an terrific piece of gear.

July 21st, 2009, 01:17 AM	#6
Ervz Tia Regular Crew Join Date: May 2008 Location: Philippines Posts: 42	I agree, Z7 is one of our best assets. The image, controls...the performance is just awesome. Oh yeah, cheap CF card! It's actually my first taste of HD and a total memory based workflow. I mean we have Firestore but i used to still run it with a tape. We have it for just a few months now. cheers!