 Welcome to The Crimson Engine. Today we're going to talk about why I went $10,000 into debt to buy my cinema camera and how I feel about it a year and a half later. I bought the 5D Mark III about seven years ago now. I was shooting with it a lot but a year and a half or two years ago I realized I needed to get a cinema camera of my own. I was renting either a RED or an Alexa or a C300 Mark II a couple times a month and that money was just going and I realized that I could buy something for myself, get better at using it, put the money that I was putting into rentals into paying off something that I would own and possibly even be able to resell. I really wanted the new camera that I was going to get to shoot RAW because I had Magic Lantern on my 5D Mark III, really loved it, had done a lot of experimentation with RAW, really got to know the post workflow. I looked at the Ursa Mini and actually rented it for a job and just wasn't impressed. I think the size was the main issue for me. It was just too big for a lot of the things that I wanted to do, a lot of the running the gun stuff and also didn't have autofocus. When they announced the C200 it seemed like the perfect camera. I shot my feature on the C100 Mark II. I really loved the dual pixel. I really loved the form factor. A lot of my accessories from the 5D would move over to the C200 but it was a lot of money. I bought the B which is only $6,000 only but I still need to spend at least another three or four thousand on a bigger tripod, monitors, batteries, cables, shoulder rig, all the things that go with it. I think that's what a lot of people don't understand as they look at the sticker price of just the camera and don't realize that you're spending almost that much again on other things. Red especially is infamous for this. They have a low-priced body but you end up spending $1,000 on the memory cards. But calculating out the amount of money I would have to spend on the camera and the accessories, I still felt like it was a good investment for the amount of work I was already doing. Now I think this is an important distinction because a lot of people buy cameras hoping to get work. I don't think I would have done that. I only bought the camera because I had the work coming and wanted to make the best use of those rentals I already had set up. Another thing that you need to take into account is that you don't just have to cover the cost of the camera but you have to cover the cost of the interest that you're going to need to pay on the money you borrow to buy the camera. I bought mine through B&H just because it was cheaper. A year and a half later I don't have any regrets. Owning a camera, owning a digital cinema camera took my filmmaking to the next level that allowed me to really create this YouTube connect with a whole bunch of people, get a whole bunch of work I wouldn't normally have and really just shoot projects myself for no money that I'm really proud of that I would never have had the opportunity to do if I had to spend the $3, $4, $500 every time renting a camera for a day. My journey to camera ownership has been an incredibly positive one. I have no regrets. That doesn't mean that that's right for everybody. I am 40. I am pretty far along in my career. Like I said, I already had the work that I was going to use to pay this camera off and for me it just, I was just waiting for the right camera really. I didn't want to buy a red, not a fan of that whole camera system for a lot of reasons that I should probably make another video about. I didn't really like the Sony and the FS7, FS5 are kind of getting towards the end of their life. They didn't shoot raw. So when the C200 came out I kind of jumped into the pond with both feet and hopefully have been able to pass on what I've learned about C200 filmmaking on this channel and lots of exciting things are happening. Thanks very much for watching. Leave your questions in the comments. Let me know what other videos you'd like to see. Subscribe if you want to see those videos and I will see you next time.