Don Starnes Director of Photography
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Equipment and rates
These are the packages that I normally use and what they cost:
35mm
Arriflex 35-3 (3-120fps) MOS camera package: US$2,300/day
Arriflex 535B camera package: US$2,800/day
Panaflex Millennium camera package: US$3,400/day
16mm or Super 16
Photosonics 16MM Actionmaster Series 3000 (24-500 fps) camera package: US$1,600/day
Arriflex 16 SR III camera package: US$1,750/day
Aaton 16XTR Prod camera package: US$1,650/day
HD
Panasonic AJ-HD27F Varicam camcorder package: US$3,300/day
Sony HDWF900 HDCAM CineAlta camcorder package: US$3,300/day
Panavision-Sony HDWF900 HDCAM CineAlta camcorder: US$4,000/day
Betacam
(including me, a sound mixer/video technician, lighting and sound)
NTSC or PAL Sony DXC-D35 / PVV-3 Betacam SP camcorder package: US$1,650/10
hour day
NTSC or PAL Sony DVW-700 Digital Betacam camcorder package: US$2,200/10 hour day
DV
(including me, a sound mixer/video technician, lighting and sound)
Sony PD-150 DVCAM camcorder package: US$1,300/10 hour day
Panasonic AG-DVX100 camcorder package: US$1,400/10 hour
day
Panasonic AJ-SDX900 24P DVCPRO Camcorder: US$1,750/10 hour day
NTSC or PAL Sony DXC-D35 / DSR-1 DVCAM camcorder
package: US$1,650/10 hour day
I also work with a really great crew. Our day rates are pretty much what you'd expect. Call for specifics.
Need a deal? Tell me about you and your project; we love to work on great things and can usually make them happen.