Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. It was once so rich that Concorde used to fly from Caracas to Paris. But in the last three years its economy has collapsed. Hunger has gripped the nation for years. Now, it’s killing people and animals that are dying of starvation. The Venezuelan government knows, but won’t admit it!!! Four in five Venezuelans live in poverty. People queue for hours to buy food. Much of the time they go without. People are also dying from a lack of medicines. Inflation is at 82,766% and there are warnings it could exceed one million per cent by the end of this year. Venezuelans are trying to get out. The UN says 2.3 million people have fled the country - 7% of the population.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Industry News: TV camera rental trends (UK)

February 7, 2011

For the last couple of years the monthly TV industry magazine 'Televisual' has produced figures for camera rental trends in the UK, and I thought some might find these interesting. Data was collated from detailed surveys filled in by 26 of the country's leading gear hire companies.

If you believed the trade press, the whole industry had gone file-based, but the figures show that in 2010 HD file-based models made up half the rentals, with HD tape-based models making up 30% of all hires, while SD tape-based models account for less than 20% of hires.

Interestingly, the most popular rental camera, accounting for 20% of all rentals, was the tape-based Sony HDW-790P, which is all the more extraordinary because the camera was discontinued by Sony over three years ago. It has not only survived this, but moved up in popularity from 4th to 1st this year - toppling 2009 winner the EX3 - obviously a familiar, tried and tested HDCAM workhorse.

The Canon 5D is new in there, but the highest new entry is the Sony PDW-F800, while the Red One has dropped from third to sixth place.

The cameras most facility houses invested in last year were the PDW-F800, PDW-700, EX3, Canon XF-305, Canon 5D and Arri Alexa. The hottest item on their shopping lists in 2011 is Sony's forthcoming digital-35mm model, the PMW-F3, followed by the Arri Alexa, Sony's new 50mbps PMW-500 and Panasonic's innovative looking AG-AF101.

The 2010 Top 10 in order - followed by their average daily rental price (£1 = $1.6) and format - is....

1 Sony HDW-790P (£255) HDCAM
2 Sony PMW-EX3 (£120) XDCAM EX
3 Sony PDW-F800 (£270) XDCAM HD422
4 Sony PDW-700 (£245) XDCAM HD422
5 Sony DSR-450 (£140) DVCAM
6 Red One (£430) Red
7 Sony HDW-F900R (£340) HDCAM
8 Sony PMW-EX1R (£100) XDCAM EX
9 Canon 5D (£105) DSLR
10 Sony DVW-970 (£200) Digibeta

Simon Witter
Producer/Director
London


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www.chicas-productions.com
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