The cameras my school uses cost 7 grand then the lenses cost another 4-5 grand. They arent top of the line but they are VERY nice cameras. The cameras CNN and other big money coprs. use cost around $50k. The difference between movies and TV isnt necessarly the camera but its the Frame rate, film runs around 27fps which gives it that warm, fuller movie feel. TV at 30fps for the more real, right now feel.
That camera(no lense) costs $30,000+ because it is TOP of the line. It takes 70mb pictures for godsake. With 39mp you can probably take a picture of a stadium from one end, zoom in on the other end in the picture and read the numbers on some dudes watch. Thats why they want 39mp, for the ammount of detail in the picture.

cameras like that are fairly standard in the fasion industry...

my friend shoots pics of models in NY and he says they do test shots with a $8000 US camera, so image what they take the real pics with...

for my job i use a $4000 HD video camera

yum HD. We dont use HD yet. hell most of the news stations in the north east still use analog editing. They are just starting to convert to digital.

i dont even use the HD video tho haha..we just use regular DV for work

they prolly still come with the standard 16mb mem card

ROFL! im sure it does happy:

D200

geRV, I hope you get attacked by a swan. cuss: