Inside the Secrets of Crafting a Micro-Budget Feature Film with Ashley Scott Meyers: Hollywood’s Best-Kept Formula Revealed
So that’s what we decided to do was go with this Panasonic S1 Lumix. And as I said, I love the way it looks, and the camera performed great. And as I said, in terms of a thirty-five thousand dollar budget, a thousand dollars for the camera is obviously a great price.
Once we had the camera, you still need to buy a lot of accessories to go with it, including lenses. Lenses are not inexpensive. So we ended up buying two lenses, a 35 millimeter and an 18 to 50 zoom lens. So that sort of gave us sort of, you know, we could get—we could get some close-ups and pullbacks and stuff with the zoom. And then the 35 millimeter was what we used most of the time just shooting the movie. They were about five hundred dollars each. So these are not high-end lenses. You know, really good lenses are thousands and thousands of dollars. So these were just used lenses I got on one of the used photography store sites. I think it’s called B&H or I can’t remember off the top of my head, but it’s one of the photography sites that I’ve seen and used before. They have used equipment. And we just bought these two lenses. They ship them to you.
