Analog film photography and cameras

Arri and Panavision have not made made film cameras for about a year, the deluxe merge with soho film lab has seen analogue ditched. i know a DOP who owns various mitchell/arri cameras and primes that sit there unused while the Alexa is out every day.

time marches on.

Deluxe bought out soho film lab last year. They are still a film lab not digital and are still going strong. They do most of the TV and commercials work. Technicolor do the big feature film work. There are any number of film jobs going at the moment and there has been a swing away from digital on major features if it is not shooting 3D. I was in Panavision just last week and 90% of their film cameras are in use at the moment.

The Alexa is a camera. You should look it up, it still requires a lens on the front so your point about your DP friend having primes he cannot use seems pretty daft. Plus who has used a mitchell in the last 20 years any way, great cameras but only really useful as crash cams these days.

You may have a DSLR that shoots video but that does not mean you know what you are talking about. Stick to what you know.....