Mohamed Fawzy

What I did was simply research, you wanna know what ARRI is, just google it and study it throughly In other words, google is indeed your best friend Also you should keep an eye on this forum as well, you'll find a dedicated section for almost every camera out there, and read the discussions that take place on those forums so you'd start understanding the different aspect on which people choose a camera to work with, and if there was something mentioned during that discussion that you don't understant, simply resort to your best friend google and look up! Well, at least that's how I learned without even going to film school...

I dunno about the Sanyo HD2000, but I looked into the Sanyo FH1 when I was shopping for a camcorder, and I didn't like the footage at all, it had lots of chromatic aberrations, the colors weren't accurate and the overall image looked kinda diffused...

I second that, I have that camera and it's just amazing, you could check out videos shot on it on Vimeo, and I know some guy who used it to shoot along with a CineAlta and the footage wasn't half bad in comparison...

Well, I'm an Egyptian living in Cairo, but I'm afraid my expertise won't be of much help since I've been strictly working with HD video and digital cinema (RED One & Arri D-21), but Egypt has an active film production scene and they all use film and there are decent labs in Cairo, but I guess the best ones would be the one in Studio Misr and the EMPC lab (Egyptian Media Production City) here's EMPC's website, maybe you could contact them for more information http://www.empc.com.eg/ I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful...

I've worked at a production house where we've worked with the RED, and we had an Assimilate SCRATCH unit, so basically we shoot RAW, we transfer to the SCRATCH system, use proxies to edit then save as EDLs, take those EDLs and load them into SCRATCH so now you've got your whole scene, you grade it shot by shot then render it out...