Jin Kim

Wow, thanks for all the insightful feedback, I will read thru the responses, and re-read thru them again! Just to clarify, we are in a bit of a special situation, where an angel investor is wanting to invest a large sum of money into our team to build from the ground up. It is a bit ass-backwards, but I've been asked to compile a list of general equipment that we would need within ~$100k. It really isn't my choice whether to buy or rent, but in response to your 1st bullet point, Jaron, I guess money coming in isn't really an issue as much as maximizing the efficiency of the equipment list that we need to pitch to our investor.

I am helping a friend start a production company focusing on commercial work as well as narrative film. We have a $100k budget to buy cinematography equipment. Our plan is to own enough equipment to shoot 90% of low-mid budget project that are thrown at us, and to rent specialty items on a project by project basis. I've compiled a list below to the best of my abilities, but would like your opinion as to the decisions I've made. I want to make sure there are no redundancies, especially for lighting. Most of the time we will be working with house power, hence the focus on energy efficient plasma lights and LEDs. As for the camera and lens, I'm thinking of buying a used Epic Dragon and a set of Schneider Xenons. I feel these will give me quite the bang for the buck at this budget level. Link to equipment list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15xCLAUBMwt6nyNLwusL5P4ItWArS8Xg8fnanEuaf9Wk/edit?usp=sharing