Ever see a camera that costs over $35k?

I hadn't either.

It shoots RED; immediately expensive

You should have seen the rail system they can run this sucker on to create high speed high res zooms. Yikers.

I see them daily. A good steady cam rig, not including camera, can cost over $80 grand. Wood working tools are NOT the most expensive professional equipment out there.

Definitely helped put that all in perspective for me. I can't imagine buying a lens that cost $8k!

umm……that kind of videos are you shooting when everyone clocks out for the day?       

Or are you renting your shop out by the hour for the "special" production?      

Eric

We never really clock out around here, and we rarely sleep. 

Vacation coming up soon though.

I studied video production at Norwich and the avid editing computer set ups were hundreds of thousands.  The beta cams were more than the digital ones I believe and without HD.  It's crazy how much these things cost, but you can shoot a heck of a good shot with only a $4000 camera.  That $35,000 jobber must have a few bells and whistles I bet.

Very cool ghost fist, that's amazing the tech in filming these days. Makes what learned in college look like preschool haha.

Just finished building a tall stand, soundproof enclosure, and exhaust system for a DLP video projector that cost in the neighborhood of 100k. 4k, 3D, 60fps.

And a m8 of mine works in VLSI chip design and their simulation CAD licenses top 1M€/year per developer and still require a 500-core cluster to do the number crunching in the nights.

Not to mention manufacturing the prototype samples of high-speed ASIC chips. The prototypes cost on average 1M€/run and you get like 10-20 chips in a package for that.

Makes everything I do seem cheap in comparison

I'm Jonesing this one, justifying a Carvex with the Mrs was easy by comparison  http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00B7O31B8

I really like the way it tells you you're 'saving' $3.00 off the price! What a bargain!!! 

You don't even have to go the Hasseblad route. 

Take a look at the offerings from Nikon & Canon.  Buy one of there good bodies or even entry level and some Lenses and  the $ add up very quickly.
Then you add bags, filters, tripods.... etc.

Hope you guys didn't get overspray on it. 

My brother is metal fabricator for hospital equipment all stainless steel. He would go and install his products in hospital testing labs sometimes where they do all their research with all the animals. They would have a lot of mice rats and rabbits. He would have get special clearance and key cards and go through sterilization rooms to get to the rooms where his work was He was told they would have years of research and a million dollars in a pair of mice. That is some expensive rodents.

Lenses alone for cameras used for Hollywood quality movies cost around $60k.

But if you want to talk about real big money... My uncle designed and built a plant to process titanium scrap. The project cost $125m. The company that hired him bought 80% of the free worlds scrap titanium at a time where literally it sat in piles the size of football fields, where no one knew  to do with it. The company made a profit of $3-4b after the titanium had been separated out from the scrap.

Oh ya the company had to pay a lot more than $125m though because they tried to use water from a river for cooling the electrical system, instead of the distilled water he told them to use. Basically they had to replace the whole electrical system, with lines running that were 4' diameter.