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im curious about you guys but i`ve always had a really hard time with math and equations, so i find myself really having to abstract all of these ideas into a mental 3d model i can understand, it just turns out light is one of the most difficult things to abstract in your mind without being reductive and completely deforming how light really works, im curious about how you go about these things on set.
I guess it really depends on how you choose to market yourself, im on the renting the gear camp, but there are benefits and downsides to each approach, if you have gear you can make it work for you, but at the same time if you dont choose correctly, you might spend quite a bit of money on gear that never gets rented, an acquaintance runs a camera rental exclusively for Red cameras, some lenses too, he invested a pretty penny on the whole DSMC 2 systems, really good gear but he struggled to make the equipment earn any money, lo and behold Red just a couple of years after brings the V Raptor and completely eats the market for the Monstro, wich is now an expensive paper weight on the rentals HQ, its still a superbly capable piece of equipment, but no one wants to rent it, in the end it was just a money dump, i guess my point is, if you are smart about owning gear, you can make a profit off of it, but its pretty easy to get it wrong or just have bad luck and end up with gear no one wants to rent, though i think this is more the case with Camera equipment, harder to get it wrong with lighting gear, in any case i hope this is somewhat useful if at all for you.
