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You might be able to get something like a used Blackmagic Design Pocket 4K in mid-hundreds, hopefully. If you're looking closer at low hundreds, perhaps some great Sony camera can be found on the marketplaces?

Or generally any DLSR for that matter, really.

We needed only a couple of used old iPads from the marketplaces. It's later that we learned majority of these companies have ''no valuable gifts'' policy where they must return things like these, so we just kept reusing the returned ones.

Thank you. Lots of them already using AI for all kinds of tasks. I think it's just important to stay practical as lots of companies slap ''magic AI'' on everything, where it doesn't always makes any sense. Similar to a period when everyone was building everything on a ''blockchain'' because it was ''cool'' and could have given you funding, although the reason for your ''groundbreaking todo app'' to be built on blockchain was... none.

Thank you so much! Really appreciate your kind words among a fair bit of not so kind comments in this thread.

Thank you so much! It's Nikon Z7 ii, but if I'd be picking a camera today I wouldn't take this one.

The big selling point of this camera for me when it just came out was a generous 45.7 MP sensor that meant I have a decent freedom for cropping stuff or printing my works on billboards (never happened) if I ever need to.

But now all the AI upscalers like the ones from the Topaz Lab disrupted the market and it's no longer an advantage really. It's still a great camera for pictures, don't take me wrong!

But if I'd be in the market for a video camera, I'd be looking at cameras from Black Magic or RED. They give you a cinematic look and actually have a proper RAW video file format for color grading.

If you want to achieve a similar look, here is a small lifehack we've used for most of the videos: smoke machine. You can get one off Amazon for like $50. It creates this cool deepness and light diffusion in the atmosphere. Just need to play around a bit with the distances between smoke and subjects, intensity and lights.

I LOVE THIS CONCEPT SO MUCH

Sorry about this! It's a simple Ghost blog, but the post has lots of video and photo, that must be clogging the resources probably :(

Yeah, it was definitely a silly, not economically viable leap of faith move. We enjoyed all of it.

Would the case you just read count?

haha, thank you! C&D included wording ''we appreciate creativity''.

But I hold no grudge. I don't know what was going on in the life of that person, maybe they had some creepy stalkers in the past who really caused them problems or maybe it even didn't get to them and this is just a standard procedure of their security team.

It was Linkedin Ads, and sort of yeah, but that's because we didn't had much to start with. Small amounts quickly add up when you need to scale this to another 12 persons as there were other costs involved for every delivery like: printing stickers, photos, getting boxes, small LCD screens for the boxes, markers, etc.

Thank you!

Changed the sentence to: ''Upon being inspired by all the power of London and misery of us''

I think it's better. Thank you again for the feedback! Really appreciate that.

Thank you for the feedback! We completely depleted the remaining savings we had into this ''campaign'' (I know, stupid) and interesting part about IPads is that most of the recipients just return the tablets, so we were able to reuse them on each delivery. They also were acquired used off the marketplaces, of course. It's later that we learned majority of these companies have ''no valuable gifts'' policy where they must return things like these.

I agree with you, though. Probably too strong of the word to be used and I should reconsider its usage.

Now that you mentioned this... I don't know either, hah.

Good point though, I must've been clearer in the post. The goal was to offer our help/get a job, with this approach acting as sort of a portfolio/walking the walk, since most of our past work has been in gaming and might have been not very relevant to their industries.