Adapter

Was shooting today with Keith McMahon at one of the beaches in Glen Cove and the camera which had the camera attached to it fell off the tripod and fell onto the ground into a little water and sand. The adapter had glass shattered inside the adapter so I'll be sending it in on Monday in hopes that it can fixed for under $300 hopefully. The good thing is that the DVX100 is working because that's more expensive than the adapter. Also, the 50mm lens also survived the fall.

As for fixing the adapter, I'm not sure until I hear from them if it can be fixed. I'm looking into less expensive 35mm adapters if they are not able to fix it. I'm low on cash and this is the problem with independent filmmaking. Not enough money. It's never enough. This is why in order to make good films, be sure to have good equipment that works for you and that makes you happy to work with. We don't need $20,000 cranes or anything huge like that - although it would be nice, but spending the money on other things that will make the film better overall is more important than just one huge piece of equipment like an expensive crane.

Was going to shoot today (Sunday) but am unable to because of the broken adapter so we are hoping by next weekend we can start shooting again. Until then, going to try to get all of the score for "Mr. Mullen" done, get some new video content up on the website, get some music recorded with Mark Nadolski, etc.

It's weird because earlier in the week for a few days straight we got a lot shot. Shot scenes with Chris on Friday at the same beach and it went very well. The weather was perfect - cloudy but not too dark.