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  Well, the screen IS what sets it aside..... checking your 4K focus could be a dream on this, if the right inputs/software is available   plus... it'll be 60% the price of a macbook air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0   "Playing the movie on a telephone" :)   It's the viewer's experience that suffers with the internet rather than so much the filmmaker's chances of getting it seen.

  Yep, I was looking at the similar $999 pricepoints for Macbook Air and iPad and was thinking just how much more I can do on Air with a full-fledged OS. Plus, if it doesn't work you can always cut stuff with it. I know Boris would.  

Big Budget movies are now essentially two hour commercials designed to sell toys ( All of Marvel and Disney ) and product placement ( Audi in all of Iron-Man movies ) for big brands, they are no longer a product in itself the way a self-contained cinema experience was designed to be. No, movies won't whither and die, - quite the opposite, we'll see more...ALOT more movies...Marvel for example wants to churn out a superhero movie every 6 months, reboot-rinse-repeat.   It's filmmakers with an independent creative vision who are metaphorically withering and dying in Hollywood, being replaced by marketers and stylists instead. Cinema will continue to exist simply because watching a film with your friends is a social experience in itself, which does not compete with that other cool movie you will watch on your iPhone/Netflix, a new home for modern independent filmmakers.    I don't really see what the problem there. You want global audiences? They are there, at the click of a button if you are willing to forsake the champagne at the festivals and the elitist "I've been screened in a theatre, bitch" smirk and go into the most competitive global digital marketplace. Look at David Fincher, the guy did it with House of Cards, and the audiences showed up, - I'd readily view his next movie exclusively online.    And Alejandro Gonzales Innarritu shot his last film on VHS and released it online, because he is an artist who doesn't care about the festival circuit and the big honors of theatrical releases, he creates because he likes to create, and he shares using whatever medium is at hand.    Spielberg and Lynch are just afraid to adapt to this change, that's all...to them I say, grab a 5D and show us what you can do without a million dollar budget, your talent is now laid bare. David Lynch can have an army of volunteers of actors and crew if he only asked for it on Twitter, his movies can be shot with ANY camera, he could be shooting and releasing several movies a year to online audiences if he wanted to and yet he sees obstacles instead of an opportunity in digital.    Dinosaurs...

This is all actually a good thing.   It means talent like Lynch will flock to on demand services (Vimeo included) and small cinemas.   The big cinemas need to die a death and be taught a lesson.   People will grow bored of watching shit.   I say good riddance multiplexes and $10 popcorn & coke. Let the uninterested and bored sit at home and watch their pirated DVDs. Real film lovers are about to get the revolution they deserve.

It's such a satisfying impulse to blame the evils of society and corporate profit for one's personal failures and inhibitions.   It's also BS.

BIOSKOP.INC Im with you on this ....   Dogma 95 had a load of good ideals to the movement and is worth drawing influenses from the small camera was constantly moving something a GH2 size camera can also easily achieve   So much can be done economically these days the gear we all use is more than good enough to make movies on  you can make great 'no waste movies' where Hollywood would spend millions to achieve the same look.   Do the best with what you have got and get making a film - too many people talk the talk but dont walk the walk so lets start this movement and get making great lo cost films with all the kit we have.

Probably true! Crowdfunding he'd make the goal in an hour. 

I'm in Northern VA too. I'm very familiar with the herons of Great Falls and I really like the photo that you got. Nice shot!   If you can wait, I'd suggest the BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera $1000) with the Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm lens (goes for around $500). If not, the $1,300 GH3 gives you weather sealing and 60 frames at 1080P (for slow motion; no other DSLRs that I know of offer this). Here is a sample that I found with that very combination:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlCCaI-ee1g So:   Panasonic GH3: $1300 Extra Rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery: $80 Sandisk Extreme 64GB 95MB/s SD Card: $120 Lumix G Vario 100-300mm F/4-5.6 OIS Lens: $500   TOTAL: $2,000   Replace that with a GH2, and you can shave $600 off of that price. You'll lose 1080P slow motion (you'll only get 720P) and the weather sealing, but you won't have to worry about moire patterns as you do sometimes with the GH3.