There isn’t an industry that wasn’t impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How did it affect the manufacturers supplying us with filming equipment? And, in turn, how will it affect our work? Most people around the globe witnessed the consequences of the COVID-19 outburst over the last year, a virus that spread fast, with almost 4 million deaths worldwide to date. Many countries restricted travel, business, and our daily lives. Many companies enforced remote work, cut costs and laid off employees. Of course, this affects the companies, the distribution, and the industry. We already wrote about how it affects productions, but this also affects the companies supplying us with technology that keeps our workflow going. How are they coping with it, and will their effects trickle down to us? Photo by Kumpan Electric on Unsplash Smaller production batches Because many employees were sent to work from home or even fired, the output of companies was reduced. Even though there wasn’t a year where so many new cameras were introduced, production batches became noticeably smaller, and updating products and developing new soft- and hardware over video calls is harder and takes more time. But also the sudden halt in most companies last year still affects us today, because a lot of products in our industry consist of many smaller parts from all around the globe, and this supply chain is geographically and temporally huge. If you buy a product today, the parts inside it may be one or two years old....
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 6 July, 2021