Is anyone here into video production or work in that field?

[tommy p]

I have a shload of pro-level video and audio production gear that I'm selling for the family of a close friend who died in Dec 2022.  They've had this mountain of gear sitting in their dining room ever since and contacted me a couple of months ago to help them sell it.  Since I never worked in the film industry or anything close, I don't have local contacts for that.  Some of the stuff is too large to ship but there is plenty that isn't.  If you work in that field and would like a list, send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you a spreadsheet of the gear.  It's things like location mixers with bags, harnesses, and headphones, light banks, specialty mics, carbon fiber booms, LED floods, light/camera stands, etc.

There is some music gear too, but I know more about that and have a lot of local contacts for that kind of stuff so that's moving fairly well locally.  I'm sure I will be listing some here as well in the next few weeks.  I listed some guitar processors before but they were kind of dusty and still had tape and labels on them so that might have been a turnoff - they didn't look great.  I've cleaned them up since.

Mods, I hope this is OK.  You can delete it if not.

[RobB]

If there is a local college in your area with a broadcast program, consider donating them. I'm sure the school could help with establishing a dollar amount for the gear and the family may get a whopping tax write-off.

[tommy p]

1 hour ago, RobB said:

If there is a local college in your area with a broadcast program, consider donating them. I'm sure the school could help with establishing a dollar amount for the gear and the family may get a whopping tax write-off.

That is the plan after I sell all I can.  They wanted to make back some of the money they spent for funeral and legal expenses.  The standard deduction is now so high they wouldn't be itemizing though, so no tax savings.