way back in 2000 I used to advertise in the local trades and free-presses. there were only a few porn agents and they WOULD NOT TAKE ANY CALLS FOR new clients... so the girls would call me off the ads and then swing by and do a test shot on Polaroid, which I would scan and send off to the client for approval. then on shoot days I would use 20 rolls of film for a shoot with a Nikon F and 50mm lens... all manual with a handheld meter... then I would send the rolls off to the client or straight to 'Denver Digital' for processing. back ten Denver Digital was the main place to process and scan for the web. we didn't shoot video because the bandwidth wouldn't carry vids
went with my first digital camera in mid 2001, and even then I didn't have the balls to use it for anything other than test shots for about a month or so... but I did finally go full digital, the files were about 450 KB, now the files are about 6 +/- MB...
started shooting video with a vx2000 in 2003?? so I had to learn to edit vids as well.... most of the shooters that came in early do everything like I do... it was never about getting a guy to do this or that or whatever...