Getting Started in Video
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- leadtrum
I've been into photography for a long time and recently got interested in video. Does anyone know of any good starter cameras? I'm not looking to do Youtube type videos, more of documentary type of thing.
Are there any other strong communities or sites like strobists.com for video beginners?
- _salisae_0
a good friend of mine made this transition recently and could give you some direction. you could contact him through http://inspiretobemore.blogspot.… .. (your note to him would probably be most effective is you complemented him on his blog hehe).
- leadtrum0
If it helps anyone else, here are some of the best basic entry-level cams for people starting out:
Canon XH A1
http://reviews.cnet.com/Canon_XH…Panasonic AG-DVX100B
http://reviews.cnet.com/Panasoni…
- cherub0
I'm looking for a starter camera too. Is there no happy medium between those two cameras above, which cost more than $2,000 and a camera like the Canon HV20(~$650) which has only 3 megapixels? I could even live with something like 20 frames per second, but if you want to capture a frame from your video with that hv20 it ain't gonna be a pretty picture once you crop and enlarge it huh? and what about hi8 is it non viable?
- pr20
HV20 is a nice camera -- probaly better then DVX100. But if you showed up to interview with it i would be like "OK, i'm leaving now."
- dspastic0
get a used sony HDR-HC1. about 1grand used and it shoots HD...
- cherub0
dspastic,
that was good advice. if i was going to do commercials, or other tv work that would be the camera for me.
but it only shoots interlaced, according to the spec sheet. that's a deal breaker, i can't stand working with interlaced source.
wish is a shame because it got good reviews and seems like a middle-of-the-road camera for someone just starting out.
guess it's back to the hv20 or spend thousands....
- dspastic0
i know... that would be ideal. but this camera has such great output that doing it post-production is no sweat (again just my opinion);
- pr20
your gut felling is right. go with Canon on this one. unless u r thinking of shooting something really-high end stay away from sony products.