Gustavs Repse
May 24th, 2010, 04:26 PM
Hello community.
I learn't about this forum from a friend. He did say wherry nice things about you guys. :)
I want to ask you help in choosing a video camera.This question is simple and yet annoying for some.This purchase for me is wherry important so despite the fact that in this forum might already be the answer I'm looking for il be firm and ask directly.
Help me to buy the right camera.
Il list some of my preferences and needs to help you understand the kind of camera i am looking for.
My budget is around 300$ . It's not much, how ever it took me great deal of effort to gather this sum.
What i want to do with the camera is to use it for artistic purposes. LEts say, recreating some music video in my own fashion. Meaning that i put my own shots to the beat/music and try to make it dynamic and synchronized with the music. Filming many events in my country and putting them together will teach me and give me the taste of composition , how to make it flawless and interesting to watch .
I do believe that i will need wide angle lens right? W/o them the video looks narrow and doesn't look right if u want to make some kinda home made movie/sketch.
So would be nice if the camera would have this part covered and i wouldn't have to settle for a integrated lens.
A wile ago i was looking into KODAK ZI8 pocket camcorder YouTube - Kodak ZI8 HD Pocket Video Camcorder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8LtEPh0Bhw&feature=fvsr) but i figured out that it would not suit my purpose of camera( its more of a blogging device as i see it , shooting rather still images). On it you can apply wide angle lens but its complicated in most cases and u have to glue them on some times. Some do fit on a magnet as i remember tho.
Another feature im looking for in the camera is that it films good in night. Aka, i might be doing some fast paced shoots in the streets of my town at night so i dont want it to show all the dark spots as 1 dark stain. I hope you know what i mean.
So basically im looking for a camera that is not for blogging or showing me talking to the camera for 5 mins . But i want it to have the artistic side , so i can venture with the clips and even tho the quality wont be near as good as for the cameras of price tag for 1000+$ i want to be able to use some of the effects from the high end Cams.
Sketches/Fast paced movement clips( me driving a bike and holding the camera capturing the events around me in a city or nature events.)
And i think its a must that the camera shoots in High Definition . Dont you think?But if i chose such Camcorder i sacrifice a lot of other good features by paying the general sum ust for the HD?
If i left out some vital info to this matter please point that out ill fill in the info .
I would wherry much appreciate your help and try not to look down upon.
I will read into the forum and try to figure some things out on my own , but i need the cam in somewhat near future so i cant absorb all the info in this forum and make a good decision. It will devastate me if il make a purchase and after 2 week's discover that there was a much better bargain of better camera which i didn't discover.
I learn't about this forum from a friend. He did say wherry nice things about you guys. :)
I want to ask you help in choosing a video camera.This question is simple and yet annoying for some.This purchase for me is wherry important so despite the fact that in this forum might already be the answer I'm looking for il be firm and ask directly.
Help me to buy the right camera.
Il list some of my preferences and needs to help you understand the kind of camera i am looking for.
My budget is around 300$ . It's not much, how ever it took me great deal of effort to gather this sum.
What i want to do with the camera is to use it for artistic purposes. LEts say, recreating some music video in my own fashion. Meaning that i put my own shots to the beat/music and try to make it dynamic and synchronized with the music. Filming many events in my country and putting them together will teach me and give me the taste of composition , how to make it flawless and interesting to watch .
I do believe that i will need wide angle lens right? W/o them the video looks narrow and doesn't look right if u want to make some kinda home made movie/sketch.
So would be nice if the camera would have this part covered and i wouldn't have to settle for a integrated lens.
A wile ago i was looking into KODAK ZI8 pocket camcorder YouTube - Kodak ZI8 HD Pocket Video Camcorder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8LtEPh0Bhw&feature=fvsr) but i figured out that it would not suit my purpose of camera( its more of a blogging device as i see it , shooting rather still images). On it you can apply wide angle lens but its complicated in most cases and u have to glue them on some times. Some do fit on a magnet as i remember tho.
Another feature im looking for in the camera is that it films good in night. Aka, i might be doing some fast paced shoots in the streets of my town at night so i dont want it to show all the dark spots as 1 dark stain. I hope you know what i mean.
So basically im looking for a camera that is not for blogging or showing me talking to the camera for 5 mins . But i want it to have the artistic side , so i can venture with the clips and even tho the quality wont be near as good as for the cameras of price tag for 1000+$ i want to be able to use some of the effects from the high end Cams.
Sketches/Fast paced movement clips( me driving a bike and holding the camera capturing the events around me in a city or nature events.)
And i think its a must that the camera shoots in High Definition . Dont you think?But if i chose such Camcorder i sacrifice a lot of other good features by paying the general sum ust for the HD?
If i left out some vital info to this matter please point that out ill fill in the info .
I would wherry much appreciate your help and try not to look down upon.
I will read into the forum and try to figure some things out on my own , but i need the cam in somewhat near future so i cant absorb all the info in this forum and make a good decision. It will devastate me if il make a purchase and after 2 week's discover that there was a much better bargain of better camera which i didn't discover.