Question by skyfuzz: Interested in shooting more, high quality short films?
I’ve been shooting with an old home video camera for awhile and I want to move up to something higher quality… What is a good video camera that can be used for pretty low-budget filming? Short films and the like…
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Answer by fhotoace
Do you mean video shorts?
Short films are made using a motion picture film camera, not a video camera … while that is changing right now, there are no video to film cameras that cost less than about $ 17,000 … without a lens … most are rented by the production companies.
Link to new video to film cameras:
http://www.red.com/cameras/
And a rental location:
http://www.birnsandsawyer.com/cgibin/BIRstore.cgi?user_action=camera&category=Camera%20Rentals
You may be able to find a good uses Canon XL-1, broadcast quality video camera with lens for under $ 2000.
Here is a link to one in my area
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/ele/981605075.html
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