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what is the best camera for video recording?

Started 4 months ago | Questions thread
John Koch Senior Member • Posts: 1,602
No budget issues? Then ...
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... go hire a professional video firm to devise, direct, write, cast, shoot, edit, and distribute your work.  Your role, as senior executive producer and underwriter might be quite rewarding and gratifying.

The camera per se is only a tiny component of what a big budget project entails.  There is a plethora of other matters to attend.  One could spend a mint on a camera and not advance an inch towards producing something of any quality.  In fact, the more you spend on a camera, the more difficult it will become to produce anything at all, since there will be a greater learning curve, greater demand for ancillary equipment, and other factors needed to leverage or optimize the marginal advantages that a high-end camera might offer.   Even if you can afford a Hollywood-grade camera, such as an Arri Alexa or RED, such gear might be a bad choice.

To put things in perspective, an F35 jet is definitely a worse way for 99.99% of humanity to obtain an aerial photo than a $95 toy drone.  The former requires vast infrastructure and training to get off the ground.  The latter requires few skills at all and the penalty of a crash is minimal.

A DIY hobbyist or amateur is probably best off, these days, by shooting photos or video with a smart phone that is mid-grade or better.  There are thousands of apps to enable one to edit good work.

Very soon, you will discover that the choice of camera is a very small issue.  The greater hurdles are the quality of content, story-telling, audio quality, and the time it takes to edit a work that is good enough and short enough to retain viewer attention.

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