Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

You can get away with a AVCHD or HDV camera like a Sony consumer or prosumer camera for as little as around $1000 that takes good video even good enough to produce porn. The more important question is what a good lighting kit? If you are doing production you should probably spend double or triple the cost of the camera on lights. I recommend Kino Flos, like the four foot four-banks that I use for production.