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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Here's a few pointers to think about.
Tape will store more info than disc or chip at the moment. Recording direct to the hard drive is not an option unless you want another lead coming off your camera.
The part of a camera behind the lens can be worth $10,000 but if you shoot through a $100 lens you have a $100 scene. Very often the techies spend a fortune on developing things for an extra effect and ignore the most important thing, the lens.
The better the camera the better the lighting should be. You can ruin everything by not having good lighting and each set up should be different for each setting and models. Great lighting with an average camera will out perform a great camera with average lighting.
Get off camera mikes, two is good. So the illusion is not spoiled every time your touch the camera and leave a click or the sound of you breathing. Position one over the models to capture the over all sound and one rifle mike aimed at her pussy to capture the squelching. ;)
Consider if the style and niche of the scene requires top end cameras, plus your skills as a cameraman, lighting, sound and director warrant top end equipment. Mine don't. Because all good equipment does is show everything more clearly, every good point, great moment, beautiful model is shown in better detail,l resulting in harder cocks.
And every mistake, zit, rash, boil, bruise, poor make up, plain model, poor porn, badly directed scene, models who does not give a shit will also be shown clearly and result in floppy dicks.
If only producing porn was as easy as spending money on a camera and learning how to light and audio.  |
?? it isn't 1970 s no more paul .. LOL
Hard drive is a great way to store your digital video. plus creating a great WORKFLOW .. that means in layman terms .. you won't spend the hour stairing blindly at a capture screen, only to find out that your settings are all off, cus youve been using the manifacturers presets .. LOL
NEXT .. WHAT digital camera head are you shooting with that can handle a 100$ lens .. please advise ... and please don't say canon cus a XL H 1 Cus this Can't take a 100 $ lens but is a 10 000 Camera ..
simply put if your in content and your seriously asking this question ? What camera to get" then find another posistion within our great industry . also if you think that digital tape is better then HD, your stuck in the past. The fact is that MiniDv isn't that great of a product, it has been laced wit problems from day one .. too small of a transport, resulting in lots of particles flying around and landing in the most in - appropriate places. Low life drum heads caused by second grade metals to keep prices down .. etc .. Adhesive tape is know not to have a good shelf life, if they couldn't do it with 1 inch what makes you think they can with a 8 mm tape ?
LAstly WORKFLOW. I won't even comment on the difference here.
Lookin at the newest cams out there for under 5000 $ .. Panasonic's P2 is awesome .. Sony's newest EX is grate .. but if you are stuck on canon .. Then the XH is your camera of choice hans down ... Opt for more expensive G1 rather then the A1. You'll thank me for the HD back up later.
All the best .. and please keep the Real Shooting to the Pros .. don't try this at home you just might hurt yourself . LOL
Great weekend all ... Vicious out