Best digital camera for film making?

Question

I want to start making films and I want to know...whats a good digital video camera with GREAT picture. I want it to look as professional as I can without spending tens of thousands of dollars. Thanks :)

Answer 1

While I agree that the Nikon D90 is a brilliant camera and probably takes the best quality still photographs in its class, it cannot compete with Canon cameras for truly professional grade film quality video.



If you can afford it, buy the Canon 5D Mk II which has a full frame sensor. The Canon 7D, the 60D and the 550D have equally good picture quality, but have a micro 4/3rds sensor and diminishing feature sets and capabilities.



The only feature differentiating these cameras than ones 20 times their size and cost is capturing shoots in RAW format... I guarantee that you will not be able to differentiate picture quality.



The Canon cameras mentioned above are, in fact, so good that they have been used by professionals in renowned TV serials such as HOUSE and 24, amongst many others!



Check out the DSLR Film-making course at FX School in Mumbai if you want to learn how to fully use such cameras and the full workflow associated with it... they are perhaps the only institute in India teaching film using this type of equipment... their students (many of whom are my friends) are now also working on live films with big name film-makers such as Ram Gopal Varma and others whom I cannot mention yet due to confidentiality reasons...



Hope this helps... Good Luck!

Answer 2

I like to suggest to buy NikonD90,Its the best for making movies.D90 is solid, tight, and well-balanced with the 18-105 VR lens. t is an amazing camera by Nikon, especially for amateur and enthusiast level photographers. The feature list is fantastic, plus the fact that it has the sensor of similar quality as the professional grade D300 model.

Nikon is the best.

Answer 3

DVD is the worst, it has a datarate of purely 6mbps. HDD and miniDV have datarate of 25 mbps. The miniDV makes use of inter-physique compression making it a good format for enhancing. HDD makes use of mpeg2 or comparable keyframe form compression schemes, requiring plenty extra costly enhancing application, yet can produce a product with extra pixels (ie 1080x1920) for clearer projection on the super exhibit screen. If the tip product is for living house action picture distribution on DVD then miniDV is the extra proper determination. As to 30 or 24 fps, maximum television contraptions can't run at 24 fps, so which you will possibly be able to desire to settle on, DVD for the hundreds, or 24 fps which will purely run in a pair of darkish theatrical flop homes.

Answer 4

First, forget any camera that has a rolling shutter (which is pretty much every DSLR). They will make the picture look like jello with any kind of movement.



What you need is the cheapest camera that has a global shutter. My old Sony DSC-V1 point and shoot had a global shutter, but the frame rate was 15FPS which isn't very smooth.

Answer 5

if at all you are looking in panasonic you may go to 102 b is the best & reliable..