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Anyone good with camcorders? Talking more smaller handheld units...any general tips for shooting?

I want to try to take more videos, might buy one of those HD camcorders for fun and profit!
 
buy a really good tripod if you want to produce anything remote to professional quality

...or so say my friends who have experience
 
Yeah, I'm leaning more towards the travel adventure, life documentary, lifecasting thing. Keeping things compact. I need to get a steadier arm.
 
I have a flip, it broke on me.

returned it, it broke again. then they stopped responding to me. I liked it when it worked.
 
[video=youtube;XY1pm2as9xc] using some Canon HD video from work. I like this, might get my own. (click through and watch in HD).
 
I would seriously harass THE HCP, he works in video editing.
 
My digital camera take pretty decent HD video. But I want something I can market as a service (shoot video then post for people on youtube), video ads, etc.
 
Hv20 or 30 is probably something you want it's pretty small and it's HD and it shoots onto sd cards. I myself have a hpx170 and a sony vx2000 but I shoot skateboarding
 
Yeah, I have an HF20 for work. I like it, might get one similar for myself.

I have a $200 mall gift card but they only have a sony store there...don't dig Sony for some reason.
 
ahhh yeah, its because of their proprietary crap. The Canon has a USB where I can plug into the computer.
 
Any tips from shooting skateboarding? Do you mix it with music and crap? I'm thinking of trying to do some freelance shooting of surgery procedures....I've done it in the past, it gets pretty fucking tiring but If I do it freelance, I can probably charge a lot. Just have to get good at it.
 
yeah i mix it with music and stuff.

[video=youtube;zvL2cVO05X4]

for tips id just say have a tripod especially if your shooting a surgery.... try not to be too wide but dont be too tight that you lose sight of what your trying to see especially if its moving. how do you get jobs filming surgeries? thats some shit id do just to get money im broke right now and i have to buy a 2500 lens for my HD camera haha
 
Buzz Killington said:
Yeah, I'm leaning more towards the travel adventure, life documentary, lifecasting thing. Keeping things compact. I need to get a steadier arm.
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Get a monopod instead of a tripod. A monopod has one leg, it's a collapsible stick that you can mount your camera on. Helps to steady your shots for outdoors stuff you can use it as a hiking stick. In crowds you can hold it up high and shoot down on the crowd (or over fences, threw second story bedroom windows in your neighbors house, etc.) If you want to shoot something like skateboarding you can use it to get shots by using it to place the camera a few inches off of the ground. (Yes, the image would be recorded upside down but you can fix that in editing)

Buy a good quality one. It's a collapsible metal stick that folds up small enough to fit in your pocket or camera bag. You can use it to play Light Saber or it comes in handy when you finish your hike and you find someone is breaking into your car.
 
cdub503 said:
yeah i mix it with music and stuff.



for tips id just say have a tripod especially if your shooting a surgery.... try not to be too wide but dont be too tight that you lose sight of what your trying to see especially if its moving. how do you get jobs filming surgeries? thats some shit id do just to get money im broke right now and i have to buy a 2500 lens for my HD camera haha
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its about who ya know. :devilwink:

Your footage is pretty nice though..... I just want to practice with it. we'll see whassup.

I've used a monopod before...works ok but you really need to move around since there are lots of scrub techs, etc and you can't contaminate any surfaces, touch anything, etc.
 
Buzz Killington said:
I've used a monopod before...works ok but you really need to move around since there are lots of scrub techs, etc and you can't contaminate any surfaces, touch anything, etc.
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It could help you if you are standing behind the doctor and want to film from his perspective. Raise camera and monopod up behind his head and tilt down to see the patient. Also it is less invasive to hold a camera on a stick over the operating table than it is to hold it there with your arm.

Anyway, it was just a suggestion.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
It could help you if you are standing behind the doctor and want to film from his perspective. Raise camera and monopod up behind his head and tilt down to see the patient. Also it is less invasive to hold a camera on a stick over the operating table than it is to hold it there with your arm.

Anyway, it was just a suggestion.
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Yeah. I'll see how they are. for general shooting it would be good though. I'll play around with one again if I buy this thing. The thing with shooting surgeries is the tiring factor of holding it up for minutes in a weird position while they suture or something.
 
Anyone know if any of the new flip cams or any other brands do time lapse shots? Or is that typically a camera thing?
 
Buzz Killington said:
Anyone good with camcorders? Talking more smaller handheld units...any general tips for shooting?

I want to try to take more videos, might buy one of those HD camcorders for fun and profit!
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Just don't bring this into the rose garden. Your camcorder will be caught!
 
New Sony DSC-TX7 10.2MP Camera that came out the other day. Supposed to be an amazing. shoots video in 1080p. Has a feature that shoots 10, 10.2mp quality pictures, in one second. $399. Thinking about dropping some $ on this.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

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