1) What is your budget? How much money can you spend right away, and do you think you can get more money to invest in the future?
At Christmas, I would say $500
2) What experience do you already have with cameras? Have you ever even used one before? Have you helped your friend out with his camera? Have you owned your own?
Good Experience, have filmed with friends for 2 years, takes courses at art schools. I own a gopro, does that count?
2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc)
Got a tripod thats it.
4) What are you planning to shoot and how do you want to use your camera? Are you going to use this with the sole purpose of shooting skiing? or do you think you might try other stuff as well (movies, documentaries, short films, etc)
Skiing, Tramps, Long-boarding, Skating
5) Do you want a camera that you can hand to your friends, that could or could not have film experience, and let them shoot you? or will you be doing all the filming?
Its something i would prefer to have with me the entire time. But because of my lack of parents willing to have me ski every weekend, i would let my other friend film with it only if he extremely responsible. I would be owner, filmers would treat accordingly.
6) When filming skiing, how do you tend to shoot? (follow cams, leave it on record on a tripod and hike, film from a tripod, etc)
Mostly Follow cams, tripod filming for rails, handling for jumps.
7) What computer do you currently have/use to edit (if not currently editing, what would you most likely use)? If you can provide specifics, such as hard drive space, RAM, processor size, that would be great.
Dont know the specs. Got a 2007 Mac Desktop. Decent Speed
7) What program do you currently edit on? How familiar are you with it (1- just learning; 10- I can make tutorials and know the keyboard layout)
Got Final Cut Express.... 3 on knowing shit.
I prefer new, wide angle or fisheye lenses, easy lens size, some panasonics just suck and dont have available lens attachments because of weird lens size.
help appreciated.
