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?
willing to spend alot ... family are willing to help me out2) 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?
my father was a photographer so i have experience with slr's and a few sony camcorders2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc)
i have a few tripods laying around but thats all4) 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)
Mainly skiing to be filmed, maybe a few other sports but mainly skiing5) 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?
it would be good if friends could use but mainly me6) 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)
follow cams sometimes but i have a helmey cam for that and tripod filming7) 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.
i have a brand new macbook pro and brand new macbook as well as a new sony vaio
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)
the only editing i have done is with imovie and i can use that 10/10