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? I'm not buying it right now but I'm looking into it, absolute highest budget 1000$ much likely far less.
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? sometimes play about with my brothers dslr.
2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc) Got a fairly cheap tripod but it does for what I need it for, stable and a smooth handle. Also have access to a decent tripod.
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) Only skiing really, want to shoot videos of skiing and also get some good photos.
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? Yeah It'd be good if my friends could use it, I could set it up for them though.
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) Follow cams if with friends/ sometimes just tripod if we're having to hike up.
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.
hard drive space ~200gb I can free up, 8gb ram. 2.13ghz dual core processor.
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) After effects, I can figure out the majority of things even if I do end up doing it a slow way sometimes, I'd say 6/7.
