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?
1000 overall for body and lense
Right not looking at t2i but want to know picture quality etc.
looking at gh2 but want to know about picture quality.
Open to other dslr's
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?
Have had experience with friends d80
2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc)
Old 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)
Photography class and night photography shooting stars and short films
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?
no i should be doing most of the shooting
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)
with a flycam
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.
macbook pro 8 gb ram
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)
i movie have final cut torrented
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1) Do you think you might consider using a DSLR?
yes
4) Are you willing to take the time to learn about a DSLR, and how to shoot with manual lenses?
yes
5) Again, 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?
i will be doing the filming
