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Mark Cinense
August 29th, 2008, 11:18 AM
Well,

I was wondering if this camera is good enough to do like weddings and maybe snowboarding and skating clips. For action stuff i would be using several 8Gb or 16Gb SDHC cards. I would probably get a hot shoe light some sticks and looking into some other lenses. Sorry if I am asking dumb questions as I have only been doing videography since January of 2008.

I mean are these compact HD camcorders good for doing this type of work and publish it for sale. I was even thinking about supplementing the income by selling stock footage too. Is this camcorder worthy of the work?

thanks,

Mark

Barry Smith
August 29th, 2008, 05:18 PM
Well,

I mean are these compact HD camcorders good for doing this type of work and publish it for sale. I was even thinking about supplementing the income by selling stock footage too. Is this camcorder worthy of the work?

thanks,

Mark

I would be looking at something without a hard drive for action footage or extreme climates. I think that Canon and Panasonic offer excellent options for memory-only recording in HD. If you are doing a lot of outdoors then you dont want the HDD to be affected.

Mark Cinense
August 29th, 2008, 05:28 PM
tha's true about HDD being affected, but for those I would be using solid state memory for this.

So, I want to know what you all think about this for doing the other stuff like selling stock footage. Is this unit good enough for that?

Steve Mullen
August 30th, 2008, 06:51 PM
tha's true about HDD being affected, but for those I would be using solid state memory for this.

So, I want to know what you all think about this for doing the other stuff like selling stock footage. Is this unit good enough for that?

I've a good friend who owns a VERY large stock house. He's really only interested in Sony EX1 video. Not to say you can't sell it, but don't assume you can. Contact the house first.