Wednesday, November 20, 2013

How To Choose A Video Camera

By Patrick Williams


Picking a video camera is an extremely enjoyable experience, you just want to buy one that is perfect. That way you are able to start filming straight away and get to play around with all the hi-tech features. In spite of this, it is very important slow down, and take some time exploring all the features and what is most suitable for you and your skills, simply because owning a camera you don't understand would simply be a nightmare. Choosing your first video camera is quite difficult and daunting as you have got to attempt to consider the future as well. There may well be features that you mature into as you cultivate your skills, and also the style of film-making you are going to be using it for. There is a great deal to think about and a wide selection in the video camera marketplace. It is therefore crucial that you explore your choices carefully.

I felt that it was necessary that I explored tips on how to make this process simpler, so when I actually go shopping for a video camera I understand precisely what fundamental features to be aware of. I stumbled across this video blog, How To Choose A Video Camera and it was uploaded by a video production company in Norfolk. It addresses five important elements that really have to be considered when going to buy a video camera.

I will briefly outline what the video taught me, most video cameras will be able to produce high definition footage. And the terms that you will need to look out for when buying your camera are HD 720 and HD 1080, these are the measurement of pixels that make up the vertical height of the video. Therefore, the more pixels a camera has, the more information there is and therefore the footage will be of higher definition.

The manual control of the camera was all mentioned, it tends to be that the more you spend on a camera the manual control can be achieved and usually the best results are achieved with manual control. This basically means that you are able to control the exposure or the brightness of the image, the focus and the depth of field.

Another factor to consider is the audio capability, whether or not the video camera will have a decent microphone built in is very important as it would effect a lot of your work. If it does not then you will need to seriously think about spending more money and buying a separate mic to pick up the sound. In which case you need to make sure that the camera has a microphone jack to plug in an external one.

Lastly, the recording format, most cameras now a days are tapeless and go straight onto a memory card. Unless you are specifically looking for a tape or film one instead. Memory cards are very beneficial for a numbers of reasons, there is less risk of something going wrong and losing all of your footage, which would be a complete disaster. There is also less noise when recording and finally, they are reusable, meaning it would probably work out cheaper in the long run.




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