When shooting outdoors in the daytime lights are usually not required, a bounce card (think cardboard covered with aluminum foil) might be useful in some cases to bounce some more light onto a specific spot but again usually not required. Indoors I've had decent luck with a halogen work light, throws a ton of light for little money. Some kits come with stands and hooks and whatnot. I've also had decent luck with just a compact fluorescent in a clamp on worklight. Today's cameras can white balance on the fly so you don't end up looking green like you would have in the old days.
But yeah, the two biggest complaints I have about Youtube stuff is audio and lighting, especially audio... -Curt Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:28:52 -0600 From: Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Video Camera Message-ID: <20140126012852.2da20...@jasper.condray.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII It almost hard to find a camera with poor video. And - in my opinion - the best way to make a video look good is improve the audio. With that in mind, I would insist on a camera with a mic jack. Unless you plan to narrate the entire thing during post production (editing). A tripod is pretty important too. If you plan to pan/tilt the camera while the "tape" is running, plan to get a video tripod. If it won't move, any tripod that will hold the camera still should be fine. And at least a couple lights - video lights could be nice, but even just a couple matching lamps in droplights or those spun aluminum reflector cone things. Our eyes are much more forgiving of poor light than the camera. I think the situation has improved, but a few years ago there was often trouble with incompatible codecs between the solidstate record cameras and the edit software. May still be worth checking. I'm quite please with the service and feature set of the various Canon still and video cameras I have owned and used. That's where I would start. *smiles* -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
