Choosing a Prosumer Camera: a Humorous Odyssey

Your most important piece of equipment for filming is a camcorder. Well, maybe it's a close second to your eye, but let's not get all 'film-studentish' yet. This article is strictly a bare-bones regurgitation of information that has been gleaned from the web and from pestering 'film types' with queries about bizarrely termed details like lux ratings and zebra stripes. (If you are a professional filmmaker, you just stopped reading in disgust/shock and have moved on.)

For those of you who stayed, lets give you a layman's breakdown of the current stock of camcorders on the market today, their viability in the face of overwhelming odds, and the stuff you need to go with 'em. I'll try to be short and sweet, but it's hard not to blather on and on about specs until someone smacks me across the head with a rolled up newspaper to shut up. Click here for full article.