Lars Aronsson wrote:
> I agree. This was my first reaction to the Wikimania
> presentations. But when you have an external microphone, perhaps
> more than one, you also get the problem that you might have
> connected the wrong one, or forgot to switch it on. How do you
> make sure the mike is on, before 3 minutes of the presentation
> have already been lost? Soundcheck, testing, testing.
>
>
Yep, sooner or later you make a habit of it.
> This is easy to say, but doesn't play well with the massive
> collaboration of Wikipedia. We want hundreds of volunteers to
> take photos of flowers and buildings, and they can do this with
> very cheap digital cameras. For birds, folk dances and vehicles
> we should encourage video. But if it requires an investment of
> $3000, it will not become a mass movement. This is the equation
> we have to solve.
>
>
>
If the microphone jack is requirement #1, you could get tolerable
video with something like
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-camcorders/canon-fs200-silver/4505-6500_7-33483235.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
which is more like $300. A tripod and good mike puts the bill up to
about $500-600. You'll do a bit better with something like
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=177&modelid=17382
which is around $500-$800 depending on where you shop. However,
you're going to be making serious compromises until you get around $1500
or so
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-camcorders/panasonic-ag-dvx100b-mini/4505-6500_7-31568573.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
----
Lectures aren't particularly demanding (usually they are in well lit
rooms) but I've done a lot of music shoots, and I really appreciate my
friend's Panasonic for that.
Although it's out of the range of most people's budgets, there's a
lot of exciting stuff coming out in the professional range: if I
wasn't focusing my efforts on getting lenses for my still camera, I'd
be pining away for something in Panasonic's P2 line, which range from
about $5k-$50k. The $5k cameras are pretty awesome, but in the $30k
range you've got cameras that are abut as good as the camera that Lucas
shot "Star Wars Episode One" on (that cost about 10 times as much)
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