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Please shed some light, looking to buy a camera for top notch HD video and stills. What to buy? Advice?

First of all, thank you so much for your willingness to share your expertise. Starting a production company that will be filming all types of events. Mostly weddings, documentaries, corporate seminar type stuff. Not shooting Avatar here. Looking for professional advice only. We need a solution to shooting video, capturing good audio, and stills in one piece of equipment. Looking at the Canon 7D currently. Price range needs to be kept under $2,000USD.

The Canon 7D is a great mid-range dSLR for capturing still images.

It’s video cabilities are pretty good, too – Since it captures to h.264 format video MOV files, I presume your video editing environment can deal with these files. Using a current Mac and Final Cut would be best. iMovie will work, too (but be careful with the mode selected – not all will work). Most Windows based editors will require the MOV video files to be transcoded to something the editor can deal with… Lots of transcordrs out there – be sure the one you select does not drop the video out of high definition otherwise you are sort of defeating the purpose of recording in high definition.

Please keep in mind that video is more than moving images – there is the audio portion and this is where most DSLRs fall when compared to camcorders. If you are planning to use an external audio capture device (Zoom H2 or H4 – there are lots of others) to get the audio (then import when you are editing the video, and sync), then this discussion is moot – but if you are depending on the dSLR to get acceptable audio for you, you really need to re-think this.

So… here’s the advice: I would strongly suggest that you use a camcorder for video and the dSLR for stills – and maybe occassional video… but combining the two is still not there.

While we’re here, how are you planning to archive the captured video if you don’t use digital tape? You migh want to investigate a RAID1 hard drive array… NetGear, Promise, Buffalo and others make small business Network Attached Storage systems that might meet your needs – EMC, HP and others make larger systems… They can be pretty expensive… At $3 per 60 minute miniDV tape (or the equivalent of up to 63 minutes of HDV format video which would take up 44 gig of computer hard drive space when uncompressed), it is still a cheap $/gig capture and storage media.

At your stated budget, the Sony HDR-FX7 prosumer (sibling to the pro-grade HVR-V1) is about it…

And if you watch the Avatar credits, the cameras used were from Panavision. I think they start at about $100,000… Lenses are more.

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