• rabber@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    Are you asking what camera to buy or how to use your old camera?

    Fuji xh1/xh2 is the best bang for buck mirrorless video camera right now I think

    • dan00@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      A new camera yes, the old canon is not fit for this, but maybe i could reuse the lens? Idk, my understanding of cameras and lens are not great tbh. I’ll check fuji thx.

      • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        the lens is likely incompatible with newer hardware.

        I would recommend looking used. you can get a few generations old micro 4/3rds camera for very cheap. let me look through options tonight when i get home and I’ll probably be able to find you something for under $200 that will shoot modern looking decent quality video.

        a mic to go with it would be very important. there’s so many ways to go about that.

        -you can get a cheap on cameras shotgun that will sound decent, but pick up a good amount of room noise. this will be the easiest to use option.

        -you could get a lavaliere of some kind, but that takes a second to set up and will require additional tools unless you want to tether yourself to the actual camera. there’s also options that plug in to a phone, but that would require a phone with a headphone jack…

        -you could get a usb stick mic to record voiceover after the fact. this would give the highest fidelity Audio bang for the buck, but is the most cumbersome to use.

        additionally, a light will go very far for making things look nicer. most homes are not set to to have good video lighting at all. you can totally get away with a cheap lamp that you bounce off the wall or something. as long as you don’t have a lightbulb directly shining on you creating hard shadows.

      • rabber@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        I wouldn’t put any more money into Canon and just sell that stuff. I sold all my Canon gear a few years ago and no regrets