1) What is your budget? How much money can you spend right away, and do you think you can get more money to invest in the future?
$100-$450, i can probably get about $100 more in the near future
2) What experience do you already have with cameras? Have you ever even used one before? Have you helped your friend out with his camera? Have you owned your own?
used them some, but never for skiing, i own a flip but never used it for skiing
3) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc)
i have a tripod
4) What are you planning to shoot and how do you want to use your camera? Are you going to use this with the sole purpose of shooting skiing? or do you think you might try other stuff as well (movies, documentaries, short films, etc)
this camera will be used for SKIING edits only, nothing else at all
5) Do you want a camera that you can hand to your friends, that could or could not have film experience, and let them shoot you? or will you be doing all the filming?
something i could let my friends use would be good, but they all have some experience
6) When filming skiing, how do you tend to shoot? (follow cams, leave it on record on a tripod and hike, film from a tripod, etc)
follow cams, and leave it on a tripod
7) What computer do you currently have/use to edit (if not currently editing, what would you most likely use)? If you can provide specifics, such as hard drive space, RAM, processor size, that would be great.
I have a macbook pro, with 2.3GHz dual-core, Intel Core i5, 4GB 1333MHz, 320GB 5400-rpm,
8) What program do you currently edit on? How familiar are you with it (1- just learning; 10- I can make tutorials and know the keyboard layout)
imovie, im probably a 7, but i most likely would get something better once i get a camera
THANKS for all help
+K for all advice