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Will I get laughed at if i used a point and shoot digital camera to film my documentary?
I'd love to use a pro-sumer camera like the caon xh-a1 but i don't have the money. I thought about a DSLR but even that would be too much. My only option right now is the PowerShot SX20 IS which can film in 1280 by 720 HD. not the greatest obviously, but i'm scraping on this, my first documentary. will people laugh at me while i'm shooting? i'll have lighting equipment, separate audio recording, so i'll have alot of equipment, but it will all be cheap crap.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's been done plenty of times by low/no-budget filmmakers, and unless they're in the film industry, they won't think too much about it. If they do, you simply just have to tell them that it's a low-budget production. I've gotten surprizingly good results with a consumer miniDV camera that wasn't half as good as the one you're talking about.
If you have After Effects, you can get it to look pretty close to film...I've done it before.