1st feature film, low budget HD, mostly exteriors: which camera set up?

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Angst

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We want to shoot on HD, outside (think adventure in the mountains), onto a hard drive, with a powerful G5 back at HQ for dailies/rough edit etc, with the image as 'beautiful' as possible, lots of wide angle lenses, DOF. Maneuverabilty and flexibilty essential, really experimenting with angles and loads of takes.

I'd love to hear any opinion on which cameras might be best suited to the task.

Many thanks

james
 
Cinealta ;)

For those of you who don't have 100k to spend on the camera, and budget concious go for the Sony FX1. However if you have about 20K to spend, build an uncompressed capture rig and buy the Cannon XL-H1

If you don't have that much money, wait in line for the HVX-200
 
Is this the film where you had a $500k budget? You shouldn't even be entertaining shooting it on anything less than a CineAlta or VariCam at that budget level. Don't buy the camera, rent it.
 
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