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I meant to email you last week but I've been crazy busy since I got back from Vegas. Lighting is more important than the actual camera. I would recommend daylight balanced fluorescent or newer LED lights rather than old school tungsten lights which throw a lot of heat in addition to illumination. I say daylight with an approxamite color temperature of 5500K as opposed to tungsten lights more in the range of 3500K because you can then mix in windows and sky lights and I find the video to look much more pleasing than the more orangish looking tungsten lights. I use professional Kino- Flo lights (two 4-foot, 4-banks) but you can use the smaller versions called Diva Lights. Make sure you buy the daylight bulbs! There are also newer LED light panels made by various manufacturers that are small and easy to set up.
For a videocamera, I perefer all digital nowadays rather than mini-DV tape. Of course you need a redundant hard drive backup system like G-Force RAID arrays to store the data in case one hard drive crashes. There are several viable cameras from different manufacturers. I use a broadcast quality Sony videocamera with three big 1/2" chips, but if you are looking for an all digital videocamera that is small and relatively inexpensive with a codec that is easy to edit in most editing apps like Adobe Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas you may want to get a camera that uses AVCHD. I believe that both Sony & Canon have a camera like that.
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