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Similar quality and similar price Nikon D3000 series.
I am looking to buy a beginners professional camera. I ve been looking at the Nikon D3000 series. I d like to photograph my art and make videos. However, the Nikon D3200 only has a recording time of 20 minutes. I m hoping for at least an hour of recording time. The used Nikon D3000s with lense cost around $275-$350. Do you know of a similar quality camera with lense (preferably Nikon or Canon) in the same price range with a longer video recording time? Thank you.
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Hi there. The time limits are the product of possible overheating issues, file size limits of FAT32 format memory cards and also the fact that it pushed DSLR's into 'high quality video devices' which attract a higher import duty which would mean higher prices. It's a hard one to get round. As a solution, most enthusiast and pro videographers would usually agree that an unbroken 20 minutes of continuous filming is actually quite a rare event. The 'final cut' as you might say, may well be much longer but it will be a number of shots which have been edited. So the answer might be to look at acquiring and learning a digital video editing program. We immediately think of Adobe Premiere. Which is certainly broadcast-quality, like the output of a DSLR can be broadcast quality. Naturally, full production-quality video is beyond the reach of everyone except film studios. It may seem very attractive to have a DSLR which you could just leave 'rolling' for two hours or some such time. But the scene you capture will most certainly be boring and difficult to watch, it won't hold the viewers attention even if the 'live' spectacle did. Your eye-mind mechanism will have 'edited' this. Think of the workflow as high-quality capture of short 'scenes' and then assembling these scenes on an editor. That's what the pro's do. It would be impossible to direct half an hour of filming if it had to unfold in real time in front of a rolling single camera. You'll hardly ever see 20 minutes of footage that was an unbroken single 'take' on TV or in movies. We only see long unbroken filming on CCTV security cameras. Personally I would go for a Nikon, as any f-mount lens from about 1977 will go on a pro Nikon DSLR and some of the old AIS lenses are absolutey superb for video work. (All old AIS Nikkors are getting in a bit shorter supply lately cos the 'collectors' get after them. Spoil-sports, they're meant to be USED!!)
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