Posted on 04/15/2018 7:31:58 AM PDT by american_ranger
Just donated $50 to Free Republic to compensate for this vanity.
I need advice on a new camcorder. My son is getting married in mid-May. I would like to live feed the video for two set of grandparents but not mandatory. Want to keep price under $300. Please help me.
My method is to make the pictures as jumpy as possible and cut off everyone’s heads. It took me a long time but I finally figured out how to keep people from asking me video things.
My advice is to have whomever is doing the wedding photography arrange for the video as well as the live streaming and you enjoy the wedding of your son without looking through a digital screen.
It likely will run around $300 for that and the priceless enjoyment of the event unobstructed is well worth the money.
$300??? Are you kidding. Cost me $5,000 for my daughters wedding. Great video, but not worth 5K.
It’ll be closer to 500 but we’ll worth it...
And back up the video to a media that will last decades and hopefully centuries. Lots of problems with our digitized world. Not so with old film pictures and movies.
LOL, hilarious!
I didn’t know they still made Camcorders.
Wow. Glad it was at least a great video.
A company will know the market price, a student with an iPhone can Facebook live it... but the Facebook live can only broadcast vertically not horizontally... such a waste... a student with a canon camera can arrange a third party streamer... like yahoo, for a lot less than 2300
This company offers 2 hours of live streaming for 2,500.00
Perhaps another company might do just the actual ceremony that is within your budget constraints
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My Best Buddy does wedding video for a side job.
Price starts at $1,300 and goes up from there depending on how many hours you want him for. But he is a professional videographer and will capture every thing and put together in a way that tells the story and looks polished and professional.
An amateur may do a good job, you pays your money and you takes your chances.
$300?
That rules out iPhone, probably one of the most used camcorders at weddings!
Yeah the cost would be much less than 2,500.00 (I mistakenly put in 2,300.00) but the cost will still be more than his 300.00 budget constraint, as that would leave only 50.00 for the videographer. Even a starving student probably wouldn't do it for that. 8>)
Your smartphone can live stream thru Facebook for free.
Why not ask a photography student at your local high school or college to do it? Ask to see some of the work they have already done....settle on a price.....and go from there. That way you don’t have to be behind the camera and can actually enjoy the wedding.
Look into “mirrorless” cameras under $500.
Don’t get a camcorder. Go on craigslist and get a used digital camera like a Canon SX130 for $50 that takes excellent HD videos.
For that matter, your cellphone might take perfectly adequate HD videos. That would cost you nothing.
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