From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals

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Simple cameras

Simple cameras

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Simple cameras

- [Teacher] Let's take a look at a category I'll call simple cameras. If your production requires a fast turnaround and limited post-production manipulation, then you should choose a camera whose final footage is designed to create a picture that can be immediately displayed on a video monitor. These are typically digital single-lens reflex cameras, D-SLRs, or smaller, less expensive digital motion picture cameras. This category of camera is changing rapidly, so your choices get bigger every day. For instance, there's a growing group of excellent mirrorless digital cameras that do away with the optical view finder found on older D-SLRs. You can make some adjustments to the pictures of these direct-to-screen cameras, but the range of control you have over the look of these cameras is limited once the picture's been shot. These are the types of images typically used in broadcast television. The pictures they make are meant to be broadcast live, right on the camera, and over the…

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