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We’ve got your back for video camera reviews and microphone reviews, plus lots of other stuff you need to make a great indie film or documentary like film lighting kit reviews. Choosing which camera to use for making an indie film or documentary film is challenging, particularly if you’re a beginning filmmaker. You want to make sure you’re not wasting your money and you’re also not getting the cheapest camera that will break either. We’ve got articles to help you choose the best video camera for making a film as well as information about the best LED lighting kits on a budget and even information about cheap teleprompters.

Although choosing film gear can be hard, the good news is that there has never been a better time to be an independent or documentary filmmaker. There is more affordable video gear than ever before and plenty of new innovations that make filmmaking easier and less error-prone.

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List: Best DSLRs for Documentary Filmmaking

2014-07-03
In: Filmmaking Gear Reviews, Video Camera Reviews, Video Production

DSLRs have many potential advantages for documentary filmmaking. They’re very light: they can be carried around all day and the media cards they record on are cheap and small. They also can produce quite pleasing video and you can even blend into a crowd like a tourist wearing one aroundRead More →

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We're here to help you find the best documentary camera for your documentary film. We've looked at all the available documentary video cameras on the market today from DSLRs to traditional video cameras and made our recommendations.

Many of our filmmaking gear reviews and how-to articles on video cameras and microphones are also suited toward making fictional indie films as well, so this is not purely a documentary filmmaking website.

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