Help me spec for a friend

Russinating

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I've been asked for some kit advice by a friend but I'm pretty useless when it comes to consumer/prosumer stuff; the cheapest bit of kit I've touched in the last few years is more than their whole budget.

He's got £2-2,500 to spend to be able to film basic internal interviews and training scenarios (it's NHS budget for a CPD training programme he runs internally).

Needs to include everything from camera body to audio, lights, spare batteries and cards etc etc. I think it's really tight but equally I have no idea, really. I normally just tell people like this to use their phone but clearly there's some budget for something.

Nobody will be trained but he's got some budget for me to teach him/others how to use whatever they get, but really it needs to be as point-and-shoot/auto as possible.

Any advice, particularly on body?
 
Russinating said:
I've been asked for some kit advice by a friend but I'm pretty useless when it comes to consumer/prosumer stuff; the cheapest bit of kit I've touched in the last few years is more than their whole budget.

He's got £2-2,500 to spend to be able to film basic internal interviews and training scenarios (it's NHS budget for a CPD training programme he runs internally).

Needs to include everything from camera body to audio, lights, spare batteries and cards etc etc. I think it's really tight but equally I have no idea, really. I normally just tell people like this to use their phone but clearly there's some budget for something.

Nobody will be trained but he's got some budget for me to teach him/others how to use whatever they get, but really it needs to be as point-and-shoot/auto as possible.

Any advice, particularly on body?
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On a tight budget with so many other items on the list maybe something like the Sony A6000 is worth a look. It's quite capable of HD quality video.
 
I'd be looking at a Panasonic GH5 due to it being for video recording. Hell, you could even suggest the Panasonic G9 with the (free) latest firmware it is up there with the GH5 minus some very pro features.

With £2k you could get the body with lens, lights, microphone, headphone for monitoring, tripod etc... With £2.5k you'd get the lot with a couple of lenses.

Alternatively, the Fujifilm XT30 or Sony A 6400.

All of these cameras offer up to 4K recording so can crop if final output is for 1080. The Panasonic's both do 4K 60FPS.

A lot of the DPreview videos up until recently were shot with a Panasonic GH5, they've now moved to a Panasonic S1H.
 
As this is apparently* purely for video shouldn't we be looking at a dedicated video camera rather than an ILC? Something like a Sony FDR-AX100E with a 1" sensor should do an excellent job and leaves enough of the budget for the ancillaries.

*This is for the NHS so I realise mission creep is likely.
 
EGuitarStar said:
I'd be looking at a Panasonic GH5 due to it being for video recording. Hell, you could even suggest the Panasonic G9 with the (free) latest firmware it is up there with the GH5 minus some very pro features.

With £2k you could get the body with lens, lights, microphone, headphone for monitoring, tripod etc... With £2.5k you'd get the lot with a couple of lenses.

Alternatively, the Fujifilm XT30 or Sony A 6400.

All of these cameras offer up to 4K recording so can crop if final output is for 1080. The Panasonic's both do 4K 60FPS.

A lot of the DPreview videos up until recently were shot with a Panasonic GH5, they've now moved to a Panasonic S1H.
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That's a geat shout, can't believe how cheap the GH5 is, I know they're highly rated. CVP are doing £92 off and a free Ronin-SC at the moment which is pretty impressive.

Any improvements/changes/price reductions on the below? Don't think his budget will stretch to anything but a ring light. Cards from Amazon... I rate CVP highly but I don't know why they do the whole overpriced media thing.

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