Sunday, October 25, 2009

Sometimes buying is cheaper than renting

For the price of one or two days rental fees, you can just buy what you need and return it for the same price as the restocking fee. I'm having trouble deciding what kind of video camera to buy. Don't know if I want total professional quality($3000+) or if I want a high end pro-sumer model(around $1000), and then I'm tempted to go totally budget by buying the cheapest thing possible(around $100). The latter sounds interesting, but I'm leaning more towards the first and second choice. I just bought a Canon HF S10, cost $1200 from best buy. They charge a 15% restocking fee, and I have two weeks to return it. So I'm looking at $180 for two weeks, versus about $900 in rental fees.
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  1. Carina DowningOctober 25, 2009 at 9:45 PM

    i totally recommend buying canon hv30! i have it and love it. no compatibility issues as the sd and harddisk hd cams have. and save $500 bucks bc people don't want tape cameras anymore. you can buy it refurbished for $500 from samy's. anyway... talk to me and amanda about it we both bought cameras this summer and did a bit of research.

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  2. Amanda N.October 25, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    I just got an HSF100. Tapes are dead! :)

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  3. Kyle RiedelOctober 28, 2009 at 8:06 AM

    Interesting alternate option.

    Panasonic GH1 dslr with hd video. $1500 including kit lens
    Amazing low light performance compared to video cameras
    wide angle plus interchangeable lenses.
    doubles as a 14mp dslr.
    Audio is comparable to video cams in price range.

    Thank you lord jesus for killing all the evil tapes! I now look forward to losing all my original video footage when my computer crashes or I O.D. on caffeine and "clean" my video files out. Cause I don't always back everything up immediately. Oh, but wait I do, yay for me...sad for all your other lambs.

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