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No, you can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5 – Roman Zipp (romanzipp.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

the lens is likely incompatible with newer hardware.

I would recommend looking used. you can get a few generations old micro 4/3rds camera for very cheap. let me look through options tonight when i get home and I'll probably be able to find you something for under $200 that will shoot modern looking decent quality video.

a mic to go with it would be very important. there's so many ways to go about that.

-you can get a cheap on cameras shotgun that will sound decent, but pick up a good amount of room noise. this will be the easiest to use option.

-you could get a lavaliere of some kind, but that takes a second to set up and will require additional tools unless you want to tether yourself to the actual camera. there's also options that plug in to a phone, but that would require a phone with a headphone jack...

-you could get a usb stick mic to record voiceover after the fact. this would give the highest fidelity Audio bang for the buck, but is the most cumbersome to use.

additionally, a light will go very far for making things look nicer. most homes are not set to to have good video lighting at all. you can totally get away with a cheap lamp that you bounce off the wall or something. as long as you don't have a lightbulb directly shining on you creating hard shadows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Thanks, i will def search in the used market, I don’t trust new products anymore. 😂 For mics i wanted to go with those clip mics, easy and flexible to record.