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Beautiful! Well made nature videography is pure eye-candy :)

I would love to go, but it's in the midst of my exam weeks. Sounds fun though!

You can easily get a firewire adapter for your system for very little money (<$10). If it's a laptop you can get firewire PC cards or ExpressCards easily enough (example on ebay here). If you have a desktop you can get a PCI card with firewire support (example) Another solution is the firewire...

This is close to my heart. I deal every day with texts and images that are typically 3000-5000 years old. I am constantly amazed both by what is preserved and by what is lost, and I wonder all the time what in 5000 years will be left of our culture. We are not immortal, and languages are not...

A Sigma prime is going to much better than the kit zoom, and it should make a good base lens, though must admit I've never used it for video work, logic would suggest it should still be a solid all-rounder. However you will want a decent zoom as well, as you will find yourself very restricted...

I'd second the tripod, having worked on SLRs with poor ones. That said, if you are strapped for funding, it's amazing what adding some weight and creating a low centre of gravity can do. Just hang a brick from the bottom of the centre-pole, can make all the difference.

Whilst I am a million miles from being an expert, once thing I would say based on my very very limited experience is: 1) add a decent audio recorder to that list. DSLR audio is crude at best, its just not a design priority on that type of camera. Also, wired lapel mics are a liability. You...

Hey there, interweb :) I'm a total newbie to indie film, up in Liverpool, UK. I've done a lot of still film photography (Zenit 35mm SLRs and Leningrad light metering) and a bit of digital SLR work (old Canon D30, not new 30D!), but new to the moving image, which me and my partner are working on...