Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
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I need a high quality camera under $500 that works with Mac, perhaps a dslr. I know most of you use a PC but I know a few of you are Mac users.
Well, theres no way you can get a high quality slr for under 500 unless its used and/or without a lens. I use a mac and use A canon powershot sx110 is. I have had some major problems with it. I would go for a firewire camcorder, not sure what model or brand, sorry. Well, the last option is to use a webcam like the qcp9000 with virtual machine software like vmware fusion to run windows capture software side by side in os x. Sorry I couldn't help.
i use vmware, but it doesn't work, idk why and id rather use that then swith partitions over and over, any help? It wont start anymore
Well, theres no way you can get a high quality slr for under 500 unless its used and/or without a lens.
Actually the Canon Rebel XS is a really good camera for stop-motion and it's only about $500-600, granted it's not UNDER 500 but it's around, so it's fairly cheap for a DSLR. And there isn't really such a thing as a 'low quality' DSLR, there DSLRs there built to be the best quality. I actually shot on a Canon 7D not that long ago for both a still image project (I took a scene from a movie and used the audio and still images to play out the scene) and a stop-motion animation class I took. But using the 7D was overkill for stop-motion. You can easily get away with something cheap like a Rebel XS or a T1i/T2i.
I don't actually know how advanced you are with stop-motion, but a DSLR might be a bit too much. You can still get really good picture quality from a good Canon point and shoot camera.
DSLR's have a warranty on how many times the mirror can go up you may break it after 100,000 photos, so I would go for Micro 4/3 camera.
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