My name is Anthony Maddaloni, and I'm going to be talking about buying a video camera today. Now, whenever you're buying a camera, it's sort of a...it's sort of a daunting, you know, daunting enterprise to get into because you don't want to spend a lot of money on something that might not work out for you. So one very important way to look at it is what do you want to do with your video camera? Are you going to use it just to basically videotape your family, go on vacations, memories? Stuff like that. And you want to ask: "Okay. I...that's what I want to use it for." And you want to look at the different types of grades of video camera where they have, you know, professional ones, which are going to be pretty expensive and probably way too advanced for that type of videography. But let's say you really do want to do semi-professional or professional videography. That's when you really have to look at what video cameras are made for, and that's...it's time-consuming. You can't just walk into a store and say, "Hey, I'd like to buy a video camera." You really have to do a little bit of research and compare. And I'm the type of person that I don't really have that much time to begin with, but if I really want to do something the right way, I know that that is something that I have to do. There are pretty much three major manufacturers of video cameras. I'm not going to say which ones, but I think everybody kind of knows which are the top three. And then, from there, you can go and compare what the chip is like with this one, what the battery life, how heavy it is. That's one thing that a lot of people don't think about. If you're on a vacation, you don't want to be walking around with a eight-pound camera. You want something light. But if you're doing professional work where your camera's on a tripod most of the time, that's not really going to matter so much to you. One resource that I like to use a lot is obviously the Internet, and there are some sites that I can go on to and they're mainly just consumer-posted bulletin boards where it's not someone writing a review of a camera. It's, hopefully, a real person saying why they did or didn't like that camera. And that's one way that I use when I'm buying a video camera. And those are some tips on how to buy a video camera.
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