Digi-Beta and close ups

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I am a first-time filmmaker researching DV for my upcoming short. This website is very helpful! I'm going to rent a camera, but haven't decided on whether to shoot miniDV, Beta SP, or DigiBeta. I have a few questions. Hope they aren't dumb. 1. I've heard digi-beta is great to shoot with. Any thoughts, comments, would be helpful. 2. My "star" is a Pager, so a DV camera with a macro focus will be important. Or can I just rent a set of diopters? Again, any feedback would be appreciated!

-- Toni Callas (teecal@earthlink.net), November 07, 1999

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Do yourself a favor, rent a Canon XL-1, and learn proper terminology.

-- Milt (dsd@sss.com), November 08, 1999.

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