Make a specific list of what you'd buy if you had $6K and wanted to make a series of docudrama shorts and perhaps long-form stories for the screen. You'd be shooting indoors and out with a cast of no more than four speaking at any time, standing, seated, and playing golf in windy conditions and harsh light, and your crew would be you and sometimes your wife. You have your Mac-based 2011 iMac, you're using CS5 as your NLE suite, you have Nikon's best glass for your D2X (which does not have HD video). You know how to do the basics alone, but you are tired of checking out the borrowed Sony HVRHD1000U and equipment from your community station (that is never available when you need it), and is too weak for what you want to do anyway (meaning the 1/3" sensors and codec just don't cut it). You are about to put together your own set-up, knowing what's here now or around the corner (meaning it is en route to B&H, not a RED Scarlet pipe-dream), how would you take the $6K and break it down into lights, camera, adapters, tripod, boom, mics, recorder, media, etc.?
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