Hitachi VM-E52A for ski edits?

[BeefConCarne]

I’m looking for a camera to use on an urban edit this season, and I found a Hitachi VM-E52A for 250$ Cad on marketplace. I can’t seem to find any reviews online so I was wondering if anyone here has worked with this camera or has info about it. Any help would be appreciated

 

[BallClapper]

On 8mm???

 

[BeefConCarne]

Yeah, would that push it completely out of the realm of reasonable?

 

[ColoradoDogfart]

Just get a dvx 100b, tried and true about the same price too on eBay

 

[BeefConCarne]

Yeah I’ll take I look. Would a good Sony handycam also work instead?

 

[skiP.E.I.]

Do the 8 mm, it will be expensive and/or annoying to get the film transferred to digital footage but I can't think of anyone who's made an urban video entirely on 8 mm. I'd love to see it. But yes any device that takes video will work fine.

 

[BeefConCarne]

I don’t know now I’m kind of leaning towards getting a newer camcorder and a hilarious old super 8 that works from value village for 16$ for b roll

 

[LukasSchroeder]

You could get a better hi8 camera for less than that, however knowing you have a working hi8 with batteries is nice.

careful with used super 8, sometimes the motor is dusted and wont operate at the right framerate. And some use batteries for their light meter that are too high voltage (in 2023) and wont accurately read exposure - just keep that in mind. at ~$80/2.5 mins you want it to be solid

 

[Christian_Bale]

Just get a dvx 100b, tried and true about the same price too on eBay

factoring in price and availability, I think this is the best camera if you're going the SD route

 

[BeefConCarne]

Yeah that’s exactly what wound up doing