Video accessories and what they do
You can film video with just a camera, but there are a whole bunch of accessories to make filmmaking easier, better, more sophisticated.
This site is principally for photographers rather than filmmakers and I’m no video expert. However, I do know a bit about it and because many photographers are also becoming hybrid shooters – or using hybrid cameras – I’m happy to sketch out some of the video basics to provide a bit of context for the technology and the techniques to help anyone just getting started.

You can film video with just a camera, but there are a whole bunch of accessories to make filmmaking easier, better, more sophisticated.

External microphones are pretty much essential for good quality video recording, but they come in many different types.

Video jargon can quickly get complicated, and can seem even worse to stills photographers who’ve learned a whole lexicon of photography concepts and terms and now have to do the same with the very different world of video. But the video basics are comparatively simple and easily learned, and the rest can follow from that….