So basically you're saying, in light of saving roughly $2000 I don't give a shit because I don't want to spend the time to work it out?
I'm under the impression good lenses cost atleast $500+ sometimes up to $1000+, and I'd want to be getting the best quality out of the camera, and you need to have good lenses for that, right?
So the way I see it, I'm going to want to have two lenses, a zoom and a more "static" lense. Let's just say the lenses cost $800 x 2 = $1600...
So, from there, you still need to get the camera body, that's another $1200+ atleast.
Then you have the issue of audio. I've heard that the audio is fairly flimsy, and that it's worth investing in a RODE Vid Mic, that's atleast another $300.
Next is memory cards, let's jsut say $50 for an 8GB card, if you're lucky. For what I'm doing I'd need 2. That's another $100 to pile on.
Then there's extra batteries, don't have a clue how much they are, but I'd say it would be a couple of hundred. We'll jsut say $200...
All up that's just over $3400, give or take a few hundred depending on pricing.
For that money, I could be buying a nice video specific camera, something like a HDR-FX7, if not with money to spare. Obviously some of my calculations may be a bit off, I just did that all of the top of my head. But for what I'm doing, having a video specific camera might be the best way to go about investing my money.
If you have any adjustments to my calculations, please feel free to correct me, I really guessed the majority of that.