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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Overread" data-source="post: 1478774" data-attributes="member: 68571">I do agree that pro end gear is the best for this kind of work - especaily for getting works into broadcast - but as Neil and Bodger say its better to have cheaper gear to learn on for the now than it is to wait several years to afford the pro end gear and then start learning. I can cut my teeth (as it were ) on the cheaper gear and learn the key skills - then once in a stronger position I can look to some proper financing for a pro end camera - maybe a longterm payment or even getting employment where the gear is loaned out to the cameramen. Also I feel that a lot of hte important choices of features for these sorts of gear are very hard to impossible to make till you have experience of working with the gear - 300mm focal length means nothing to a new person starting photography -  give them soem time shooting with different camera gear and that 300mm can start to get a real world understanding of what it means - then you can make the right choices on te expensive gear</blockquote>