BostonRed

Perhaps you might want to start testing with Canon and hacking it with the magic lantern. It's a great intro to videography and using color as an image. The Magic Lantern hack allows you to shoot raw video (but it only works well from what I've seen with the Mk III, 1D, and MKII). The shots won't be true 1080 if that's something necessary but will give you a great image to work with (prefer this more than the Black Magic to be honest). The issue is with stability of the hack (which is usually okay) and that audio must be captured and synced externally. Anyway - my perfect video camera is the Red Epic Dragon. Price is definitely out of range, but the sensors and image algorithms in that thing is phenomenal.