Snowfun

It is allowed.
Fun competition. The rule book should not be 100 pages long.

£56 plus the cost of epoxy & orange plastic so don’t get too confident as it’ll be closer to the 200 max...

I'm open to suggestions... Maybe 3 weeks max... If we make it 6 weeks, most people will be bored by then... We can't all move at the rate of the slowest entrants. Why do people need more than 2 weeks? Source camera locally, 1-2 days, delivered, shoot some nice material (1-2 days), you're not shooting a feature film with actors and lots of people involved. Let's keep it simple, and make it a time challenge as well.

Thought I’d found an interesting lens...
But just getting over excited.
 

Camera purchased. Seems slightly odd me buying a camera to send to someone else without even the politeness of asking what they’d like...

i think you guys must be buying the cameras out from under me, i keep getting sniped.... lots of action in the $200 area. andrews probably single handedly buoyed the economies of several nations ?

Camera purchased. Seems slightly odd me buying a camera to send to someone else without even the politeness of asking what they’d like...

Camera purchased. Seems slightly odd me buying a camera to send to someone else without even the politeness of asking what they’d like...

Camera purchased. Seems slightly odd me buying a camera to send to someone else without even the politeness of asking what they’d like...

Sony RX100 v for stills and video

A couple of days ago, I was leaving a meeting at a local university, to which I am making a corporate documentary and I found a civic demonstration. Everything was quiet, I took out my Gopro, to make a small audiovisual record, out of nowhere a police bus appeared, releasing water and dissuasive gases, the powerful jet hit me directly to the body, the camera fell to the wet floor. Fortunately nothing happened to him. For this and several reasons I have learned that by size, price and portability, the best camera to always have in the backpack, is an action camera. Who would have imagined a few years ago, that you were going to carry a 4k camera, with stabilizer, waterproof and shock, in such a small size and for less than 300 dollars in your pocket.
I must say that the DJI Osmo Pocket, seduces me by the amount of functions that it has, but I think that it would not resist a deal, as I described previously.
If you're interested, I can upload some videos later.

Insta X 360

@Mattias Burling that makes sense. I don’t care about winning, I see this as a way to mess around with some older cameras I’ve always wanted to test. In fact, the safe bet is to buy the cheapest camera possible since I could lose it if I come in dead last. 

In my mind you can do whatever you want and then state your case afterwards. If it feels ok it probably is.
The goal is a sub €200 camera and if it's €220 that will be taken into consideration. So if it's neck and neck between two videos and one was under budget it will win.
I really don't think we need to have the rules in such detail for a friendly competition. 
Personally I'm not trying everything to max the budget, instead I will try to go as low as possible. I mean a store here has a used GH4 in the sub €300 so a G6 or GX80 is probably doable. But what's the fun in that
 

Thought I’d found an interesting lens...
But just getting over excited.
 

Thought I’d found an interesting lens...
But just getting over excited.
 

Thought I’d found an interesting lens...
But just getting over excited.
 

Thought I’d found an interesting lens...
But just getting over excited.
 

Good God Man! The last thing we need is for the majority of people in this country to vote even that many times... don’t encourage them!
(Far better employed painting models of buses - although in sunny Spain that reference might be lost?)
 

Thought I’d found an interesting lens...
But just getting over excited.
 

Thought I’d found an interesting lens...
But just getting over excited.
 

Oh that it were.
Oh that it were.
And Brabham want to fit a fuck off big hoover on the back

Good God Man! The last thing we need is for the majority of people in this country to vote even that many times... don’t encourage them!
(Far better employed painting models of buses - although in sunny Spain that reference might be lost?)
 

I'm down for it.... lets raise the stakes... Make it mandatory, else be banned from the forum ?

Tomato/Tomato to some degree but as he has stated it was a deliberate "artistic choice" for it to look like that then it was the technical choices that had to serve the aesthetic rather than than the aesthetic being a by-product of the technical choices.
I learnt this lesson the hard way when failing to achieve a Kraftwerk aesthetic on my last album by using a mandolin and a French horn.
Well, as I say, he's impressed quite a lot of people with that choice judging by the comments, many of whom find it to be very evocative for them of the work of Philip Bloom.
I'm not really au fait enough with the entire canon of Bloom's work to know whether he ever had a Handycam period so I don't have sufficient insight to challenge that.