>>2660364Outside of filming for national ad campaigns or decent-budget indies, the average client doesn't know or care about the tools, so if you're not even able to factor in a good amount of additional cash for "renting" your gear for the production, then why not use a DSLR, or something that's comfortable and easy to use, start to finish?
In my experience, most clients only notice image quality, to a certain point, and beyond that, you can give yourself more work than you need to by using a Cinema-level Camera, or even something like a Black Magic. I tested this out on a shoot where two of us were asked to travel and film an event. The DP used a Scarlet, and I second shot on a Canon5d. At the end of the day, the dipshit reps from the company that breathed down our necks the whole day didn't know what they were looking for. Their editor had the same issues with both cameras' footage, and ultimately the DP spent more of his time than it was worth to correct and transcode all of his footage.
These people do not see a difference, they only know buzzwords from their 1 Search Deep Google expedition into video.
>"I'd like the video to be 1920x1080 and HD" 