Do you like cinematography? I once shot a home movie with my friends. It was not very well acted but we had a lot of fun doing it!
How did you do that. What i know is that  Typically, a lens is used to repeatedly focus the light reflected from objects into real images on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera 
I had a handheld digital camcorder. I never worked with real film before. I am not very technically gifted!
Why not get yourself on. It is just an  electronic device originally combining a video camera and a videocassette recorder. I am sure it is not difficult to operate
It does interest me. I know people really like using 8 millimeter film to record movies. I guess I could try it sometime.
We are grateful for the digital world. Now everything is digital including the camcorder. We do not have to use tape any more but storage media such as mini-HD, microDVD, internal flash memory and SD cards.
That is true, but many film enthusiasts prefer film over digital. Apparently the two different mediums give a different appearance on the big screen.
novelty to an established mass entertainment industry.
The earliest films were in black and white, under a minute long, without recorded sound and consisted of a single shot from a steady camera.
Conventions towards a general cinematic language developed over the years with the use of several shots (mostly through editing), continuity between shots, camera movements (panning, tracking, tilt), camera angle, field size (long shot to extreme close-up) and other cinematic techniques all contributing specific roles in the narrative of
busy doing it and getting it out and touring and playing it. Over a matter of three years it was gone and we were doing something else. But when you draw this into the present, it’s like, 'Oh my God, what the f— is this?!? How did we do that?' We've been very fortunate, Ray and I and the Kinks. We’ve had such a wealth of materials, ideas, and observations. We’ve been very good at following our intuition.