can 8 mm camcorder be used for filmmaking?

Yes, everything is possible and you can do whatever you want with
whatever you got. If you caught Elvis fighting in Iraq or Hitler
feeding the poor this (2005) x-mas on a pin-hole camera would anyone
care how much you paid for your camera and whats the vertical
resolution?

The idea is to get something that makes the work flow and the life of
you, as the do it all film-maker, easier.

To everyone one, I would suggest:

1) Get a used DV camera
2) Get a used Apple iBook with DVD burner
3) Get a used FireWire cable.

TOTAL: Under $1,000.
(Its not that much $: If you are a smoker, give up... if not, atleast
for a while and/or catch a bus for a month. Insurence, gas, etc. can
cost well over that. Oh... sell all that junk.) Get a seond job: If you
dont have time, lose some sleep to flip burgers you can make that money
in no time to realize your potential.

Above list is all you need to write, storyboard, budget, shoot, edit,
burn, upload, etc. Just add creativiity and you can do wonders. This
may be the best $$ you have spent, the wisest thing you have done in
your whole life: If you have a story to tell with moving pictures and
if you are not good at pencil sketch animation.

Goodluck and all the best.
Jay Bala.
Jay.RemoveThis@hitpix.net