Just thought of a cool team idea.

[Matt]

You can throw filters on your lenses for protection, but with a well placed shot from a high FPS AEG or sniper rifle it won't make much difference. Plus you can also damage other parts of your camera like the LCD display and the viewfinder.

[No-Name]

It would be cool to make some kind of plexi cover or something, i dunno if that would effect pic quality too much though.

As far as effecting picture quality, just think of putting a $2 piece of glass in front of a $200 lens

[Steve]

What about modding a camera? Take one of the smaller, yet still effective video cameras, and build a hardened outer shell for it, so it looks like one of the ones that the embedded reporter teams carry?

Additionally, it would be kind of neat to see a team out on the field lugging around pelican cases until they get to decent cover, and then frantically pulling cameras, mics, and lights out from their cases to do a piece while under fire.

The team concept seems to gel a little better in my mind if you include the crew in your team concept. A couple of camera guys, a talking head, a sound guy, a commo tech, and a bunch of apes with guns who try to stay out of frame while keeping the weather girl from getting gapped. Oh, and a military 'advisor' from whatever faction you are supporting, looking distinctly out of place in something resembling a dress uniform, but with 30 pounds of ribbons, braid, and sash. And maybe a sabre. And a gold-plated desert eagle.

[Raging Hormann]

this sounds awesome. Let's make it happen.

[Tombstone]

Oh, and a military 'advisor' from whatever faction you are supporting, looking distinctly out of place in something resembling a dress uniform, but with 30 pounds of ribbons, braid, and sash. And maybe a sabre. And a gold-plated desert eagle.

Are they being monitored by bad guy #1 from COD4?

Ahl Assad?