Definitely- if you’re already writing and directing- let someone else shoot it. End product will be better because you’ll concentrate on writing and directing which are each full time jobs already. And you’ll spread the blame around if it turns out just ok which is entirely not unusual for first features.
Filmouts also nearly unheard of these days in the indie world. Not needed for festival screenings or home video distribution. It’s only *if* you wind up playing in 3,000 theaters would you ever need a filmout. And if that’s the case you’ll be a runaway success and your distributor will happily pay EFilm to blow up and filmout your movie from whatever camera it originated on.
Noah