best camcorder golf swing image
Some1
Please help me fast! I'm shopping for one!
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Uhm... I didn't see anything about resolution or megapixels on the Digital Camcorders I looked at, so probably any MiniDV camecorder will be just fine. You'll get what you pay for so stick to name brands and don't go too cheap... last years models of top brands are often a good place to go. You can find articles and reviews on them plus they are on close out so you can save some cash. Of course if you are intent on converting to DVD you might consider one of the models that writes directly to that format, but I don't know as much about them and they don't appear to be as popular. It may not be formatted for your every day DVD player either by default.
Now, if you meant digital camera with movie recording capabilities, well, good luck my friend. As far as I know the highest resolution any such camera records video in is 640 x 480 @ 30 fps. progressive. This is close to achieving modern DVD standards, but HD-DVD, Blue-Ray, and 1080p/i are on the way which will dramatically increase the amount of information necessary to produce such a large image. My suggestion would be not to ignore this requirement of yours but to focus more on features as it's unlikely you'll be making a collection of dozens of DVD movies anyway.
My personal favorite in the camera that doubles as a camcorder is the Canon Digital Elph series. I just broke mine and may replace it with a SD600 or SD630. The SD700IS (I believe that is the right model) is kind of cool as it will auto-crop your images to widescreen 16 x 9, but really it's just a macro that is costing you resolution, so no big deal.
To conclude on this category, video on the camera has nothing to do with the number of megapixels. A 1 MP camera could probably do 640 x 480 @ 30 fps just fine. The resolution really only kicks in on the pictures. The memory and speed required to record larger resolutions in the megapixel range would be extraordinary. Effectively your camera would be taking 30 Megapixel photos per second which is impossible as they have trouble taking them within a second of each other without over-running the buffer.
Anyway, read the reference source which should provide you most of the information you need. Wikipedia is awesome... shop at newegg and local shops.
Before I go, another nice thing about the canons that doesn't appeal to everybody is that they will take 320 resolution clips at 60 fps for capturing sports action. This is excelent for analyzing things like golf swings and the like, plus it's very affordable as such a tool. I personally use it to analyze foosball shots that are practically unseeable by the naked eye.
Good luck!
Uhm... I didn't see anything about resolution or megapixels on the Digital Camcorders I looked at, so probably any MiniDV camecorder will be just fine. You'll get what you pay for so stick to name brands and don't go too cheap... last years models of top brands are often a good place to go. You can find articles and reviews on them plus they are on close out so you can save some cash. Of course if you are intent on converting to DVD you might consider one of the models that writes directly to that format, but I don't know as much about them and they don't appear to be as popular. It may not be formatted for your every day DVD player either by default.
Now, if you meant digital camera with movie recording capabilities, well, good luck my friend. As far as I know the highest resolution any such camera records video in is 640 x 480 @ 30 fps. progressive. This is close to achieving modern DVD standards, but HD-DVD, Blue-Ray, and 1080p/i are on the way which will dramatically increase the amount of information necessary to produce such a large image. My suggestion would be not to ignore this requirement of yours but to focus more on features as it's unlikely you'll be making a collection of dozens of DVD movies anyway.
My personal favorite in the camera that doubles as a camcorder is the Canon Digital Elph series. I just broke mine and may replace it with a SD600 or SD630. The SD700IS (I believe that is the right model) is kind of cool as it will auto-crop your images to widescreen 16 x 9, but really it's just a macro that is costing you resolution, so no big deal.
To conclude on this category, video on the camera has nothing to do with the number of megapixels. A 1 MP camera could probably do 640 x 480 @ 30 fps just fine. The resolution really only kicks in on the pictures. The memory and speed required to record larger resolutions in the megapixel range would be extraordinary. Effectively your camera would be taking 30 Megapixel photos per second which is impossible as they have trouble taking them within a second of each other without over-running the buffer.
Anyway, read the reference source which should provide you most of the information you need. Wikipedia is awesome... shop at newegg and local shops.
Before I go, another nice thing about the canons that doesn't appeal to everybody is that they will take 320 resolution clips at 60 fps for capturing sports action. This is excelent for analyzing things like golf swings and the like, plus it's very affordable as such a tool. I personally use it to analyze foosball shots that are practically unseeable by the naked eye.
Good luck!
I am looking for a camera I can take to the golf driving range record my swing and download it to my computer?
Vic
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Nearly any camcorder will do - you do not need "special" high speed camcorder (but you can investigate them - and buy one if it makes you feel any better).
What is your budget?
For best results, you need good lighting and the ability to manually increase the camcorder's shutter speed to 1/1000 second or more. On regular consumer-grade camcorders with a 30mm diameter lens and 1/6" imaging chip, the 1/1000 second shutter speed will make the image darker. Whether it is too dark for you is unknown. So... using a camcorder with a lens diameter of larger than 37mm is strongly suggested... They generally come with a larger imaging chip, so you should be OK there... THEN...
The video needs to be not very compressed. The least amount of compression comes with using miniDV tape based camcorders. The Canon HV40 is about as low as I would suggest (but you can probably get away with s Canon ZR960, Panasonic PV-GS320 or Sony DCR-HC62 - all are standard definition only, mini DV tape based camcorders). Flash memory and hard disc drive camcorders compress their video a lot more than miniDV tape... and DVD camcorders compress the most and must be avoided.
Assuming you want to import that video to your computer for analysis, all miniDV tape based camcorders mean your computer needs a firewire port because the only way you will get the video from the HV40 to the computer is by connecting a firewire cable to the camcorder's DV port and the computer's firewire port. USB won't work (it cannot handle the streaming requirements of either standard definition DV or high definition HDV).
If your computer does not have a firewire port and you are unwilling or unable to add one, then look into flash memory (Canon FS series or HF series are suggested). The video is copied (not imported) over USB and may need to be converted. Because of the compression, expect to see lots of "artifacts" because of the fast motion - even with the fast shutter speed. I tend to stay away from consumer-grade internal hard drive camcorders. They use the same file types the flash memory cams do, but they have too many know issues with vibration, altitude and data recovery - these might not be important to you for the golf stuff, but if you decide to use the camcorder for other things, you might as well prepare for them ahead of time.
You probably don't need to record in HDV, but that is up to you.
If you think you need a "high speed" video recording device, the good ones will be just a camera head that connects to a computer... Vision Research and Photron make some affordable units. If you rely on something like the Casio Exilim EX-F1, you will be constantly checking the memory to see if there is enough space left on the memory card, and the compression rate is REALLY a lot, so full screen, good, resolution is very challenging.
Nearly any camcorder will do - you do not need "special" high speed camcorder (but you can investigate them - and buy one if it makes you feel any better).
What is your budget?
For best results, you need good lighting and the ability to manually increase the camcorder's shutter speed to 1/1000 second or more. On regular consumer-grade camcorders with a 30mm diameter lens and 1/6" imaging chip, the 1/1000 second shutter speed will make the image darker. Whether it is too dark for you is unknown. So... using a camcorder with a lens diameter of larger than 37mm is strongly suggested... They generally come with a larger imaging chip, so you should be OK there... THEN...
The video needs to be not very compressed. The least amount of compression comes with using miniDV tape based camcorders. The Canon HV40 is about as low as I would suggest (but you can probably get away with s Canon ZR960, Panasonic PV-GS320 or Sony DCR-HC62 - all are standard definition only, mini DV tape based camcorders). Flash memory and hard disc drive camcorders compress their video a lot more than miniDV tape... and DVD camcorders compress the most and must be avoided.
Assuming you want to import that video to your computer for analysis, all miniDV tape based camcorders mean your computer needs a firewire port because the only way you will get the video from the HV40 to the computer is by connecting a firewire cable to the camcorder's DV port and the computer's firewire port. USB won't work (it cannot handle the streaming requirements of either standard definition DV or high definition HDV).
If your computer does not have a firewire port and you are unwilling or unable to add one, then look into flash memory (Canon FS series or HF series are suggested). The video is copied (not imported) over USB and may need to be converted. Because of the compression, expect to see lots of "artifacts" because of the fast motion - even with the fast shutter speed. I tend to stay away from consumer-grade internal hard drive camcorders. They use the same file types the flash memory cams do, but they have too many know issues with vibration, altitude and data recovery - these might not be important to you for the golf stuff, but if you decide to use the camcorder for other things, you might as well prepare for them ahead of time.
You probably don't need to record in HDV, but that is up to you.
If you think you need a "high speed" video recording device, the good ones will be just a camera head that connects to a computer... Vision Research and Photron make some affordable units. If you rely on something like the Casio Exilim EX-F1, you will be constantly checking the memory to see if there is enough space left on the memory card, and the compression rate is REALLY a lot, so full screen, good, resolution is very challenging.
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