Gracie
I'm an independent filmmaker, and I'm in high school, so I'm on a very tight budget. I need help picking out a camcorder that is HD and under $1000 that would work without problems and have good audio and video. Any ideas, I really appreciate it! It wouldn't be a disadvantage if it could take a little wear and tear and be very well built!
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Consumer level HD camcorders have 3 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording consumer level HD camcorder, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes - all times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event i have aver been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.
With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 second or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.
You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer.
Consumer level HD camcorders have 3 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording consumer level HD camcorder, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes - all times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event i have aver been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.
With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 second or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.
You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer.
Looking for the best HD Camcorder under $500?
Joe Prosci
Ive been looking at many different camcorders but cant find one I want to get. I want HD video and a decent megapixel for pictures. Any additional features would be great. I dont want to spend a penny over $500. Let me know. Thanks.
Well I know I can look on craigslist/ebay. But I was wondering what brand and model of camera would fit my needs.
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HD camcorder, a step backwards in picture quality. Camcorder takes on frame, skips a few frames then takes another. Leave camcorder or software to interpolate the missing frames. Terrible video if any fast action is in the video.
Want the best quality in your videos, forget HDD or DVD or any other kind of storage media, MiniDV tape is the way to go. I have long hair, have challenged a few people with HD camcorder to duplicate a hair toss or two, they reply they cannot do this video as their camcorders cannot shoot it at all. My MiniDV tape camcorder had no problems shooting this.
HD camcorder, a step backwards in picture quality. Camcorder takes on frame, skips a few frames then takes another. Leave camcorder or software to interpolate the missing frames. Terrible video if any fast action is in the video.
Want the best quality in your videos, forget HDD or DVD or any other kind of storage media, MiniDV tape is the way to go. I have long hair, have challenged a few people with HD camcorder to duplicate a hair toss or two, they reply they cannot do this video as their camcorders cannot shoot it at all. My MiniDV tape camcorder had no problems shooting this.
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