nickels293
I'm looking at purchasing an HD camcorder at a reasonable price adn I've done a ton of research but I can't find anything reasonably priced that fits my needs. I'm looking for people who have experience with any HD camcorders to let me know how they like theirs and what the model number is. I'm getting married in August and we would like to record that as well as family gatherings, the usual for a new family. I understand that most camera's are flawed with filming in low light area's and I have accepted that but I need something that has a wind filter. Any suggestions would be great, I've listed my most important attributes below.
Must be in HD, preferrably 1080P but I don't care as long as it can play on an HDTV
Prefer a wind filter so that the wind doesn't effect the sound to much
I don't want a loud camera-I've read to many reviews saying the camera has an internal noise that the microphone picks up.
If possible I want the video to record to a simple video format or be easy to work with-I'm not going to do a lot of editing but would like to be able to burn DVD's.
Long battery life-I understand there is going to be a limit but I don't want only 30 min of battery life.
If possible I want to stay under $300 but I'm willing to spend below $500 if it's worth the quality.
Edit: I am planning on using this for our wedding but we want it for everything in our new life together from children to family vacations. I understand that it's not going to be of professional quality but since we're paying for the wedding we would prefer to keep the price reasonable. I just taped my future brother in laws wedding and the video on that turned out fine they said. It wasn't professional but it captured the wedding and that's what they wanted.
Answer
It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $300 MiniDV tape camcorder.
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 for the computer and a firewire cable to be able to transfer video to your computer
With this camcorder, you could mount it on a tripod, tape the receiver end of a wireless Lavaliere Microphone on a leg, run a wire from it to your camcorder. You the Groom would wear the wireless microphone from that lavaliere system. Do that, get crystal clear vows on your video. Get a mixer, capture the choir, piano, organ, soloist, whatever other audio you would want to capture, run all mics through the mixer out to the mic jack on the ZR960.
Visit your local music shop, the folks who sell Drum Kits, guitars and other musical instruments, will probably rent you that lavaliere mic system for $25 or $30 for the day or weekend.
Beg, borrow, do whatever, get at least one more camcorder for the wedding. Do not get a relative to be the wandering camera person. Get a friend to do it.Use 3 camcorders, one looking up the aisle for the walk out, one mounted on tripod, front of service location, looking back at couple and one free roamer, gets the walk up the aisle, a good pan of the wedding party a shot of the guests and most important, the seating of the mothers.
You will find in the end, a talk with a wedding videographer would have been cheaper to have them do it.
It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $300 MiniDV tape camcorder.
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 for the computer and a firewire cable to be able to transfer video to your computer
With this camcorder, you could mount it on a tripod, tape the receiver end of a wireless Lavaliere Microphone on a leg, run a wire from it to your camcorder. You the Groom would wear the wireless microphone from that lavaliere system. Do that, get crystal clear vows on your video. Get a mixer, capture the choir, piano, organ, soloist, whatever other audio you would want to capture, run all mics through the mixer out to the mic jack on the ZR960.
Visit your local music shop, the folks who sell Drum Kits, guitars and other musical instruments, will probably rent you that lavaliere mic system for $25 or $30 for the day or weekend.
Beg, borrow, do whatever, get at least one more camcorder for the wedding. Do not get a relative to be the wandering camera person. Get a friend to do it.Use 3 camcorders, one looking up the aisle for the walk out, one mounted on tripod, front of service location, looking back at couple and one free roamer, gets the walk up the aisle, a good pan of the wedding party a shot of the guests and most important, the seating of the mothers.
You will find in the end, a talk with a wedding videographer would have been cheaper to have them do it.
Best handheld hd camcorder under $600?
Jenna
I want to buy a good camcorder, it shouldn't be too small, but not extremely big either. I need i to be about 500 to 600 dollars. I might splurge up to 700 if it makes a huge difference. I need it to make short films and documentaries. I also want to buy an external microphone, so if you know which ones are good, tell me that too! :) (It doesn't have to be wireless)
Thank you!
Answer
HD camcorders interpolate the video, which means of every 25 frames of video, 4 or 5 frames are taken by the lens assembly; the other frames in between these are filled in by the camcorder inner circuitry, thus giving you not true video. It looks like this -one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, from front to back of the video. Near impossible to edit, even when you have the Multi processor computer with the big Graphics and sound cards that is required to edit, view, watch and work with the files a HD camcorder produces.
Consumer level HD camcorders have 4 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) These Consumer level HD camcorders all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes â four different times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.
MiniDV is currently the most popular format for consumer digital camcorders. MiniDV camcorders are typically more affordable than their HDD and DVD counterparts. Each MiniDV tape will typically hold an hour of footage at normal recording speed and quality. MiniDV tapes are available for purchase at not only electronic and camera stores, but also at drugs stores and grocery stores, making them easy to find while your on vacation. There are literally hundreds of MiniDV camcorders available; both in standard and high-definition. And add the fact that to get a HD camcorder that could produce better video quality footage, one would have to spend in excess of $3500 for that camcorder that could produce higher quality video.
http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part1_camcorder_choices.htm
http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part2_connect_camcorder.htm
http://www.canon.ca/inetCA/products?m=gp&pid=1017#_030
HD camcorders interpolate the video, which means of every 25 frames of video, 4 or 5 frames are taken by the lens assembly; the other frames in between these are filled in by the camcorder inner circuitry, thus giving you not true video. It looks like this -one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, from front to back of the video. Near impossible to edit, even when you have the Multi processor computer with the big Graphics and sound cards that is required to edit, view, watch and work with the files a HD camcorder produces.
Consumer level HD camcorders have 4 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) These Consumer level HD camcorders all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes â four different times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.
MiniDV is currently the most popular format for consumer digital camcorders. MiniDV camcorders are typically more affordable than their HDD and DVD counterparts. Each MiniDV tape will typically hold an hour of footage at normal recording speed and quality. MiniDV tapes are available for purchase at not only electronic and camera stores, but also at drugs stores and grocery stores, making them easy to find while your on vacation. There are literally hundreds of MiniDV camcorders available; both in standard and high-definition. And add the fact that to get a HD camcorder that could produce better video quality footage, one would have to spend in excess of $3500 for that camcorder that could produce higher quality video.
http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part1_camcorder_choices.htm
http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part2_connect_camcorder.htm
http://www.canon.ca/inetCA/products?m=gp&pid=1017#_030
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