Sneetchie1
Some specifications include:
Being able to handle low-light areas really well. (like at night when there is virtually no light but moonlight)
Being able to supposrt good boom mics
Having a good battery life so that I don't have to run in to my house and charge it every 2 hours. ( i want one with like a battery life of 10 hours at the time, or more, if possible)
Having a huge memory (80+ Gigs?)
The highest of resolutions (we make movies for youtube and want our videos to be crystal clear, even after youtube screws them up)
the ability to not record the noise of me shifting the camera a little or zooming in. that gets really annoying.
Along with the low light capability, Night Vision would be awesome!
Does not glare.
Has a great Zoom and great mic.
Records in Youtube Format
Thanks!
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Interesting list of requirements.
The low light requirements you list mean LARGE lens and LARGE imaging chips. Plan on 72mm diameter or larger lens and 1/3" or larger imaging chips - either 3CCD or 3CMOS. Under a bright full moon will be very challenging. Less than that will be near impossible at your budget range.
Any camcorder with a mic jack can support "good boom mics". This just means you need mics that use an XLR connector. Even a consumer camcorder with a 1/8" mic jack can use an XLR mic by adding an XLR adapter (check juicedLink or BeachTek).
Need more portable power? Get high capacity rechargeable batteries from the camcorder manufacturer. The extra battery I got for my Sony HDR-FX1 goes for nearly 6 hours of shooting - so in your case, just get two.
Since there are no prosumer or pro grade camcorders using an internal hard disc drive, that leaves flash memory or miniDV tape - or an external drive from Focus Enhancements... unless you get a Sony camcorder in which case Sony has an available optional external drive for their pro-grade miniDV tape camcorders. The external drives connect to the camcorder's DV port with a firewire cable. With flash memory or miniDV tape, just take out the full tape or memory card and put in a blank.
My YouTube videos are clear - you may not be using the correct compression. If your YouTube uploads are not clear, there is something else happenning that is not the camera's fault.
The zoom motor noise will go away when you use an external mic. Your touching the camera and having the built-in or camera mounted mics pickup that noise will go away with an external mic. The mic should be mounted to a shock mount so the noise from whomever is handling the boon is not recorded. I use a Sabra SSM-1.
Night vision - available because the camcorder has a built-in infrared emitter - is a Sony thing. Look for "NightShot", "SuperNightShot" or "NightShotPlus" in the camcorder's spec list.
Define "great zoom". Does that mean the optical zoom multiplier is really high or does that mean the manual zoom has really good control - and can be controlled with a LANC?
There is no camcorder in the range you specified that "records in YouTube format" (flv). There is no such thing as "YouTube format". There are several different file types that YouTube will accept. YouTube compresses the video and turns the file into a flv file. The LAST thing you want is a ton of compression as the first step during the video acquisition process.
This all said, the Sony HDR-FX1000 is as close as I can get. Unless flash memory jumps you to the Sony HVR-Z7 - but I don't think it has a built-in infrared emitter.
Interesting list of requirements.
The low light requirements you list mean LARGE lens and LARGE imaging chips. Plan on 72mm diameter or larger lens and 1/3" or larger imaging chips - either 3CCD or 3CMOS. Under a bright full moon will be very challenging. Less than that will be near impossible at your budget range.
Any camcorder with a mic jack can support "good boom mics". This just means you need mics that use an XLR connector. Even a consumer camcorder with a 1/8" mic jack can use an XLR mic by adding an XLR adapter (check juicedLink or BeachTek).
Need more portable power? Get high capacity rechargeable batteries from the camcorder manufacturer. The extra battery I got for my Sony HDR-FX1 goes for nearly 6 hours of shooting - so in your case, just get two.
Since there are no prosumer or pro grade camcorders using an internal hard disc drive, that leaves flash memory or miniDV tape - or an external drive from Focus Enhancements... unless you get a Sony camcorder in which case Sony has an available optional external drive for their pro-grade miniDV tape camcorders. The external drives connect to the camcorder's DV port with a firewire cable. With flash memory or miniDV tape, just take out the full tape or memory card and put in a blank.
My YouTube videos are clear - you may not be using the correct compression. If your YouTube uploads are not clear, there is something else happenning that is not the camera's fault.
The zoom motor noise will go away when you use an external mic. Your touching the camera and having the built-in or camera mounted mics pickup that noise will go away with an external mic. The mic should be mounted to a shock mount so the noise from whomever is handling the boon is not recorded. I use a Sabra SSM-1.
Night vision - available because the camcorder has a built-in infrared emitter - is a Sony thing. Look for "NightShot", "SuperNightShot" or "NightShotPlus" in the camcorder's spec list.
Define "great zoom". Does that mean the optical zoom multiplier is really high or does that mean the manual zoom has really good control - and can be controlled with a LANC?
There is no camcorder in the range you specified that "records in YouTube format" (flv). There is no such thing as "YouTube format". There are several different file types that YouTube will accept. YouTube compresses the video and turns the file into a flv file. The LAST thing you want is a ton of compression as the first step during the video acquisition process.
This all said, the Sony HDR-FX1000 is as close as I can get. Unless flash memory jumps you to the Sony HVR-Z7 - but I don't think it has a built-in infrared emitter.
Whats the best HD camcorder thats under 1,000 $$$?
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Hard to say if it's the BEST, but I've heard good things about the panasonic HDC-SD1.
Hard to say if it's the BEST, but I've heard good things about the panasonic HDC-SD1.
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