does the panasonic DMC TS2 have a slow motion setting?

Lena

As you can see i am wondering if it does, I have and and i would love to make videos in slo mo. Since i am a gymnast. Thanks! 1O points for best answer!

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"Slow motion setting" = high frame rate capture

Your DMC TS2 captures video at NTSC standard 30 frames per second. The best you can do is to use the video editor in your computer to slow the 30 fps captured video to around 15 fps, export that. If your video editor has frame blending, use it. If not, it is what it is. If you set to slower than 15 fps, the resulting playback will be "jumpy" as it moves from frame to frame.

Hint: Capture under REALLY GOOD LIGHT. This means adding more light than normal during practice - and probably more than the indoor light during a performance. This will allow the camera to capture the video with a faster shutter speed and reduce the amount of blur the video records.

Remember, your DMC TS2 is basically an entry level point & shoot camera designed to capture stills - and it does that well. Capturing video is a "convenience feature" and is does not do that very well.

Another hint: Gymnastics is FAST. DO NOT capture video when the camera or camcorder is handheld. PLEASE use a monopod or, better yet, a tripod... or some other steadying device. Yes, your DMC TS2 has a standard tripod mounting screw hole in the bottom.

Christmas Gift List For a Teen Girl?

Julia

So, I'm 13, and I was asked to make my Christmas gift list (yes, it's a little early) and I can't think of anything. I dont want to ask for clothes, my parents/relatives always give me the ugliest clothes...:// Or makeup, because I don't wear a lot. I'm not very girly, and I'm on a gymnastics team, and love drawing. Help?

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Maybe some copic markers and a sketch pad. I'm 13 and heres my list, hope it helps:
Ipod Touch 5 â Pink or Blue
Take Me Home â One Direction Album
I tunes gift card
Furry pajama pants/ shirt
Vera Bradley wallet
Buckle Miss Me Jeans
Friends (TV Series) Complete Season Collection
Sweatshirt
Sweatpants
Nail polish ( I need brown)
Toms
Cheap camcorder â Nothing fancy
Spandex (for soccer)
Nice Shirts
Just Dance 4 for Kinect
Big League Sports for Kinect

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Whats the Best HD quality Video camera that I can buy right now at a decent price...?

Landon

I just got back from my daughters gymnastic competition. We had borrowed the in-laws video camera to record it.( a sony DC-RHC20 ) The quality is awful... And my software on my computer wont recognize the camera. I want something thats going to give me HD quality, without the hassell of buying mini DV's to record on.. Memory stick's will be just fine or even DVD's may be ok.. But I want the HD quality.. Please help before the next gym meet !!!!!!!!

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If you camcorder can't recognize the DCR-HC20 with a firewire cable (USB won't work), then chances are REALLY good your computer will not be able to deal with the very highly compressed AVCHD/MTS files that flash memory (and hard disc drive camcords use fo consumer-grade high definition.

If you think the indoor video captured was bad in the HC20, he indoor video captured by any other consumer grade camcorder will be similar - if you don't know how to use the manual controls and the white balance...

Consumer grade camcorders are not what are used by the professionals. So if that is what you are expecting in he way of video quality, then you need to reset your expectations. More lighting, bigger lenses and larger imaging chips to less compression (read: miniDV tape) is required. Consumer-grade compression merely worsens the video quality because during the compression process, there is too much discarded video data.

The good video quality in poor lighting comes from camcorders like the Sony HVR-Z5U, Canon XHA1 and Panasonic AG-HVX200. Not consumer camcorders with small lenses and imaging chips...

Yes, I have successfully captured indoor high school gymnastics to high definition video... with my Sony HDR-FX1 and HDR-HC1. And others have complained that their video (captured by consumer-grade cams) was poor - at the same event - so they wanted copies of mine.

What did you get for Christmas?

Sienna

I didn't get anything i wanted or actually liked- i had a wide range of very weird presents especially for a 15 year old girl E.G hair rollers, word search game, bad suitable for 3 year old Chocolate, gloves that are already broken and a memory stick. whereas my brother got an Electric guitar! So not the best xmas present wise. however i value family over presents and we had really good time. what did you get? and what did you do?

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At least it's the thought that counts, eh? You'll do better next year probably!

I'm a thirteen year old girl and I got
- Two pairs of PJs
- Socks (like gloves, toe fingers in them)
- A rhythmic gymnastics ball
- Ballet shoes
- Wii Fit Plus
- Vivitar purple pocket camcorder
- An All-Seeing-Eye top
- A black shirt with a quote
- Money
- A big 'Lush' bath bomb
- Dark red converse
- Lady Gaga: Fame perfume
- Police: To be woman perfume
- Keith Lemon: the film DVD
- Ted on DVD
- Peter Kay back on nights DVD
- 2013 Guiness world records
- 2013 Ripley's believe it or not
- False eyelashes
- So Superstar lipgloss, spray and perfume
- 4 big makeup sets
- Nail varnish
- Lots of chocolate
And my dad coming home from Thailand early :)

Merry Christmas, I hope you and your family had an amazing day!

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Suggestions for a Camera/Camcorder?

Kurt

I'm looking for a Camera/Camcorder, hopefully in the $400-500 (I can go up to $600-700) range suitable for a range of tasks...

I'd like it to be able to take good photos, as well as shoot 720p video of at least 60FPS. It'll mainly be used for video, so the video has to be high-quality.
It should have optical zoom.
It would be preferable if it had good sound to go with it.

It would be used for things such as:
-Indoor/Outdoor photography
-Filming people doing parkour/gymnastics/martial arts (basically, things with a lot of action)
-Shooting home-made moves/short films

I don't exactly know what direction I'm going. Can anybody suggest a camera (or if there's more than one that might work, some cameras) in my price range that might do what I need it to?
As I said, video is more important, so if it has to be strictly a camcorder or a camcorder that can't take nice pictures, that's fine too as long as it'd suit my other needs.

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Camcorders with best video Quality in that price range are MiniDV tape camcorders. To get a HD camcorder that have as good or better Video Quality, would cost you in excess of $3300 to purchase that.

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. 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.

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What camcorder would be best for shooting sports and streaming live on the internet?

pretzeladd

It would be used for capturing gymnastics. I would prefer not to get a camcorder that records to tape/disk (hard drive or memory card is okay). Any suggestions?

Answer
To get good video quality I would suggest get HD camcorder and if you want HDD Canon VIXIA HG20 is a good choice
- 24Mbps offers the highest bit rate in AVCHD for High Definition
video - enabling improved color reproduction and tonality
- Record up to 22 hours of High Definition video to a 60 GB Hard Disk Drive
- Includes a genuine Canon 12x High Definition video lens
- Comes with a 3.3 megapixel full HD CMOS sensor (1920 x 1080) and a DIGIC DV II image processor
It is easy to use and provide great video quality
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DTTCQA?ie=UTF8&tag=computer0bd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001DTTCQA

or if you want more capacity Canon VIXIA HG21 AVCHD 120 GB HDD Camcorder with 12x Optical Zoom
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DTXK8G?ie=UTF8&tag=computer0bd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001DTXK8G

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