Camcorders With Sd Cards
Affordable Camcorders?
Hello all. Christmas is coming up and my mum wants to know what I want. I told her that I want her to help me out with buying a new camcorder. My budget is $300 and below… preferably the $250 mark.
I know this might seem like a shallow question but I was wondering if any of you have a good suggestion. I’m not looking for an HD camcorder… just a standard def that will perform well. I’m hoping to make some documentary type films as well as some short films (obviously not top quality).
right now I have found the Canon F200 and the Samsung SMX-K40 that both look reasonably priced for their performance.
I’m looking for a camera that has a good lens with at least 35x optical zoom, image stabilization (if possible), mini dv or sd card, USB or firewire port for connecting to my computer, and records quality footage for being a standard def.
Thank you for you suggestions in advance.
-Brad
Your best hunting will be with the Canon FS (flash memory – miniUSB port) and ZR960 (miniDV tape – 4-pin DV/firewire port). They have a mic jack most of the others do not have – but they do not have manual audio control. You can do that with an outboard audio “field recorder” like those from Zoom, Edirol, M-Audio, Tascam, Fostex – among others.
Your budget puts you in the entry-level consumer-camcorder area (above pocket cams, though). Small lens and imaging chip will provide grainy low-light video capture.
I don’t like the optics used by Samsung, so I have no experience with them.
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