Pro Line Camcorders
Best Consumer Camcorders For Independent and Home Movies?
My budget is $800 so anything in the lines of this price range is good.
I’ve been looking everywhere but I’m just so indecisive about what Camcorder I want to get. I’ve been looking alot at the Sony Handycams, and they seem to offer alot but there are so many model types that I don’t know Wichita is truly the best fit. Any other camera company is okay with me it just needs to offer alot and be as good as a Sony Handycam. Thank you so much!
P.S If you can please give the pros and cons and also the camera models and the year they were made.
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 ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer
Panasonic Pro AG-DVC20 3CCD MiniDV Proline Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom Detail Below
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