What Video Camera

[ratkilla 42]

Hi Guys and Girls

 

I'm needing some help from the folk who have video cameras.

 

What i'm looking for is a video cam in the price range of about 500-600 pounds, i was wondering what brand is leading out there for quality and being well made?

 

I need somthing with high quality picture and a decent zoom and it keeps the quality of picture at long distance fliming,

I will also want to be able to video lamping with it so it's gotta be able to capture decent quality picture on the lamp.

 

If any one out there could hlp me it would be a great help as i don't have a clue what to look at.

 

Cheers RK.

[F.R. 2]

RK,

 

I'd recommend a 'DV' camera (not DVD recorder etc.), with optical stabilizer. Most of the guts are similar, you run into differences in lenses, stabilizers and image processing. Canon cameras are vgood. Panasonic and JVC make some nice ones as well. You'll want something that gets close to 0 lux for lamping and night filming. I'll look for some reviews for you and pm you. At long distance, the zooms will be digital and won't hold up well but an optical stabilizer will help. I'd look at a bunch and see what seems easy to handle, which controls are easily accessible etc. as some cameras these days are shaped odd and surprisingly so light, it's hard to get a steady shot.

[F.R. 2]

Hi Guys and Girls

 

I'm needing some help from the folk who have video cameras.

 

What i'm looking for is a video cam in the price range of about 500-600 pounds, i was wondering what brand is leading out there for quality and being well made?

 

I need somthing with high quality picture and a decent zoom and it keeps the quality of picture at long distance fliming,

I will also want to be able to video lamping with it so it's gotta be able to capture decent quality picture on the lamp.

 

If any one out there could hlp me it would be a great help as i don't have a clue what to look at.

 

Cheers RK.

Check out bhphotovideo.com

 

You can sort a search in consumer video by brand, recording media- disc, tape, hard drive, optical zoom length, price etc. I buy quite a bit of pro gear there and the site is good for comparing products.......

[ratkilla 42]

Hi F.R. thanks for your reply, i was original looking at the dvd recorders for the convniance of it. But i'll look at the DV range now, also does the high defintion cameras make alot of differents to the quality of the picture ?? I'll very much appriciate the help you can give me on chooseing a decent cam thatwill suite my needs.

 

Thanks Rk.

[F.R. 2]

RK

The DVD recorders are nice but manipulating the footage isn't as easy- also some computers don't have a tray but a slot loader and can't take a mini-DVD which some cameras record to. Once on the disc (it's been encoded to Mpeg already), you can't do much with it but watch it. With computers having Firewire capability, you can get a cheap or free editor and input some footage etc. if you want. It's native DV on a tape and you can do what you want with it, the tapes are small and it's digital. Hi-Def is nice but if you don't have a hi-def monitor it's pointless and most low end editing software compresses or uses a codec to input it anyway so it's not really hi-def when you're done. I'd talk to some of the guys at that site above or locally and get their opinions and hold the cameras and go through the menus and see what you'll really use and won't. Some have nice still image options as well...let me now if I can help further. In that price range you should find a lot of options.