anyone reccomend a half decent Camcorder?

[bullmastiff 615]

As above, I'm after a half decent camcorder for under £300, second hand would be fine. Anyone know if theres any differance in recording formats? SD cards, Tapes, DVD for quality, ease of use etc?

 

Any advice greatly appreciated

 

Cheers

 

Luke.

[chester 147]

sony handycam mate sd or dvd you will get both for under 300 quid.

[Malt 379]

There'll be plenty to choose from in that price range, the price of camcorders has fallen a lot from a few years back.

[IanB 0]

Only problem with camcorders that record to memorystick,hardrive or dvd is they compress the video to mpeg2 when capturing it, so when you import the video to edit it within your computer its already been compressed once... There handy though, I prefer to stick with the minidv tape format as its basically raw footage as long as the camcorders half decent, you should be ok..

[LDR 29]

Only problem with camcorders that record to memorystick,hardrive or dvd is they compress the video to mpeg2 when capturing it, so when you import the video to edit it within your computer its already been compressed once... There handy though, I prefer to stick with the minidv tape format as its basically raw footage as long as the camcorders half decent, you should be ok..

 

 

What you got???

I was gona get an HDD one for the comp to record the heats up here, but didnt realise they f****d about with the recording of it!!!!!!

[SEAN3513 7]

i have a panasonic dv15 ( or somthing like that)

 

its digital and uses minidv tape................it can be firewired straight into the computer, editited and then copied to dvd. ( you can pick up decent second hand ones for around £100)

 

i prefer this method as ian pointed out it basically captures in RAW.........juat make sure the ccd is decent and you'll have good quality vids.

 

cheers

 

sean

[IanB 0]

Only problem with camcorders that record to memorystick,hardrive or dvd is they compress the video to mpeg2 when capturing it, so when you import the video to edit it within your computer its already been compressed once... There handy though, I prefer to stick with the minidv tape format as its basically raw footage as long as the camcorders half decent, you should be ok..

 

 

What you got???

I was gona get an HDD one for the comp to record the heats up here, but didnt realise they f****d about with the recording of it!!!!!!

 

Canon LongDogrunner this MODEL, three CCD... I'd go for a model with three CCD gives better colour, definition for your footage than standard camcorders... The HD camcorders are a bit over rated personally they require a more powerful pc to edit the footage and the image isn't that much better than a standard definition cam... Saying that if anyones feeling flush get one of these babys CanonXH .

[mackem 28,641]

Only problem with camcorders that record to memorystick,hardrive or dvd is they compress the video to mpeg2 when capturing it, so when you import the video to edit it within your computer its already been compressed once... There handy though, I prefer to stick with the minidv tape format as its basically raw footage as long as the camcorders half decent, you should be ok..

 

 

What you got???

I was gona get an HDD one for the comp to record the heats up here, but didnt realise they f****d about with the recording of it!!!!!!

LDR,if your serious about bringing out a competition DVD perhaps think about hiring a broadcast quality 3 chip cam from one of the editing houses,we hired one for a wedding and the cripsness of footage really was TV quality,no colour-bleed and defenition was sharp.