Digital Camcorder

[Dean Lofthouse]

I've been looking at Digital Camcorders and find the choice a little confusing.

 

They vary in price dramatically

 

Does anyone have one that they can recommend.

 

I need optical zoom, good quality optics, good picture quality on moving objects and HD capable recording.

[Log-ologist]

Hard Drive is the way forward. DL straight to PC or burn straight to DVD. I use a JVC Everio 34x optical zoom 40 gigabyte hard drive. cost about 350ish ( wifes christmas prezzie) I used it for my tree vids.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Do they need to be High def

 

I'm of the opinion that camcorders are like computors, they are out of date within 12months. I didn't want to spend hundreds on one to find it's bottom of the pile and needs updating.

 

How do you find your picture quality Log

[Log-ologist]

It depends how you treat the raw footage. I use the camera on fine definition there are 4 levels L, N, F, UF. The raw files are produced into a vid. The quality of the vid is dependent on the final use HQ DVD is better than streaming .mpeg for uploading to a website. I can't really say much more as I am new to this myself.

 

 

I went middle of the road and can upgrade later if it works out ok. Cheap is always cheap, but expensive gives lots of features that my be a waste of time