Mini Camcorders
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- Dancer
I am on the hunt for a cheap camcorder. Good quality but low price point.
Anyone have any recommendations
- chossy0
Dancer I'd love to recommend a cheap one but they are all shite :'(. How much do you have to spend what is the absolute top end.
- Dancer0
I never expect them to be great, just something that will work on the web
- chossy0
Ok the one you posted I took some footage from it a couple of weeks ago.... I'll make an mpg of it and post it up for you. Can you let me know how you would compress it what size you want for the web and I can let you see what it will look like.
- chossy0
http://www.chossy.com/HDV_0059.m…
not too bad actually but as you can see the auto focus takes seven years to become sharp.
- Dancer0
Just something to play around with, that is the best quality for the value
- Dancer0
... I know you deal with Video all day chossy and the quality of things you use will massively superseed anything I want to get my hands on...
- chossy0
Well this samsung thing looks ok, you can get it for about £145 from dabs, would you like me to borrow this camcorder for the weekend and shoot some stuff with it make an mpg and let you see how it performs?. I have fuck all to do this weekend.
- Dancer0
Don't worry about it Chossy...Just puting the question out there at the moment... unless your gonna shoot some sectsy stuff Oooooo
- Fariska0
Which definition (HD/SD)?
Which Media (MiniDV, Memory card, HDD)?
and as mini you mean very very compact, or just small?
- Dancer0
I do not know that much about them as I only want to play and experiment with one hence the low price point.
Not HD
Memory I am not fussed about, Internal or on a card
Yes I would like it to be small hence why the ones above has been mentioned. Any insight would be great :)
- Fariska0
by experience i know that Sony ones are pretty good. The hardware us pretty good (especially lenses and sensors) and the picture quality is good as well, but most of the other features are very gimmicky.
Software and transfer software is pretty rubbish tho, but you can easily hook it up to premiere/final-cut/ any other acquisition software.The MiniDVs are the less expensive of the range and are on the same price tag of the samsung above.
But, seriously, as far as you're interested in experimenting, just get one which has good hardware and it works easily with your computer. At the end what you need is just a decent lens and the white balance option.- better get one with the firewire interface (for transfers)Fariska
- Dancer0
Is there any free software out there that I can use (Mac)?
iMovie or summit?A mate of mine has advised me to get and HD one but surely that is Mega £££
- chossy0
Nah the one you posted shoots HD, did you look at the mpg I made for you?. it's from that camera. I don't think it's that bad by the way. certainly worth £145 pounds in my opinion.
- epikore0
I want to mess around with some video in my flash as well, but don't want to spend too much. The quality on the flip isn't so great. The canon hf10 is awesome, but it cost $800. Too much for just a hobby.