What Are Some Good Video Cameras?

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. It would take $3500 to buy a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of this camcorder

1. Question about HD video camera/Canon T2i?

the T2i is a camera cameras take good photos camcorders take good video cameras have crap sound camcorders have reasonable sound most cameras have focus once when taking video camcorders constantly focus cameras take about 5mins of video before they fry their chips(or just switch off) camcorders can record 90mins no problem. cameras are very difficult to hold steady camcorders are specially adapted to make that easier need i go on?

2. What are some good video cameras?

this camera takes very high quality vids and pictures and its 400 dollars its called an Everio G by JVC and i got it on the internet

3. Cheap good video cameras please help?

Well I do not know how just right the pleasant is but however I just acquired my man a Jazz Video Camcorder at Walmart on sale plus tax for about $32. It uploads as an AVI and has a developed in mic and speaker plus a 1.5 inch preview screen and a pop out USB. I just purchased it at present

4. Good video cameras that are in a reasonable price?

Quickly, HD is a marketing term. If they told you this is a highly compressed format that is a step backward from good old MiniDv and developed because most consumers can not (or do not care to) understand the tape format and editing. A $2000 HD camera will record 11 gigs of data per hour. Little old 720 X 480 MiniDv gets 13 gigs/hour. That is 15% More data for 1/6th the frame size. What is even more important for you, however, is how the HD creates a crappy picture. HD relies on reference frames, as few as 2 each second. The remaining 28 frames record only a predetermined level of change, and "interpolate" (mathematically guess) the differences between frames. Disaster for action sports. MiniDv formats are uncompressed in the brightness channel, and have low compression in the less important color channel. The little compression is "inter-frame". No frame relies on its neighbor for image data. The end result is you can take footage from a MiniDv camera and up-convert it to 1920 x 1080 and still have a better image quality that footage shot in HD. You can get a new Canon ZR960 for $250. You will need a few tapes and a firewire cable. Otherwise, look at the used market. You should easily be able to find a used Z or elura series. I would be skeptical of a GL-1 going that cheap, but you never know. I've known a lot of people that got a GL for a single trip or wedding. Anyway, look into the format. A HD camcorder you likely will max out at 4-5 gigs/hour, which is really shooting yourself in the foot for quality. You would need to add about $3100 to get a clear quality advantage over standard def, MiniDv.