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I'm looking for a good 200-400 dollar camcorder?

I've been doing baseball trickshots for some time now and I'm in need of a good camcorder. A camcorder than doesnt blurr up when i move too fast or a camera that doesnt blurr to much when i zoom in far.. I also need one that can shoot well in low light areas. Any help???

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  • 10 years ago
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    Consumer level HD camcorders have 4 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) These Consumer level HD camcorders all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes – four different times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video. Consumer level HD camcorders interpolate the video. This means they take one frame, make up the next 4 or 5 frames, take a frame and repeat this, over and over, for the remainder of the video, every video it takes is like this.With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds 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 will 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. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.

    http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/ca...

  • 4 years ago

    I genuinely have the canon fs100 and it takes very fantastic video clips yet terrible stills. it incredibly is incredibly ordinary to acquire by utilising way of a card reader or a USB twine. It has very solid battery lifestyles yet you ought to purchase the sd card one by one. i'm utilising a 16G card yet I genuinely have a pair of spare enjoying cards. Battery lasts around 2 hours and sixteen G provides me around 3 hours of video.

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