What is the best low budget camcorder?

Step 1: Set a budget. "Low budget" is too vague.

Understand what you want to use the camcorder for. 1080p resolution can be done by camcorders and many smartphones, dSLRs and point and shoot cameras. This resolution item, alone, is not going to determine video quality. Lens diameter and imaging chip size (larger is better for both); low compression on the captured video; audio control and a mic jack will all contribute to decent camcorder capabilities.

Inexpensive camcorders have small lenses and imaging chips. Low light performance will be poor. If you must have good low light performance, then large lens diameter and imaging chip systems are required. As the price of the camcorder goes up, the lens and imaging chip system gets bigger.

Inexpensive consumer camcorders may not have a mic jack or manual audio control. If really loud or really soft audio is required, then you need manual audio control and you may need an external mic. As the camcorder increases in price, a mic jack appears, manual audio control in the menu appears and then manual controls move to the outside of the camcorder, no longer buried in a menu. Use of an external audio recorder (with or without external mic; will have manual audio control) is possible and adds a step during editing to synch the audio.

Inexpensive camcorders compress the video a lot. This means video data is discarded and reduces video quality. As camcorders increase in price options for less compression are available.

"megapixel count" is used for still image capture only. High definition video is

1,280×720=921,600 or about 1 megapixel.

or

1,920×1,080=2,073,600 or about 2 megapixels.

Your JVC Everio GZ-MG132 is a standard definition, PAL-encoded/localized, hard disc drive based camcorder that captures very compressed video to TOD files. Standard definition video is either 704x576 (4:3 aspect ratio) that gets us to 405,504 pixels (or 0.4megapixel) or as widescreen, 1024x576 = 589,824 pixels (or just under 0.6 megapixel). This should help you understand why your video is not so "crisp". When you pile on the high compression, it gets even worse. If the camcorder captures at highest quality, you have a better chance at better video and the video files will be larger. Compress the video for small file size and the video quality will be reduced.

The affordable camcorders to look at are likely in the Canon Legria HF R and HF M series. We hope your computer has the horsepower to edit the AVCHD compressed video captured by these camcorders.

The camcorders today with flash or sd playing cards ought to artwork. I have a newelectronx twin digital camera camcorder with 3.5mm jack mic, 1080p HD video recording and photo taking, with CMOS digital camera it fairly is marvelous in low gentle situations and crisp in day or evening situations - also has that nifty evening resourceful and prescient for evening capturing horror videos.