Posted: 9/24/2007 12:16:58 PM EDT
| I have a project coming up that is pretty exciting, except I need a high quality video camera and I know nothing about them. This is going to be used to shoot interviews and other random stuff. Any suggestions? |
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I use a Sony DCR-SR300. Done a couple of client videos with it. I've had it for a while and there asome more interesting units avaibale now, but I really like the fact that it writes diorectly to it internal hard drive in a standard format. No more converting to an editable file or long download from the camera to the computer. Computer treats the camera as an external hard drive and you can edit directly on the camera or move the recording to your computer, back it up and edit away to your hearts content. |
Cool I will have to look into this one, the main reason for the high quality picture aspect is I am doing sort of a video journal project of WWII vets and I would like it to be the best possible. |
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I too am looking at vid. cameras for the SO. From my learnings I've gathered that video cameras utilizing internal hard drives or discs for storage have relatively poor playback and reproduction quality. They look good when viewed through the camera, but quality suffers when the video is copied to computer and then DVD. Although it seemed completely counter-intuitive to me most articles point to DV tape as the best recording/reproduction quality. I'll be making a purchase this weekend. |
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I like Sony miniDV cameras the old 3 chip TRV900 was a nice one: cgi.ebay.com/Sony-dcr-trv900-TRV-900-MiniDV-Digital-Camcorder-3-CCD_W0QQitemZ280156839227QQihZ018QQcategoryZ20333QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem the HD cameras are nice but pricey www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-HDR-FX1-First-Impression-Camcorder-Review.htm look for a camera that has variable audio levels on the microphone |