What HD camera is the best?

My brother has been planning on making a sort of online show.What low budget HD camera gives the best results?

  • It's more of a comedy sketch with different episodes. It's mostly going to take place inside a room with normal to low light. He's been searching for a camera that will give him the most professional looking results. Anyone have any suggestions as to what HD camera between $200-$500 would give the best results? Any specific qualities I should look for in a camera?

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    I really fail to see how a mini DV camcorder will produce videos that are better than HD? If that was the case they'd cost more :s How about a Sony Handycam HDR-CX130? Have a look at some footage on youtube first though as I don't know much about video cameras I just edit film footage for people

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Here is a amazing one. I did some research and this is the cheapest one i found which was HD Camera: Panasonic HDC-SD60K -Matthew

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Getting a HD camcorder is taking a step backward in Video Quality. HD camcorders Interpolate the video, which means of every 25 frames of video, 4 or 5 frames are taken by the lens assembly, the other frames in between these are filled in by the camcorder inner circuitry, thus giving you not true video. MiniDV tape camcorders give every frame of every shot and usually cost less. http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part1_camcorder_choices.htm http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part2_connect_camcorder.htm 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. MiniDV is currently the most popular format for consumer digital camcorders. MiniDV camcorders are typically more affordable than their HDD and DVD counterparts. Each MiniDV tape will typically hold an hour of footage at normal recording speed and quality. MiniDV tapes are available for purchase at not only electronic and camera stores, but also at drugs stores and grocery stores, making them easy to find while your on vacation. There are literally hundreds of MiniDV camcorders available; both in standard and high-definition. And add the fact that to get a HD camcorder that could produce better video quality footage, one would have to spend in excess of $3500 fro that camcorder that could produce higher quality video. http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/camcorders/consumer_camcorders/zr960

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