Are cheap 1080p video cameras worth it?

Semipro video cameras and Frames per Second HELP?

• Hello, I am looking for a new video camera, and I've been looking at some. Though I have problems understanding some specifications about cameras and perhaps the terminology. I've gradually decided on something that can film in 1080p with something more than 30fps, hopefully 50. And I figured that having a memory card is the modern way to go, not using a DV. However, I see so many cameras that film interlaced (which I've understood is just BAD), use DV or what puzzles me the most: can film in EITHER 1080p 30fps or 1080i 50fps. Is there some kind of connection between the number of frames per second and the "filming mode"(by that I mean progressive and interlaced)? I know that it might look like more frames when its interlaced, though I guess this is not what it means. Is parhaps saying 50i not the same as saying 50 fps interlaced? Cause these two ways of saying it seem so similar, though in my editing software (Premiere) it seems they are not. Can you guys also help me with the difference between anamorphic and square pixels? And the usage of Hertz in film. I thought this was another way of saying fps. If you want to you could also try and find me a camera that fulfills these qualifications. Thank you

• Answer:

  1080p , is progressive scan , is a way of displaying, storing, or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each frame are drawn in sequence , 1080i is interlaced , 1080p is the most common type , and there isn't much 1080 interlaced options out there. 30fps is your 1080p standard on most camera's for the cheaper options of camera , or standalone HD frame rates , you can get Camera's which display up to 60 fps , usually only good for slow motion slow downs such as the youtube exploding watermelon super slow motion type video's (have limited usability and usually for specific applications) 50i is what a render would be if interlacing were chosen as an option DV is a different option , this is purely digital video , which is old type 16:9 , 720 x 520 and usually interlaced (as old TVs were interlaced) but most new TV's are 720p or 1080p anamorphic and square pixels is a mathematical ratio that describes how the width of a pixel in a digital image compares to the height of that pixel hertz , usually is an option which you chose if the image flickers from lighting (florolights have a flicker rate) and TV's and computers flicker , by changing the film hertz the camera ofsets the flicker rate to a higher rate to stop environment light or computer refresh rate flicker