WHAT IS BETTER -DIGITAL CAMERAS OR CAMCORDERS IN HD VIDEO RECORDING?

You would need to spend in excess of $3500 in order to get a HD camcorder that can even come close to the video Quality of a $300 MiniDv Tape camcorders videos. Consumer level HD camcorders, henceforth known as 'camcorder(s)' have two major faults. as follows. Fault one, movement. If any one in front of a recording camcorder, moves, there are screen ghost and artifacts following that movement in the finished video. Fault two, fuzzy, blurry, out of focus areas around people in HD camcorder footage. View youtube videos, you will see what I am talking about. Another, not so much as a fault, record times are limited on hard drives and DVDs and flash memory. With MiniDV tape, it is as simple as changing a tape. One tape will give you 90 minutes of recording time. You can get a Canon ZR 930 for about $300 and a ZR960 for $250. Both of these have Mic jacks. And both these camcorders have outstanding video Quality. As far as MP values for video camera, forget them. They are for still cameras, 1.3 MB camcorder shoot good video.

hd video recording maybe? idk

Simply MP has nothing to do wint video cameras, its always measured in resolution, full hd being 1,920×1,080 giving you just over 2MP You have to read the small print on the cameras discription to find this out, the makers want you to believe the Mp count is far higher than it is (video) if you want a camera that can give you 14MP then you need to be looking at red cameras, starting at $25, 000 for only the body. www.red.com Sony and canon, there is little difference between the two makes it just depends on what you are looking for and how much you want to spend. Cameras (stills that take video) normally have a limit on the amount of video you can take at one time, either down to the maximum file size or protection for the camera against overheating, this is mainly a problem with consumer cameras. say less then $4,000. I cannot give you Full information as you do not say how much you want to spend, less than $500, under 1000 under 2000 or more, RR