Best skateboarding camcorder for me?

What is a good HD skateboarding camcorder that saves to SD card (no more than $200)?

  • I want a camcorder for no more that $2000 (preferably) that will perform good for filming skateboarding. A slow motion feature of at least 60 Frames Per Second would be nice. So would good low-light performance. It also needs to be able to film and capture high-speed things so that there is no blur. A hotshoe mount or a handle attatchment would be very nice too. It must also have a manual focus ring of sorts. IT MUST SAVE TO AN SD CARD AND NOT MINI DV!! Thank you for your consideration.

  • Answer:

    all SD card recorders will have blur. yes they can record HD of paint drying, but not anything with action. SD card recorders use H.264 aka MPEG4 and take video with a fixed GOF of 8. that means they record 1 real frame and the next 7 are virtual. The non-existant frames are recreated on playback by interpolation. and while you don't want miniDV, that is the ONLY digital video format that takes actual frames, buddy. that is the principle reason that professional skateboarding video is done with miniDV cameras (gosh i knew there was a reason why VX2000s were so popular, all those pro's can't be stupid). Once you put on a fisheye lens, you won't need to focus either, so it doesn't really matter if manual is an option. so for HD you have 2 choices, 1 is Panasonic P2 which records 100 mbps to a 64 GB memory card (no it is not SD card). or 2 is HDV which records uses MPEG2 and does not have the GOF fixed at 8. but guess what, HDV is miniDV tape and not an SD card either. it would be a good idea for you to enroll in video production classes at the community college so you have an actual ideal how the ***** equipment works.

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