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What's the best camcorder you can buy?

Whats the best camcorder to buy for a movie?

  • Looking to make a 90 minute professional movie at home with my friends. We are working on a screenplay for a thriller/horror movie. Im just wondering what would be a good camcorder to buy to record this. We are not looking for anything extraordinary. Its our first attempt and we are ready to shoot in about a month or two. My budget is about $7500 or so which is still pushing it lol. If possible I would like a camcorder that is simple to use, like I said its our first attempt, so nothing extreme. We will learn along the way. We hope to make movie at 1080p if possible. I looked at at many cameras and I found a lot which seemed good but with the reviews turned out very negative. Such as the Canon XH A1 and several Panasonic ones. Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you all.

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    Well Ive been using canons for a long time, and it seems like you can't go wrong with them. But with a $7500 price range, you've got many options. Let me just tel you to invest in sound equipment and lighting gear too. People always seem to forget that stuff, and its a pivotal role in making a quality movie.

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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. With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes. You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You will need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.

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A quick glance at the XF305 demonstrates a bit of a resemblance to another recent breakthrough camera, the Sony PMW-EX-1. While there are some striking differences (the XF-series 1/3” CMOS imaging chips as opposed to the EX-series 1/2” CMOS, for example,) the form-factor similarities are pretty obvious, most noticeably the fold-out video monitor. When I had the opportunty to test out the EX-1 a few years back, I found the Sony’s LCD to be among the brightest and sharpest I had ever seen; the Canon goes it one better. This 4” LCD screen would put some high-dollar home theaters to shame, with sharpness and brightness to spare.

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