Looking For A New Cam

[metallifreak27]

im looking a getting myself a new cam

i have been talking to a few people over at MD, and otto ove there reckons to go with a cam with a hard drive

i was under the impression that mini DV cams were the ones that gave u the best quality

can anyone here help me out?

[jarrur]

First you need to ask from yourself what you want from your camera now that you need new camera. We could recommend you anything what WE would want to use.

Then perhaps we can help.

[metallifreak27]

well, the one i have is a dvd cam, and it just doesnt give me the best results

i can have up to $1000 AUD to spend on it

i mainly want to just use it for taping bands, both indoors and out

any more info u want?

[jarrur]

That didn't give much.

Mainly what I wanted to know is what you want from your camera?

Just by asking for a new camera doesn't do it. I'd say go for Sony HDR-HC7 and that's it. But do you really want it?

- Do you want/need optical Image Stabilization.
- Do you want/need HDV/DV
- Do you want/need external microphone input.
- Do you want/need AV in/Out
- Do you want/need 1 or 3 CCD
- Do you want/need native WS

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When you know what you want from your camera, it's more easier to choose.

[metallifreak27]

That didn't give much.

Mainly what I wanted to know is what you want from your camera?

Just by asking for a new camera doesn't do it. I'd say go for Sony HDR-HC7 and that's it. But do you really want it?

- Do you want/need optical Image Stabilization.
- Do you want/need HDV/DV
- Do you want/need external microphone input.
- Do you want/need AV in/Out
- Do you want/need 1 or 3 CCD
- Do you want/need native WS

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When you know what you want from your camera, it's more easier to choose.

ok, i will ask a few more questions now jarrur, as u seem to be the guy in the know

what EXACTLY is
-optical Image Stabilization
-HDV/DV
-native WS
-1 or 3 CCD

i obviously know what these are
-external microphone input.
-AV in/Out

and im not sure about if i will get a mic or not, but i would like the AV in/out

most people are telling me to go for a hard drive cam

[metallifreak27]

oh, and i need it to be the SONY brand, as i already have spare batteries for that brand

i have founf these 2 just quickly looking on their AU site

http://www.sony.com.au/dis/catalog/prod ... ryId=22123

http://www.sony.com.au/dis/catalog/prod ... ryId=30727

what do u think?

[Duane]

This is the one I have....works pretty good.

http://www.dvspot.com/reviews/panasonic ... _pfv.shtml

[metallifreak27]

this is a quote from someone from videohelp.com

"dv is always the way to go....it gives you flexiblity for editing and for future in case you want to make hi-def from your DV. HDD camcorders are useless unless you are lazy and do not want quality. They have never and will never compete with DV. Now....I wish someone would make a HDD DV camcorder with an HDD you could replace....now that would be good.

get a good DV camcorder and do not waste your time with HDD camcorders. they are prevasively junk....

ugggg...... "

[Yverish]

The only bad thing of a HDD camcorder is that you don't have a "real" master you can keep.

Quality wise, a HDD camcorder with 3 CCD's would not be less than a DV cam in my opinion. I have one with 1 CCD and I'm happy with it, but in dark venue's it is a bit pixelate in the dark area's of the video (I don't really care about it).

[jarrur]

what EXACTLY is
-optical Image Stabilization
-HDV/DV
-native WS
-1 or 3 CCD

-Optical Image Stabilization helps your image to stable. It corrects the shaking of the lens. So when you shoot without tripod this is the one you want to have.

-HDV is High Definition Video (resolution from 1920x720 upto 1920x1080)
-DV/MiniDV is Digital Video USed for SD (Standard Definition, resolution 720x576 PAL). MiniDV is the most used.

-Native WS is Native Widescreen 16:9. The format that camera uses to capture film. Mostly Camcorders just crop the video leaving video out of the picture. So it's good that it films without cropping. This is the aspectratio of the future. Not anymore 4:3

-1 or 3 CCD are the panels that are used for primary colors. Red, Green, Blue (RGB). 1 CCD uses one panel to capture these all. 3 CCD has one panel for each color. So 3CCD is naturally much more brighter and has crisper colours.


If you wanna have HDD, these things are getting absolete. You can already see that they are selling them at low prices to make way for the MemoryCard-cameras.

MiniDV has stood in the lead for many years now. People may use newer formats to record their videos, but they still need to keep the masters so they will have to transfer to DV/miniDV.

So naturally you wanna store your masters?

Hope this helped.