Recomendations for new HD cam

[LeperMessiah26]

We will be seeing Nickelback 3rd week in September here in Stuttgart, I want to tape in HD, so need to purchase a cam for the evening.

I DO NOT want a HDD cam, bad bad experience with a HDD cam (Sheffield 09 Metallica) so either to bog standard tape, or usb or something.

So, needs must....

To tape in full HD
To have a good inbuilt audio mic (im not into all that external mic stuff, dont have a clue lol)
Have a good inbuilt image stabiliser
Be a decent size
Have a decent zoom

No no´s

No HDD (Cant stress that enough!)
Erm...thats it!!

Budget is around 500 euro, but will send the cam back once finished with it lol so its fine. I dont see/tape enough gigs to warrant paying 500/800 euro for a cam to keep. Just buy one when needed, and send it back

Anyway, feel free to throw in suggestions of cams, but with reasons. Personal knowledge, personal use etc

Cheers guys

LM26

[norbinho]

i for mayself are using canon camcorders since 2010 and i have always been satisfied with the results.

the recent cam i'm using is an HF11 with a built in 32 gb memory, but you can also use SD cards with it.

about the inbuilt audio mic, i think the audio quality is pretty decent with canon camcorders as you can change the level of the audio mic manually when recording.

i'm not familiar with newer canon camcorders, but i'm sure they aren't worse than older ones

[Sepu]

hey Michael, I use a Canon HFS21 and it works fine for me! Like the one of Bernd you can save on SD cards too.

With 500 Euro you can't probably get a so good cam!

[The Commader]

Hey michael i use a Panasonic great picture quality: I use HC-X800. I can recording in Stereo. HC-X900 recording in 5.1 sound but who needs it? All soundboard recordings also in Stereo.

Here are some Modells for beginners:
http://www.panasonic.de/html/de_DE/8333 ... nker_83336

And here a clip which I taken with my HC-X800:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3s52s26 ... ture=g-upl

[Paganec]

I'd recommend Panasonic SD90 if you can find one (old series of Panasonic camcorders), predecessor of HC-V700. Its VERY small, I've never experienced problems with securities, very good inbuilt mic (no distortion).

Some of my recordings' sample if it will help:
Nile - Lashed To The Slave Stick (St.Petersburg, Russia, 04.08.2012) FULL HD
Rammstein - Mutter (St.Petersburg, Russia, 13-02-2012) (FULL HD)
Slayer - Angel Of Death (St.Petersburg, Russia, 19.06.2012) FULL HD

[LeperMessiah26]

Thanks to all for the recomendations. I am not allowed to buy a HD cam, as we are moving house in 2 weeks, so I must use my old shitty SD sony cam for taping
I may not even bother at all, I dont trade now, so its just a pointless excercise taping IMO!!

[The Commader]

Women are stronger than a man believe,right? Greetings to Katrin!

[Vortex]

Panasonic TM-80 is not bad at all, some issue in the dark venues, but it's pretty cheap.

[valenok12]

I use Sony ax53. Will be Pretty good for capture live shows!