Camcoder

[norbinho]

Yeap Bernd... Im plan to film Metallica in Prague, maybe Slayer in Slovakia and other shits

I thinkink about:
Panasonic SDR-H280 (looking great IMO, but... price)
Panasonic SDR-H40 (great zoom 42x !!! good price, but only 1ccd)
Panasonic NV-GS330 (miniDV, but great picture quality)
JVC Everio GZ-MG255 (havent optical stabilization, but good price)

There's your winner by far from your candidates.

Don't look for Zooms like 42x... Have you ever seen what kinda picture it is when you zoom all the way? Slightest move you make will look like a earthquake in the picture unless you use tripod, but I doubt it since you are doing a bootleg recording. Also the Vignetting starts to effect on the picture.

i agree with you...zooming too much and moving is more than horrible for the video!!

[norbinho]

Yeap Bernd... Im plan to film Metallica in Prague, maybe Slayer in Slovakia and other shits

I thinkink about:
Panasonic SDR-H280 (looking great IMO, but... price)
Panasonic SDR-H40 (great zoom 42x !!! good price, but only 1ccd)
Panasonic NV-GS330 (miniDV, but great picture quality)
JVC Everio GZ-MG255 (havent optical stabilization, but good price)

I plan to buy camera after 1-1,5 month

sounds great, dusan..wish you luck for prague...i will try to film bologna and jonschwil!!..hope security doesn't behave like assholes as in vienna last year!!

...and i wanna do at least one iron maiden show too!!

[Dusan]

Great Bernd... btw how U take your camera due security ? Any tips how to do it ?

[norbinho]

Great Bernd... btw how U take your camera due security ? Any tips how to do it ?

i always have a sweatshirt or something like that with me...i put the cam into it and hold it normal in the hand...when security come i put my hands in the air and so far they never checked what i was olding in hands...hehehe

[Dusan]

great tip :D

[Flickn]

sony hc-36 or 21

[Dusan]

thanx for a tip, but I dont like sony

sony hc-36 or 21

[Metfan91_]

I have a JVC GR-DA30 and it works great, I use it all the time, I haven't been able to record any concerts with it yet but I think it will do the job, I recomend it

[TayfunRaider]

i have a dvd cam and its a bitch, you can only record like 20min in XP quality and 30min on SP. when its time to try and edit the videos on the pc is fuckin hard to extract the videos from the mini dvd.

also if the camera gets too shaky it wont record properly.

Hi Jarrur and Elmoz, I'm new to camcorders and checking out some to learn about these days.
The DVD-Recorder one I mentioned above is a hybrid one, so it can record directly to a flash disk thus provides more space.

But as you say, HDD cams are more preferable having more than enough space to record in XP, being the price the only minus.

Don't know TayfunRaider who could actually recommend that camera, besides salesmen. The camera you suggested records standard definition video. DVD-cameras are obsolite. I'd rather buy HDD (Harddrive) then dvd-cam.

Only pros I think are
-DVD-cameras that you don't have to author. Just insert it to your dvd-player
-Share it with your friends by mailing them.

Cons:
-With best picture quality only 20min recording times. You'd need many disc to record a full show.
-They get scratched
-They video is already packed to mpg2.
-The editing is somewhat different.
-The disc needs to be formatted, takes time.


Get HDV/AVCHD if you are gonna film with the camera in the future to come.