Spec me a camcorder

NeilF

NeilF

NeilF

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Want a nice new camcorder. Ideally want it nice and easy to use, not using tape - ie: I'd like to be able to just plug it into my computer say via USB and drag the files to my PC.

It will be used in a mixture of conditions, ie: indoors and out.

Sound is also important - I recently did a little video using a friends digital camcorder, and lucky also ran my old hi8 video recorder at the same time (just videoing a wall). The sound quality on his was terrible so I used my audio track instead...

Say around £300 or less?
 
Dangerous said:
About 10 mins ago I have bought Sony HDRCX105ES for £345 with a £60 cash back offer.
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Wow... That's the exact one I've been looking at. Any chance you could give me a heads up to where that deal is? My email is in my trust if needs be...
 
Its a nice little unit - Had a little play with it and looks good.

Indoor with poor light isnt the best but for this price cant complain!

Due to a shipping error I have been left with 2 of these cameras! :D :D :cool:
 
Dangerous said:
Its a nice little unit - Had a little play with it and looks good.

Indoor with poor light isnt the best but for this price cant complain!

Due to a shipping error I have been left with 2 of these cameras! :D :D :cool:
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I hope the poor light isn't too bad! At least no worse than my super old Hi8 camcorder :(

Two of them? Lucky bugger! Now, try claiming your £60 cashback for both of them :)
 
NeilFawcett said:
I hope the poor light isn't too bad! At least no worse than my super old Hi8 camcorder :(

Two of them? Lucky bugger! Now, try claiming your £60 cashback for both of them :)
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Picture just seems it has a lot of noise but I am comparing it to my HVR-Z1 though so there is a bit of a price difference.

Can't claim 2 cash backs as you need 2 receipts and I only have 1.
 
I have my eye on the panasonic hs/tm300 but it's a little pricey(tm300 I can get for £680 if sainsburys have any instore as my my has 15% staff discount for another couple of week then 10%) but being a bit more realistic and looking at the panasonic sd200(~£470 from sainsburys with the 15% discount) or the canon hf200 from our fav retailer starting with p ( ;) ) for £400(well £399.99).

which would be better the hf200 or the sd200? also what memory card to go for? seen 16gb class 4 pny optima for ~£17, they did have a 2x8gb for about the same price but don't seem to have it at the moment. are the pny good or are sandisk worth double(or more) the price(8gb video hd ultra ii(and normal ultra ii) for about the price of the 16gb pny optima)?
 
seen HF19's in sale for £199.00. seems decent for money with built in 8gb of memory and can take sdhc cards...can't mention where but you wouldn't have to search hard at all
 
do you mind me asking something? which do you reckon is top of the pile for circa £500 HD compact video cameras?
 
well according to trustedreviews.com the panasonic hs200 is the best between £700-£500 with the jvc gz hd300 being the £500-£400 tho can be had for £400 or less. the panasonic sd200 is basically the hs200 without the hard disk(you need to get a sdhc) and is like £550(can get from the famous camera high street retailer for just under £500 with quidco 5% off voucher code + 8% 'cash' back. you pay ~£530 then get the rest a couple/few months later).

I'm stuck between the canon hf200 and panasonic sd200.
 
3dcandy got your email and checked, as I suspected it's the fs19 not hf19. the fs ones are standard def not high def thus being cheaper.

p.s. neil sorry for the hijack :) did you get a camcorder yet?
 
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fowler002 said:
3dcandy got your email and checked, as I suspected it's the fs19 not hf19. the fs ones are standard def not high def thus being cheaper.

p.s. neil sorry for the hijack :) did you get a camcorder yet?
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Got it intime for X-mas (it was a gift!). Incredibly small and compact. And from the little play I've had so far, seems better in low light than I expected. So good stuff! Not bad for £290 :)
 
Rikki said:
FYI onboard sound is always NO SWEARING on cameras, even expensive ones :(
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Well, I'm hoping it's not too bad on the Sony HDRCX105.

We did some videoing a month or so ago with a (cheapish) Fujistu(?) digital camcorder. As a precaution I took my jurassic old Sony Hi8 camcorder along and recorded the scene with it just videoing a wall.

Although the picture from the digital camcorder was good, the sound was terrible, so I dubbed on the audio from my Sony hi8, which was far better/clearer.

I'm just hoping the HDRCX105 I've just bought has reasonable audio - It's not as if it's a cheap unit. It's certainly more expensive than my old Hi8 was at the time I bought that!
 
Camcorders have got cheaper and the audio has suffered along the way unfortunately. People want HD visuals but dont mind cell phone quality sound.
 
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