Video camera advice

[Deleted member 11679]

Hello,

Need some advice regards a video camera purchase. Now, before we go any further I need to profess I know very little about this market, coming from a large knowledge of DSLR's I presume Canon, Sony etc are pretty big players?

Target is: the best camera under £500

What do you advise we look at? It is for mainly indoor filming of Swimmers (being used by professional Swimming coaches) where light is not fantastic. Do we go for a 'HD' camera which I so frequently see advertised.

Purposes of the output will be to create DVD's and also video we can stream via the Internet.

Any advice would be great,

Tom

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

If there's any chance you can stretch to £600 go for the Canon HV20, the best camcorder you can buy at the moment hands down and incredible value. Fantastic in low light due to shooting progressive video, which will also make it look excellent on the web and dvd.

If you can't stretch to that go for the Panasonic GS300, it's a standard def camera but it's the best one out there.

It is seriously worth spending the extra £100 for the Canon though!