Video camera Advice

[Norris_309]

Any of you guys know about video cameras/ camcorders?? as in whats good at the moment,
what sort is best to get?

The mother-in-law to be, wants to get us a video cam for a present, but i havn't got a clue what sorts are good now a days,.
I've had a brief look at one of the ones that write directly to mini dvd's which was pretty good.

Anyone got any advice..

 

[MRBILLYUK]

The ones that record directly to dvd aren't as good as the mini dv cams . Plus you'll most likely want to edit the footage afterwards and remove all the rubbish so its better recording to mini dvd tape and editing on your pc .

I have a canon mv750i . I got it from pixmania . Things to look for are does it have firewire , what optical zoom it has , anything over 20x is good , ignore what digital zoom is as its the optical zoom thats the important one. Other things to look for is does it have AV in as well AV as out , then you could copy old vhs tapes onto the camcorder .

Batteries are usually very expensive so go for aftermarket batteries not the manufacturers batteries as they can be had for up 25% of the price .

Alot of the time they dont come with a bag , you could haggle this on the deal .Mine also has an sd card so it can be used as a stand alone camera .

 

[Norris_309]

nice.. thanks for that mate..
Had just been looking on currys site to see what sort of things are around.. probably have around £350 for one.
There is one on there with a HDD (supposedly hold upto 25 hours of video - on crapest quailty) but then i suppose you may run out of space with that and not be able to put new minidv's in.

How much video can a minidv hold?