Kamis, 11 Juli 2013

What's a good digital camcorder to purchase for low light situations?

Q. I'm looking for a moderately priced digital camcorder that will record high quality footage in low level light situations, but also have really good sound quality. Mostly for recording live music in small club type settings. Geek speak is Greek to me. I get really confused when people talk about bites and pixels and whatnot. I just want something that can see in the (not completly) dark without being green.

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What is the best Camcorder for recording live music?
Q. It is very loud music and almost always in clubs so it is very dark, ive tried to look online but everything is from 2007 and older. any help would be great, thannks.

A. Anything with manual audio control. I think the Canon HF M series is the least expensive - your other option is to get whatever camcorder you want along with a digital audio recorder. The Zoom H2 or H4 are good examples - Tascam, Roland, Marantz, and many other company make similar "field recorders". When you import the video to a computer for editing, import the audio from the field recorder. Synch the audio with the video and mute the audio that was recorded by the camcorder.

As for the low light behavior of the camcorder... you need large lenses and large imaging chips if the stage lighting is that poor. The Canon HF M and HF R series have 58mm lens filer diameter but a single CMOS imaging chip. Compare these with the likes of a Canon XHA1 or Sony HDR-FX1000. They will get great low-light video... but their lenses and imaging chips are very large...





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