Q. I am an independent film maker in college, and im looking to buy an HD camcorder but im not sure what camera will provide a film look and be under $600 at the same time. PLEASE HELP!!
A. Canon HV20 no questions. Maybe the HV30, but I don't think it is good enough to pay that much more, almost 40 bucks. And also you will want a decent shotgun mic if you want good audio which could run another 100 dollars. So if you have a $600.00 budget this is what I would get....
Canon HV20 from: http://www.topchoicedigital.com/viewproduct.aspx?id=9956788&l=Froogle
Adzen ECZ 990 Shotgun Mic from: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/3646-REG/Azden_ECZ_990_ECZ_990_Super_Cardioid_Shotgun.html
Then invest the other approximate $100 into lighting, or making something that indymogul.com has made that you could use in your videos, check them out.
Canon HV20 from: http://www.topchoicedigital.com/viewproduct.aspx?id=9956788&l=Froogle
Adzen ECZ 990 Shotgun Mic from: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/3646-REG/Azden_ECZ_990_ECZ_990_Super_Cardioid_Shotgun.html
Then invest the other approximate $100 into lighting, or making something that indymogul.com has made that you could use in your videos, check them out.
What camcorder would you recommend for under 600$?
Q. I want one with pretty good video quality that I can maybe use to make pseudo-documentaries just for fun and things of that nature. I see I can get a Canon GL1 off ebay for like 500-ish dollars. Is that the best way to go (it's not HD technically but a good prosumer camera)
What do you think?
What do you think?
A. No consumer grade HD camera can match the video quality of a MiniDV tape camcorder. You would have to spend in excess of $3500 to get a comparable Quality of a $350 MiniDV Tape camcorder.
You can take footage from a MiniDv camera and up-convert it to 1920 x 1080 and still have a better image quality that footage shot in HD.
A $2000 HD camera will record 11 gigs of data per hour. Little old 720 X 480 MiniDv gets 13 gigs/hour. That is 15% More data for 1/6th the frame size.
MiniDv formats are uncompressed in the brightness channel, and have low compression in the less important color channel. No frame relies on its neighbor for image data
HD relies on reference frames, as few as 2 each second. The remaining 28 frames record only a predetermined level of change, and mathematically guess the differences between frames. Sports videos are mostly unwatchable when shot in HD.
You can take footage from a MiniDv camera and up-convert it to 1920 x 1080 and still have a better image quality that footage shot in HD.
A $2000 HD camera will record 11 gigs of data per hour. Little old 720 X 480 MiniDv gets 13 gigs/hour. That is 15% More data for 1/6th the frame size.
MiniDv formats are uncompressed in the brightness channel, and have low compression in the less important color channel. No frame relies on its neighbor for image data
HD relies on reference frames, as few as 2 each second. The remaining 28 frames record only a predetermined level of change, and mathematically guess the differences between frames. Sports videos are mostly unwatchable when shot in HD.
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