Q. Can you recommend a feature on a camcorder that can do this? Thank you.
Dennis C Thank you for you're very helpful answer.
Dennis C Thank you for you're very helpful answer.
A. Hi "September":
The term "low cost" is a relative term. Low cost to Donald Trump or Mark Cuban might be a few thousand dollars. Camcorders run anywhere from $50-$50,000 USD (and more!). If you give us a real dollar-budget, we can be more specific as to models.
But as to the basics of your Question, the cheaper the camcorder, the smaller the video sensor usually is. Smaller sensors (and smaller lenses) don't capture as much light (just like a smaller mouthed bucket in a rain storm captures less water). So, low-light capability is less.
And cheaper lenses aren't as good quality in passing light as more expensive ones (this is the F-stop aperture rating of the lens). Even at its widest aperture setting, a cheap lens won't let as much light get through to the video chip.
When you're shopping for a low-light/dim-light feature, Sony and other makers use terms like "Night Shot", or "Low Lux" in their feature list. Enhanced features like "Super Night Shot" work in almost total darkness. But even with these features, low-light video can look grainy or "noisy" without special chip-cooling features to eliminate random electronic circuit & thermal noise.
My Canon camcorders compensate for low-light with a setting that uses a lower frame-rate (letting more light photons fall on the video sensor for each frame), but this results in a stuttery, somewhat blurry image when objects are moving.
Good video is a "get what you pay for" proposition.
Dim light, in video terms, is usually in the under-10-Lux range. (Kitchen fluorescent lighting is 300-500 Lux; a cozy living room is around 50 Lux.) But before shopping for a 1-Lux or "<1 Lux" rated camcorder, read this informative Videomaker Magazine article on low-light cameras: http://www.videomaker.com/article/9466
hope this helps,
--Dennis C.
The term "low cost" is a relative term. Low cost to Donald Trump or Mark Cuban might be a few thousand dollars. Camcorders run anywhere from $50-$50,000 USD (and more!). If you give us a real dollar-budget, we can be more specific as to models.
But as to the basics of your Question, the cheaper the camcorder, the smaller the video sensor usually is. Smaller sensors (and smaller lenses) don't capture as much light (just like a smaller mouthed bucket in a rain storm captures less water). So, low-light capability is less.
And cheaper lenses aren't as good quality in passing light as more expensive ones (this is the F-stop aperture rating of the lens). Even at its widest aperture setting, a cheap lens won't let as much light get through to the video chip.
When you're shopping for a low-light/dim-light feature, Sony and other makers use terms like "Night Shot", or "Low Lux" in their feature list. Enhanced features like "Super Night Shot" work in almost total darkness. But even with these features, low-light video can look grainy or "noisy" without special chip-cooling features to eliminate random electronic circuit & thermal noise.
My Canon camcorders compensate for low-light with a setting that uses a lower frame-rate (letting more light photons fall on the video sensor for each frame), but this results in a stuttery, somewhat blurry image when objects are moving.
Good video is a "get what you pay for" proposition.
Dim light, in video terms, is usually in the under-10-Lux range. (Kitchen fluorescent lighting is 300-500 Lux; a cozy living room is around 50 Lux.) But before shopping for a 1-Lux or "<1 Lux" rated camcorder, read this informative Videomaker Magazine article on low-light cameras: http://www.videomaker.com/article/9466
hope this helps,
--Dennis C.
What HD camera is best for YouTube videos?
Q. Making videos long and close ups under 200$ budget price and what video editing software to mess the videos with it. Also want to know how can YouTube get you paid?
A. Consumer level HD camcorders have 4 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording consumer level HD camcorder, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) These Consumer level HD camcorders all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes – four different times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.
With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.
You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.
Search for any of the ZR line, used could be cheaper. For close ups, learn to turn your camcorder easy or auto function off and then learn how to focus a camcorder.
Focus tip - set camcorder on a tripod or firm surface. Find something far away ( I use a Post it Note, on far wall above light switch) then zoom in on this object, all the way. Focus your camcorder on this object. Now return you camcorder to normal zoom, show the big picture. Now, if you do not turn the camcorder off, it will be in focus from the distance away your focus object was to the camcorder lens, at any zoom ( say your focus object was 15 feet, everything up to 15 feet will be in focus, anything beyond that 15 feet is not.)
http://www.videomaker.com/article/14923/ This is for your editing part.
Getting paid on Youtube, Make about 400 videos, get !000 followers and more than 100000 views on half your videos, they might notice you and add you as a partner.
With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.
You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.
Search for any of the ZR line, used could be cheaper. For close ups, learn to turn your camcorder easy or auto function off and then learn how to focus a camcorder.
Focus tip - set camcorder on a tripod or firm surface. Find something far away ( I use a Post it Note, on far wall above light switch) then zoom in on this object, all the way. Focus your camcorder on this object. Now return you camcorder to normal zoom, show the big picture. Now, if you do not turn the camcorder off, it will be in focus from the distance away your focus object was to the camcorder lens, at any zoom ( say your focus object was 15 feet, everything up to 15 feet will be in focus, anything beyond that 15 feet is not.)
http://www.videomaker.com/article/14923/ This is for your editing part.
Getting paid on Youtube, Make about 400 videos, get !000 followers and more than 100000 views on half your videos, they might notice you and add you as a partner.
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