Camcorder

privateb · 23-10-2009, 12:13

Hi guys I have £300 burning a hole in my pocket in Currys vouchers and would like to buy a camcorder and dont know where to start! Idealy I want a HD compatible device and the best I can get for my money, does any one have any suggestions or recomendations?

23-10-2009, 12:31

Panasonic all the way imo but dunno if you will get an HD one from Currys for that

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can you add a ton to it lol http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/stor...ory_oid=-31057

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sanyo is the only company on the Currys site with HD camcorder for £300.

dd11 · 23-10-2009, 13:15

If you want HD then I'd recommend one of the Sony's that record to hard drive. There are others that record to flash memory, SD card etc, but with them your limited with how much you can record, where as the hard drive ones record for hours.

Some of them may be HD, but in 720p/i HD rather than full HD 1920x1080i, (iknow 1080p is full HD but yeah i don't know any 1080p consumer camcorders myself), so yeah make sure you check that if your bothered about it.

I have the Sony HDR-SR10E, great but ashame it doesn't have mic input, it records to hard drive in mpeg 2 in SD & .m2ts in HD which iknow people have trouble finding compatible editing programs for, Sony Vegas works of course though, I had to build a more powerfull PC to edit HD though).

No idea how much they are in currys though.

23-10-2009, 13:34

hard drives fail if you buy 16 gig flash drives and one fails you shove another in

also the hard drive models are a fair whack heavier

The panasonic records in m2ts files and comes with software to create AVC from it

dd11 · 23-10-2009, 13:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by zing

hard drives fail

True, but we still use them.

23-10-2009, 14:14

How easy would it be to replace the HDD in your camcorder? everything I have that has a hard drive in can be easily replaced by me and that includes my Sky box

dd11 · 24-10-2009, 21:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by zing

How easy would it be to replace the HDD in your camcorder? everything I have that has a hard drive in can be easily replaced by me and that includes my Sky box

If in the event that the drive had failed and the camera was out of any warrently etc on it, an a replacement hard drive was needed, i don't think changing it would be such an issue, but more of where to get the replacement drive that small from.
So yep that may be a bad point of hard drive camcorders.

But i do enjoy the simplicity of available recording time and ease of file transfer with them.

Do let us know what you decide privateb.