[OT] Digital camcorder recommendations?

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

I love my canon ZR whatever.  Mine is old enough that it doesn't have a built in light (I use one that plugs into the "shoe" on top) like the newer ones do.  Would advise against a camera without a light.  The canons can also send video and sound directly to a pc via the firewire.  I found the video cameras made by Sony and Canon to be pretty comparable, but I have had way better luck with Canon stuff not crapping out on me.  Got it from buydig.com, I think.



At least a few years ago, the video resolution on DV cameras varied quite a bit, and Canon was on the better end.  Also, I prefer the MiniDV tapes to the Digital 8mm we use at work.  Apparently there is/was a slight resolution/quality advantage to those at the time (3.5 years ago).  



Features I was looking for and wouldn't do without:  Light, Color viewfinder, 720+ lines vertical (I think) resolution, and OH YEAH!  I almost forgot.  Get the most OPTICAL zoom you can get.  Digital zoom looks really crappy by the time it gets to a TV of any size.  Keep in mind that, by the time you are embarrassing your kids with these videos we will all be using HDTV big flat panels or something.  :)



Brian









 --- On Sat 03/25, Ron Pieper < rapieper@yahoo.com > wrote:

From: Ron Pieper [mailto: rapieper@yahoo.com]

To: amalventano1@tds.net, doubt@inwave.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:28:19 -0800 (PST)

Subject: RE: [OT] Digital camcorder recommendations?



I'm sure Al's is newer than mine but I've got a Sony DCR-TRV525.  Love it, and for many of the<br>reasons Al mentions below.  You won't go wrong along this path.<br><br>Ron<br><br>--- Allyn <amalventano1@tds.net> wrote:<br><br>> For that price point I'd comb ebay for a sony DCR-TRV27. I have one and couldn't<br>> be happier. Sony DV cams in particular have the ability to pass normal video<br>> (vcr, etc), through the camera, and out the firewire port to a pc, which saves<br>> having to buy a converter if you ever want to archive all of those old videos.<br>> The models newer than the TRV27 seem to have pushed everything to the touch<br>> screen and made it a pain to just grab the thing and shoot, which is what I need<br>> to do for those occasional kid shots, which is likely to be the same as your<br>> purpose.<br>> <br>> HTH<br>> Al<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Scirocco-l mailing list<br>> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>> 
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