Before I begin, two things:
1) It's been a long time since I last posted here, so "Hey" to anyone who might remember me!
2) I've read Certified Instigator's posts about good cheap cameras.
So, I'm looking for a new camera. Full HD isn't a necessity to me, but it seems o be the way to go as far as future proofing goes. HDD storage is a must, because there's no way I'm paying NZ$500 for 16GB of SD Card when I just bought a 1TB Hard Drive for NZ$300.
Anywho, I'm looking at two main options at the moment.
1) Panasonic HDC-HS9 (available to me for NZ$1,040)
2) Sony HDR SR10E (available to me for NZ$1,299)
Has anyone had experience with either of these, or can shed any light that staring at a spec sheet isn't getting through to me? I can see that the Sony has slightly better optical zoom but a slightly smaller HDD (though 20GB isn't a significant difference as far as in-camera storage goes for me). It seems the Sony might be a single CCD a opposed to 3CCD?
Anywho I'll quit rambling for now, so yeah. Any thoughts?
Morgneto, Master of Morgnetism
Morgneto, Master of Morgnetism
Welcome back!
That Sony handycam uses one 1/5? CMOS chip. It?s a tiny camera and
doesn?t have a mic input. This makes it unacceptable for making
movies, in my opinion. But since your only ?must? have is a HDD
then this camera meets your needs. The lens Ziess lens is decent
and there is limited exposure and aperture control.
The Panasonic is another really small camera. It does have 3 CCD?s
but I personally hate that joystick focus. Maybe it?s because of
all the years I?ve been operating cameras - a focus ring is what
I?m used to. It has no control over exposure or a mic input. This
makes it unacceptable for making movies, in my opinion. It does
have HDMI out. But the port is behind the battery so you need to
be plugged in in order to use it. But it has your ?must? - a HDD.
The reason neither of these cameras are on my list is because of
the lack of microphone input. To me, that is essential. But
either of these cameras are fine for point and shoot.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
Ah yes, you make an excellent point - one of the things my team need to upgrade is our sound gear, so a camera with no mic input is useless to us as you say. Hell, my current 5year old Panasonic NV60 has one!
Thanks for that, I'll continue my search 🙂
Morgneto, Master of Morgnetism
Morgneto, Master of Morgnetism
I'm now looking at something a little more pricey, namely the Panasonic NV-MD10000. It's a weird one because it's hard to find good info about it (I couldn't find it on Panasonic.com for example), but it's going for NZ$1,500, seems to be a solid camera and I had a chat with my Media tutor at University today and he'd been looking at it as well, agreed that it looked pretty good.
Any opinions or insights? It's 3CCD, has a mic jack, focus ring... It's miniDV which I figured might be outdated but my tutor at least is of the opinion that it's all good. Really wondering mostly about resolution - doesn't seem to be a full HD camera (though that's not a worry) but would like to know what kind of reloution I can expect when transferring it to PC.
Also It has a 16:9 "mode" - is that to say it's not as good as a camera that's natively 16:9, or is it fine? The last thing I'd want is to be stuck with faux widescreen.
Morgneto, Master of Morgnetism
Morgneto, Master of Morgnetism
