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Defeats the purpose
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Defeats the purpose
73 posts
Location: Washington, DC USA
Posted:
Apologies if this isn't the appropriate forum for this--I'll trust y'all will point me in the right direction if that's the case.
I've been making videos pretty regularly for the past year with a Sony Cybershot still camera that has video capabilities. It's done a fine job, but I'm getting to the point that I'm a little tired of the muddy audio, crappy framerate, short battery life, and constantly wandering autofocus and am interested in getting a new camera specifically for filming firespinning and other prop spinning.
Does anybody out there have any favorites? I've found one thread on this so far in the HoP forums, but the last post was in 2005, so I'm assuming the technology has changed somewhat since then. I'd like to stay away from mini-DVD based cameras as I've had a couple nightmares arise from editing friends' videos and trying to get them from the little DVDs to computer.
Are the flip cameras any good for this sort of thing or just crap? Is a decent camera doable for under $500 US? What tricks are there for keeping things in focus? Do any lower-end camcorders have decent mics or is muddy audio just par for the course?
Thanks a lot in advance, all
Apologies if this isn't the appropriate forum for this--I'll trust y'all will point me in the right direction if that's the case.
I've been making videos pretty regularly for the past year with a Sony Cybershot still camera that has video capabilities. It's done a fine job, but I'm getting to the point that I'm a little tired of the muddy audio, crappy framerate, short battery life, and constantly wandering autofocus and am interested in getting a new camera specifically for filming firespinning and other prop spinning.
Does anybody out there have any favorites? I've found one thread on this so far in the HoP forums, but the last post was in 2005, so I'm assuming the technology has changed somewhat since then. I'd like to stay away from mini-DVD based cameras as I've had a couple nightmares arise from editing friends' videos and trying to get them from the little DVDs to computer.
Are the flip cameras any good for this sort of thing or just crap? Is a decent camera doable for under $500 US? What tricks are there for keeping things in focus? Do any lower-end camcorders have decent mics or is muddy audio just par for the course?
Thanks a lot in advance, all
Peace,
Drex
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Rampant whirler.
2,418 posts
Location: Geelong, Victoria, Australia!
Posted:
I have use a JVC HD camera for mine, I've had no issues, you can take autofocus off and manually focus.. though I tend to forget to do so.
Audio seems good to me. I think once you're getting something designed for capturing video as its primary function pretty well anything works well.
I have use a JVC HD camera for mine, I've had no issues, you can take autofocus off and manually focus.. though I tend to forget to do so.
Audio seems good to me. I think once you're getting something designed for capturing video as its primary function pretty well anything works well.
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