Looking to buy a new HD video camera? What's the best one out there? Sony I hear has a good one with a retail price of $2000. Any other manufacturers you recommend and what specifications should I look for?
One answer:
Nick N
2005-11-30 10:38:53 UTC
I would wait for HD video, mainly because there are a number of issues with it. It's such a new technology that HD camcorders will halve in price in a relatively short time. Also, with HD video, unless you have a computer hooked up to your HD display, you have no way of editing and then outputing HD video to an HD capable set, so either you're watching raw footage or you're using a computer to watch your video. Once HD consumer DVD devices come out, there will be cheaper solutions for both recording, editing, and outputing HD video, and this should all happen fairly quickly, in a year or so.
If you want fantastic quality and have $2000 to spend a used Canon GL2 will offer much better video quality than any HD consumer camcorder, despite the lower resolution. Otherwise, I would wait.
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