Having stumbled recently across some cheapish videocam recorders, now at low prices, such as the Zoom Q2HD and Q3HD, which though discontinued may still be available from sources such as Maplin, I wonder what equipment anyone would recommend for video recording these days. Things have moved. on in the last decade. Almost all decent still cameras now do video as well - often in HD resolution, though I think that sound recording could be a major limitation, even if the video quality is good.
Apart from giving advice such as "avoid video like the plague", which I could empathise with, as video does seem orders of magnitude harder to manage than audio, what would others suggest? I am assuming fairly modest requirements and budgets - not at the level of film and TV studios which may use video cameras or lenses valued in the £x00,000s. Some enthusuasts might want to spend £1-5000 though, which could be comparable with a good DSLR plus a modest lens or two.
I think to do audio as well as video, either a completely separate audio system is needed, with possible post production synchronisation problems, or else a camera (or system) which can integrate with decent audio - mixers, microphones etc. I would expect that using only the microphones in cameras would generally give poor results. The Zooms are not bad at the price level, with acceptable sound, though video capabilities (e.g optical zoom) are limited. Does anyone use so called video cameras these days, now that many digital cameras for still shots now also do video?
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Perhaps video is such a minority sport that very few have experiemce, or wish to gain such experience, unless thay are already professionals working in the field. Such people may already have access to decent equipment, and know what they want/need and how to use it.
Apart from giving advice such as "avoid video like the plague", which I could empathise with, as video does seem orders of magnitude harder to manage than audio, what would others suggest? I am assuming fairly modest requirements and budgets - not at the level of film and TV studios which may use video cameras or lenses valued in the £x00,000s. Some enthusuasts might want to spend £1-5000 though, which could be comparable with a good DSLR plus a modest lens or two.
I think to do audio as well as video, either a completely separate audio system is needed, with possible post production synchronisation problems, or else a camera (or system) which can integrate with decent audio - mixers, microphones etc. I would expect that using only the microphones in cameras would generally give poor results. The Zooms are not bad at the price level, with acceptable sound, though video capabilities (e.g optical zoom) are limited. Does anyone use so called video cameras these days, now that many digital cameras for still shots now also do video?
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Perhaps video is such a minority sport that very few have experiemce, or wish to gain such experience, unless thay are already professionals working in the field. Such people may already have access to decent equipment, and know what they want/need and how to use it.
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