Camcorders

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Thu May 20, 2004 5:47 pm

Herbert West wrote:If you want to use it in bright areas then you can buy a 300$-400$ dollar el cheapo dv-cam, i only know german sites but jvc, panasonic and sony have good cams in the lower price range.

So has long has its a DVcam its good? and that means I need a firewire correct?

Herbert West · Post by **Herbert West** » Thu May 20, 2004 6:15 pm

I think i have never seen a dv-cam without firewire out.
Yes, you need a firewire port on your pc, if you dont have one you can buy firewire cards.
The biggest problem with cheap dv-cams is that the video quality is really bad in dark areas, you can only make good shots in bright sunlight.
A good optical!!!(not digital) zoom is also nice to have 16x shouldn't be a problem in the lower price range.
dv-in allows you to store the edited video back on dv-tape, nice feature because dv-avi needs lots of gigs on the harddisc.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Fri May 21, 2004 2:03 am

Steve's Digicams - Reviews of Camcorders

There's a link on that page to some information about Firewire (aka iLink aka IEEE-1394).

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 12:21 am

basically if you dont want to get over the budget of $500 you should consider the
Canon ZR series
theyre reasonable prices with simple controls
ZR series would be a value over performance miniDV camcorder that lets you edit footage

oh ya you can edit video by buying a cable to connect the PC's firewire to the camcrder's DV port