how do I go about choosing a good camcorder?

Answer 1

well first you got to choose what are you gonna use the camcorder for! do you just wanna make home videos extreme videos (snowboarding etc.) or videos of lets say nature. and you will have to decide what format of the video do you want the camcorder to record ... theres lots out ther theres miniDV miniDVD vhs-c HDD and other stuff.... for the price range.... now if you just want a camcorder that has a good quality of the video and doesn cost a lot i suggest you get a vhs-c cam corder JVC GR-AXM18U its a nice cam corder that records vhs-c tapes.. if you wanta camcorder that records dvd format you should get a dvd camcorder ! if you want something that records tapes and you can put it on a pc i suggest you go with the miniDV camcorder that kind of camcorder uses tapes which are smalled than vhs-c and they have a firewire connection to your pc... if you want something that will not use any tapes , disks or anything i suggest you go with jvc everio its a harddrive camcorder and its really nice (if you got the money for it) the cheapest once are like $599 (but in walmart they lower the price) it has 30gigabytes inbuilt memory on its harddrive and records mpeg4 format i bellive.. well its your decision just go and look at camcorders for a while look at different formats and brands good luck filming :D

Answer 2

Check out Consumer Reports. It doesn't take advertising, so product ratings won't be affected by companies. It's about 50 cents a week, and its reviews show options available, prices, etc.

Or do a Google search of "camcorder buying guide".

Answer 3

well u must check dis site for choosing a good camcorder www.camcoderinfo.com

Answer 4

holy crap! you are the first person ive seen on here that actually want to choose a camera yourself instead of having other people choose it for you, which is what i did. there are tons of ways of going about it, but the way that worked best for me was going on camcorderinfo.com and then just reading about cameras.

you can go there and depending on what kind of format your looking for, you can click on one of the many reviews on the front page, or click on a category on the left side of the home page.

then after reading a review, therell usually be some comparisons with other cams of the same format. the comparisons are really short, so find the cams that your interested in, and search for them on the site, then compare them for yourself.

for example, when i searched, i read about the pv-gs250. then on that page, there were comparisons to the gs150, and gs400, i think. then i read about the gs150 and it compared it to the gs250, gs65 and a couple other cams, but only the gs series were 3ccd so i excluded them. then i searched the gs400, and it compared it to the gs-250 and the canon gl2. so after all that searching and reading, i got an rough comparison of the best to worst (aproximately, based on picture quality, and features): gl2 & gs400, and, gs250 & 150 & 65.

so thats basically it. if youre really thorough, itll take hours, but it lends great results, and helps you find pretty much exactly or close to what youre looking for.

hope this helps!