I am interested in buying a camcorder for personal use.i would like to know which one is better whether the digital one or dvd one and why ?also could u suggest me some good models (with in £200) and also place where i can cheap camcorders other than ebay
2007-03-01 02:43:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Camcorders
DVD one is better in long run.. try richer-sounds.com 4a bargain.. my hitachi camcorder has lasted years with no trouble.....
2007-03-01 03:26:39 · answer #1 · answered by paulrb8 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry i had 2 sony and a panasonic. Panasonic had great colors but not great lense images were little soft. Sony DCR-HC23 i believe will do nicely for u. Mini DV tapes can record up to 1 and a half hour of digital video of highest quality, 1 hour of digital video is 14gb. On the other the mini DVD can record only half of digital video compressed down to 2gb. May be they go to 45 minutes. So it all depends on the onboard proccesing of video. The mini DV tapes can be processed by any pc and burnt into DVD according to your needs. ROXIO media suit software burns on the fly a DVD, simply satrtup the software put aDVD in the tray connect ur camera and out comes a dvd. The Sony ones on the market now have a hard disk and can shoot hours and hours of digital video. There are also cameras that store video in RAM memory only and this camcorders are really small. It all depends on your budget but SONY is great lense quality Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar .
2007-03-01 03:06:46 · answer #2 · answered by supernova 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got one of those digital ones that use the really tiny cassettes, a Canon one and it's ok but the picture could be better. I don't know about the dvd ones.
Re the price - I got mine from Currys.com. It had a good discount, then a bag and some blank cassettes thrown in. Then I used one of the voucher sites to get a code and got a further 10% off as well.
2007-03-01 02:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go with the DV tape. The DVD is fine but they can be expensive. Plus you can always re-record over the tapes once you put them on your hard drive or to DVD
2007-03-05 02:30:27 · answer #4 · answered by candy_man313 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋