The best camcorder?

Question

Whats your opinion?

DVD, Tape, Flash memory, ect.

Whats the best and most convinient?

Thanks alot.

Answer 1

Hey topshelfcheapsuit,

My choice is the JVC GY-HD200U, got it for christmas, it's a professional camcorder for shooting film. It's $6,500.00 dollar , check it out her  http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/featu...

Answer 2

adding to what Nu'uanu said about most convienient.

flash would probably be considered the most convienient since it'll pretty much slot into your machine with little problems where as mini dvd/dv and hard drive will have to have your camera attach to the computer for importing.

i do agree with Nu'uanu as far as mini dv goes. it is still better than all the other formats (in consumer terms)

Answer 3

I like miniDV tape based camcorders because they provide the best available video quality in standard definition and high definition. This is because DV and HDV compress less than any of the other formats and the tapes are automatically the archived video. MiniDV tapes are small, easy to carry or store and have a good shelf-life for long term storage.

DVD based camcorders record the WORST possible video quality of all the consumer camcorder media available - especially for moving to a computer for editing. The video data stream is compressed way more than the others. Video data compression = lost data = poor video quality.

Hard drive (HDD) or flash (but not the toy flip cams like AipTek) are in between miniDV tape and DVD based camcorders - though definitely closer to miniDV tape quality... they compress a lot, too - but not as much as DVD based camcorders. I don't like the extra step of having to copy the original video somewhere for archiving (to another hard drive or optical disc) - as I said with miniDV tape: what you shoot IS the archive. The Flash memory cameras with removable memory seem pretty neat, but the flash memory shelf lif is unknown, and it is still way more expensive than an equivalent amount of miniDV tape storage.