Jorden Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 My brother and I are looking into getting one of the professional type cameras for filming our hunts. What are things that you need to look for such as zoom, resolution, lux etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungbuster12point06 Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 What's your price range? And do you want HD or SD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorden Posted March 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 We were looking to go HD and as far as price, we really dont have a set price. We dont want to spend a lot so if anyone has a used one that they want to sell that would work too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Sounds to me like you need to stick with Standard Definition. The High Definition stuff is surely better but the expense won't stop at just the camera. You also need HD compatible editing software, a computer with a VERY large hard drive capacity, an HD DVD burner and player. It takes a high horsepower computer to edit HD video and even then expect it to take a long time even to do short clips. For hobbyist outdoor video making look at Canon's Powershot S2 IS,S3 IS and S5 IS. With a 2gb SD card you can record 28 minutes of video at DVD quality. Getting it into the computer afterwards is simple as putting the card in your computers card reader. The cameras are light and easy to carry. SD memory is cheap and practically infinitely reusable (easy to carry several cards). The sound is stereo and digitally wind filtered. The work with standard easy to find AA batteries and Lithiums last an incredibly long time in them. No more recharger stress! And because these cameras are primarily stills cameras, they of course take great still shots. I feel like a broken record recommending these cameras to outdoorsmen who want a decent camera to take in the field. I don't care. I bought mine thinking eventually I'll get a "real" video camera. I can absolutely say that this camera's video function is NOT a joke like it is on practically every other dual use camera I have ever handled. In fact I still haven't got the "real" video camera because the video function on these Canon's is so hard to beat. Here's a frame capture from a Canon Video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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