On 19/1/18, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >Just looking for recommendations on small handheld video camera's. I not >happy how my K5 does video's and am planning a trip to Canada's east coast >this summer.
The thing about video is this. There are still cameras that have video bolted on as an afterthought, more like 'emergency video provision'. Your iPhone will do better video than these types of cameras. There are genuine hybrid cameras that are reasonably good at stills, and reasonably good at video. They tend to be expensive! There are video cameras that may (or may not) allow you to take stills. The word here is 'compromise'. May I make a suggestion? If you want a decent small video camera that will do autofocus while shooting, zoom in and out with a fixed zoom lens on the camera, and auto aperture - there is a good selection available out there limited only by how much you want to spend. A few years ago I used to have a JVC GY-HM100 camera and it was brilliant. If you could get a good one second hand, you'd love it. EVF to look down and/or swing-out LCD panel useful for ageing eyes. AF and AE, a decent zoom lens built in and a removable handle with proper XLR inputs on it for a small mic for good sound recording. Best of all it chucked out genuine Mov files which could easily be converted for editing using software like Mpeg Streamclip. IIRC they even were editable natively in Final Cut. Brilliant little camera - streets ahead of most amateur cameras which tend to have zillions of options buried in menus alongside bewildering buttons that need weeks of reading about in thick manuals before you can even switch the damned thing on. The nice thing about pro video gear is that it has to be easy to switch on and then work out of the box because often times that's exactly what happens to it, by people that really shouldn't be shooting video... (but that's another matter!!) Here's a link: <http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?model_id=MDL101845> Notice the file type it puts out - either MP4 or native MOV files - instantly viewable and editable. That's the killer function here - and the quality is superb. I used mine as a an action cam, mounting it in cars or on bikes etc - because not every action camera mounted needs to be a GoPro. Note that link is archived - I looked on eekbay and here's one that went for 400 bucks US: <https://tinyurl.com/y7mgta2h> That's a steal. Or by all means search out a new video camera (camcorders) from a selection like this: <http://www.toptenreviews.com/electronics/photo-video/best-hd-camcorders/> HTH and good luck! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) | Live Broadcast News ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
