Hi Ruben, I've had the opportunity to play around with a few video
cameras lately, trying to work out what is best. My experience with
cameras up to about $1,800 is that none of them handle low light (one
lamp in the room, dark corners) well, but none was particularly worse
than the others either. However, if you use your normal overhead
lights, the video quality is very good. I don't think you would need
special lighting to get good video, even with the Sanyo.
I wonder what other people's experience is?
With regard to the HCSD cards, I haven't read of any problems with
the newer AVCHD cameras recording in full high definition onto the
cards. I've tried the Panasonic SD1, which produces excellent HD video.
cheers, Susan.
On 02/08/2007, at 11:41 PM, Dark1 wrote:
I'm considering buying a video camera so I've been doing lots of
reading lately. I'm mainly interested in recording times spent
with my friends (most of the time indoors at night). I tried
reading the Australian Macworld as Lloyd suggested but the article
focuses on cameras around the $2000 mark which isn't what I'm
looking at. I've been reading up on the Sanyo VPC-HD2 mainly due
to Martin's recommendation on it.
I've got 2 main concerns with this camera. I'm worried about how
it will perform under house light conditions. I'm not sure what
people classify as low light conditions but apparently the camera
has lots of noise in low light.
I'm not too sure on HCSD cards. From what I've been able to find
on the net the rating on the class relates to the sustained data
write rate in Mbps. That means a HCSD card with a rating of 6
wouldn't be able to sustain recording at the highest quality
setting which runs at 9Mbps.
I'm guessing that the HD2 will come to a cost of around $1000 by
the time I buy sufficient HCSD storage and at least 1 additional
battery.
If anyones got any info that could be helpful to me, suggestions or
comparisons with other cameras, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks
Ruben
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