I have never owned one but I am looking to buy one this week, likely from eBay.

Requirements:
1) Must work in quite low level lighting such as indoor arenas for karate tournament footage.

2) Must be quite easy to transfer footage to PC/PS3 for playback.

Budget:
Tricky one, but i am hoping to spend sub £500 on this unit if possible, but not knowing current technologies i have no idea what can be aquired for that sort of budget. Less would be better.

Thanks in advance for any help fellas /Ladies.

 

look in costco stu - they have one with a 30gb harddrive too, plus if u dont get on with it yer can return any goods to costco n get a full refund, there deffo under 500 too.

 

ive owned a few,,, they seem great as an idea, but i never use them! much rather take stupic clips on my camera phone

 

Stu if u go for a Sony item I might be able to help

 

Thanks for the help so far guys, will have a read of that site scotty...

Bobm, i know nothing about them so dont know what it will be so Sony is as good as anything else to me at the moment...

 

right ive got a panasonic camcorder, cost me about 130 2 years ago, uses mini DV tapes , so 60mins record time on a tape, came with software and a usb cable.

plug it in to the pc and transfer the video, pretty straight forward, editings where it went over my head, no real expert at all, this is just what i use

 

Stu,

We bought JVC GZ-MG175EK from Costco, around the £300 mark IIRC. Should be less now...

It's a 40GB drive, and works quite well.

Vid clip from our quite dim pub on the way to your email. It's nearly 5 meg, hope it works LOL

 

Sounds a posibility.

 

Thanks for the e-mail, the Quality on that looks fine mate, how long do you get from 40GB as i expect to need about 3hrs per session.

 

At that quality, which I think is the highest, it's telling me I've got 9hrs 34min left. There are 2 or 3 other short clips on there.

It says on the side you will get 9 to 50hrs depending on quality.

So, you'll breeze 3hrs

 

Excellent. This may the sort of technology i need then.

 

Looking for sumit similar myself

Ye 40GB hdd should be ample, think along the lines of how much goes onto a dvd or sky+ recording etc, think the struggle would be the battery life, you probs gonna need a couple at least for 3 hours , well unless that technology moved along as well, but going by the old N95 it aint that good lol

Steve

 

Seems the stuff that records directly to SD is good nowadays too. looking quite seriously at this baby here:


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...E:B:EF:GB:1123

 

Well, summed it all up and i am happy with that one so ive bought it, thanks to all who helped me out.

 

Ebay strikes again, Stu?

JJ

 

You know me James, 24hrs research then buy buy buy.

 

Anyone wanna see my first hollywood blockbuster?

 

get it on youtube then


on another video issues stu, have you got a link to the 2dr running the launch control and als you did?

cheers.

 

Cant, its too big. roflol.


Will be on my new site when its launched, maybe sometime this week. Should be on my eBay ad too i think.

 

http://www.evolutionchips.com/video/...%20project.mpg *NOTE: size of file is 211MB

Right click - save as - will play in Windows Media Player.

Sadly i have yet to figure out how to expose correctly for bright subjects without it darkening teh scene, but its not bad for my first ever movie i dont think.

Bear in mind its compressed to MPG 2 now, recorded in 1920 x 1080 it was 1.6gb.

 

downloading now 20mins to go!

oh and cheers found the als vid

for anyone else interested

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/06...current=LC.flv

 

Is it in my own photobucket account? Doh, sorry.