A good video camera to buy?

I love taking videos, but I never post them on the Internet or show them to friends because the quality doesn't always show what happened. I have a Nikon cool pix and it's meant for taking pictures, not videos.So, I was wondering what would be a good video camera that I could look into? It'd mostly be used for videos taken while sailing.

If you don't mind SLR I would suggest Rebel T2i I love the camera and it works mostly for videos if you want just a point and shoot may I suggest a flip camera they are pretty cheap and just for videos but if you want water proof The Kodek playsport is pretty good the quality can be choppy but you can shoot underwater

Consumer level HD camcorders have 4 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording consumer level HD camcorder, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) These Consumer level HD camcorders all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes - four different times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video. Not to mention, but the computer you upload your HD files to jas to have at least a 1 GB video card and a separate Audio card that can support Direct X 9 technology, you normal every day computer has massive troubles with HD video. Consumer level HD camcorders interpolate the video. This means they take one frame, make up the next 4 or 5 frames, take a frame and repeat this, over and over, for the remainder of the video, every video it takes is like this. With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.

You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250.It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a MIC jack. You will need a Firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a Firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.

http://www.usa.canon.com/...ders/zr960

Have a look at Canon 550D. It's called the Canon Rebel T2i in the US. It has an 18 mega pixel sensor and takes great photos. It also has 1080 HD video, with a choice of frame rates. The video quality is superb, it looks great on my high definition TV.

It depends if you want it HD or just regular quality.

HD is most likely going to be alot more money.

If you want to save money use Amazon.com or Ebay.com and just search for Sony/JVC cameras which are good.

JVC has some nice cameras and are cheap while Sony has better quality cameras but cost alot more money.

You can also check for a camera at your local best buy or any other electronic stores and you can see the quality taken with the camera it self.

You go with Canon PowerShot S100… I think
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