Good cheap cameras to record?

Good cheap cameras to record?

Define "cheap". To me, that means poorly made and inexpensive. I can't recommend anything that has both these attributes - you would get to use it once, it breaks, you're done and if you replace it, then you paid for it twice and this starts to not be so inexpensive.

Hoping your definition is isolated to "inexpensive", that has different meanings to different people. Cameras and camcorders that can record video can be as low as $50 and be over $80,000. Assuming you stay in the consumer grade video capture device area, that can top out at around $1,500. Given these ranges, $200-$300 should not be unreasonable. The Canon HF R500 camcorder has a mic jack… For around $150, there are pocket cameras designed to capture still images that happen to capture video as a convenience feature from Canon, Panasonic, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm and a few others. If their prices are near each other, their captured image quality will be similar. None have a mic jack.