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Sunday, 15/Jun/2008
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After discovering that a camera I inherited from my mother is capable of recording short videos with sound I decided to have a bit of fun with it today. Regular readers might remember that I moved house recently (not to Islay unfortunately, just closer to work). Here's a video of yours truly pointing out from where he is blogging about Islay:
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Playing around with that camera and recording some small videos I decided it is finally time to get a ‘proper’ digital video camera. My only problem is that I don't know much about them. I'm wondering if any of my readers know about digital video cameras and can provide me with recommendations or suggestions? Here are some of the things I think I'd like in the camera of my dreams:
- A ‘real’ viewfinder as well as a monitor/display, kind of like in a SLR. I don't like having a display at the camera only and having to hold it far away from my head.
- Real zoom, i.e. optical zoom capability (not sure how much though). Not the nonsense digital zoom.
- Large recording/storage capacity, I guess a harddrive is the best solution?
- Recording in a standard format (MPEG-4? H.264?), not something I need to convert before being able to make it available on the interweb
- Sound capability, may be with both an internal and external microphone?
- Not too small, but not too big/heavy either. I need to be able to take it on to walks in addition to my digital SLR (Nikon D70).
So if you have any suggestions or recommendations, be it for cameras or websites to read, feel free to leave them in the comments. I've got about 3 weeks before I leave for Islay again, I hope to have the camera by then.
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