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technical => photography => Topic started by: Rabies on February 03, 2010, 10:44:45 am
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Toying with the idea of buying a camcorder, mainly for climbing. How much do people recommend spending to get a decent HD camcorder? Any particular issues to think about?
Cheers
Jon
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A relatively recent thread
http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,6530.msg94682.html (http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,6530.msg94682.html)
One on mini-DV from not so long ago (http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,13201.msg235163.html)
Basically you get what you pay for by the sounds of it (who'd have thought that ::) )
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Thanks mate, sorry only did a quick half arsed search
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'pends how much control you want and how good a picture you want
for point and shoot (option of having lots of control too) with great quality picture
new Canon HV30/40 for £600 to £900
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used HV20/30 for £450 to £550
Whatever you buy, check that you can get a wide angle lens (0.5 xto 0.7x sort of thing) for it. It gets hard to film stuff if you have to stand too far away
loads of stuff on http://www.hv20.com/ (http://www.hv20.com/)
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http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,9768.msg231457.html#msg231457 (http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,9768.msg231457.html#msg231457)
this is another useful thread with a description of my budget HD purchase. but like slack-line said, you get what you pay for.