Camcorder advice

sauer

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hi guys

my brotheres cam corder has packed up..it was an old jvc ...cracker in its day but nowt compared to stuff nowadays.

i myself have a sony HDR-HC9 and its awesome

both of our camcorders are mini dv, always found that to be easiest coz i can download edit etc but keep the tapes/ originals as back up without stuffing full a pc.

anyway what makes model would you recommend?
stay mini dv or go hard drive recorder?
and its gotta be budget....not bothered bout loadsa stuff that he'd never use...just decent optical zoom (mine is only 20x but more than enuff ) not bothered if no digital zoom .its crap .

would be mainly for general videoing of roe / wildlife etc and general /family stuff.. so hopefully summit thats pocket size

any recommendations?

yours
sauer / paul
 
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Give John at Yorkshire Deer Stalking a PM, he has lots of good footage of various stalks and general outdoor footage.

TJ
 
I now use a jvc everio sd card.
but used to use a sony hhd which broke.
liked my way around the sony more.
if money no object look at hd but find 1 with at least 20X zoom.
 
I use a Panasonic HDD 50x optical
has 60GB HDD with upto 54 hours recording time
has both an SD card and Hard drive which is easy to swap from one to the other
very easy to use with quite quick focus and pretty fast & smooth zoom-in action
The one thing i like about it most is it is very robust as it gets a fair bit of use & abuse , It keeps a long battery life
very pleased with it for the price
 
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