woody Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 OK heres a little survey............. What HD video Camera do you use? How much did you pay for it? Would you recommend it? Where do you mount it? just doing a little market research as I'm thinking of getting an HD video camera. Cheers, Woody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psymon Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Depends on what the camara will be used for. Go pro HD (£270 ish for a package) for Para and action hols, and now using the Canon SLR EOS 7D for everyday photo and Hd filming. With a good lense not much change out of 2k Cheers Si.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_6095 Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 I have got the GoPro HD and enjoy using it. I am new to filming and editing but it is fun to learn with this camera. I got it from USA at $299 when the x-rate was 1.6 so good value. Seems over priced here in UK. My only criticism is that the LED menu screen is pretty rubbish and it is quite easy to make a mistake and end up taking one photo rather than 60 mins of film, but on the positive side it is really compact, light and high quality. While I muck around with it as I am learning I do not use it at the highest quality setting. The results are still quite good though. Here is a sample clip below which is compressed further for YouTube (though you can select 720 HD). Much of the time I was filming directly into the sun and with the horizon in the centre of the field of view it under exposed the land, but I guess this would be a problem with any camera. [youtubevideo] [/youtubevideo]Next step is to try different mounting positions (on foot looking up / forward / under wing pointing down etc). Quite a few examples of footage taken like that on the site. No real experience of any other camera but I hope that this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_k Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Do you have to have a Mac to down load edit with the go pro or can it be done on a normal lap top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haze Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Hi, I use the Gopro HD and it's far superior the Oregon Scientific ATC ActionCam (Blue bullet shaped camera) that I used to use (which wasn't HD). It's got to be said that the GoPro is very quick at switching between contrast levels when going from low light to looking directly at the sun. The Gadget Show (TV show) did a comparison for HD helmet cameras... http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/jon-test/action-cameras It cost me £280 and I'm very happy with it. Easily downloadable to a PC/Laptop. Cheers Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_6095 Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Editing for GoPro: I found that my laptop could not cope with the huge files. It was three years old so quite out of date anyway. It wouldn't play the clips back smoothly on any of the editing programmes or movie players that I tried. On a new mac, however, it works like a dream. I use iMovie which is fine. Maybe I will need other software eventually but it does everything that I want at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_andrews Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 What HD video Camera do you use? Sanyo VPC-FH1 How much did you pay for it? 450$ CAD Would you recommend it? Wouldn't answer otherwise. 1080P @ 60fps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZAr7CFsrzM (recoded to 720p by pootube) all the way down in res and up in fps to 600fps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZv6WD74W8 got some paramotor vides you'd like to see in action??? doubles as an 8mpx camera w/12mpx interpolation, will snap photos whilst video shooting. Where do you mount it? Top of helmet via standard tripod screw. Anywhere a 350ml aluminum pop can will fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 Hi All, Just had a play with a cannon ixus 100 is - very nice, very small & the HD video out of it is excellent! A bit small to use with gloves on but on FleaBay for less than £100.... well worth the money me thinks! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CANON-SD780-%2f-I ... 02fe37ee68 Woody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon_dunn Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Anyone try one of these yet? http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/buy-vholdr-camera.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 they have been replaced by this. http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/contourhd- ... camera.htm I remember watching the gadget show which reviewed them, not as good as GoPro HD. On a side note we are doing the post production on a discovery Program - SpaceDive, where someone jumps from the edge of space & skydives to the ground. We've had a lot of footage off a GoPro HD - very impressive! The only thing about it I didn't like was the Barrel Distortion on the lens. Woody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommcb6016 Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 I think my Panasonic TZ7 is great for HD video and its a bloody good camera too [youtubevideo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thG9m8wwq0k[/youtubevideo] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommcb6016 Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 watch it in hd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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