Which HD Mini-Camcoder is the best?

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Which HD Mini-Camcoder is the best?

I want to buy a Mini-Camcorder (like the Flip Mino HD) since Ean liked the grainy look of the video of my last DJTT-article.
Which one is the best currently?

The following features would be nice but aren’t required:

  • 1080p recording
  • replaceable memory (SD-cards e.g.)
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I’ve got one of these:
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/Products/HM-TA1/Overview/5470885/index.html

Really good video quality and dirt cheap - highly recommended mate

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I hear good things about the flip videos.

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The Mino’s don’t support Full HD recording and also don’t have an SD card.

I’ll look up some reviews of it.

Currently I’m all hot for the Sony bloggie MHS-CM 5V which is 170€ though but offers even optical zoom.

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Sometimes the footage on the Flip’s are really wobbly. Not in a hand held kind of way, the footage gets stretched and squashed. It’s super annoying and can happen a lot.

I dont recommended one.

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Don’t get a Panasonic - teach them a lesson for stopping the tech12’s :stuck_out_tongue:

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Ok Thats what a friend told me as well. They’re out of the race now.

True, but nothing is confirmed yet cross fingers

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I heard good things about the Zoom Q3, and the sound of the Zoom units is generaly quite decent for their price, dunno for the video side of this thing

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Why not get a new Canon that shoots video too. They are TOP NOTCH. Plus you can use any lens you’d get for typical Canon cameras and the work just as great for video.

They may cost a bit more, but the results are beautiful.

Plus you can get things like low light friendly lenses and get killer video in dark places, or with wacky lighting.

Seems to me a better way to go than throwing your money down the drain on some of the recent options.

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iPhone 4

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Juan, can you recommend a model with a good cost-benefit-ratio? Low-light friendly lenses sounds ace.

@photojo: I’ve got one at work. This is definitely not the quality I am looking for. So far I’ve been using my Motorola Milestone mostly, but its time to step up the game.

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Well then, this is the camera I use :wink:

http://www.avalive.com/Panasonic/AG-HSC1U/33791/productDetail.php?utm_source=googleBase&utm_medium=feed&utm_content=AG-HSC1U

The Sony one you linked looks like a solid camera. This Sanyo series looks pretty good. There’s even a waterproof one for the fools slinging beer around.

http://sanyo.com/xacti/english/

[ame]Amazon.com

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Kodak Playsport.

I bought one from Ebay for under £100 with a spare battery and a 16GB card as a bonus.

Here’s a vid with a girl in a bikini…

Oh, and you can use it underwater to 3 metres or so.

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I have a Flip Mino HD and am pretty happy with it, actually. I’m very impressed with the sound quality (I’ve recorded live bands from fairly close and had no distortion). No SD card, though, and it can be a little shaky. Never had the image wobble thing happen, though.