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Anonymous
Sup /p/

I'm in the market for a digi-camcorder in the £100-£150 range. I'm not looking to buy anything awesomely professional or important, just something that can take fairly decent movies with fairly good audio. But I'm a noob, so I thought the first place to consult would be /p/.

Any thoughts?
>> Anonymous
One word of advice; don't get a Sony. Mine has been horrible, the CCD failed two months in, followed by the tape reading mechanism six months after that. I'm lucky my parents bought a service plan from sears for it (something I'd have considered a waste of money), or else I'd have been SOL.

Also, if I were buying one today, I'd want something solid-state, that is, no moving parts. The tape reader on my sony has been giving me trouble since day one, even before it totally failed I'd have to hit it fairly hard whenever it gave me this weird error.

I'd recommend either a camera with a built in hard drive or one that takes SD cards. Those seem like they'd be much more reliable. They may be more expensive now, but SD cards will probably be going down in price by leaps and bounds in the future. Just make sure you get an SDHC one if you go the SD route, that way you can use SD cards of up to 35GB or so as they come out.
>> XBOX BIGGEST FAN
>>38633
You fail at hating a brand, like another xbox fanboy you are, sony is the company that makes more CCD in the world.

And.. one suggestion:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830120041x
640x480 video at 30fps and a good camera US$ 179
>> Anonymous
>>38639
OP here.
I'm not looking for a digicam, I'm looking for a camcorder.
>> Anonymous
>>38653
Then why did you post a picture of a digital camera?
>> .
OP here

Is there noone with any recommendations?
>> Macheath
>>38633
>>Also, if I were buying one today, I'd want something solid-state, that is, no moving parts.
>>I'd recommend either a camera with a built in hard drive

Hard Drives have moving parts. They spin and have a moving read/write heads.

I own a Canon ZR65MC. The CCD broke and it was a common problem with the ZR line of camcorders (Canon replaced it for free). Other than that, it's a good camcorder and was fairly cheap, but it's also a few years old now.

My friends have had good experience with JVC and Panasonic camcorders.
>> Anonymous
whats £100-£150 in Canadian dollars? I can recommend something from there, if you can give me an approximation
>> ac
>>38751
JFGI
"150 British pounds = 341.169446 Canadian dollars"