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Originally Posted by luv$
Thank you very much for that man, I appreciate it.
When I said "that much money" I was referring to actually just a month ago when I saw those two cameras for $1300 each, I don't know quite what's up with the cost reduction, and I am thinking I may have been looking at a different camera in the store now.
You've gone and confused me lol.
Anyway, the stills I am not very concerned about, as I have always had an inclination for photography, it's the video that concerns me. I don't have much experience with it tbh, and I heard you say you agree that that cam is not good enough... please tell me why that is. Last question I ask, I promise.  |
If you were in the $1,300.00 range, you were looking at the Digital Rebal. Canon released it to compete with the D70 (basically the same quality and idea, but the Rebel was much cheaper), and thus the pricing on it and the D70 are similar or the same in most cases. In fact Nikon was doing a rebate offer last month up to $200.00 off the camera and body to get the D70 down to the price of the Rebel.
Now onto the video...
For the last few months we used a single-chip Sony camcorder, I don't know the model off the top of my head... Since you are probably shooting for the web, and assuming you don't expext HD type quality, the camcorder you choose is fine...
BUT...
From a usability point of view, the newer Sony consumer cameras have gone too techy. For example, the manual focus is now touch-screen on the LCD panel, no more focus wheel. And if you are shooting close, or through something sheer, or there is whatever sceene that the auto-focus gets all crazy, it's a pain in the ass to manually focus the camera.
That's just one of many pet peeves I have about the new Sony's. If you want something in that price range, look at the newer Panasonic stuff. They have a 3-chip camcorder for under $700.00 right now, I would go with that one.
Let me also add this... I love Sony, always have, always will. I have shot 1,000's of hours of video on Sony camcorders, and NEVER had a problem with them. It is only now that they are making all these changes that I am losing faith in the consumer and some of the pro-sumer models.