Pocket camcorders

maco · December 04, 2009, 01:30:34 PM

Good afternoon folks,

Does anyone have any useful information on the pocket camcorder? I am thinking of buying one and would be interested to know your opinions on what to look out for/avoid, prices, etc. I have heard that they are a great job but the zoom is very poor on most of them. Ideally I would not like to spend much more than £100, and it needs to capture footage in AVI or MPEG format.

Thanks in advance.

Puckoon · December 04, 2009, 01:34:09 PM

What bes going on in your pockets?

maco · December 04, 2009, 01:39:19 PM

You don't want to know!!

The Iceman · December 04, 2009, 01:54:18 PM

buy the Flip

thats all you need to know

best pocket cam on the market for the money

ziggysego · December 04, 2009, 02:31:52 PM

I got myself a Flip from Amazon for £70. For that money, it's an impressive bit of kit and the best on the market at this money. There's a HD version for £150-ish.

maco · December 04, 2009, 02:43:52 PM

What do you think of the zoom Ziggy? Would it be any use for recording football matches at all?

ziggysego · December 04, 2009, 02:57:49 PM

Haven't recorded football with it, but my gut says it would be chancy. I've lend it to someone, but I'll try some fast action zoomed for you during the week and let you know.

maco · December 04, 2009, 03:09:33 PM

Good man Zig - thanks. The main reason I want it is to record games, then plug straight into the laptop for match analysis, rather than use the traditional camcorder and have to playback the game through the laptop. It would speed up the process big time.

ziggysego · December 10, 2009, 10:24:23 PM

I've no sporting events to show you from my Flip Video. However my mate took a video of a fireworks at Croke Park for the 125th and put it on YouTube. He used a Flip Video too.

http://www.youtube.com/user/urnaiboy#p/u/4/O6A5HWt5gIw

Denn Forever · December 10, 2009, 11:08:17 PM

Would the flip be of use to someone who has pretensions (wierd, don't mean he is pretensious but want to make films. Has already done animation with video cameras) of getting into film?

ziggysego · December 10, 2009, 11:29:17 PM

Quote from: Denn Forever on December 10, 2009, 11:08:17 PM
Would the flip be of use to someone who has pretensions (wierd, don't mean he is pretensious but want to make films. Has already done animation with video cameras) of getting into film?

No, no good at all. Unless it's one of those short 5minutes arty-farty films that students seem to love.

maco · December 10, 2009, 11:32:56 PM

Bought a Flip Ultra HD today. Haven't got a chance to use it but it definately looks well.