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Can any1 recommend a good camcorder?

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  • liquidlives
    liquidlives Posts: 239 Forumite
    We just got a new camcorder for the school's tech department and we went for a Sony. It arrived today and seems to work fine. You can use either memory cards or DVD-RWs so it doesn't take a ridiculously long time to transfer videos onto a PC.
  • emweaver
    emweaver Posts: 8,419 Forumite
    liquidlives wrote: »
    We just got a new camcorder for the school's tech department and we went for a Sony. It arrived today and seems to work fine. You can use either memory cards or DVD-RWs so it doesn't take a ridiculously long time to transfer videos onto a PC.


    whats the battery life like on it?
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  • mymatebob
    mymatebob Posts: 2,199 Forumite
    My Sony which is a couple of years old usually lasts a day on one charge.

    Depends very much on how you use it.

    I tend not to review anything as that uses up battery life. Look at stuff later when it is plugged into the mains.
    never had any issues
  • liquidlives
    liquidlives Posts: 239 Forumite
    emweaver wrote: »
    whats the battery life like on it?
    Not entirely sure as we haven't really used the camera yet, but it has a feature to manage battery life well so that you can use it for longer when it's close to being used up. I'd imagine that it would be good for a fair few hours though.
  • EricaB
    EricaB Posts: 95 Forumite
    just got a canon fs10 - which has 8gb onboard and a slot for extra flash cards
    from the little chance we have had to play with it today it seems a great little camcorder
    battery life is about 3 hours
  • balloo_2
    balloo_2 Posts: 876 Forumite
    emweaver wrote: »
    For our holidays the last 2 ive owned were absolute rubbish.

    I want 1 with a good pic quality and long battery life. Our last samsung only lasted for 15 mins of recording!

    I dont care if its DVD or HDD. Can anyone recommend which is better between the 2 formats?

    Also, can anyone recommend what to buy and / or what not to buy?


    Sorry to jump in here but does "the memory effect" still exist? I was looking at the low battery life. :confused:
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  • emweaver
    emweaver Posts: 8,419 Forumite
    balloo wrote: »
    Sorry to jump in here but does "the memory effect" still exist? I was looking at the low battery life. :confused:

    what is the memory effect? how much the camcorder records?
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  • mymatebob
    mymatebob Posts: 2,199 Forumite
    The memory effect

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect

    Not something I have noticed tbh on either my video camera or my DSLR
  • emweaver
    emweaver Posts: 8,419 Forumite
    ok confusing me as thats what i was asking about isnt it? how long the battery lasts? or am i being dumb here lol
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  • mymatebob
    mymatebob Posts: 2,199 Forumite
    Not really.

    You want to know how long the battery will last as opposed to how it will be affected by the way it is charged
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