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Want to buy something budgety (although would rather spend more if it's worth it). I realise these are a bit of a rare beast now. Don't really want to go the DSLR route and phone videos lack the optical zoom and better quality of a larger CMOS chip. A brief look shows that 4k cameras are perhaps still a bit pricey, although they'd be more future proof, but happy enough with HD. The real cheapos tend to lack an option for adding a mic, which I'd kind of like. Thoughts?

what sort of stuff are you going to be filming, or shouldn't I ask? ;)

just wondering if you mean you want a traditional hand held camcorder for home movies etc, or do you want to make your own short films, so want something "serious".

A friend got one of the cheaper Go Pros, for use when he did 3 peaks, mountain biking etc, but he also has used time lapse on it, just to film scenery with nice results.

I've seen gigs filmed with gopros with good results as well

but I suppose an external mic wouldn't really fit in with what they're aimed for.

just having a little look at Currys, I remember my dad getting an early Panasonic vhs-c one for family holidays, which was still pretty big, I got a smaller JVC vhs-c one, mid/late 90s, when they started to be  handicams.

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admars says...
"what sort of stuff are you going to be filming, or shouldn't I ask? ;)"
It's prime purpose is for filming 'making' videos for youtube/website (quite dry and boring really). GoPro with it's fixed wide angle is not really that good for this. Need the close-ups and the flip-screen.

There are a lot of cheap Chinese cameras out there with amazing kits of extra handles and directional mikes and lens shades and stuff for like 90 quid. Amazon is flooded with them. Strongly suspect they are a load of crap.

after you posted, I did a bit of googling as was curious what options are since I've not looked into it for years, pocket camera and phone are fine for my needs.

I suppose you have seen the gudies, recommended for movies, vlogs etc, amazing how much some of those 4k ones are.

I guess if you just want it for youtube then best option is to read what sites say about what they use, read a top 10, and then play with a few in Currys and see which you like.

not sure how long those cheapo ones would work for



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"I suppose you have seen the gudies, recommended for movies, vlogs etc, amazing how much some of those 4k ones are."
I remember I had 4k video recording on my old Sony phone from 6 yrs ago. I was kind of hoping it would be on all camcorders by now. Looks like you have to spunk £500-£600 before you start to see it. I am too cheap. Argos here I come...

There are so many guides but they are often quite dubious, just after click-thrus or views with little decent info, or very quickly out of date.

A few years back...(actually was 9 years ago!) I was involved in a project with a group of kids where we made documentaries and Panasonic provided us with all our equipment for free.

This is the equivalent one right now, same functions, but i'm sure it's been upgraded since! Here

We also had a handheld mic and a boom, both worked really well with it and results were great - we came 2nd in a national comp.


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"This is the equivalent one right now, same functions, but i'm sure it's been upgraded since! Here
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Thanks for that. Will check it out.

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