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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I hope we have a camera geek here.
I'm going to CES in January, and I want to shoot some video of ebook readers. I don't own a video camera. The best camera I won is a consumer model with a resolution around 6MP. It can shoot 640x480 video. Is this good enough? If not, then can you recommend a good camera? What about a tripod?
Thanks.
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What's the budget? What are you using to edit the footage? How powerful is your computer?
Dependent on all these, I'd go for a HD camcorder (solid state or memory card or both) that's capable of doing full Hi-Def (1920x1080px). Pair that with Sony Vegas editing software and you're golden (assuming you're on Windows. If you're on Apple then Final Cut Pro is a no-brainer).
At the low end you can go for the
Sony TG3E which is available for around £400 and does full HD.
For a little more you can get the
Canon HF200 (a friend of mine has this one). Lots more features and a very good camera for around £600.
All of these Hi-Def cameras need a pretty beefy PC for editing, nothing less than a core 2 Duo with plenty of RAM and fast Hard Drives (preferably one for scratch and one for source footage).