Looking for HD Cam

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Permalink Reply by Earl Chessher on April 16, 2011 at 1:32pm

Hello Jay.

The Canons you mention are ALL standard definition (SD) cams, not HD. And probably the ONLY one of them you'll find for $1K is the GL1, and trust me you wouldn't want it. These are, however, GREAT units ... I continue to use my XL1 and GL2 units for production work because the cry for HD production simply isn't being heard from my client base ... YET!

There's a whole slew of decent consumer units out there for $1k, but the really decent stuff is likely to go over that a couple hundred. The Canon line, if you can still find one, has the HV series, ending with the HV40, that might fall in the $600 or so category and might be well-worth considering, depending on your project expectations.

I'm sure some others will pipe in here soon.

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Permalink Reply by Jay Prescott on April 16, 2011 at 2:42pm

I'm tapeing something that may be on tv.

Earl Chessher said:

Hello Jay.

The Canons you mention are ALL standard definition (SD) cams, not HD. And probably the ONLY one of them you'll find for $1K is the GL1, and trust me you wouldn't want it. These are, however, GREAT units ... I continue to use my XL1 and GL2 units for production work because the cry for HD production simply isn't being heard from my client base ... YET!

There's a whole slew of decent consumer units out there for $1k, but the really decent stuff is likely to go over that a couple hundred. The Canon line, if you can still find one, has the HV series, ending with the HV40, that might fall in the $600 or so category and might be well-worth considering, depending on your project expectations.

I'm sure some others will pipe in here soon.

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Permalink Reply by Jay Prescott on April 17, 2011 at 5:13pm

OK, got one, it's not HD but it's good enough, Thanks.

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