WOW.. Okay let me see where to begin... I have been using my Fuji Digital camera which takes 20 seconds of moving picture.. no audio. Which isn't always a bad thing. Down side... It's trash for lighting and anything taken indoors ends up dark and out of focus.
I am borrowing my mum's digital camera... much nicer than mine a Canon Powershot digital elph. very nice improvement in the lighting department and it takes up to 10 minutes of footage. Downside? Mic is evil and pics up only the closest noise and once you're a few feet from the camera you can forget about being heard. Now... as for what I want to do? I have many concepts and very few of them revolve around my children's activities... WOW... a mom that isn't obsessed with her children's every move? I'll pause for the collective gasps from the crowd. Yes I do want to be able to vlog the kids birthday parties or our family to-dos.... I also want to be able to vlog local talent in our coffee house, do small mini-films etc. I'm not wanting to do anything terribly Pretentious by any stretch of the means, I mean I'm not doing this to get rich or famous... but even with a hobby you don't want substandard tools. I play guitar for fun but that doesn't mean I'm gonna go buy a cheapo guitar from the local pawn shop just to get the job done. $700.00 dollars is my budget allowed by a very supportive if somewhat confuzzled spouse for my vlogging habit... I don't plan on making TV or Film Quality Documentaries... but I also don't want my home videos to suck big time in the quality department. Thanks so much for this feedback gang!!!! I'm so diggin on the helpfulness out there in our vlog universe Cheers! Lisa --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stephanie Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lisa, what kind of camera equipment do you have right now? Do you have > a digital camera? Do you have a webcam for your computer? What kind of > videoblogs do you want to make? > > You can make a videoblog without a camera, using photos you've taken, > for instance and clipping them together as a video. Or screencast a > recording of your desktop. > > A lot of digital cameras also have a video feature-- mine takes 7 1/2 > minutes of video on a 512 MB card. It was about $300; I could buy a 1 > GB card for 15 minutes of video for another $100. > > I moblog using the video feature in my cell phone. Cell phone: $250, > plus the cost of monthly service. Videos are small and kind of grainy, > and limited to 30 seconds at a time, but I can vlog with them. > > For my main vlog, I use a 5 year old Sony Handycam that uses Digital 8 > tapes. Go Digital 8! Never had trouble with the camera quality, though > I will someday afford myself a tiny DV camera. > > So, when you ask how to get what you need, the question comes back: > what do you want to do? Figure that out, and then you can decide what > you really need. > > On 2/3/06, Mrs. Ours MA PLPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Okay, so... where does a gal with an extremely limited budget go to get what > > she needs for less than 700.00 including carrying case, tripod, memory > > upgrade? > > > > I have an embarassing wealth of children and thus an embarassing lack of > > funds!!! > > > > What's a newbie really require? I've got aspirations of course but I can > > always upgrade if needed in a years time. > > > > Thanks ever so, > > > > Lisa (the inquisitive one) > > > > >From: "Bill Streeter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > >To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > >Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Predictable cam corder question > > >Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:07:55 -0000 > > > > > >Just say no to Digital 8. It's a dying format. Go miniDV, or > > >something that can record to a card. > > > > > >Bill Streeter > > >LO-FI SAINT LOUIS > > >www.lofistl.com > > > > > >--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "grasshopperatyourfeet" > > >Holistic_One@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Okay... > > > > Here comes the inevitable and somewhat obnoxiously predictable but > > > > obligatory novice vlogger camcorder question. I found this deal at > > >Best > > > > Buy... Could use advice.. it's looking pretty reasonable and with > > >the > > > > tripod included seems like the way to go... > > > > Opinions please? > > > > Thanks Ever So, > > > > Lis (Richard's Daughter) > > > > > > > > http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp? > > >skuId=999945500050003&type=produ\ > > > > ct&productCategoryId=pcmcat8000050006&id=pcmprd45700050003 > > > > <http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp? > > >skuId=999945500050003&type=prod\ > > > > uct&productCategoryId=pcmcat8000050006&id=pcmprd45700050003> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to > > get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Stephanie Bryant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: > http://www.mortaine.com/blogs > Yahoo! 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