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Best DV Camcorder for under £300

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Old 16-06-2006, 8:11 AM   #1
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Best DV Camcorder for under £300

I need to purchase a DV camcorder for my school. The camera will almost exclusively be used for videoing school PE lessons to then be played back via PC onto a screen for the kids to review.

Would like the ability to playback in slow motion and frame by frame direct from the camera if that is possible.

Budget is a max of £300. Can anyone recommend anything that they think would be ideal for this use.
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Hi

Have a look at Canon MV960 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/108136/rb/19851376322

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Old 16-06-2006, 9:24 AM   #3
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As I posted in another thread:

New "Digital Video Techniques" magazine issue (9) has a group test of budget camcorders. They review the Canon MV890, Panny NV-GS27, JVC GR-D340, and Sony DCR-HC24.

Marks out of 10:

MV890 7
NV-GS27 8
GR-D340 8
DCR-HC24 7

(Note the MV960 is similar to the 890... the 960 has DV-in, the 890 doesn't).

The JVC doesn't have slow motion and frame by frame direct from the camera. The Panasonic GS27 doesn't either, but the GS37 (like the 27 with more features) does. The Sony HC24 also does. I don't know about the Canon (they don't post their manuals on-line so it is hard to find these details).

The Panasonic GS37 is available for around £240
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/sound-a.../prices?q=gs37

Sony HC24 is just over £200
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/sound-a.../549440/prices

Or go to £220 ish for the Sony HC35 - like the 24 but has DV-in and a docking station (so you could leave the docking station attached to a PC)
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/sound-a.../549412/prices

When you say "played back via PC onto a screen for the kids to review", and doing slow-mo from the camera, this would mean using the PC has a display (so the PC would need video input). I assume you probably have a projector which you typically connect a PC to, to show things to the class on a big screen? If so, the easiest would be to connect the camcorder directly to this projector, and not use a PC at all.

If you want to edit the footage on a PC then of course you'd want to connect it to the PC via firewire.

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Most canon manuals can be found on australian website (not just camcorders, everything). They use the UK number system as well (unlike USA)

for some reason they have outsourced it in the uk and you have to buy the manuals in paper form.
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Thanks - good to know.
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