Looking for
a camcorder and really need some help. My old Canon XM2 (GL2) is just not doing
the job anymore, and I am tired of tapes and standard res. Not to mention it's
starting to look antique, so it's not really giving me that professional confidence
boost when I pull it out.
What I am
looking for is something like this:
- Full HD
avchd
- Midsize
with handle. Need a pro look for my business so a small one, won't do the job.
- Record to
SD card and/or internal memory (flash or HD)
- Decent
wide angle (or a cam to which a good wide-adapter can be bought at a reasonable
price)
- Decent
battery time.
- Heavy
enough for steady handling, light enough to be able to shoot using the handle
for some time.
- Good low
light quality as I will be shooting lots inside and not always with optimal
light.
- Generally
speaking, image quality more important than audio quality.
- Maximum
price: Around 4,500 USD / 2.800 GBP
These are
the cams I have been looking at:
- Sony
HXR-NX70E
- Canon
XF100
- Panasonic
AG-HMC40/41
- Sony
NEX-VG2OEH
The Sony
HXR-NX70 gets great lowlight reviews, but it's expensive and I don't know if I
would be paying for lots of stuff I will never need (like the jungle-thing,
waterproof, dustproof etc)
The Canon
XF100 also at the very top of my budget, but seems like an overall great
camera.
The
Panasonic is affordable and I think would certainly do the job had I always a
perfect light set-up, but I am worried that the lense is small and that it does
a bad job in less than great light. I am tempted by an offer right now of 2040
GBP for the camera + XLR-adapter + iPad.
The Sony
NEX-VG2, i Just saw this, looks different and interesting, but can't compare
the lense really, so am fairly clueless.
Any cams I
have left out?
And which of these would you suggest and why?

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