Where can I find product reviews on video cameras?

I’m going to buy a camera and I’d like to do a small comparative research. My Digital Media teacher used to have an electronics review magazine, but I can’t remember the name of it.

Is there a website with product reviews on various video cameras?

Answer by BRIAN C
Have a look at :-

http://www.simplydv.co.uk/

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Answer by srw985
www.ciao.co.uk

Answer by shortyjunior37
you can go to cnet.com to check out reviews, the even have vidoes on reviews.

Answer by evilgenius4930
www.camcorderinfo.com

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Camera Talk


Image by Kevin Steele
When I look at some people's wonderful pictures I don't suffer much camera envy. Lens envy is a different tale… (OK, I do envy quick electronics, too, but not so much as fantastic lenses.)

Anyway, I've been wanting more than my camera has been providing, but it's so hard to find a camera that's right for me.

My predigital camera description

Mom gave me my first real camera, a Rollei 35B, and my experience with that camera doubtless still has a huge influence on my thought of what a camera should be. The 35B was a basic model of Rollei's line of tiny 35mm cameras. The lens was 40mm, so each shot was a small bit wide. The set alight meter was solar powered so the camera needed no batteries. It was extremely set alight, and pretty predictable. (See previous picture for one of the few pics I have left from that camera.)

In high school I had exposure to a range of SLRs and some medium format cameras, but I never loved huge rigs (except for the process camera, but it wasn't portable). I never really wanted an SLR. In art school I drifted into motion cameras, and continued to have a taste for less vital cameras. I was still attracted in still images, but was more liable to grab from video and blow it up on a photocopier than use a camera (or later, toss objects directly on a scanner).

I went through a few disposable cameras in the ahead of schedule 90s. The image quality was crappy but they were sure set alight. I wasn't worried to snap pics while biking. Meanwhile, I was by computers full-time professionally as a designer, and that environment was just starting to be converted into colour. For a while in the mid 1990s it was common to have things shot on 35mm and then delivered to the studio on Photo CD. We had excellent photo editing programs before having excellent digital cameras.

My digital camera description

Digital cameras started showing up around me, novelties at first. My friend Gord had an adorable (and small) www.casio-usa.com/products/archive/Cameras/QV_Series/QV-10A/. Its lens was the equivalent to 36-110mm on a 35mm camera. It was not all that tiny, but it was set alight and it could be operated with one hand. It allowed you to use an LCD on the back or to compose through the lens. You could feel the auto focus kick in when by the camera blind. The images were a megapixel and looked fantastic, I thought. A digit of the keepers from that camera have been uploaded here.

Digital cameras kept getting better and more affordable. In 1998, Nikon started a line of swivelling lens cameras. In 2000 I finally, for the first time in my life, dropped a bundle on a camera, getting a Nikon Coolpix 990 and accessories, the first of the line top three megapixels. I used the camera for over three being, and only retired it when was diagnosed with terminal corrosion. I posted pictures often at www.kevinsteele.com, very much like a Flickr photostream. A digit of friends were inspired to buy similar Coolpix models.

In 2004 I bought a Coolpix 4500 (pictured) which by that time was already a discontinued model, as Nikon temporarily abandoned the swivelling lens design. (I cursed them!) The camera is better than the 990 in a digit of ways. It's generally electronically quicker, although it can feel mushy like many modern multithreading OSes when overtaxed. I swear I had greatly better control of focus with the 990 – in some ways it seems Nikon broke the the focus a bit on the 4500. I've been able to use this camera to make all kinds of pictures that I like, but I have also continually improved my photo editing skills to allow for sloppy shooting.

The search for a new camera

When I look at some pictures I envy lenses, not cameras. There are some really fantastic lenses out there. I've never been a pixel junkie so I'm not looking for many more pixels. I have pretty specific tastes in cameras. I'm not into the whole SLR form. I sometimes hold a camera to my eye, but that's just not the only way I shoot. In my opinion most digital SLRs are built around mechanical constraints that suffer from lack of imagination. If there's no film why are these cameras so damn similar to film cameras? Is ground glass the only way to accurately preview focus? Heck, I don't even know why viewfinder and lens need to be the same unit, as long as they are connected electronically.

The Olympus Evolt 330 intrigued me because it seems that Olympus is trying to reckon beyond film, making a body that supports a wide range of lenses and supports live preview on a swivelling LCD panel. And rather than get hung up on pixels (8 megapixels is lots), they are exploring optimizing designs for the less vital extent of the sensor. Theoretically this means that the higher end lens are less vital and possibly cheaper than 35mm equivalents.

A few days ago I went in to a camera shop to hold an E330 I my hands in and it felt mammoth. It also felt awkward holding it at waist level, even though I could see the LCD well. I'm going to read up on the controls and take another look at it, but it might not be the one. Just for contrast I did look at the smallest Canon Digital Rebel. I liked the size, but I'm just not attracted in that style of camera.

I suppose I could just give up for now and get a small Coolpix S4 and delight in an incremental enhancement and the like zoom lens. It's pretty silver but I could tape it up.

canon power shot and it takes fantastic videos with signal you cant really be in low lighting but they are excellent quality does anyone know about this camera or know everywhere i can get a excellent review i dont know if it will just do the same as my canon thats my conundrum or question thanks

Answer by ebook-guy
no don’t buy it produce it just use memory card to store video and not a excellent one if use a memory card 1 gigabytes its can save just an hour and memory card is expensive than a mini-dv tape. and video is terrible so better to use a real camcorder that use a mini-dv tape or the DVD-r camcorder series than the aiptek has a limited batteries for 15 to 30 minutes only so u have to buy a lot of AAA batteries than a camcoder like sony or canon camcorder that uses a rechargeable battery for 1 to 2 hours use okay

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