What Movie/Video Camera Should I Get?
Help get me into the video age please.
I've never had a movie or video camera; I've found still photography challenging, rewarding and expensive enough. I do have an Olympus C-1400 L digital camera.
But I realised how far I am behind in this aspect of technology when my son-in-law produced his new, tiny digital still camera at Christmas and proceeded to take a 10 second movie clip of the granddaughters which we uploaded (10MB) to my PC using a card reader over USB and which he then uploaded to his Web Page while we watched. And there they were, those girls, complete with sound, on the Internet! It all took about 20 minutes from start to finish.
So Mrs Fob and I have decided that we want to lash out and take a digital video camera on our lifetime post retirement cruise. But what sort? Tape, solid state, editable, take stills as well? I won't say cost is no object, but as its our first and last device of this nature, we may as well "do it up brown".
Please could you say what you have that is good; also what you would like to have if you could. What tips have you got born of experience? Of course, I shall want to put a clip or two on the Web.