I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?


I don't have a hd. I use a Flip vid camera... cheap and seems to work great.

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?


I don't have a hd. I use a Flip vid camera... cheap and seems to work great.

I'm not familiar with that camera.

Can you post a link to one?

On Mar 13, 1:34*am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?

I don't have a hd. I use a Flip vid camera... cheap and seems to work great.

I'm not familiar with that camera.

Can you post a link to one?

Wayne,

http://www.theflip.com

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On Mar 13, 1:34 am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?

I don't have a hd. I use a Flip vid camera... cheap and seems to work
great.

I'm not familiar with that camera.

Can you post a link to one?

Wayne,

http://www.theflip.com

That's the one. I got the low-end version without the tripod port. If I had
it to do over, I'd get the one with the port. Other than that, I have no
complaints. It's a great camera.



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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?


I don't have a hd. I use a Flip vid camera... cheap and seems to work
great.

I'm not familiar with that camera.

Can you post a link to one?


About the size of a thin cigarette pack. Takes good pictures, but is a
fixed focus point and shoot. Gave one to the daughter for the first
grandbaby. Does a good job. Just plug in Flip Video to Amazon.com

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?


I don't have a hd. I use a Flip vid camera... cheap and seems to work
great.

I'm not familiar with that camera.

Can you post a link to one?


About the size of a thin cigarette pack. Takes good pictures, but is a
fixed focus point and shoot. Gave one to the daughter for the first
grandbaby. Does a good job. Just plug in Flip Video to Amazon.com

Yeah, I figured it's "expendable" if it gets spashed, but I found it to be
quite durable. Got caught in two rain showers in Alaska last year with no
problem. I didn't try to protect it. Just dried it off after each and it was
fine. It zooms, but that can make things jittery. It's pretty good close and
medium distance from the subject. I think it cost me $70 used on ebay.

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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:50:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?


I don't have a hd. I use a Flip vid camera... cheap and seems to work
great.

I'm not familiar with that camera.

Can you post a link to one?


About the size of a thin cigarette pack. Takes good pictures, but is a
fixed focus point and shoot. Gave one to the daughter for the first
grandbaby. Does a good job. Just plug in Flip Video to Amazon.com

Yeah, I figured it's "expendable" if it gets spashed, but I found it to be
quite durable. Got caught in two rain showers in Alaska last year with no
problem. I didn't try to protect it. Just dried it off after each and it
was fine. It zooms, but that can make things jittery. It's pretty good
close and medium distance from the subject. I think it cost me $70 used on
ebay.

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I think the one I bought for daughter was $139. List was about $199.

Wayne.B wrote in
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Does anyone have any recommendations or cautionary advice?



Canon replaced the CCD imager, cleaned and aligned my A-70 camera I paid
$10 for from a thrift shop and even paid the shipping....FREE.

I told them where I got it. They said it didn't matter as there was a
recall on the CCD imager. I couldn't buy a camera from anyone else, now.

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Wayne.B wrote:

I'm thinking about buying a HiDef video camera, primarily for use on
the boat.

Canon's HF100 with a watertight case?
Small, good optics, very good pictures, optical image stabilization and
good to handle, records to flash memory.

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content...order-Review-3
5094.htm
"Who It's For
Point-and-Shooters
Canon jumped on the bandwagon and threw its own incarnation of Easy mode
on the HF100. Look out Sony! Beginners unite.
Budget Consumers
For killer Canon HD video, great Manual controls, and all the
connectivity an intermediate shooter should need, the HF100 is a bargain
for $900. It's the cheapest actually good HD camcorder on the market.
Still Photo / Video Camera Hybrid
Histograms, numerous shooting modes, all Manual Controls--the HF100's
still features blow past JVC's and Panasonic's. They're on par with
Sony's still photo excellence. ..."

Check with your computer and software whether it can handle AVCHD, the
format newer HD recorders record in - I know that it works fine on the
latest Mac OS X and iMovie or Final Cut.

HTH

Marc

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