Camcorders

[Lynn]

Is anyone out there using a camcorder?

I am thinking of buying a Sony SR75 60gbhard disk one - not especially for butterflies just a bit of everything really.

Anybody got one?

[Gwenhwyfar]

Hi Lyn

If your interested, I have a Sony DCR-SR32E HANDYCAM HDD (Hard Disk Drive) 30GB, for sale, going cheap!! £150.00 only been out the box once - just don’t get a chance to use it, as it’s difficult trying to film and photograph at the same time.

Here is a link on Amazon for more details about it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-DCR-SR32-D ... 265&sr=8-2

Product Description
Say goodbye to clutter with the DCR-SR32 from Sony! Equipped with a 30 GB hard drive, the DCR-SR32 lets you record over 20 hours of digital video in three different quality modes, while its 800,000-pixel CCD sensor, renowned Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens and 40x optical zoom make sure your recordings come out sharp and clear each and every time. The DCR-SR32 is really easy to use and has a 2.5%u201D LCD screen, as well as 10 scene modes that adapt to any situation. You can even film in VGA resolution and save your creations directly to a Memory Stick Duo memory card, while its USB 2.0 connection transfers your films to your computer for easy editing. The high-performance and user-friendly DCR-SR32 lets you capture life%u2019s best moments, without the clutter of tapes or DVDs!

[markhows]

I have the sony SR75 it is excellent in everyway except the autofocus is not great for butterflies with a background, it keeps focussing on the background. It does have an autospot focus which sorts out this problem but it is down a couple of menus.

That is my only gripe on what is an excellent bit of kit.

You can see some of my movies taken with it on

http://www.hows.org.uk/inter/birds/movies.htm

some butterfly footage on Misc Wildlife 08 and Northern Ireland movies

Feel free to contact me if you want any more info

Mark

[Dave McCormick]

I use a Horizon HD video camera DVH-595 with a x5 optical Zoom. It has a macro mode f3.2 - f6.8. Has a built in flash and a light. Uses SD cards. My 8GB SDHC card can take over 4hours of video (1280 x 720 resolution at 30 frames/second ) and it can take up to 16GB card. Has a 5cm to infinity auto focus. Takes videos in quicktime MOV format, and comes with a video editor on CD which I find is ok to use (i don't know a lot about video editing or have a fast enough computer to edit HD video much). I just wanted a video camera for videoing butterflies and other things, and wanted good quality, and this HD one seemd good, minus the not too far zoom, takes a lot of video on a 8-16GB SD card, but you'd need a few if you want to take a lot of videos.

See here for more on the camera: £134.10 http://www.technologyinthehome.com/Shop ... order.html

[Charles Nicol]

You can see some of my movies taken with it on

http://www.hows.org.uk/inter/birds/movies.htm

Hi Markhows... i couldn't find the movies on this page

Charles

[markhows]

You can see some of my movies taken with it on

http://www.hows.org.uk/inter/birds/movies.htm

Hi Markhows... i couldn't find the movies on this page

Charles

Every Icon is a movie on that page just click on one

but here are some direct links

Northern Ireland - http://surfbirds.com/video2/view_video. ... 2bcf2e1555
Bats at night with the night vision mode of the camera - http://www.birdforum.tv/members/action/ ... f=markhows

Misc wildlife with some nice footage of Purple Emperor - http://surfbirds.com/video2/view_video. ... 6ba3d3dac3