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Camera and microphone help! what to buy!!?
I got a camera a while back and it saves in .MOV - so i hate it. I'm going to sell it for another camera. Round £600 ish. Which to get? I only want to upload videos to the internet so i don't need HD really, just good quality regular cam. However i also need: Cheap fish eye lense, night vision mode and the camera needs to be able to withstand me useing it for filming parkour - which is quite rough. Im not looking for amazing in any of those areas tho. I also don't want it in .MOV
i also need a wireless microphone, for example on things like trigger happy tv you can always hear him but it's a small hidden mic in his shirt. I dunno how much they cost, i assume expensive but thats ok with me.
if anyone can help me that would make my year!!! ps. Im in the UK so it needs to be there really
Ok, let's start.. .MOV sounds like a digital still camera in movie mode or a cheap Chinese camera. You don't want these.
So, what you need, before we think about models. Filming parkour, you're going to shake, rattle, and roll.. so you need a camera that keeps filming properly doing that. So keep away from HDD and DVD, also, keep away from optical image stabilization. OIS works better than digital stabilization if you're just standing there, but if the camera shakes around too much, it fails.. even when it's switched off. My Canon HV10 is a good example of this (it's a small HDV camcorder, so lots of people want for action work, but that's a limit). You want a camera with a threaded filter ring, usually 37mm, to screw in the fisheye len thingy.
Flash is probably your best bet, particularly if you're doing online video as your main goal. Don't worry about some of these "includes YouTube" cameras.. that's a gimmick, and if you're doing the kind of video I expect, there's plenty of editing before you do uploads.
I'd like to recommend one the Panasonic "shock proof" camcorders.. they can be dropped pretty severely, submerged to a meter or two, and keep working. Thing is... no mic jack, no filter ring for your fisheye adaptor. But I figured I'd mention them, just in case you didn't know about them.
My first choice for this would be the Canon flash-based SD camcorder series. There's a new line: FS22/FS21/FS200, and the current ones, FS11/FS10/FS100... they mostly vary by the amount of built-in flash. They all take SD/SDHC flash cards. There's a mic jack, and it's behind the LCD screen, so it's at least a bit protected.. you don't want it to sheer off the first time you use it and bump into something. Digital image stabilization, 48x zoom. up to about DVD quality. The battery is internal, but gives you three hours.. and an internal battery might actually be an advantage for active work.. another thing you won't snap off. These have some kind of night vision mode.
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Canon-FS11-Camcorder-Review-35203.htm
For cheap fisheyes on a 37mm thread, check out this:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=search&A=search&Q=&sb=bs%2Cupper%28ds%29&sq=asc&sortDrop=Brand%3A+A+to+Z&ac=&bsi=&bhs=t&ci=2102&shs=&at=Lens+Type_Fisheye&basicSubmit=
You can find pretty cheap fisheye adaptors, and you can spend hundreds (GBP or USD) on them. I have used Century Optics and Rayonx with good results.. not fisheye, but wide-angle on a camcorder. I can't vouch for others. I don't know any reputable UK stores, so the link is for a good place in the USA.
Wireless mics vary by country. I have a cheap transmitter/receiver which does the job, but it's got limits.. I paid $35, so I can't really complain. It's using FM modulation, fairly low power (100mW), good for 30-40m or so. As long as the receiver ends in a 3.5mm or 1/4" plug, you can (with adaptor, in the latter case) hook it to a camera like those Canons.
You can get some deals these days, particularly on mics at 700Mhz in the USA. But some of that's a scam.. next June, assuming they actually turn off the analog TV bands, all of those 700MHz mics become illegal. TV-band mics (50MHz-699MHz) are still legal, but you need a license, and practially no one does. It'll be different in the UK, but do check it out, so you don't buy something that' going to be a problem in the near future.