best camera fora filimg hours of footage in 1 clip

[ALwin]

I thought something like that would be over his budget of $500

 

Yeah it seems weird to record in one lump,and if you did you could just do a photo timelapse every few seconds and create an awesome video of it (thats what I would do)

 

I saw on B&Hphotovideo a Panasonic Camcorder for about $250 and the larger battery pack for about $200, that should be within his budget.

 

But it certainly is stupid to record any long video in a single lump if you need to edit.

 

Yeah for a timelapse, he can get a lower end GoPro model, battery pack and with a chest or helmet strap and set it on timelapse mode.

[ShadowCaptain]

I saw on B&Hphotovideo a Panasonic Camcorder for about $250 and the larger battery pack for about $200, that should be within his budget.

 

Ah that might do the trick then!

[HeyKenGuy]

exactly

 

so yea a better method would be a timelapse to get the "fast forward" effect in real time play back

 

as mentioned, you dont need to record a 5 hour long clip which would be a nightmare to edit. just take a photo every 60-90 seconds as you're walking down the street

 

if you have the capable editing software, you can make do with a $100-$200 point and shoot grandma uses and just put the images together in your video editor

 

otherwise, if you want something to do it nativly without having to edit, a gopro or even a second hand gopro would be best 

[ALwin]

A photo every 90 seconds or 60 seconds is going to be at most 40-60 frames per hour, 200-300 frames across 5 hours, and playing that back as a timelapse video at say 25p will become either an 8 second or 12 second long video.

 

Doing a timelapse requires knowing how long you plan to shoot, the frame rate you want for playback and knowing how long you want the final output to be.