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Best camcorder for at least 720p?

DaltonM
By DaltonM
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So I am considering making higher quality youtube videos (if my first few go well) but I have no idea about camera hardware.

I am looking for something I can flip the view finder on so I can see what I am filming. That's basically it.

 

I want it to shoot at least 720p, decent quality and my budget isn't firm, but I want to spend around $100 USD. 

 

Any have a recommendations? I don't even know where to start ;p

 

Thanks yall. 

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http://shop.usa.canon.com/shop/en/catalog/vixia-hf-r600-black-refurbished

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5 minutes ago, DaltonM said:

That looks really good for the price ;p but looking at the spec sheet I am just so lost lol. 

 

I feel like such a dirty normie consumer lol 

 

I bought one last year, all you really need to know is that it records to SDcard and can shoot up to 1080p at 60FPS.

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1 minute ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

 

I bought one last year, all you really need to know is that it records to SDcard and can shoot up to 1080p at 60FPS.

Got any samples of the footage? Also can you shoot in 720p 60fps? Is that even a thing lol 

I am not really interested in making 1080p content because I don't wanna deal with crazy file sizes and I don't think I'll need to make SUPER high quality content. 

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3 minutes ago, DaltonM said:

Got any samples of the footage? Also can you shoot in 720p 60fps? Is that even a thing lol 

I am not really interested in making 1080p content because I don't wanna deal with crazy file sizes and I don't think I'll need to make SUPER high quality content. 

 

I don't have any samples available that haven't been edited in a way that distorts the clean picture, but if you click my signature the Triton video on my channel was shot with that camera.

 

Yeah sure the modes are 1920x1080/60fps 1440x1080/60fps and 1280x720/60fps.

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720p is quite old now for camcorders.  Most record at least 1080p.

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