June 5th, 2009
Top Five Digital Camcorders for the New Graduate
While digital still cameras are among the most popular graduation gifts (see my recent post, Top five digital cameras for the new graduate), post-graduate life also offers up plenty of video-worthy moments. Outfitting the new graduate in your life with video gear that suits his or her new lifestyle is easy given the huge range of options available. Here are some of my top camcorder picks for the various grads in your life:
The Budding Videographer
It used to be that to get high-end digital video, you needed to lug around an enormous three-chip camcorder. Well, times have changed. If your favorite graduate is an aspiring documentary shooter, Canon’s top-of-the-line prosumer camcorder, the Canon Vixia HF S100, will offer top-notch HD video quality in a relatively compact package. Actually, make that next-to-top-of-the-line, since the flash-memory-based HF S100’s sibling, the Vixia HF S10 adds 32GB of built-in memory for $200 more. But with memory card prices so low these days, I think the HF S100 (which records to SD/SDHC memory cards) is actually a better buy. The camcorders both record 1,920×1,080 HD video and combine a relatively large, 1/2.6-inch 8-megapixel CMOS sensor with a large f1.8 10x HD lens for excellent video quality.
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Janice Chen has been covering technology for almost two decades. She got her hands on a Nikon Coolpix 900 back in 1998 and has been a digital camera enthusiast ever since. See her full profile and disclosure of her industry affiliations.
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