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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:15 pm 
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Looking to get a camera to record my daughter's soccer games. There are a lot of options out there.

We'll probably use the footage on a laptop primarily, but would like to option to watch on a full tv without a lot of picture breakdown.

What have you used and liked?

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 Post subject: Re: Video Camera
PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:38 pm 
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I have a Canon VIXIA. It tends to over heat on crazy hot/humid days but other than that it works great and is very user friendly.


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Keyser Soze wrote:
I have a Canon VIXIA. It tends to over heat on crazy hot/humid days but other than that it works great and is very user friendly.

Yeah, the Canon Vixia is a good choice. Make sure to get a fast memory card--as fast as you can and with as much memory as you want.

There's a Sony that's a little cheaper (as is the Go Pro), but the Canon has excellent zoom. Sound won't be great, but it should be good enough, and if it's not, you can buy a recorder/mike and attach it. Dr. Ken would probably know all about that. I do have a recorder and have attached it to my DSLR, and it improves the sound quality significantly, but generally I have no real reason to attach it.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:19 pm 
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The zoom is awesome. I have the 1.21 giggawatt memory card. I can video showcase after showcase after showcase. The sound is pretty good. Got me in trouble a couple times.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:06 pm 
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Keyser Soze wrote:
I have a Canon VIXIA. It tends to over heat on crazy hot/humid days but other than that it works great and is very user friendly.


Which Vixia? The HF R82 is supposed to have a good optical zoom.

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HF R700


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Keyser Soze wrote:
The zoom is awesome. I have the 1.21 giggawatt memory card. I can video showcase after showcase after showcase. The sound is pretty good. Got me in trouble a couple times.


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