Looking for a new camcorder and wonder what you folks out there might recommend. I'm an enthusiastic amateur and we are making short fiction films. Our style is mainly run and gun, without much reliance on a tripod for steady shots.
I'm looking for a new camera:
1) that can give me decent depth of field - our style of story is very people and dialogue focused so DOF would enhance our story telling a fair bit
2) whose output files can be edited in Vegas (I have Win 7 64 bit and Vegas Pro 64 bit, i7 processor, 2.80 Ghz, 12 Gb of RAM)
3) that can take a good wide angle shot or is capable of attaching additional lenses (since we film a lot indoors I find there are often situations where a wider angle lens than is on my current camcorder is needed)
4) that is anything up to around $1500
I looked into HDSLRs for a while but I'm not techie enough to master all the detail and I don't want to stump up the cash on all the accessories.
Am thinking of the Panasonic TM700/900 - but wonder if its sensor size is good enough to get decent DOF.
Have looked at the Canon GH10 - more expensive than the TM700/900 (and hard to get at the moment). Is it worth the extra money compared to the TM700/900? Is its DOF capability much better.
The Sony NEX-VG10 looks interesting but is too expensive for me (A$3500 in Australia vs US$2,000 in the US - shame on you Sony for price gouging us Aussies) and a bit "too professional" for me also (too many bells and whistles on it that I probably wouldn't use).
Are there any other cameras out there that I should be thinking of given my wishlist above?
Thanks
I'm looking for a new camera:
1) that can give me decent depth of field - our style of story is very people and dialogue focused so DOF would enhance our story telling a fair bit
2) whose output files can be edited in Vegas (I have Win 7 64 bit and Vegas Pro 64 bit, i7 processor, 2.80 Ghz, 12 Gb of RAM)
3) that can take a good wide angle shot or is capable of attaching additional lenses (since we film a lot indoors I find there are often situations where a wider angle lens than is on my current camcorder is needed)
4) that is anything up to around $1500
I looked into HDSLRs for a while but I'm not techie enough to master all the detail and I don't want to stump up the cash on all the accessories.
Am thinking of the Panasonic TM700/900 - but wonder if its sensor size is good enough to get decent DOF.
Have looked at the Canon GH10 - more expensive than the TM700/900 (and hard to get at the moment). Is it worth the extra money compared to the TM700/900? Is its DOF capability much better.
The Sony NEX-VG10 looks interesting but is too expensive for me (A$3500 in Australia vs US$2,000 in the US - shame on you Sony for price gouging us Aussies) and a bit "too professional" for me also (too many bells and whistles on it that I probably wouldn't use).
Are there any other cameras out there that I should be thinking of given my wishlist above?
Thanks