Camcorders

[John Lambert]

Does this group handle camcorder queries?
I have a JVC D240 digital camcorder which should allow me to make
slow-motion video clips, according to the manual.
However on playback the clips are at normal speed.
Has anyone experience of this camcorder used for this purpose? Any advice
would be welcomed.
John

[yurname]

I'm also interested to know if this group handles camcorders.

Looking for one that's reasonably priced: moviies or stills, 1440x1080,
+/- 30x optical zoom, settable low/high frame rate, optionally manual
focus, adjustable exposure (filming a candle at night in the snow, with
the flame not overexposed). I think I'd need a setting that allows me to
add/subtract to/from the auto exposure like +10%/-10%, etc. Any hints
for a model?

I bought this Fuji FinePix-1500 last year and it's the biggest letdown
I've ever experienced in cameras, still or movie.

[yur...@nomail.no.org]

On 12/27/2011 04:27 AM, meh wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:11:34 -0500, yurname<nom...@no.org> wrote:
>
>
> Opps, that is a Sony,
> but here's a Samsung with 30-1 for that a little less ($240).
>
> Both have decent ratings.

Thanks, it so happens I just borrowed a sony dcr-sx43 with 60x zoom to
get some hands-on time on a camcorder (never had one before).

There's a "spot" metering option which constrains auto exposure to a
selectable spot in the frame. As usual the manual is an incoherent waste
of paper. Then there's a full manual setting which, unless I'm
misreading the manual, does away with auto sensing altogether and lets
me set exposure only manually. Neither is what I want, which would be a
setting to adjust the auto meter itself as it were up/down in steps or
on a sliding scale and since this is something I'd want to do
dynamically while filming, having to muck about on the touchscreen is a
dealbreaker.