Advice please re: prof. camcorders

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blacklight

Our video ecard clips at www.rent-a-cloud.com are shot on 16mm film,
then transferred to digital for editing - cumbersome and expensive. We
want to change over to camcorders, but don't know which is the best
for our needs. We live in a rural area where nobody has any knowledge
in this field. And calls to Sony/JVC/Canon gave confusing and
conflicting answers.
Our Needs:
1) the camcorder must deliver the same image quality/detail as our
existing clips show. Most are shot into extreme contrast light like
skies and rising/setting suns.
2) the camcorder must have single-frame film mode as our clips are
shot in stop-frame-motion technique.
3) the camcorder must have manual zoom and exposure controls.
Question: which is the cheapest camcorder to meet these demands?
Sincere thanks for reply - Klaus Jaritz
ps: Unfortunately, to ascertain the image quality required you would
have to send some clips as ecards to yourself. It's free. Only then
will you have a file (wmv) which opens across the whole monitor screen.
Sorry for this bother.
 
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Graham Hughes

You won't get a camcorder which shoots the same as 16mm film.
If you want a drop in quality you can look at the sony
professional/broadcast range, something like this
http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/Show...GB&pageType=Overview&category=XDCAMCamcorders

Though I'm not sure about your stop motion, but anything in this range will
have manual control.

If you are looking at consumer ranges, that youcan buy in any shop you are
in for a big suprise come quality checking.

Graham
 

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