Express Action Sports

Thanks you 100fps, 1920x1080i, 1 & half hour of space, handle, mac compatible with out loosing quality, and light, film action sports with
I want a HD 1080i video camcorder that I can film Action Sports with and has a handle on it. I also want to be able to upload the footage on the camcorder to my MAC computer and edit in final cut pro with out loosing any of the quality! I would like it to have an hour and a half of film space on it at least thanks and if possible 100fps! Thanks you 100fps, 1920x1080i, 1 & half hour of space, handle, mac compatible with out loosing quality, and light

The only ones that come close are the HDR-HC9 and Canon HV40. They do not have 100 fps video capture. Record time depends on the miniDV tapes you use – a standard 60 minute tape saves 63 minutes of HDV format video. I would not suggest any high definition flash memory, hard disc drive or DVD based consumer camcorders because they all save to very compressed AVCHD format. AVCHD compression and fast action do not get along well.

Handles (Scorpion, GlideCam StuntBar, Opteka X-Grip) are sold separately.

Unless you can afford to move up to a Sony HDR-FX7 or HDR-FX1000… or Canon XHA1…

And this assumes your Mac is NOT a MacBook Air or one of the versions of MacBook with no firewire port. The computer must have a firewire port to import HDV format video.

If your Mac has no firewire port, then the Canon HF S200, Sony HDR CX500 series and JVC GY-HM100…

I will be taking it snowboarding and skiing mostly. But need top notch quality. Price range: Below $1000. Thanks

For new, your request has mutually exclusive terms. There is no Professional video (or still) camera anywhere near $1000. You can get by with $2500 +/- Pro-sumer cameras running uncompressed MiniDv.

The consumer, camcorders under $1500 all use the same H264 highly compressed so-called "High-Def" recording format. The term "high-def" is pure marketing. Canon, JVC, Sony…all use the same format, pick one you like (for action, look for the biggest (diameter) lens you can get, Optical Image stabilization, etc)

The data rate says it all: MiniDv= 13 gigs/hour for 720X480 while the highest resolution H264 is 11gigs/hour to record almost twice the pixel information.

True High-Def rings in around $6000. Cameras for production run about the price of a small house.

I have paid $1500 for a used Canon GL-2 and would gladly do so again before I spent $1000 on a H264 camcorder. Similar cameras can easily be found for under $800. I found a like-new Canon XL-2 for less than $1000 several months ago.

Want a $1000 consumer camera, pick a toy any toy. Want video you might be able to sell, hit the auctions/want ads and find the best MiniDv you can get your hands on. JVC, Sony, and my favorite…Canon, all make fine cameras.