How is it for regular use, both outdoors and inddors. Also is it easy to transfer files to your notebook? I want easy compatibility with both MAC and windows. Also do you record everything in a CD or a cassette?
Is there any other similar camcorder that i can consider?
The good: Manual focus ring; cameralike mode wheel; shutter- and aperture-priority modes available for video; optical image stabilization; excellent LCD and microphone; takes decent snapshots.
The bad: Poor low-light video quality; microphone picks up motor noise.
The bottom line: Canon's feature-packed camcorder shoots very good daylight footage but has reason to be scared of the dark.
if the answers above that i gave u is little help this site shows pics and more information for the Canon OPTURA 50 hope i answered ur question. good luck.
I have a Canon Optura 50, I have a firewire cable, and I use Windows Movie Maker.
When I record from camcorder to my computer there seems to be a slight delay in recording. For some reaso it looks like it skips a second or two once in a while. I don't know how to fix this. Ultimately I would like to record to my computer and then make a DVD out of it. What's the best resolution and recording to use? There are a lot of options on the resolution to record, but I'm not sure what to pick. One of them says "if you want to save, edit and watch on your computer choose this one". However this one saves it into a really small resolution. I then picked the option "if you would like to make edits on your computer and then record back onto tape choose this one." This one is (DV-NTSC – AVI) something like that. With so many to choose from I'm lost. Ultimately I would like to have something that doesn't skip. I'm not sure why it's "jerky" and looks like it's having seizures.
If you want to author a DVD from the footage, you should save either as DV-AVI or the highest resolution WMV. Go to Save Movie, choose the My Computer option, and on the Movie Setting tab click the Show more choices link. Click Other Settings and choose either High Quality Video (NTSC) or DV-AVI.
Your computer may not play either of these back smoothly on your computer screen because your video card may not be up to playing back high quality video. But burning a file from either of those two settings to DVD will result in a DVD that should look great.
I have a Panisonic PV-GS83. It just broke, however I have a warranty on it. Now I need to know whether to buy another one. Or a Canon Optura 50. Some of the features of the Optrura 50 sound like something I would use, the mic jack, manual focus ring, I read it has better video quality.
I'm looking at buying a High-Middle of the line Camcorder and have narrowed it down to these two. I have no Camcorder experiance, but would like to do some film work for friends. What will give me the best results?
Check out www.camcorderinfo.com. Amazing, independent review site. I know GS400 had been hailed as the best camcorder under a $1000, so I could only assume GS500 is just as good…check out the site..
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