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Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Feb 28 2008, 04:21 PM

I thought it would be a good idea to put our video cameras (and how much you've paid them if possible) in here so people could see what are we using, and maybe get an idea what do they need for their recordings!


Here's mine (bought mine second hand for 90e)

Posted by: Muris Feb 28 2008, 04:38 PM

I'm a small man,gonna run and hide

Posted by: Wallimann Feb 28 2008, 05:04 PM

Here's mine.
Bought on Ebay for $250

JVC GZMG-U

Posted by: Joe Kataldo Feb 28 2008, 08:43 PM

Wow it's a great price!





Are you joking muris? Are you gettin that video quality with a photocamera? Please tell me your secrets

please PLEASE please

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Feb 28 2008, 09:27 PM

Actually I think Muris's camera is way better than mine and more expencive too

Posted by: Bogdan Feb 28 2008, 09:48 PM

Here is what I use :

SONY DCRVX-2100e pal



Costs about 2100e (its not mine Its friends cam)

I use this tripod with it :





And have this little light as the second one , on camera :

Posted by: Joe Kataldo Feb 28 2008, 10:01 PM

Yeahh damn muris he is alway better than us

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Feb 28 2008, 10:29 PM

uh uh, Muris is the man, he kicks ass with a small camera, I wonder what he would do if he had a bigger cam

OK enough spam

Posted by: Joe Kataldo Feb 28 2008, 10:41 PM

Are you making movies or video lessons?

Sorry for the joke, you have a beautiful piece of gear

Posted by: Hisham Feb 28 2008, 11:28 PM

thats mine panasonic

Posted by: Muris Feb 29 2008, 01:08 AM

Yeah,that's my "camera",I set everything on highest quality and that's all,no secret.

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Feb 29 2008, 01:25 AM

hey that's a very unusuall and cool looking cam man!

Posted by: lavendell Feb 29 2008, 08:23 AM

Here's mine. I think the price was 250 euro, or something like that.
Everything is more expensive in sweden...

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Feb 29 2008, 03:12 PM

I have one of these:



Canon Elura - it was about $299 a year ago, now discontinued, but its cool I like it. Of course I don;t do much with video, but may in the future, and I will definitley be needing some lighting when I do as I am now recording in a dark basement!

Posted by: Hisham Mar 1 2008, 12:24 AM

thanks Ivan realy it has a good pictures but my problem if i can upload the AVI or MPEG

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 1 2008, 07:51 PM

you mean you can't upload avi or mpeg?

Posted by: Hisham Mar 1 2008, 10:31 PM

no but if there is a way to upload the AVI or mpeg in a fast way

Posted by: Dejan Mar 3 2008, 08:07 PM

This is mine

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 3 2008, 09:36 PM

Wow, that's a great cam Dejan! Some newer model maybe?

Posted by: Bogdan Mar 3 2008, 09:38 PM

Very good design !! Really stands out..

Posted by: Dejan Mar 3 2008, 10:06 PM

This model is from 2005, I got it new for some 350 usd

Here's the full review http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/JVC-GR-DF550-Camcorder-Review.htm

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Mar 5 2008, 10:54 PM

hmmm, is anyone impressed by my camera? :-) Not half as fancy as your ones, but well, it works.

Posted by: Muris Mar 6 2008, 12:59 AM

Hey,I bought that one few days ago,
primarly for online lessons,the old Trust was kind a out of fashion.

Welcome to GMC Marcus!

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 6 2008, 02:05 AM

Nice cam man, if it does the job - it does the job Welcome to the GMC man!

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Mar 6 2008, 02:48 PM

Originally I bought this webcam to chat with my wife while I was on tour, but it works very well for recording lessons at home too :-)

Thanks a lot to all of you for that awesome welcome, it is great to be a part of this whole thing here at GMC :-)

Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 6 2008, 03:13 PM

yeah, that's mine:



It's a Samsung 33X. Before I get this I was using a SONY I-don't-know-what but I had lot of problems so I bought this one, works good !!

Posted by: Muris Mar 6 2008, 03:39 PM

You're more than welcome,you're pleased to have you on board!

Nice shots with that cam btw,looks great imho.

Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 6 2008, 03:49 PM

WOW, this one is really professional !!!!

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Mar 6 2008, 07:44 PM

Hehe, yeah, my little webcam is not even half as professional as Bogdans setup but the result also looked pretty fine for me.

Posted by: Bogdan Mar 6 2008, 10:28 PM

You are getting great results with that cam !! Also Muris is getting great results with his digital camera..I'm just using this setup because my friend is willing to lend it to me whenever I need it..It also have its downfalls like having too much options to setup in order to get a good picture..If I didn't have it I would use a normal miniDV cam or yours and Murises solution since both give great results..

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Mar 7 2008, 03:43 AM

Hey, welcome Marcus - I have to say that your video was pretty clear, even if the camera doesn't look as impressive as Bogdan's

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 7 2008, 10:39 AM

The camera is just a small factor in doing these lessons. The good idea of the lesson is the most important thing imo. This topic is just for showing what we have from gear, not comparing.

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Mar 7 2008, 06:51 PM

True, the lesson itself is more important than the equipment that we use to record it. But yeah, actually this is something I love about my webcam solution in the moment, the default settings work pretty fine, I hate messing around with huge cryptic menues...

Posted by: Trond Vold Mar 11 2008, 12:38 AM

Glad i'm not the only one with a webcam

I'm using this one:


Picture quality isnt the best, but i'm learning how to use it properly more and more.

But I am looking on getting a DV cam real soon.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Mar 11 2008, 01:51 AM

I think lighting is waaaay more important than the camera anyway - even a good camera looks bad with poor lighting ...

Posted by: Bogdan Mar 11 2008, 12:26 PM

yeah thats true!

Posted by: Dejan Mar 11 2008, 01:21 PM

I think it goes like this, mathematically

good camera + good lighting = excellent results
good camera + bad lighting = good results
bad camera + good lighting = good results
bad camera + bad lighting = you get e-mailed by Kris

Posted by: Muris Mar 11 2008, 02:55 PM

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Mar 16 2008, 04:58 PM

Haha, so far I didn't hear from him

Posted by: Gerardo Siere Mar 17 2008, 01:26 PM

Sony DCR DVD 201 don't buy it, mic in produce lot's of noise, so you'll have to keep sinc the audio.

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 17 2008, 10:43 PM

I sync audio one way or another.. You mean you can't even sync the audio because of the noise? there are no wave peaks?

Posted by: Trond Vold Apr 3 2008, 09:17 AM

Will get one of these before the weekend i hope.
Was waiting for a replacement web-cam, but then i saw they had a good offer on this. So i paid the inbetween and went for a minidv instead.



Anyone ever tried it or know if it's any good? Cant find much reviews, but it's canon so i assume it's good. Canon MD110 to be precise.

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Apr 3 2008, 10:30 AM

I'm not sure for this specific model, but when buying cameras like I think there isn't too much worry - they are all built on the same platform and all very look alike and similar electronics inside. I think this camera is great btw.

Posted by: Trond Vold Apr 3 2008, 12:26 PM

Cool, thanks!

Posted by: Joe Kataldo Apr 4 2008, 03:54 PM

Finally I can post what I use for make video, until now I've used borrowed cheap stuff, but after 3 months working at GMC I've collect enough money to invest a big part in gear, so here is the stuff I'll use for my next coming lessons, expect higher quality soon


Pinnacle Studio Plus 11 Movieboard 700-PCI



Sony HDD DCR-SR35E

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Apr 4 2008, 06:21 PM

Wow, excellent!

Can you write what options this movie board has please?

Posted by: Trond Vold Apr 4 2008, 06:33 PM

Damn Joe.. that looks great!

Posted by: Bogdan Apr 4 2008, 11:02 PM

@Trond ,

Thats a very cool cam as I heard..Minidv cams are doing great job for these lessons...

@Joe ,

Great equipment man! What does that pinnacle card allow you to do ? Is it doing great real time effects ?

Posted by: Joe Kataldo Apr 5 2008, 08:40 AM

Well the pinnacle apart from doing Divx conversion (I suppose hardware), I don't really use it for GMC lessons, anyway edit in HD, import and export analog video from tv, VCR, DVD Player Divx Player, Sat Tv, and has two fast firewire ports

I've bougth it mainly to record from analog sources like old VCR tape and convert them into dvd and Sat Tv

:-)

Posted by: Joe Kataldo Apr 5 2008, 08:41 AM

Well I think it has some real effect too or cromakey stuff, didn't digg' into manual yet

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Apr 5 2008, 10:20 AM

Ah, I see, very nice tuner card.

Posted by: Muris Apr 5 2008, 11:27 AM

Great new equipment Joe,congrats!

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Apr 10 2008, 07:00 PM

Maybe you can do a review of that card so that we know if it is good for buying. Tell me what you think Joe

Posted by: Vinod Saranga Apr 13 2008, 04:34 AM

This is Mine