Recommendation for Camcorder sub £400 please

[MrPstv]

As the title suggests would you very nice folks throw some recommendations for a sub £400 camcorder,something cheaper than £400 so i can purchase add-ons/case/memory card/tripod etc.

For school use:

Productions

School trips

Training.

Holidays.

 

Thanks in advance....

Edited December 14, 2015 by MrPstv

[dhicks]

As the title suggests would you very nice folks throw some recommendations for a sub £400 camcorder

 

We seem to be getting on okay with the Panasonic HC-V270:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-HC-V270EB-K-Full-Camcorder-Optical/dp/B00S9BDIIS

 

We have two of those at the moment, we've been using them to record plays and so forth in our main hall. Both picture and sound quality are great - I haven't seen the footage myself, but the chap who does the videoing now was impressed by the quality. We use 64GB cards in ours. You could also get monopods with feet rather than tripods, they take up a little less space in a hall, and a USB external battery for extended run-times.

[SteveBentley]

Also consider a DSLR that does video - with the right lens, low light performance can be much better if that's an issue for you.

[PyROm]

We recently got a Canon Legria HF R66 video camera for filming school shows, they drama department likes it. If you go down the DSLR route be careful as a lot of them wont video more then 30 minutes at a time and have to be stopped/restarted due to tax reasons (tax goes up a lot for video cameras which are defined as recording more then 30 minutes video).