Nirejhenge wrote:
I can't say I'm terribly bothered about having any more than 6 megapixels which I have now but I want better recording facility.
My current Fuji F10 has a nice clear picture when recording but the sound compression makes things horrible at gigs. Bit of a tough one to cope with there I know. It would be rather handy if the camera was able to be set to a really low volume record level and not adjust itself to the volume of the surroundings.
Ability to take photos without flash at gigs and not be blurry would also be quite handy.
Any ideas?
Sorry, you are using a stills camera to record video?
That's rather like using a pair of pliars to cut paper. Wrong tool. Stills cameras are not designed for video, the electronics are all wrong. Likewise if I try and use my pro HD video camera to take stills, the results are crap.
You need something with a decent quality external mic. And you won't get that on a stills camera. All you'll get is a shitty mic costing no more than 30p which will overload easily and has bandwidth little better than a phone.
Here's a cheap video camera mic that will do the job (in mono natch) with any shitty camcorder that has a mic in socket.
http://www.studiospares.com/pd_417150_R ... HOTGUN.htmUnless you are trying to do this covertly at the gig, in which case you are probably fucked unless you get one of the tiny Sony handcams and put up with the shitty internal mics (which will be better than a stills camera).