Camcorder for Hunting

GixxerThou

Planning on buying a camcorder to record some of our shooting trips. Can anyone recommend the best makes and models for hunting? I know very little about them so all advice welcome. Thanks in advance.
Jason

Hunter21

Only one option GoPro, simply the best!
http://gopro.com/products/?gclid=COqViqjFxKgCFcJP4QodWzaNpA

can be got in a 3D version too :cool:

GixxerThou

Ive used them on the bike, great camera alright, Im looking for somethin for recording long range shots and stuff like that tho. Not rifle mounted or anything.

patsat

Go onto YouTube and look up a fella called sirslotsalot.... Some great footage of long range shots and I'm sure if ya look at a few comments under his video he will have mentioned what camcorder he uses...

garv123

patsat wrote: »

Go onto YouTube and look up a fella called sirslotsalot.... Some great footage of long range shots and I'm sure if ya look at a few comments under his video he will have mentioned what camcorder he uses...

for shooting you can easily make a digital camera fit on the scope and record the shots through the scope. it wont be blurry because the zoom is done through the class of the scope, you're looking at the screen of the camera when aiming the shot. just another suggestion. could do both and comping the 2 clips to make even better videos. the scope view would show holdover and wind compensation of long shots

terminator2

epointer

poulo6.5

i have an old sony handycam with a dard disk it has 40x optical zoom. optical zoom is important and not digital zoom the higher the better.

any modern handy cam with a high optical zoom and a hard disc should do you fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRuB7bFwi74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FmlwzbWkEk

johngalway

poulo6.5 wrote: »

optical zoom is important and not digital zoom the higher the better.

+1 Good advice that. Get a good tripod as well, cheap ones can shake a lot.

GixxerThou

ok so somethin with high optical zoom and a built in stabiliser would be ideal then right?

poulo6.5

GixxerThou wrote: »

ok so somethin with high optical zoom and a built in stabiliser would be ideal then right?

ya i forgot to mention image stabilizer would be a good idea. my camera is a few years old and i would say most of the newer ones would have it as standard now

CJhaughey

I would go for a solid state type Cam, they are relatively unaffected by recoil unlike a HDD which has moving parts that can be damaged by hard recoil.
Most of the new SDHC cards are big enough that they can record hours of HD video and are cheap, class 10 32gig cards are less than 30 stg now.

johngalway

GixxerThou wrote: »

Not rifle mounted or anything.

I think not mounting it to the rifle is a good thing. I find it hard to watch videos where the shot is obscured by the recoil effect on the camera.

GixxerThou

johngalway wrote: »

I think not mounting it to the rifle is a good thing. I find it hard to watch videos where the shot is obscured by the recoil effect on the camera.

Yea its just to video some shots taken by my mates. Headin to africa soon so be nice to have some vids.