Taking aside the semi-pro indie cameras like the DVX-100 and the HVX200, the HV20 is the first consumer camera in the market that has created a very deep and well-connected community. They can’t stop raving about the camera’s ability to shoot in 24p (manual pulldown removal required), and deep color, and fast autofocus. The vast majority of people who shoot with the HV20 are exactly that: hobbyist artists.
However, the HV20 goes further than that: it has inspired this new generation of videographers and brought new blood to that emerging “hobbyist artist market”. It has won many awards and recently the popular site CamcorderInfo voted it as the camcorder of the year. I would dare say that the Canon HV20 is the best consumer HD camera today, and it sells for just $700. Until this day comes though, we will have to live with the current popular cameras. This kind of hardware does not exist yet, but I do expect Canon to take notice. As a videographer myself I have expressed my wishes on what I need in terms of hardware here.
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And when I say “targeted”, I am talking about cameras that are equivalent to the Canon 40D in practice: background blur, good dynamic range, enough manual controls. I believe that the critical point will be the more affordable and more targeted AVCHD-based HD camcorders, following the death of the cumbersome HDV format. It already exists, but at a much smaller level than photography. The same shift is awaiting to happen for artistic video too. Good DSLRs can now be obtained for just $500, while that was a pipe dream only a few years back. There was this shift that happened, that transformed many “family & friends” photographers to artists. Take a look at Flickr and you will see that the majority of people posting pictures there are not pictures of their dog and aunt Cynthia, but artistic pictures - imitating pro photographers. A similar change happened a few years ago with the revolution of the digital photography which lead the way. For years, “home video” footage was all about recording the kids growing up, birthday parties, weddings, and few and between some hand-held shaky travel videos.īut things change.
Hobbyist “home video” videographers exist for a long time, going back to the ’60s for US, ’70s for most of Europe, and just 15 years ago for countries like my own, Greece.
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To view them or download them in 720p HD mode you must click their respective video names to go to their Vimeo page.
Note: The embedded Flash videos below are not HD. The following editorial includes suggestions on camera choices, video editors and delivery formats, and has HD video samples of hobbyist cameramen that many professionals could be jealous of. This last kind enjoys a new booming lately with the commoditization of HD camcorders. There are geeks about literature (who do you think wrote “Shrek”?), and of course, art geeks. However, “being a geek” does not always constitute a person who just loves technology. At OSNews we are committed on being geeky.
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