Bob Hudson
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Aug 12, 2004, 9:54 AM
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Re: [glennchung] Questions on buying a GL2
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The best legitimate price on this is $1,979.00 at B&H, a respected supplier to pros throughout the country. You can find a listing for that at http://www.epinions.com/content_84308758148.
This is a very good camcorder, especially at that price. Pick up one of these and a Sennheiser MKE300 mike and you can shoot some very nice stuff.
The Canon frame mode (movie mode) works very well and makes for very clean images. I have some sample footage at http://bobhudson.com/bison.html and at http://bobhudson.com/zoo/ I have some still images grabbed from the video (these were all shot in the 16:9 mode as well). Shooting in frame mode eliminates the interlacing artifacts of normal video. This does give it somewhat of a film look, but it also makes for much better looking video when you watch DVD's on computer and other progressive scan monitors. It also makes for great still photos when you export a frame from the video. I shoot everything with the frame mode.
The Sony VX2000 is another good choice in the same price range. Sony does no have a movie mode worth using, but the VX2000 is pretty much a tried and true camcorder based on a design that has been around for close to 10 years.
With any camcorder, beware of extremely low prices. Many of those ads in the back of magazines are from outfits in Brooklyn who will never ever sell you a camcorder at the very low price unless you buy an over priced extended warrannty and/or an very over priced accessory kit (junk stuff usually). And often they sell gray market stuff with no US warranty. B&H, though, you can trust.
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