camera for video and audio recording

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Darinka,
    I guess you mean a digital video camcorder.  The models we suggest at http://talkbank.org/dv are based on the idea that people don't want to spend more than maybe $1000 for a camcorder.  However, if you have a budget that goes up to $3000 you can start to get into professional level equipment and for $10,000 you can get a real professional unit.  However, quality depends on more than just the camera.  Equally important are mikes and tripods.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Jun 22, 2012, at 5:10 AM, Darinka Andjelkovic wrote:

> Dear collegues,
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> We are in position to buy a digital camera for our child language acquisition projects which include recordings of spontaneous children production as well as experiments with prerecorded video settings with small toys.
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> Could any of you suggest a digital camera that would properly serve our needs:
> -          fair quality of digital speech recording in natural setting of homes and kindergardens
> -          fair quality of digital video recording in rather low-light natural setting of homes and kindergardens
> -          fair quality of optical zoom for the purpose of small-distance recording of small toys (for experimental studies)
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> About two years ago we had an opportunity to use the  Canon Legria HF M31 for the purpose of recording small toys, and it showed rather good quality of optical zoom, which was lacked by other home cameras that we tried. But we did not try it for recording of speech, so we do not know how is it in audio recording tasks.
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> I would appreciate very much any comments from those who used this model. Or, if you could suggest any other model that you used recently and had a good experience with, it would be most appreciated.
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> The price is not crucial, first let us see what we should search for.
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> Many thanks,
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> Darinka Andjelkovic
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> Laboratory of Experimental Psychology
> Faculty of Philosophy
> University of Belgrade
> Serbia
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