Professional Video
Professional Video
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 Canon Professional Camcorder Production 8mm Hi8 Video  US $222.50
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 Extron System 10 Plus Professional Video Switcher US $29.99
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 Professional Hydraulic Fluid Video Head RF US $59.99
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 Professional Video Tripod Head System A New US $139.99
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 NEW 55 PROFESSIONAL TRIPOD FOR STILL CAMERA VIDEO CAM US $34.00
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 Professional Video Camcorder Camera ★ Portable Tripod ★ US $1.48
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 Canon GL1 Mini DV Professional Camcorder Video Recorder US $537.56
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 BETACAM SP PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPES LOT OF 3 30 MINS US $1.99
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 Canon XL1s 3CCD Digital Professional Video Camcorder US $1,050.00
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 PANASONIC 300CLE PROFESSIONAL BROADCAST VIDEO CAMERA US $112.50
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 New Heavy Duty Professional Camera Video Tripod Dolly US $46.69
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 Sony PVM 1380 13 Professional Color Video Monitor BNC US $39.99
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 Sanyo Professional Video Sound Camera VSC450 US $129.00
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 Teac Professional Video Camera with Case Accessories US $199.00
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 Sony FX1 for professional quality video US $2,500.00
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 Professional Hydraulic Fluid Video Head New US $59.99
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 Professional Video Tripod Head System A RF US $139.99
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 Professional Video Editing System w Kona Card RAID US $2,000.00
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 Panasonic LQ MD800 Professional DVD Video Recorder US $500.00
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 Canon GL2 3CCD Camcorder Professional Quality Video Cam US $1,500.00
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 CANON XL1S 3CCD DIGITAL VIDEO PROFESSIONAL CAMCORDER US $870.00
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 Canon GL2 Professional Video Camcorder With Extras NR US $605.00
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 Professional Video Tripod Head System B RF US $99.99
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 Professional Black Tripod Video System B US $99.99
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 Panasonic Digital DVC20P Professional Video Camera US $454.99
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 KATA PROFESSIONAL VIDEO BAG THE ULTIMATE BAG MINT US $149.00
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 Sony Professional Video Camera US $24.95
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 Panasonic AG A750 Professional Video EditingController US $9.99
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 Professional Hitachi VK C2000E MOS Color Video Camera US $5.50
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 Beautiful JVC GR HD1U Professional Digital Video Camera US $699.00
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 53 PROFESSIONAL TRIPOD for CAMERA VIDEO CAMCORDER US $15.95
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 GEMINI PHOTO VIDEO PROFESSIONAL TRIPOD W CARRYING CASE US $24.99
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 BETACAM PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPES LOT OF 3 20 MINS US $.99
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 SONY PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL 8 VIDEO RECORDER GV D200 MINT US $455.00
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 RGB SPECTRUM COMPUTERWALL2 PROFESSIONAL VIDEO SPLITTER US $3,000.00
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 NUMARK AVM 01 professional audio video mixer US $132.49
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 Sony HD professional Video Camera US $1,100.00
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 Edirol LVS 400 Professional 4 Channel NTSC Video Mixer US $1,299.00
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 Sony DSR 200 Professional Video Camera US $76.00
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 Panasonic AG DVC7p Professional Video Camera US $500.00
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 SONY PROFESSIONAL VIDEO CAMERA US $249.00
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 Professional Tripod Dolly for Camera Photo and Video US $36.00
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 SONY PVM 1341 PROFESSIONAL COLOR VIDEO MONITOR US $75.00
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 Professional PVM 14M2U VIDEO MONITOR 169 Component BNC US $175.00
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 FULL SET HEAVY DUTY PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TRIPOD BRAND NEW US $99.99
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 SONY PVM 9L2 COLOR 9 PROFESSIONAL VIDEO MONITOR NICE US $159.00
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 PANASONIC PROFESSIONAL VIDEO CAMERA US $99.99
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 EXTRON MBC VGA XGA BUFFER PROFESSIONAL VIDEO EQUIPMENT US $20.00
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What are the differences between a camcorder and a professional video camera?
Are there huge differences in the video quality you can get from a HD consumer camcorder and a little "professional" cameras...the type videographers and local news stations use on location. What are the other main differences in capability?
Consumer camcorders have small lenses and small imaging chip(s). This combination results in their not doing too well in low-light situations. Prosumer and pro-grade camcorders have much larger lenses and larger imaging chips.
Consumer camcorders' manual controls are generally not easily accessible. Prosumer and pro-grade camcorders have easily accessible manual zoom, manual focus, manual iris/exposure, manual shutter and manual audio controls... and neutral density filters and video gain control.
Many consumer camcorders generally do not have any mic jack or other audio-in capability other than the built-in mics. A few have a 1/8" (3.5mm) stereo mic jack (but generally no manual audio control). Prosumer models generally have a 1/8" (3.5mm) stereo mic jack with manual audio control. Pro-grade camcorders have built-in XLR audio connectors.
Consumer camcorders are generally built to be used hand-held, even though no one should ever do that. Prosumer models are larger - and while designed to be hand held, rarely are; the large ENG (Electronic News Gathering) pro models are nearly always shoulder mountable. The advantage of the shoulder mount translates into a much steadier shot - though a tripod or camera crane or other steadying device would be steadier than shoulder mount.
Other features like frame rate, interlaced vs progressive frame capture, add-on lens selection and quality, LANC (a wired remote) jack availability, matte box availability, filter selection, will also come into play.
You will also find that the vast majority of the pro camcorders use miniDV tape or save to an external hard drive that stores in DV or HDV format (same as miniDV tape). Panasonic has a few new internal hard drive or flash memory pro-grade camcorders. Red has a family of them. Sony, Canon and JVC pro lines continue to be on the DV/HDV page.
In good daylight, tripod mounted, no movement of the subject or the camera, with normal audio levels, it would be a challenge to differentiate 1080i/p 30fps video. Deviate from this, and the differences get very obvious, very quickly. Video is captured under lots of different lighting conditions, there may not be time to set up a tripod, and audio levels can be from 0 to REALLY LOUD in an instant... and the reason we capture video is for the motion...
Under many conditions, the ENG camcorder audio is not even used even though it is captured - an external field recorder (Edirol, Zoom, Marantz, M-Audio, Fostex) is used to capture the audio you end up hearing on TV and a separate audio person is employed just to be sure the audio is correctly captured.
So yes, there are huge differences - which is why a low-end consumer camcorder costs less than $300 and a decent pro camcorder can be as low as $3,000 or as high as $60,000...
But a skilled person with a low-end camcorder will always capture much better video than a non-skilled person with the most expensive camcorder...