Amateur Filmmakers
buying guide
What to Look For
For the budding documentarian or cinematic artist, you need a high quality camcorder with plenty of manual controls and imaging options. Art filters, alternate frame rates, independent aperture and shutter speed, gain limits... if you know what these things mean and you know that you want them, then these are the camcorders for you.
Here's our list of the top picks for excellent performance and control:
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Sony HDR-FX1000Archived Product -
Canon EOS 60DArchived Product$1,099.00 -
Canon Vixia HF G10Archived Product -
Panasonic HDC-TM900Archived Product -
Panasonic HC-X900M9.5$1,199.00 -
GoPro HD Hero26.0 -
Canon EOS 5D Mark III9.3$3,499.00 -
Panasonic AG-AF100 -
Sony Handycam NEX-VG209.5$2,199.00
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