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hey guys mkbhd here back with another high-definition video and youtube tips episode number 3 and as you guys know video quality is almost completely dependent on two things your camera and your lighting and lighting will be covered in a very soon upcoming YouTube tips video so as you can probably guess in this video we'll be covering your camera and we'll be covering a wide range of cameras and camcorders all the way from your sub hundred dollar range all the way to the higher budget of say over a thousand dollars so let's start at the bottom with the point-and-shoots and work our way up so a hundred bucks is about as low as you can go in terms of a budget for a camcorder and if you're looking to shoot HD video the flip a flip video and flip ultra camcorders are about as good as it gets for under three digits you can pick these up anywhere online you can even find these in best buy and they really have very nominal feature sets they're not tons of features but they'll definitely get the job done for those of you looking to just get started with hardware reviews not necessarily someone who's been doing this for a while from the 100 to 2 dollar range I have a very clear winner and that's the Sanyo Zack DC g10 by far my favorite camcorder in this range and for a couple of reasons number one it has a massive three-inch flip-out LCD which is really important for monitoring your video and filming yourself number two is it has optical zoom five times optical zoom and that's really good for maintaining quality while you zoom and the next thing is that it has image stabilization in the lens this is also a really good point and shoot camera it takes 10 megapixel photos it has like I said optical zoom it's just a really good overall nice quality camera in the 100 to 200 dollar range you'll be able to see some footage from that it's really really great I recommend this very highly now once you get above a hundred to two hundred and three hundred dollars you'll start to see a wide range of different types and form factors of cameras one thing you'll see a lot more of is appoint shoots and there are a lot of good ones out there that shoot really good quality video the point shoot I used with the was the olympus fe3 70 which is a pretty decent point-and-shoot camera it doesn't shoot HD video but it's really good for the price range you also find the nikon p7100 with and then put back in your bag and take around for any other photos you need to take also in the two three four five hundred dollar range are the camcorders and this is where the the canon vixia series of camcorders really shine these are going to be your camcorders that are dedicated to full HD video you can shoot to flash or a hard drive and they're going to take really really high quality video and will likely have incredible optical zoom so you definitely want to look at this range if you have a budget of say up to four five hundred dollars now when you start to get above five hundred dollars for your cameras you're going to see a mixture of camcorders and DSLRs now like I said the Vixia series can go up to eight or nine hundred dollars but if you're looking something that has just a little bit of an edge where you get the interchangeable lenses hands-down the DSLRs shoot the best quality video you can get in low-light and highlight indoors outdoors it's just an awesome thing that you can shoot video with DSLRs I use the Canon t2i which came out last year in February you can check out the Canon t3i which may be coming out this February so I wouldn't quite buy that just yet there's also the nikon d series with the d 3100 recently being released and that being very popular on youtube as well and all these cameras that i've been mentioning all fall under $1000 if you're looking for something a little bit higher than the Canon t2i that's dedicated for video the Canon 60d which is a more popular version of the Canon DSLR series runs for twelve to thirteen hundred dollars and has a tilt table swivel LCD screen and has a more expensive kit lens and things like that that'll definitely optimize it for video these also have things like full manual control and full control over video whether it's aperture or ISO range and all sorts of things like so these are definitely not for the beginning YouTube user like I said you can probably stay under 500 bucks for anything you want to do on YouTube and get away with it pretty easily anything over 500 could be considered overkill but I'd rather have overkill than underkill mind you then there are the professionals that use things like the canon 5d mark ii and you probably don't see their videos on YouTube that often you'll probably find them more on things like Vimeo and other like super high quality of video oriented sites but there are very very very high-end cameras you can get for around about $1,200 that'll look phenomenal on YouTube and I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the 600 D or Canon t3i when it comes out in February so I hope this YouTube tips episode has been pretty helpful for you guys who are looking forward to investing in a camcorder to shoot Hardware reviews on YouTube and I will talk to you guys in the next video thanks for watching Bass