Replying to Another What Camcorder Thread

1) What is your budget? How much money can you spend right away, and do you think you can get more money to invest in the future?

my budget is about 300 to 400 and id like to invest on a cheap tripod also

2) What experience do you already have with cameras? Have you ever even used one before? Have you helped your friend out with his camera? Have you owned your own?

Ive filmed shitty edits with my point and shoot

2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc)

nuthin

4) What are you planning to shoot and how do you want to use your camera? Are you going to use this with the sole purpose of shooting skiing? or do you think you might try other stuff as well (movies, documentaries, short films, etc)

skiing,tramp,bmx,skate other sports

5) Do you want a camera that you can hand to your friends, that could or could not have film experience, and let them shoot you? or will you be doing all the filming?

a relatively easy to use camera so my friends can shoot me

6) When filming skiing, how do you tend to shoot? (follow cams, leave it on record on a tripod and hike, film from a tripod, etc)

everything

7) What computer do you currently have/use to edit (if not currently editing, what would you most likely use)? If you can provide specifics, such as hard drive space, RAM, processor size, that would be great.

the comp i have right now about 600gb of hradrive space, 4gb 4gb of ram

7) What program do you currently edit on? How familiar are you with it (1- just learning; 10- I can make tutorials and know the keyboard layout)

i have sony vegas pro 9 and im about at 5 i can do simple editing but i learn alot with tutorials

So ive been looking at a couple camcorders like the sony dcr-sx63 or the Panasonic SDRH85K and especially the canon fs200 or even the goproHD but i want more options cuz it sells for 369 on dstructure shipped.... also notice that all the camcorders i posted are standard defenition (except go pro) thats cuz i dont really know if its worth adding the extra buck for it.. u guys tell me