Use Digital Camcorders to Remember Special Things in Life

Dec 8
09:10

2010

Asuka Jeong

Asuka Jeong

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The world has come a long way with technology and through the years. We have managed to come up with ways to keep track of time, stop it in its tracks so to speak, even if just for one moment.

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Nowadays movie making and recording personal pictures and videos is not a specialized high tech job anymore. With the advent of technology and user friendly models available in digital camcorders,Use Digital Camcorders to Remember Special Things in Life Articles everyone can keep their memories stored in these magic boxes. Whether you are a professional in clicking photographs or you are a novice, these camcorders function amazingly well with just a click of a button. A decade back, we would just have obscure memories of what we did on that summer trip when we were small. But now, every holiday trip, every family get together, every small occasion are vivid and clear in front of our eyes. 

So what if you are on a low budget and can not buy a powerful advanced model. Basic level digital camcorders starting from a range of $100 also offer extremely good resolution of images and recordings. In fact, almost everyone now owns a camcorder, whether a basic model or a more advanced model which can even go up to $2000.

I am a gadget freak and bought my Sony handy cam about a couple of years back. It was a fantastic experience to use it but then the first thing I noted is that whenever we buy a camcorder, we end up shooting and then shooting a lot of futile videos in our enthusiasm to shoot. It is important to capture special occasions to be able to play them back and watch them. My camcorder got filled with junks like everyday videos and then it was a mammoth task to edit them and only keep the important ones. You certainly loose charm when some uninteresting videos come in between and you need to forward them again and again to watch your favourite ones.

Hence shooting videos can be an interesting job but one needs to learn to keep it to a limit.

Another thing is that while selecting your model of digital camcorder, you need to check what the main purpose you are buying for is. Is it that you need to perform some underwater shooting as well during your scuba diving vacation? Or is it meant for special occasions only? You might also need one to be frequently used like when you have a small baby at home and want to capture all interesting moments. Depending on your usage, you must carefully pick the model out of a variety of models available in the market nowadays. The small or widely known as pocket camcorders are good for basic recordings since these do not have a wide variety of features like optical zoom etc. However, for daily purpose these are easy to carry and can even fit into your purse.

One mistake I always make is that to set up the camcorder when it starts. It asks for date and time details and in a hurry I always want to do it later. But the fact is it never gets done later. It is important to record it right at the beginning so that while watching the playback even after a few years, you would know exactly when it was being shot. Memories might fade but these things do not. Also while making home videos, it is imperative to play some background music. This way the video does not turn out to be dull, without any background music. You can still provide commentary in between since these digital camcorders have a strong sound recording capability even from a good distance.