The Newer Camcorder.

This is the camcorder I got for Christmas '09. I know what you must be thinking.

"You got your first camcorder in (the summer, I forgot to mention that) of '09 and you knew five months later that videopraghy/photography was a hobby you wanted to take up? Good-bye I'm not following your blog, you're just another one of those teenagers who thinks that since they have a camera and instagram you can call yourself a photographer."

Yes I knew in that short time I wanted to do this as a hobby. I never said I was perusing it though, so if down the line I decide I don't want to do this anymore I won't have invested more than a $1K in it. And no I'm not one of those teenagers, I refuse to use instagram. I have a photo editing software on my computer that I use often but half the time it's only to add my copyright or remove red eye (something I've noticed my camera edit red eye won't do) If you take a good photo in the first place you shouldn't want to use an old time effect one it.

Okay enough of that. Like I was saying, I got this camcorder in '09 and actively used it until November of '11. That when the new camera came into the picture (no pun intended) I'm getting slightly ahead of myself. The reason I'm posting my old camcorders is to show how far I've come in terms of technology and what I take pictures of. Most of these first pictures, with the exception of the moon and sunset, were taken with this camcorder. Without further ado, here is the old camcorder.

 Front view. As you can see it is the DXG-580V full hd 1080p video and is 5mp. It can go as low as 3mp and up to 8mp, which is what I took most my photos with.

 Inside/side view. Some basic controls here, the power, access to sd slot, menu, and display buttons. Plus the speakers for video playback.

Back view. I also turned it on so you could see the screen. It has some internal memory, but is is currently being used to hold photos of I believe my nephew. I keep it on video mode because I can press the shutter (on top. I was stupid and didn't get a picture of the top.) while in video mode, not actual taking a video though I found out, and BAM! there was a picture. It made it easier just so I'd always be ready to take either a video or picture. On the top is also the lousy 5x (I think don't take my word) digital zoom.

On the back however we have the play button to view photos and pictures, the scroll to adjust how much light the photo is getting (I'm actually not sure what the technical term is. But it's the scale of -2 to 2 and the lower you go to darker your photo and vise versa) it's also used to turn on the light for is you're shooting at night, scroll through pictures. There are also various cable plugs back here. The record/stop record, and the scroll for settings, pictures or video.


All in all I really like this camcorder. It gets the job done and unless you're shooting at night or under some very low light this is a great starter camcorder for $150. I'll hand on to it and hopefully one day pass it down to my nephew, of course by the time he will be interested in using one they'll probably be out dated and a thing of the past. Oh well I can keep it for my future kids and tell them stories of how I took videos and pictures with it and they'll laugh at my "ancient" camcorder when all they have to do is whip out their phones and take a better quality video than with this "dinosaur". LOL!! I dream of those days. I love when my dad tells me all about when he was my age and all the things he didn't have and just how much life really has changed from the 50's-70's... possibly even the 80's/90's.  I've always thought about living back in the 50's, read my other blog Ramblings of Samantha for my whole ramble on wanting to live in the 50's.