[tux2424]

I am buying some camcorders for my boss to use for filming golf swings. We need camcorders with a firewire 400 output and a shutter speed of at least 1/4000. HD would be good but not necessary. Does anyone know of any camcorders that meet these specs? Thanks for the help

 

[IAM4UK]

That's a tough spec. Camcorders don't actually have a real "shutter speed," but do publish an effective shutter speed based on CCD or CMOS capture abilities. You'll get 60 frames (or more likely fields) per second from just about any consumer camcorder.


An example of the "effective" shutter speed of Canon's new top-of-the line consumer camcorders:

Max Shutter Speed -- Movie: 1/2000, Still image: 1/500

 

[ronaldkwok]

The manual of my Sanyo HD2000 (and maybe also the similar VPC-FH1) states a video shutter speed from 1/30 to 1/10,000 second. Don't know when this is actually used. It records HD up to 60fps and superfast mode at 240fps and 600fps (very poor quality, though) up to 10 seconds. But no firewire output.