Topic: Resistance to filming with a camcorder

[fanofjam]

I agree with the other tapers here.  I stopped buying commercial video's ten years or more ago unless I'm able to actually experience the video first.  LOTS of commercial videos are total garbage.  Like you guys already said, they're a spastic nightmare with ridiculous editing or the audio is total crap.  I watched a commercial video not so long ago where they obviously had a SBD and an AUD matrixed together, but they never eliminated the delay between the two sources, so the entire video had that characteristic echo with the annoying slapback of every drum beat.  After awhile, I couldn't listen/watch anymore. 

[lowlight10]

Unfortunately the ZS100 has become hard to find. Is there a new option? I have SBD access with my favorite artist, so now that I have audio easily covered, I am looking to do video as well.

[yltfan]

I agree with the other tapers here.  I stopped buying commercial video's ten years or more ago unless I'm able to actually experience the video first.  LOTS of commercial videos are total garbage.  Like you guys already said, they're a spastic nightmare with ridiculous editing or the audio is total crap.  I watched a commercial video not so long ago where they obviously had a SBD and an AUD matrixed together, but they never eliminated the delay between the two sources, so the entire video had that characteristic echo with the annoying slapback of every drum beat.  After awhile, I couldn't listen/watch anymore.

Guided by Voices was selling audio recordings like that a few years ago. And they shut down board feeds for tapers. Tons of us were like "please let us do a proper job of this, your taper is bad".

[tjj5036]

Unfortunately the ZS100 has become hard to find. Is there a new option? I have SBD access with my favorite artist, so now that I have audio easily covered, I am looking to do video as well.

I had an interesting conversation with one of the guys that works at the local camera store and he said that many of these point-n-shoots are back ordered and likely won't have stock replenished. The market for them isn't really what it used to be in the age of smart phones with pretty good cameras built in. Folks either are content with their smart phones or jump to "low pro" setups where you have a small frame with a detachable lens, such as a Sony A6400 or even the ZV-E1. The market for that in-between segment isn't worth it for companies to target. I will rock my ZS100 till the day it dies but I did get a FX30 to shoot at shows where I can get permission.