choosing a cam for ~ €2,100

[ciencin]

I’m planning on buying a camera with a budget of around € 1500 - 2400 for filming mostly skateboarding and short films. I’m planning on keeping this cam for a good while so I don’t want to buy the first one that comes, and a few months later find I improved in filming and there is not much settings to play with on the camera.

At the moment I’m looking at vx2000, vx2100 or pd170.
Reason for the choices: everybody who films skating buys a vx cam. Would there be much choices for manual settings / tweaking on a vx?

I used a pd170 once and it gave me a more professional feel about it, would it be much better than a vx? Would there be any other similar cameras at this price range?

Thanks

[jdmoviemaker]

Vx2100 is THE camerea for low light shooting.
Thats why so many skaters use them.

[singleton33]

Vx2100 is THE camerea for low light shooting.
Thats why so many skaters use them.
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I disagree with the above post. The PD170 is the best low light SD prosumer camcorder ever built. The VX2100 is the consumer version of the PD170.

[CherryTime]

VX2100 has plenty of settings to play with, also along with the
Century 0.3 Death fisheye Lens it's a really kickass camera, If you
want to see some raw footage from the vx2100 with death lens
PM me and i'll send you some.

I have to say that the VX1000 has better colours, and is half the price, what you lose is a LCD, a rec button on the handle and good low light performance.

hope that helps :)