Best Camcorder Under 500 Dollars

Rank 1

GoPro HERO4 Silver

The camcorder comes with LCD touch screen which helps in taking pictures and videos and their settings with touch buttons. The camcorder is good at capturing the full HD image and videos with minute details and great resolution. It has the feature of creating slow motion and capturing fast motion objects at the right moment. The camcorder is equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for better controlling with the help of smartphone or remote and transferring pictures and images on social media. GoPro HERO4 SILVER Edition Camera can capture time lapse pictures with the time interval of 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 30 and 60 seconds and they can be stitched together to form a movie. The camcorder also equipped with USB for transferring and charging. Overall a great camera.

Rank 2

GoPro HERO3+ Silver Edition

This camcorder is better than HERO 3 as it is much lighter and handy with more features and upgraded version. This camcorder is mainly for fast motions and adventure sports like swimming, rock climbing, etc. It is waterproof and can go down to 40m for capturing the live event. The camcorder has a wide angle lens, low light image sensor which helps in taking nice pictures in dim light. The camcorder comes with 30 percent longer battery life and is equipped with advance features like looping video, continuous photo and white balance for creating wonderful experiences when using GoPro HERO3+ Silver Edition. The sound system of the camcorder is also good and has in built microphone. Finally an awesome product for adventure loving people.

Rank 3

Sony HDR-CX380/B

Here comes another reliable product from Sony with 30x optical and 55x extended zoom for closer actions, 3 inches LCD display touch screen, Optical steady shot image stabilisation feature and many modes for enhancing the creativity of the work. The camcorder has 16GB memory and can record up to 6 hours. It has the capability of wind reduction which, decreases noise and disturbance by wind, thus resulting in clear sound pictures. This camcorder helps in creating movies with Highlight playback by compiling key scenes in movie with sound. Built in USB helps in transferring and sharing data as well faster charging of the camcorder. The camcorder has capability of 180 scenes combination in its intelligent mode for better images and videos. Thus a great camcorder in such price.