[thechat] advice on buying a digital camcorder
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Sun Oct 5 20:16:54 CDT 2003
rudy wrote:
> dad wants to buy a digital movie camera
>
> i have seen three types --
> - dvd camcorders
> - mini-dv camerals
> - hi8 or mini8 or similar
>
> my questions about the differences (aside from huge price point gaps) --
>
> dvd camcorder records on a dvd disk that you can simply run in the computer?
looks like most of em can finalise a dvd-r in-cam, then you just pop the
dvd-r into your regular dvd player or dvd-rom drive, and play away. you
can use dvd-ram too, but obviously not playable in most consumer dvd
players - you'll probably be able to rip the data off via firewire or usb2
in that instance.
> mini-dv use a little cassette tape (so how to get it into the computer?)
firewire
looks like mini-dv has longer video capacity than dvd-r/ram (~ 30-180
minutes versus 30-60 in different recording modes)
personally I'd go for mini-dv - probably easier to figure out the paradigm
than using DVDs in cams ... "oh, i just pop out the tape, put it in an
adapter like I would for video8/hi8 or vhs-c and i can watch the tape in my
VCR, and I can connect the cam with the tape to my PC with a cheap firewire
cable and card! woo!"
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