[Year 12 IPM] video camera

[John Bell]

Dear Donna

<Has anyone got any experience of such beasts?>

I haven't. It is quite a complex task analysing all the technologies and 
camera features etc. For what it's worth, in relation to DV tapes, 
because I have deliberately steered away from devices that don't use DV 
tapes. When I was looking for a camera for personal use, the video buffs 
whom I trusted assured me that the DV format provides the best quality 
storage medium for digital video by far. In addition, DV tapes provide 
an easy way to archive and are quite inexpensive.

After you have downloaded your mpeg or avi videos onto your computer 
from your DV tape, edited these re-rendered and burned your edited 
copies to DVD, CD or VCD format those little tapes still provide the 
best quality archival media and remain your master copy.

I am also hear that if one were to try to tip what storage medium for 
digital video technology will be around for the longest, the DV seems to 
get the thumbs up from all the experts  .....

(I have a Canon mvx250i  that I use for home and family use and I am 
very happy with the DV approach)

Good luck with this,

John Bell

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Donna Benjamin wrote:

>I'm also considering purchasing a digital video camera - but have
>decided to wait until models that don't use tapes have dropped in price
>- by this I mean they come with a hard drive or use compact flash cards.
>
>Has anyone got any experience of such beasts?
>
>On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:01 +1000, Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
>  
>
>>hi 
>> 
>>we are planning to buy some new dig video recorders 
>> 
>>does any1 have suggestions on good models?
>> 
>>at the moment the budget is still being negotiated so the sky's the
>>limit on the price at the moment!
>> 
>>-andrew grimshaw
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