Camcorder thoughts
Nov. 1st, 2008 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyJust because I've had people ask me about stuff in the past...
I'm really liking the new camcorder. In particular, recording to memory cards is something I really like. I'm VERY glad to be done with tape (except I need to archive the old stuff).
The quality is outstanding. Every time I come home I can pop the card in the machine and back up 30 minutes worth of video in 3 minutes. I don't have to worry about jostling the thing and either damaging the mechanism or causing a tracking failure from the impact.
I suppose there's a chance of card failure causing me grief down the road, but I'm not really worried about it.
Once I turned the sharpening and saturation down to minimum, the 3 megapixel still photos are good enough that I feel I can leave the still camera at home for casual use. It's certainly not my choice for dedicated still photography, even semi-casual use that I'd use the P&S instead of the SLR for. But it does mean I can carry just one relatively small camera.
Sample from last night, Tom with a member of his favorite mammalian species:
I'm really liking the new camcorder. In particular, recording to memory cards is something I really like. I'm VERY glad to be done with tape (except I need to archive the old stuff).
The quality is outstanding. Every time I come home I can pop the card in the machine and back up 30 minutes worth of video in 3 minutes. I don't have to worry about jostling the thing and either damaging the mechanism or causing a tracking failure from the impact.
I suppose there's a chance of card failure causing me grief down the road, but I'm not really worried about it.
Once I turned the sharpening and saturation down to minimum, the 3 megapixel still photos are good enough that I feel I can leave the still camera at home for casual use. It's certainly not my choice for dedicated still photography, even semi-casual use that I'd use the P&S instead of the SLR for. But it does mean I can carry just one relatively small camera.
Sample from last night, Tom with a member of his favorite mammalian species:
