Made a video purchase

flixmaster · Site Owner Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7488

After talking to a few guys at BH Photo...I went with this camera

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?shs=hv+20&ci=0&sb=ps&pn=1&sq=desc&InitialSearch=yes&O=RootPage.jsp&A=search&Q=*&bhs=t

Now on to the camera...

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Looks like a quality camcorder. Is that hard drive based or tape based?

It looks like prices have dropped on the HD camcorders. I'm hoping soon there will be digital cameras that can record HD quality video or video cameras that can take SLR quality snapshots. That would be ideal.

flixmaster · Site Owner Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7488

It is tape.. From what they were telling me it will be much easier to work with tapes than with the HD compression formats on some of the cameras.

I am so out of the tech stuff on camcorders so I really don't know what I am getting myself into.

Chad H · Posted: Jan 21, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

flixmaster,
I just used that camera this weekend to record a concert. I didn't happen to have an HDV tape, so unfortunately, i didn't get to check it out in that aspect, but it is a great little camera. He's a clip i shot with it in DV mode, which is just not HD.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=70MYc32ifho
Keep in mind, this is with bad lighting. And a lot of background noise/ no external mic.

flixmaster · Site Owner Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7488

UPS just dropped off my camera....now what? Smile

Looks like I need to buy a tape. forgot to mention that I would need a tape when I bought the camera.