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Brian Kennedy (Kennedy)
Junior Member
Username: Kennedy
Post Number: 97
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 12:31 am: | |
Well, it was a few years ago when I was making the same decision. One other key aspect... wide angle. It seems most shoppers look for big zoom numbers and how zoomed in you can get. But for shooting car video, you want to be as wide as possible. (Also, for most indoor shooting, you want as wide as possible.) You can get an add-on lens to get more width, but the wider the base camera can do, the less distortion you'll get.
My choice, at that time, was MiniDV... the Sony TVR-10 (though the TRV-8 would've been just as good for autox). Primarily, I judged their image stabilization to be the best. |
Tim Gendreau (Tim)
Junior Member
Username: Tim
Post Number: 104
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 5:21 pm: | |
be carefull what kind of camera you get. make sure it will work with your remote lense if thats what you are using. the cam corder needs to have a "VCR" setting, this allows it to record from the remote lens, if it has "play" instead of VCR it will not work. also if you use a LANC remote make sure the new one has the LANC as well. I have an old sony TR101 and I went looking this weekend to replace it. could not find a newer camera that had LANC and only one model that even had "VCR" mode on it. it seems they are all changing to play only (and of course record with the camera)
if you mount your camera directly to something and record with it than all above does not apply. using a remote lense will also reduce the amount of vibration and allow you to store the cam corder in a padded case behind the seat, or anywhere. this is where I got my remote lense.
http://www.actionsportscams.com/ least expensive you will find for a remote lense and works great and very very good customer service.
good luck
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Mark Freeman (Mrpc12)
New member
Username: Mrpc12
Post Number: 47
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 4:03 pm: | |
Jon:
I would go with MiniDV. It is already an industry standard. Not sure if MicroMV will catch on. It seems to be Sony only right now. I don't think you will see much image quality difference between the two. The specs on MiniDV are better. The MicroMV allows them to make smaller and lighter cameras. That seems to be the advantage. |
Jon P. Kofod (95f355c)
Junior Member
Username: 95f355c
Post Number: 158
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 3:03 pm: | |
I have been using a I/O Port Racing cam corder mount with an 8mm Sony camcorder that is about 3 years old. The picture quality is average and I can't seem to minimize vibration (have tried everything imaginable). I borrowed someone else's newer camcorder and the picture quality was much better.
I am looking at Sony's MicroMV cam corders and the less expensive MiniDV camcorders. Any thoughts on one vs. the other. I am mainly interested in picture quality, image stabilization, and size of cam corder. Not as important are battery life, still shots and ease of use.
Look forward to some advice from the tech/gadget freaks on this board.
Regards,
Jon |
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