Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-21 Thread Christopher Spalding
May I conclude that you're using video in the semi-proffesional domain and not in the consumer domain? Cheers, Ralph School student - i do all the school's in house stuff, and if all goes well work experience at 60 mins australia. Christopher Spalding Genius, generally excellent and

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100 (off topic)

1999-12-20 Thread Graham Baker
I was told by one of the mail order camera stores that in reality the PC100 has a 680,000 pixel lens-the 1,070,000 pixels applies only to still photos and then only those stored on a Memory Stick. I would hope this were not true. Does anybody know? Unfortunately it is true - and even worse

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-20 Thread Rodney Peterson
Right. The DCR-PC100 is one of the cigarette sized box ones. It's the latest U.S. model. It appears in the latest Sony Style (the one with Milla Jovovich) on the front cover on page 91 Besides a photo of the camcorder itself with i's two and a half inch swivel screen open, a brief synopsis

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-20 Thread Christopher Spalding
1) A 120 minutes movie on a DVD takes less than 4GB, that comes down to less than 35MB per minute! Yep, and you'll notice that DVD videos are only consumer releases, since although they're better than VHS (which is actually the worst form of video storage, they are actually very high

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-20 Thread Christopher Spalding
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Right. The DCR-PC100 is one of the cigarette

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-20 Thread Ralph Smeets
May I conclude that you're using video in the semi-proffesional domain and not in the consumer domain? Cheers, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) A 120 minutes movie on a DVD takes less than 4GB, that comes down to less than 35MB per minute! Yep, and you'll notice that DVD videos

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-19 Thread Christopher Spalding
Christopher I really appreciate those calculations you made-they sound like they make a lot of sense and took a great deal of thought. No worries I am aware the 3CCD DV Cam is almost identical to the TRV900. The DVCam model however is the DSR-PD-100. The DCR-PC100 is the newest version of the

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-17 Thread Christopher Spalding
Perhaps all is not lost in the prosumer movie filming world with the Sony MD Discam after reading Graham Baker's link to a story about the MD Discam yesterday that got me to thinking. Evidently the MD Discam can record movies in Quick Time via the ethernet connection. I hope you all will forgive

Re: MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-17 Thread Rodney Peterson
Christopher I really appreciate those calculations you made-they sound like they make a lot of sense and took a great deal of thought. Doesn't sound as though current MD video will convert to high quality film very well. Would it even be possible to use a standard IEEE1394 Firewire Link on that

MD: MD DIscam vs. Sony DCR-PC100

1999-12-16 Thread Rodney Peterson
Perhaps all is not lost in the prosumer movie filming world with the Sony MD Discam after reading Graham Baker's link to a story about the MD Discam yesterday that got me to thinking. Evidently the MD Discam can record movies in Quick Time via the ethernet connection. I hope you all will forgive