Hi Sonia,
I recently bought a Panasonic NV-GS180. Brilliant
camera - it has 3 CCDs which give it very
impressive poor light performance (I was just
demonstrating it to a friend who has a fandoogly
Sony and the 'sonic definitely won hands down).
I use it with Kino, GIMP, some FFMPEG codes and
other bits and pieces such as DVDStyler, for
creating vids of my kids.
MiniDV is recommended if you want to do a bit of
editing (which I do). My understanding of the
on-board HDD is that they record in MPEG2, which
is why I went with the miniDV.
From my reading the Panasonic has a good rep and
though this model has fewer on-board functions
than my old Sony (which recorded to Hi8 - I've
still got to find a *cheap* way of getting it
transferred to miniDV) I don't miss them. It's
performance is impressive (1)
I'm still learning and learning with this stuff -
but it's lots of fun :)
(2)
I'm currently playing with software from:
http://www.zs4.net/news
but keep getting a seg fault (I'll have to check
their forum) when doing some of the more
interesting stuff - zoom function is great though.
If you want to swap techniques, ideas, methods
etc, I'd be more than interested in off-post
discussions.
Regards,
Patrick
Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:13:00 +1100
(OT)
I'm looking at buying a digital camcorder - just wondering about
people's advice/experience of MiniDV vs on-board hard disk, and also any
gotcha's with Linux.
The research I've done indicates that MiniDV is the highest quality, but
limited to 60/80mins per tape. On-board 30G hard disk allows for about 7
hours recording, but would need to be transferred off to allow more
recording.
I'm not considering DVD or Memory Card - doesn't record for enough time
(I want to record sporting events).
In MiniDV I'm thinking about a Panasonic NV-GS300.
(1) I have no connection to Panasonic other than
having bought one of their cameras.
(2) I'd have volunteered for the LCA but the very
reasons for my Vid interests take up all my time
at the moment :)
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