Well I'm finding it really hard to make my mind up with the camcorder issue. I started out by saying that I didn't really need good image quality, yet the more I think about it, that was the thing that impressed me most about my last camera.
The editting and clip management benefits of a HDD setup are really compelling, especially as I take a lot of footage, regularly. But you can get much better quality for the same, or less money, with miniDV. There's also the possibility of stretching things a little to go for a HD camera...
For interest, I've been using this site for camcorder reviews - they're pretty good. Sooner or later I'll just make a decision, save the money and stick with it.
Much simpler at the moment is my running program. I got two good runs in last week, and I'm starting my first of this week's this morning. I'm settling in to the routine nicely - but keeping it going next week over Christmas will be a challenge!
I'm also collecting together all of the footage that we took last season, with the intent of putting one or two things together before any footage is taken this year... if I ever make my mind up about what camera to buy! So keep an eye out for some new video.
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I haven't seen the quality of the HDD video. I know miniDV can look really sharp, but I don't know how good HDD can look.
Personally, I expect to be publishing most of the stuff I film on the web, which is always low quality. I'd like to maybe put together a DVD at some point in the future. The question is, how close to DVD quality is a HDD camera?
The way I understand it thus far, the HDD camera itself is capable of taking the same quality video, it just looses quality based on the level of mpeg compression you use. So if you set the quality mode down, you get grainier video.
However, I still wonder what quality level you get from the "best" setting compared to miniDV. I still haven't found information on that.
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