CES 2003: Samsung has announced their new SCD5000 combined MiniDV camcorder and four megapixel digital camera. Digital Video is recorded directly to MiniDV tape, digital stills to Memory Stick. The camera features a swivel ten times (video) /
The front of the E900 is dominated by the lens that folds into the body when powered down; it has a built-in lens cover. There’s also the viewfinder window, speaker, self-timer lamp, adapter ring release key and nice silver accents. The top has the power button, shutter and mode dia...
side, the flash was quite good and accurate thanks to the AF Assist lamp (don’t bother with the supplied sunshade). Videos were VHS level and you can use the zoom while recording clips. Again, these are O.K. for short movies but definitely not a replacement for a MiniDV camcorder. ...
prosumer DV and Mini DV (which only differ in the size of the cassette), and consumer Digital8 (which uses normal 8mm cassettes; I review a rather fancy Digital8 camerahere). Those three formats have identical bitstreams and so can just be plugged straight into each ...
It uses no video tape and the images are stored onto Sanyo's Magneto-Optical Disk with a large 730MB storage capacity which acts as mini hard drive in the camera ... you just use it over and over. The IDshot's animation feature is not as good as a DVcamcorder camera connected to ...
You can shoot with almost zero effort in fully automatic mode or explore the huge range of functions including HD SDI, time code, and 60i/50i modes, as well as both miniDV and 16:9 HD aspect ratios. Lens and overall image quality are very high, especially at this price, and Canon ha...
t mind the camcorder works with miniDV tapes because I mostly record directly on the laptop or an external hard drive. I only use the tapes when I am on the road and with the high quality miniDV’s from Sony, you do not have drop-outs, or very seldom. As you can see, theSony ...
To squish DV data onto 8mm tape, Digital8 camcorders run the tape at double speed. A 120 minute tape becomes a 60 minute one. The TRV820E has a Long Play mode, as well, which gives you three-quarters of the stated tape capacity instead of half. For Long Play, you'd better be us...
(You can chop the clip into lots of pieces and set the volume for each one, a technique we did away with when iMovie 3 came along; Apple believes this style of audio editing is too advanced for average users.) There’s no capability to write video back to tape in a MiniDV camera;...
The Sony DCR-SR300 digital camcorder should appeal to casual, snapshooter-type videographers, but it's somewhat pricey, since its video quality still can't match better MiniDV camcorders. As we've noted in past reviews, we're not big fans of Sony's touch screen interface. The 2.7-inch...