Anyone shopping for one of these? They still seem to be on the high side of the $500 mark. I usually don't start getting interested until electronics dip down below that. Just wondering if anyone has a high def camcorder, how you feel about it, etc.
My old Hi8 has got to go! It looked bad enough on my old CRT. Now, with the Plamsa . . . yuck. I wish I'd never captured all those precious videos with such an ancient piece of crap.
HD camcorders
Moderator: Vraith
-
Zarathustra
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 19846
- Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:23 am
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 1 time
tell me about it, there must be something that will let you remaster those tapes using a computer..I had a Hi8 and upgraded to a Digital 8 sony...it allows hi 8 tapes to be played from it and the video quality was better than Hi8 but not HD still, then a couple months ago I purchased a Sony HD11 camcorder... it said it was mac compatible but unfortunately the mac i had was too slow to use the software required to decrypt the HD format.... its in some format that compresses the HD video that would normally be something like 20+ gigs down to 4.5 gigs for an hour long movie. the New Imac should solve that problem for me though with Imovie 9 or Final cut pro 6...really clear video on my HD LCD using component outputs, and the still cam on it takes 10.2 mp photos and has a 60gb HD... really nice but a bit expensive... it ran me $1100 but that was my wifes decision... I thought it was too much $$$ but still a great cam.
