Tapeless Video Recording is Here...

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July 10th, 2003, 02:42 AM
Alex

Tapeless Video Recording

Probably means I won't be able to get my tape stuff repaired in the near future. Gost that would be awful.
July 12th, 2003, 05:50 PM
Mike Buckles

Well, I paid $$$$$ for my Sony mini dv trv-900 3 years ago, and I am not wasting money on something else just because it's tapeless...big deal...my camcorder has always performed great, and it's a 3ccd, so I doubt the picture is any better with the new stuff...I'll wait for a High Def prosumer camera to hit the shelves.
July 12th, 2003, 05:51 PM
Mike Buckles

ps..thanks for the article, Alex..it is interesting technology!
July 12th, 2003, 06:35 PM
Alex

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD">Originally posted by MikeyB:
Well, I paid $$$$$ for my Sony mini dv trv-900 3 years ago, and I am not wasting money on something else just because it's tapeless...big deal...my camcorder has always performed great, and it's a 3ccd, so I doubt the picture is any better with the new stuff...I'll wait for a High Def prosumer camera to hit the shelves.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

I just did a job with someone who was doing "second" camera with a TRV-900....we had ideal lighting conditions, but it did put out a marvelous picture.

How long has that model been out?

As for the tapeless cameras, they are for a "niche" market. That market consists of the "hey, ain't I bichen with my new fancy gizmo as I walk along the beach with nothing much to do but strut with my tapeless camera that is the one and only benchmark of personality I posses, crowd"...
and the camera is for the news industry and live entertainment industry which would like to "save" the time needed to load in data.

Ya know, because they really don't have time to study the footage, they just need images to put their BS voiceovers on top of. Content, study content, who needs that! In case anyone is wondering, the load in time IS the study time, unless the story is so prefabricated and a rehash of mishmash that they already know exactly what they want.

Sounds more like "olds" rather than "news".
July 12th, 2003, 11:41 PM
Greg Crawford

Is this CHIP based or CD bast?

How is it going to look when you need to violently [img]mad.gif[/img] shake the camera?
July 13th, 2003, 10:25 AM
cameraguy

[ August 29, 2003 06:09 AM: Message edited by: cameraguy ]

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Originally posted by Alex:

How long has that model been out?

I bought a Hi8 camera in 1998 and at the store the employees where raving about the new TRV900's.

[ September 21, 2003 02:13 AM: Message edited by: Alex ]
July 15th, 2003, 08:11 AM
Actor

I've tried recording directly to my hard drive and it works. Now the question is how long a FireWire can you get?
July 18th, 2003, 04:44 AM
TA 152

[ August 28, 2003 04:59 AM: Message edited by: S8 Booster ]

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Originally posted by Actor:
I've tried recording directly to my hard drive and it works. Now the question is how long a FireWire can you get?

100 meters

Check: http://www.apple.com/firewire/

R

[ September 21, 2003 02:18 AM: Message edited by: Alex ]
July 18th, 2003, 02:33 PM
cameraguy

[ August 29, 2003 06:09 AM: Message edited by: cameraguy ]

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Originally posted by Actor:
I've tried recording directly to my hard drive and it works.

I do my film transfers directly to hard drive. Cameras S-video goes to my digital 8 walkman then that goes firewire straight to computer. Also the compsite output on the walkman goes to TV so I can see what I'm getting in real time.

[ September 21, 2003 02:20 AM: Message edited by: Alex ]
July 18th, 2003, 03:46 PM
Mike Buckles

sony stopped production of the trv-900 about a year ago..they came out with a new model, the trv-950...I think the quality is as good, but I heard some complain that some of the new features on it were at the "joe six pack" level...I was very careful and did my homework before I purchased the trv-900...I studied reviews and reports from different websites for a couple of months before I bought it...and have nothing but good things to say about it....in a few days, if my web thing is up and running, i'll post a few pics of a recent interview shot with the trv-900...and it takes beautiful outdoor shots too...works best outdoors with an ND6 filter....makes it hit the "sweet spot"...really nice pictures!