<div dir="ltr">Flash may be the future, but I specifically wanted a miniDV HD camera for the following reasons, among others:<br><br>-- inexpensive media (60-minute tapes from Costco for less the $3 each)<br>-- just save the tapes as convenient archival storage - no long-term storage on external hard disks required<br>
-- better video quality (the HV30 gets top reviews for cameras in its class, and even among classier cameras)<br>-- I could get it for less than $800 (about $745 after deducting a $25 reward credit from Amazon.com)<br>-- no need to dump video off to a computer during long shoots - just swap tapes<br>
-- tapes available just about everywhere<br><br>Just my two cents.<br><br>-Gordon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Gerhard Kuhn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerhardk@mac.com">gerhardk@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I guess I based this on what I was recently told by a Best Buy employee, I am looking at buying a Sony HDRTG1 and it does not have the feature were it can convert analog to digital, the sales guy said that it has been several years since that was a standard feature. I have Sony DC11 and have been happy with it but I want to purchase a HD camera and like the form factor of the HDRTG1. I also believe that the future of video cameras is in the flash memory type over tape, hard-drive or DVD.<br>
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On Aug 25, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Gordon Alley wrote:<br>
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I've had a couple of Canon miniDV camcorders that both had pass-through (a ZR-40 and an Elura 65), and I''ve ordered a Canon HV30 (High Def) that also has the feature (according to the manual I downloaded).<br>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Gordon B. Alley<br><a href="http://www.gordonalley.com">http://www.gordonalley.com</a><br>
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