[MacDV] Re: Digitaal 8 vs Mini DV

[Mark M. Florida]

Yes.  It's definitely the imaging hardware differences of the cameras, not
simply the tape format.

The data is the same after the imaging stage -- 1s and 0s -- just on
different kinds of tape.  If you transferred the miniDV footage to D8 via
FireWire first, it would still look the same, but be on different tape.

I have a Digital8, and I love it for home video usage -- I also have old
Video8 and Hi8 tapes that I can play back with my D8 camera.  That, plus the
lower price between my D8 and comparable miniDV cameras (back when I bought
mine in 2001) pushed me towards the D8.

2 cents.

- Mark

On 12/16/03 8:37 AM, R B Williams at brucewll at comcast.net wrote:

> I've noticed the same thing with Sony & Canon. I believe it has to do with the
> different
> optics in each camera, though it may also have to do with the CCD chip itself.
> You can
> get around the issue if each camera has white balance that can be set by the
> user.
> Simply set them both to the same reference white card under the stadium lights
> at each
> event.
> 
> For footage that is already on tape, pick the one that has the best color
> rendition as
> your reference. Copy the second reel to another digital recorder (or camera
> via AV out's
> & in's) through an external color processor. Then capture from that.
> 
> You can probably correct captured footage too in the computer, but there would
> be
> rendering times to contend with and I don't think the results are visably
> different.
> 
> Robert Williams
> 
> riceramblz at mac.com wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a Canon mini-DV camera and a friend has a Sony Digital 8. We
>> often combine our clips into one video. From his camera, the colors are
>> less vibrant than on mine. It is a noticeable difference. His grass
>> looks more gray, while mine is green, for example.  (we are working on
>> high school football tapes.) We are filming the same games, under the
>> same conditions.
>> 
>> Michele
>> On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 06:26 AM, Macintosh Digital Video
>> List wrote:
>> 
>>> And to those who didn't think much of the Sony Digital-8 solution, were
>>> your comments based on your experiences with these cameras? This is the
>>> first I've heard anyone say that Digital-8 was not as good as mini-DV.
>> 
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