[MacDV] DV transfers, camera quality

[Steven Rogers]

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Paul Williams wrote:

> I'm going to have some 8mm films transferred to DV format. I then want 
> to import them using a MiniDV camera (I'm thinking the Canon GL2). How 
> important is the quality of the camera used to do the importing? I'm 
> wondering if it's worth a big dollar investment just to import (play 
> back) this footage if the camera itself won't be used to record the 
> footage being imported.

So long as the camera can play the tape, I don't think it makes any 
difference. There camera sends out the data that's on the tape. There's 
not much room for interpretation like there is with analog tape 
playback.

SR