Well, the real reason I was asking the question is because I want to buy a camera and have a limited budget. Since I can borrow a 3 ccd camera to do most of my shooting, I still want to be able to play the mini dv cassettes into my computer and thought that if I bought a pretty good single ccd camera, I could do this when the 3CCD camera is not available and save some money. This way I can get at least some sort of camera to own and still be able to play the tapes without degrading the image quality. Any suggestions on a decent single ccd camera that will play mini dv tape from a sony trv950 and a canon GL2? I'm particularly interested in a camera that has superior sound recording ability. I realize this request may go a bit off topic but would appreciate input. Thanks SteveJ animal <animal at cuug.ab.ca> wrote: If the original tape is important, do your initial test with a second tape from the 3CCD. If the single CCD camcorder can play the test tape - then go ahead with your original tape transfer. Image quality will not be affected by the single CCD - I've tested this in photoshop. Lynn _______________________________________________ MacDV mailing list MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! Try it today! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20041117/25c1c03a/attachment.html