[iBook] Mac friendly DV cameras?

[Larry Kollar]

Murray E.Milligan wrote:

> Any one have ideas which manufacturer of digital video cameras are 
> most Mac friendly. I'm planning a trip to Europe soon, and I'd like to 
> make digital movies of it while there. Thank you in advance.

The iMovie forum on Apple's website has perennial discussions about 
cameras. The conventional wisdom seems to be that *most* Canons are 
Mac-friendly (I have a ZR-80 & it definitely is), stay away from the 
cameras that record directly to DVD (some Sonys), and some older 
Samsung cameras don't work too well. Nobody has ever said that mini-DV 
Sonys (that record to tape) are a problem.

In short, if the camera records to miniDV and has Firewire, you should 
have few problems.
--
Larry Kollar    k  o  l  l  a  r  @  a  l  l  t  e  l  .  n  e  t
"The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."
-- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc