> You are incorrect. See http://tinyurl.com/4nms5n . And high end pro > camcorders are also doing away with tape; Panasonic has no tape models > at all this year. You're right that some tapeless systems use hard > drives or disks, but solid state memory is cheap these days so that's > the direction everyone's heading. > > Even at 21mbps you can get 1.5 hours on a cheap 8GB SDHC card. And > these prices are falling all the time. > > I'm telling you now, if you're looking for a new camcorder, do NOT get > one with a tape drive in it, unless they offer you a _really_ good > deal. > >> >USB 2 is actually behind firewire. > > I have no idea what you mean here, as we were discussing USB3 here. I > guess you mean that, on paper, USB2 is slightly slower than 1394a? No > matter, as USB3 will rival eSata speeds and is killing off 1394 > entirely.
Not many pros use Panasonic videocams. They're more likely to use Canon or [ugh] Sony. Canon continues to use DV tape and Firewire ports, as do Sony and Panasonic. Pros do not use nonremovable media, unless they can switch cameras instead of switching tapes or cards. On site or on the road, it's not likely that pros would carry more than two cams.
FireWire is significantly faster than USB2 in real time by up to 400%, but usually around 200%, since data can move in both directions simultaneously with FW, but only one way with USB2. Firewire transfers data more or less independently while USB relies on a processor. Unless USB3 is 2-4X faster than USB2, it's still slower than FW400, and much slower than FW800, and it's still one-way. USB 3 might be good for backup drives, but not for video.
Avoid videocams with a hard drive or nonrewritable discs. Only use removable rewritable media--for SD/CF, nothing smaller than at least 16GB, or mini DV tapes. Otherwise your media will run out before you're done making videos. I'm glad mine didn't run out this weekend!
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