On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Tony B <[email protected]> wrote: > You think a $4000 HD video recorder is an appropriate investment for > entry into video production??? >
I was thinking in a more aspirational way. You can get the same effect by toting around a PC/Mac and connecting camera via firewire and recording directly from the . > > Note that the reason most shooters still prefer tape is because it's a > good *archival* storage format. Don't bother sitting around comparing > the cost of *temporary* storage like flash or HDDs or SSDs with tape. > Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of data and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to hard drive starts to look better and better. It's apples and oranges. > Apples and oranges are both fruit off of a tree very similar in many respects. Now apples and anacondas there is a big difference. You can get both of them off a tree and even eat both of them with proper preparation. Of course the anaconda may try to eat you back. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
