The Zoom Q3 does not have High Definition, it is limited to 640x480. Still, it is a one box solution. But if you want it in one box you can get the Kodak and plug in a good mic. The Kodak has HD and will hold up OK in indoor lighting. The HD really bumps it up a couple of notches in quality, plus you can crop the video and it will still look good. Realistcally, they aren't like the $30,000 cams used to video an opera, but the HD is really not bad, and for three hundred chipotles you can get HD video and 24 bit audio, with microphones, what a planet. Porca Vacca! dt
At 12:51 PM 11/17/2009, you wrote: >David's suggestion of the Zoom H2 and Kodak minicam sounds like a >good one. Alternatively, there is the option of the Zoom Q3. I >paid $249 for mine; it does both video and audio. The sound seems >to be very good and likewise the video. (I listen with a high >quality pair of earphones). And it fits in a pocket. As a related >thought, there's nothing like listening and looking at oneself >practicing to do a reality check! While playing, I'm convinced that >we don't hear the sounds as we make them, but rather the sounds as >we make them augmented by the sounds we hear mentally. And >mentally, an editing process is going on continuously, in essence >covering up - or glossing over - a multitude of sins. Until I >bought the Q3 I thought that I might have two or three easy pieces >ready to put on youtube. The Q3 quickly disabused me of that >notion; back to the practice room! > >Ned To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
