digital video camera question
16 December 2002, 09:10 PM
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do digital video cameras still need a tape?
a friend says he nearly bought one at the weekend and it needed tapes but they were quite small ones!
surely they use a memory stick or something?
any info would be appreciated
pete
a friend says he nearly bought one at the weekend and it needed tapes but they were quite small ones!
surely they use a memory stick or something?
any info would be appreciated
pete
16 December 2002, 09:34 PM
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Any proper DV camcorder takes mini-DV magnetic tapes.
DV data rate is about 3Mb/s, so NO memory card would be able to hold more than tens of seconds worth of film.....
The only other camcorder I know that doesn't use magnetic tape is the Hitachi one that records to a mini-DVD type drive.....
DV data rate is about 3Mb/s, so NO memory card would be able to hold more than tens of seconds worth of film.....
The only other camcorder I know that doesn't use magnetic tape is the Hitachi one that records to a mini-DVD type drive.....
16 December 2002, 09:37 PM
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Just to give you an idea, most mini-DV tapes are 60 minutes long. At 3Mb/s, this equates to 10.8Gb on each tape roughly...
No memory stick I know of can hold anywhere near that - 512Mb max???
No memory stick I know of can hold anywhere near that - 512Mb max???
16 December 2002, 10:18 PM
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I should clarify - my camcorder takes mini-dv tapes AND compact flash solid state cards....
Stills can be recorded to either medium. Video can only be recorded to the mini-dv magnetic tape.
Stills can be recorded to either medium. Video can only be recorded to the mini-dv magnetic tape.
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