[ale] OT: camcorder/camera combos

[Mazukna, Thomas]

Get a miniDV camera, preferably not from Sony.
All miniDV cameras have FireWire output, not all accept input. I lost a link
to the www, but I thikn the newest ones all support Firewire in/out.
Sony is not good with following the standard, since they call their firewire
port something else ..i-link I think.
I have a Panasonic which is 2-3 years olda and doing great.
Get a firewire card for your pc. I played with firewire support under linux
with some success.
Dual CPU was a problem, since there was a issue with something beeing not
SMP safe and crashed alot.
You can capture video from camera to PC via firewire with no copression and
since miniDV is all digital were is no quality loss. I have not tried
editing tools under Linux yet. 
I do editing in Windows (+play Unreal2003), and put completed films back to
miniDV tape (cheapest storage per gb for your films).
My camera has support for stills, but I have never used it, because quality
is not that great, you can use frames as photos, and its easier to get a
good shot browsing action frame by frame. 
As for taking digital photos I will get the smallest camera I can with good
enough resolution for printing,
since the only complain I have for My 4 year old digital Kodak that it is
too big and I do not take it everywhere I go hence not so many pictures :(

Check out this one

http://www.netjunki.org/articles/makingmovieswithlinux.html

hope I can help,
Tomas

-----Original Message-----
From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:01 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] OT: camcorder/camera combos


I've a baby on the way and with Christmas almost here, I think it's
finally time to invest in a camcorder.  I'd like to get something linux
friendly in that it'd be nice to be able to transfer video over.  In
addition, I'd like to be able to use it as a digital camera.

Picky, ain't I?  Does such a camera exist?  If so, are any fairly
affordable and penguin-friendly?

Thanks for the help.

John




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