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[_] Camcorder recommendations

Richard E Moore richard at juniperblue.com
Fri Nov 17 13:52:26 GMT 2006


> So, what I'm after is a camcorder, preferably 3-CCD, which:


> a. has a hard disk, or some other method of recording full-size
> DV movies for at least 2-3 hours, and b. has a firewire output
> so that we can stream live from it. (and c, can operate in
> relatively low light conditions)


> ...


> Any suggestions/ideas?

An idea - if you are happy with your existing camera, could
you take a feed from it into a DVD recording deck and capture to
DVD instead? Depending on the encoding settings you could get up
to 4 hours. This should work in theory ;-)

R