I'm looking into getting myself a camcorder for an upcoming trip and have discovered that I have been left behind in the technology stakes and need a bit of a catch-up lesson.
From looking briefly at the options on offer I see three types of on-camera storage - DVD, DV tape and HD. I immediately see the advantage of the random(ish) access nature of DVD & HD and the normal constraints of waiting to rewind and fast forward DV tape. This pretty much rules out DV. Is there anything significant I'm missing with this - is DV the previous generation and on the way out, or is there some advantage to having it ?
Also, DVD has the advantage that you can just take the disk out write the details on it and store away for future use, whereas with HD you would presumably need to transfer the content to computer for editing, storing, etc . . . which would presumably be done on DVD anyway. Is there some other advantage of HD that I'm missing ?
Thanks,
z
From looking briefly at the options on offer I see three types of on-camera storage - DVD, DV tape and HD. I immediately see the advantage of the random(ish) access nature of DVD & HD and the normal constraints of waiting to rewind and fast forward DV tape. This pretty much rules out DV. Is there anything significant I'm missing with this - is DV the previous generation and on the way out, or is there some advantage to having it ?
Also, DVD has the advantage that you can just take the disk out write the details on it and store away for future use, whereas with HD you would presumably need to transfer the content to computer for editing, storing, etc . . . which would presumably be done on DVD anyway. Is there some other advantage of HD that I'm missing ?
Thanks,
z