[ale] OT: camcorder/camera combos

[Geoffrey]

Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> Get a miniDV camera, preferably not from Sony.

I'd be curious why you say not Sony.  Just because the call it something 
different, doesn't mean the don't follow the specs.  There's a number of 
Sony cameras that do work with Linux.  Check out:

http://www.linux1394.org/cgi-bin/hcl.cgi

> 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.

Here's the link to the linux firewire site:

http://www.linux1394.org/

> Sony is not good with following the standard, since they call their firewire
> port something else ..i-link I think.

Again, names mean nothing, check out the site above.

> 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.

digital does not require miniDV.  That's marketing for the size of the 
tape.  My camera is digital and uses hi8 tapes.

> 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.

But most cameras will provide a higher resolution still then a frame of 
video.

> 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]
> 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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