Posted: 12/5/2005 6:09:49 PM EDT
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Ndenway made a comment about a video cam which got me to thinking. Anybody have any experience with DVR cams? And what type is the best at the "mid-range costs" - $300 to $400? Thanks, Dan |
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man I don't know about the digital ones, but I bought two of the sony handycam HI-8s steady shots model CCD-TRV328 NTSC eariler this year at the west side walmart in norman, they were normaly like $350, but they had them marked down to $150 for the display and $165 for the one in the box, can't say as to how they'd hold up in the field, their small, got a 20x zoom lens and feature 990x digital zoom, picture quality is good, much better than my old samsung vhs model. I'm thinking of getting a decent 4 meg. or higher camera in the $250 range, but I'm kinda undecided as to which brand, I use a 6meg HP at work but it cost something like 5 bills, and I bought my mom a cheap one, the pic quality isn't that great but I half way expected that, my sisters got one of the kodak zoom ones in my price range but its cpu suffered a melt down when I was trying to upload my AK tutorial earlier this summer, kodak replaced it free but I don't want something I don't trust, ya'll got any thoughts? MLW 
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If you find a sony thats in your price range and that's what I'd recomend........... I have a sony hi-8 digital kinda like nden's but mines a way older model mines only 240x zoom but it's probably 6~ yrs or older.........can't remember for sure.....but it's made numerousssssss trips to the woods and I've never had a problem ......knock on wood...... I just bought a new dig camera it's a kodak and it will also take video IIRC.......the reason I bought it instead of a sony was price/compared to features I wanted I wanted one that would take AA rechargebale bats .......trying to standardize batrys  Hope mine holds up better than ndways sis' did....... 
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If it'll hold like four min. of video and has sound and a zoom lens, then its probably like the one my sisters got, she said she hasn't had any probs with the new one, but I don't know, she won't let me use it, the one I got my mom comp disk wont load, used the online feature it said to use and it locked up her comp for naerly all day, but I think her comp needs more memory, I bought one of these hp 4x6 stand alone photo printers at walmart the other day on clearance sale for $60, any camera will work with it and it will accept the memory cards, the prints look pretty decent, their not as good as the kodak printer I bought my mom, but it was less than half the cost and can use any brand photo paper and the ink cartidge is $18, the kodak kit cost $25 for forty prints, now I just need the camera I like, gonna use my minolta with high speed film for the better pics and the digital for cheap and easy prints. MLW 
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Alright got a Canon 5mp camera that will take videos. What I am thinking about is a straight movie making Digital Camcorder. Not the miniDVD type, but one that takes the 1 hr cartridges. All so we can film some deer and coyote kills. Anybody have one of the Panasonic DVR or another type? |