Advantages: Relatively cheap, Hi-8, budget video camera Disadvantages: Only 16X zoom, now out of date hardware
...yet functional camcorders.
The Sharp Viewcam VL-AH131H was at the time not the newest kid on the block, nor the smallest, but it has done more than I wanted and for the price (a little over £150), it was a bargain.
My camcorder mostly sits on my desk, attached via the video out to my WinPC card within my PC, making it into a Webcam. Fantastic for showing all my imperfections in glorious detail or very very close up! Before spending hundreds of ... ...to your PC, as even the worst camcorder is better than most webcams picture quality!
The Hi8 recording format is not the best recording format, and has been superceded by digital recording formats, but for anyone who just wants to capture the moment on a budget, and isn't woried by the odd bit of analogue interference on tapes which have already been used and re-used again, then this is the camera for you!
The camera has a 3 inch viewing screen, ...
MartyB999 21.04.2004
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Camcorder - Optical Zoom: 10 - Digital Zoom: 700x - Weight: 0.5 kg - Flash memory: SD Memory Card - Supported Media Type: Mini DV - Viewfinder: without Viewfinder
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