Advantages: Top spec, low price, Digital AND Analogue Disadvantages: Not really :-)
...camcorder ! Many thanks to Sony for that !
Quick word about digital 8, it uses regular 8mm tapes, but at 4/3 the speed of a regular 8mm camcorder, enabling the picture to be saved in Digital video with two stereo audio tracks. Basically, a 90 minutes tape will last you 60 minutes in DV. There's also a Long Play mode that enables you to fit 120 minutes on a 90 minutes tape, but the difference of quality is quite noticeable. The camcorder's great ... ...frame by frame, or a sony memory stick. But if you want to take photographs, you'd better off buying a £400 digital camera rather that using a camcorder for this purpose.
The camera supports 16:9 format, although it's a "virtual" 16:9 format like most of the other camcorders. The only trick is.... even though the camera does not have the lense for recording "true" 16:9, it compensates greatly by recording MORE lines in 16:9 mode. As said earlier, ...
Righar 29.05.2003
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