Re: Firewire is thriving!!!

In article <0001HW.C67AD47F002DE901F01846D8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Fa-groon <fa-groon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:11:00 -0700, Tim Adams wrote
(in article
<teadams$2$0$0$3-DC3E19.21110008072009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <0001HW.C67A8AE4001CA869F01846D8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Fa-groon <fa-groon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:21:55 -0700, Steve Mackay wrote
(in article <h332ls$9rr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

MuahMan wrote:
On Jul 8, 3:39 pm, Steve Mackay <mackay.st...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
MuahMan wrote:
So I shot some cool home fireworks video on the 4th of July. I used
Canon's top of the line consumer HD Camcorder the HFS-10. I'll
transfer it over to my computer with firewire and do some editing.
Ahhhhh Shit..... No firewire on Canon's flagship consumer level HD
camcorder. Luckily it does have and SD card slot so I can slap that in
any of my Windows PC since they have them built in.
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4945/hf10nofw.jpg
Well I shot some HD video with my ContourHD POV video camera at the
track during my first race a couple of weeks back. I figure I'll
transfer that over to my computer via the firewire port on the POV
camera! Ahhhhh shit. no firewire on the first POV HD camcorder.
Luckily it has USB and an SD card slot which I have built into all my
Windows PC's so things are simple.
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8818/contourhd.jpg
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9081/contourhd1.jpg
So, how do you like the Contour? I've been thinking about getting one.
But am concerned with the lack of image stabilization.

For now, I just use a cheapo Samsung SD camcorder. Even on the paint
shaker of a Buell, it does pretty well with my 'high tech' $10 video
mount.

video mount pic on my wife's
bikehttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3579428233_cdc9cdef94_b.jpg

Sample video from my Samsung.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pE-etZhdNs

And using a cheap Fuji camera I keep on the bike, on my wife's
bike...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aw_R1FHxk4&feature=related

I'd really like to get some video of our rides, and track days in HD.
But am concerned with image stabilization.

<snip>

The ContourHD is..... ok. The field of view is substantially less than
on the GoPro Hero Wide I had. I have to give it some more testing
before I make finaly judgement, but I'm not sure it was worth the
upgrade so far. Stay tuned....

Yeah, the GoPro, I've heard is excellent. But not HD.
I may just end up going with another cheap camcorder for HD.
Something like this:

http://tinyurl.com/mvgxcg

While it's not water resistant, I don't think I'd be shooting "Sprited"
rides, or track days while it's raining anyhow :)

The camera itself looks pretty good. You definitely want an HD camera with
solid-state capture memory (as opposed to something electro-mechanical
like
tape (especially),

Personally I prefer a tape based system. When it is full, I set it aside as
a

back up to the video I've imported. That way I can go back and retrieve a
master
at any time I want. With a solid state memory card, once the video has been
loaded onto the computer, it's erased to be used again. That preference is
changing a bit over time, as memory cards (large ones) drop in price and
become
more 'disposable', like the tapes are now.
The quality is also just as good.
A hard drive is a big pain as you need to be able to off load the video
almost
all the time, since it will fill up and then you can't record more till you
do
so.

My experience is that tape isn't very good for HD. They are trying to pack so
much data on the tape that the least little hic-up will ruin your video. What
I will do with my next HD camcorder purchase (which will use flash memory) is
to dump the flash memory raw, directly to DVD and use that as the backup.

I've not seen any issues with the HV30 that I'm using. The HD has been quite
good and I've had several friends looking at getting the same camera even though
it is now discontinued.

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