Re: Firewire is thriving!!!

Fa-groon wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 06:20:04 -0700, Steve Mackay wrote
(in article <h34qqd$i50$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Fa-groon 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 ***..... 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 ***. 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.

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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), an HDD or one of those small recordable DVD drives),
The vibration will kill a HDD in short time.

the only thing I see against it is the lack of Firewire.
With removable solid state memory, there is no need for firewire whatsoever.

I suspect that would depend on whether you actually do non-linear editing from the camcorder or not.


I'm not doing anything overly fancy whatsoever. Just doing simple videos , Youtube, and DVDs for our Motorcycle club members. iMovie, and iDVD.

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