Re: Which miniature camcorder has continuous composive video out?

Richard Crowley wrote:
"Peter" wrote ...
I've been playing with the Sony HQ1 miniature camera, but the quality
is not what I need.

My Sony HC1 HD camcorder is great quality (using the same video to USB
frame grabber) but much too big, and also it shuts down if not
actually recording to tape.

Try taking the tape out. Many (most?) camcorders will operate
continuously from external power if no tape is inserted.


That's right. It just will not respond to the 'record' button.

Basically, I want a high quality webcam! But there aren't any.

That is because "webcam" and "high-quality" are mutually exclusive.
"Webcam" is low-res by nature, and there is no significant market
for a "high-res webcam".


Somebody thinks there is:
http://sewelldirect.com/High-Res-USB-Webcam-Mic.asp

Note also that the kind of quality you will get via USB is almost
certainly lower than you would get from (for example DV over
Firewire).

Firewire usually carries DV25, while USB usually carries MPEG2. The degree of "quality" is of course in the eye of the beholder.

There are plenty of small cameras made for industrial, medical,
broadcast use that are quite high quality. Of course, none of
them are USB unless you use some sort of external converter.
You didn't reveal the application or the budget, so dunno if
any of these would meet your needs.


Some of them are even 100base-T ethernet - probably even 1Gigabit too.

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