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Originally Posted by jimiking
I've just gone for the Canon HG10 because it has a Hard Disk Drive. The option of not having to wait for tapes to whizz backwards and forwards seemed a positive step.
Only had it a week or two and haven't had time to play with it much yet, but I'm impressed so far.
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How's the camera with the hard drive working out? I've read that dumping the files is something that detracts as far as some people are concerned. Also backups on tape are made, as you crate the video. (although I've had tape spaghetti with all kinds of recorders, so it's not perfect) I'm not sure about video quality, something about transfer rates to the recorder.
On the other side, if I was doing a time lapse, I'd much rather have a hard drive start and stop, not a tape. Dumping to DVD is find for saving things, if you aren't out in the field, where tape wins. If they made a removable drive, that would be the hot setup.
Recording direct to DVD? Nah, not interested.
Recording to memory cards, is the real answer, which is probably a couple more years down the road. !G cards in pro camera have come down to about $1000 each. Major stopper right there.
Meanwhile back at the question. How's the hard drive camera working out for you? Somehow not having fragile tapes, is tempting. Running out of space and not being able to pop in some new media, bothers me.