Noob ??????

[C.DeJohn]

i was thinking about getting the canon hv30 and i was wondering if you have an option of what you want to film on a sd card or a mini dv because i have never filmed with mini dvs and there pretty exspensive for hd ones

 

[C.DeJohn]

bump

 

[captainEMERICA]

im pretty sure there has been a thread on this, i will try and find it but try google im sure it in the interwebz somewhere

 

[A.Eberhard]

No you have to film on mini dv the sd card is for still photo's. You do NOT have to buy hd tapes it's a scam; you can just get normal DV tapes there totally fine they do not effect the quality at all.

 

[C.DeJohn]

ok thanks alot +++ karma

 

[Crock360]

You don't have to no, but there's a higher risk of having drop-out, and because HDV is compressed (and really really sucks in general) one drop out really means 15dropped frames which is about a half a second...

Still there's no guarantee that a HDV tape wont drop out, but it will drop out less than using regular DV tape.

 

[A.Eberhard]

I have had my hv30 for over a year now and iv'e put about 20 normal Dv tapes through it and iv'e always captured on it. I have never had one drop out so, I will tell you HD tapes are a big scam.Here is a thread on the popular hv series forum and everyone will tell you there is no differencehttp://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=2844