video cameras

[Daryn McKenny]

I would like to add to what we as an Aboriginal Language centre would want alongside of supporting what Felicity has said:

We don't want just audio recordings, I cant emphasise enough how important video is for us when receiving language spoken evidence back to community.

Ourselves only use quality (Sony/Canon) HDDV recorders recording to tape, we will not go to hard drive or any other format yet because of proprietary formats and compressions/codecs used, raw is best and that is what tapes give us.

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Daryn

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From: Felicity Meakins [mailto:f.meakins at uq.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, 26 March 2010 9:33 AM
To: Laura Robinson; r-n-l-d
Subject: Re: video cameras

I haven't been overly impressed with the quality of the hard drive cameras I've looked at. I have a Canon HV30 Black Progressive HDV which rates better than the Sony equivalent. The HDDV quality is infinitely better than the normal DV cameras and better than any of the hard drive cameras I've used. The digitised files require more hard drive space, but it is worth it for the image.

I think that as linguists doing documentation we spend more time worrying about sound quality and good sound equipment and not enough about the quality of footage. We think of it as just adding a bit of context to our recordings rather than considering them as the primary recording that language communities are going to be interested in in decades to come.


On 26/3/10 6:57 AM, "Laura Robinson" <lcrobinson1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,

I am looking to buy some video cameras for my fieldwork this summer.  I'm thinking to get a couple of the new tiny video cameras, plus something more mid-range, like a solid-state video recorder.  It would be nice to get away from miniDV if possible, and I was wondering what this list thought of the various kinds of new video cameras on the market?

Thanks,
Laura
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Laura C. Robinson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Linguistics
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
http://go.alaska.edu/lcrobinson

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