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color:#1F497D'>I would like to add to what we as an Aboriginal Language centre
would want alongside of supporting what Felicity has said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Felicity Meakins
[mailto:f.meakins@uq.edu.au] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 26 March 2010 9:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Laura Robinson; r-n-l-d<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: video cameras<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I haven’t been overly impressed with
the quality of the hard drive cameras I’ve looked at. I have a Canon </span><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Courier'>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On 26/3/10 6:57 AM, "Laura Robinson" <lcrobinson1@gmail.com>
wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hello all,<br>
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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? <br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Laura<br>
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Laura C. Robinson<br>
Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
Department of Linguistics<br>
University of Alaska, Fairbanks<br>
<a href="http://go.alaska.edu/lcrobinson">http://go.alaska.edu/lcrobinson</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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