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Some of the images in my photobucket are "lifted" from my digital camcorder. <br /> <br />I just finished fitting firewire to my computer so that I can now record Hi 8 or digital 8 tapes to the hard drive with a better screen resolution. <br /> <br />I have also found several video hosting services so that people on the net can watch them at the moment I dont have any yet on line. <br /> <br />I enjoy camcording trainshows, I simply sweep thru the layouts onto the camcorder and then go over them in the quiet of my home slowly. <br /> <br />I use a Sony DCR TRV 460. I have a walmart tripod now to hold it steady, this is quite important. Part of the camera has night shots in IR availible and memory stick of about 1.5 hours on a 512 meg of capacity. I can run one hour digital tape or stream it hot to a computer. <br /> <br />Battery is good for over 8 hours on a charge and am planning a small flood light for both day and night use. It was not cheap at all. I think half of this years hobby budget went into the camera and the accessories. <br /> <br />Being free from the photo developers and able to do everything with Roxio 7 software on the home computer really is liberty from excessive fees that we used to pay in the old film days. The roxio is capable of "Lifting" one frame as a image or capturing either digital or tape images. <br /> <br />My next improvement will be a 200 gig external drive that will do nothing but store videos and I can easily carry it from computer to computer. <br /> <br />I use a PNY 1 GB memory stick "Attache" to carry videos (I hold close to 3 hours worth on it) and can communicate with Apple Computers using quicktime and also on windows machines running Windows Media Viewer. This is useful when you videotape a friends layout and dump the videos in the stick to take home or... free up the on-board memory sticks on the camcorder. I am slowly adding memory several times a year. <br /> <br />The entire expenditure is over a thousand dollars retail however thanks to Ebay and other local sales I was able to assemble everything to this level for about 600- <br /> <br />There are bigger and better cameras out there that take much better pictures. Call me a photo bug but I think the future is bright.
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