Digital and Film/cassette/DVD camcorders?

Question

I know that some camcorders you can just save all the footage on the camcorder hard drive, but I'm a little confused with other types like DVD and cassette ones.

Can you re-write over dvd and cassettes while recording?
Do you NEED the dvd/cassettes to record something?
Could you put a memory/space card to replace them?
Is it better to buy dvd/cassette recording camcorders over digital?

Please answer anyone you know as well as any other information you have about this topics

Answer 1

Well, for most camcorders using DVDs and tapes, that is their only way to store any footage. So, if you out storage space during a recording, you have to stop and put in a fresh tape/DVDs. The memory are for still pictures only.



For more info on which is better, it's not so simple. At least DVD is out.

Tapes and HDD/Memory card have their own advantages. Check-out the website below:

Answer 2

All camcorders designed and built in the last 10 years are digital. The only differences are what media is used. Digital data can be stored on hard disc (HDD), optical disc (DVD), memory card and tape (miniDV). The highest datarate/quality recording currently is on tape (miniDV) and lowest is DVD. Each media type has its particular advantages and some cameras offer a hybrid of memory card and another media.



Optical has not proved out very well and unless Blu ray camcorders are developed, they will soon be eclipsed by other media type. The first digital media was miniDV which has seen new life with its adaptation to HD recording as HDV. Tape systems require ieee1394 serial port on the computer, this is because they need to allow the computer motion control over the tape (ie stop, rewind, play, record, timecode, etc). Tape is cheap, and just keep the tape and you have a digital archive. Photographers are more familiar with memory cards and like using them. Memory cards with sufficient speed and storage capacity to be useful are expensive. Memory cards have another characteristic in that they are not standardized. Unlike the photographers JPEG, memory card video can be any of at least a dozen data compression types, some of very poor quality. HDD has speed and storage capacity, and generally employ the best compression schemes (AVCHD, MPEG2, MPEG4) but the problem is eventually they fill. Blu ray is the only practical archive method for either cards or HDD.

Answer 3

usually camcorders do no longer take as solid a nevertheless photograph as a digital camera - verify the optimal megapixel score for it. familiar movie photos are comparable to 3.2 megapixels so by no skill purchase a digital camera under that. in case you settle directly to get a camcorder able to digital stills make certain it has a reminiscence slot for the nevertheless photos. A camcorder that doesn't have one will purely record the nevertheless photograph to 3 seconds of movie and it fairly is a real soreness to get those transferred on your pc.