[H-GEN] Fwd: Big ticket spending [was: The lca movie.]
QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis
hilton at quarkav.com
Thu Jun 25 16:49:27 EDT 2009
G'day Matt,
You're more likely never to use the Firewire out for video streaming,
most likely the Composite/S-Video (which most handycams don't have) or
Component out, but there's very few 1394-capable vision mixers out there
and even less *affordable* 1394 streaming systems.
- Hilton Travis
On 25/06/2009 12:21 PM, matheist76 at westnet.com.au wrote:
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> The main reason for the firewire is that part of the spec for the lca
> (yep I kow we're talking about Humbug here) is that we want streaming
> video. That might be able to be achieved using the HDMI output but.
>
> Lack of tape noise would however be a really good thing. Never really
> thought about that. The real issue however is as you said the mic
> input. That's a real show stopper.
>
> Matt
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> From: "QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis" <hilton at quarkav.com>
> To: matheist76 at westnet.com.au
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> Sent: Thursday, 25 June, 2009 9:49:08 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Fwd: Big ticket spending [was: The lca movie.]
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> G'day Matt,
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> Yes, I can *definitely* understand the need for a mic input, however
> Firewire I'm not so sure about. These (and a lot of current SD/HD
> handycams) record to SDHC card, so to get the 64 GB of video into the
> computer, just use an SDHC card reader and you don't need the
> firewire. You also don't get tape noise, issues with drives
> (tape/HDD/DVD) and ultimately, the cameras are a lot more robust
> because of it.
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> That still leaves the lack of a mic input as a showstopper, however.
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> Regards,
> Hilton Travis
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> On 25/06/2009 9:13 AM, matheist76 at westnet.com.au wrote:
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> It looks very good for the price but after taking a careful look at the specs I note a couple of things missing that we would really want in a camera. Firewire and microphone input. These two are kinda important for what we are looking for.
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> Good price through.
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> Matt
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> Sent: Thursday, 25 June, 2009 12:25:39 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
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> On 22/06/2009 1:24 PM, gavin duley wrote:
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> On 22 Jun 2009, at 04:11, Russell Stuart wrote:
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> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 03:38 +0100, gavin duley wrote:
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> To me, the purchase of a video camera does seem like it would be a
> good idea. It wouldn't be wasted after LCA, it could be used to film
> talks given at regular HUMBUG meetings which could then be made
> available on the internet. This assumes HUMBUG starts having at least
> semi-regular talks, though.
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> Matt has collected some quotes for purchasing the A/V equipment for LCA
> 2011 outright verses renting it. Matt says the prices are in the same
> ball park. If they are with 50% or so I'd say purchasing them is a very
> good idea. However it ain't our money we are playing with there, so we
> would have to run it past Linux Australian. That said, I suspect if we
> won Linux Australia would accept whatever we put up in our bid.
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> I don't think Greg is talking about that though. Matt (who should put
> his 2c in here anyway), is proposing Humbug purchase some A/V equipment.
> This would cost a substantial fraction of Humbug's current bank account
> balance.
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> My confusion, then. I assumed that the video equipment purchased for
> HUMBUG would be the same as the video equipment purchased for LCA.
>
> Given that HUMBUG has to purchase video equipment for LCA, and that
> funding for this is pretty much a given, would it be possible for
> HUMBUG to keep hold of it after LCA?
>
> gavin,
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> G'day Guys,
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> Have a look atwww.kogan.com.au and see what they have available. A
> 1808p HD handycam at $369. Sure, it may not be the same build quality
> as a $1500 Canon unit of *extremely* similar specifications, but at the
> price, and if treated well, I can't see this being a bad investment (if
> the investment is needed) even with the $99 for a 5 year extended
> warranty option.
>
> - Hilton Travis
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