[WEB4LIB] digital camcorders or NOT a camcorder?

[Gary E. Masters]

At 08:02 AM 11/9/1999 -0800, Ward Price wrote:
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>I couldn't find this in a quick search of the archives.  We are looking for
>a digital camcorder. We want to use the camera to record a tour of the
>library as well as an online tutorial to be put on our Webpage. There is an
>issue of cost and we don't have a lot of funds, maybe $1,000, give or take.
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>Looking at reviews, the Canon vistura has come up alot. Does anyone have
>any experience with this or other digital camcorders? Any advice/opinions?
>Thanks for your help.
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>Ward Price
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>C. Ward Price    wprice at panam.edu
> Instruction/Reference/Web Librarian
>  University of Texas-Pan American
>         Edinburg, Texas  78539
>        http://www.lib.panam.edu/
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For our own web page use, we have purchased the Hitachi MP-EG10W.
Does MPEG video and JPG stills.  With the 1GB hard drive it can do about 2
hours ov video or up to 5,000 still images.
We are still working on the web page setup, but the video is pretty good
for compressed video and I like the still images.  You can convert video to
MPEG, but why not start out with it?  So far as I know, the Hitachi is the
only camera that will do this.

Price is above a thousand, but is moving down.

Can also record compressed autio or do stills with audio.

You may want to consider it, though it dos not produce video tape.  I
gathered a set of stills and put them on a CD.

Regards,

Gary Masters



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