DV Camcorder Reviews. Where are web sites?

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Imaging Resource is a great site for reviews of digital cameras. Does anyone know of sites that provide similar reviews for Digital Video Camcorders? I haven't been able to find any good ones in my searches.

Thanks,

Stu

-- Stuart Berman (stuberman@iname.com), September 13, 1999

Answers

I see this question come up a lot, there's not much out there that I've seen. This site and steves digicams posts announcements of the most exciting intros. The quality of digital video camera still images is even worse than the lowest end Sony Mavica digicam.

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), September 13, 1999.

Steve's Digicams has a section on digital video. You may get some links to tests there. Sony announced the PC100 a couple weeks ago. It takes 1 megapixel stills and has 10x optical zoom. While the resolution of other DV camcorders is not that good, at medium to full zoom (some have 20x optical zoom), they will have better resolution than any 1 or 2 megapixel 3x zoom camera image cropped for the same magnification.

-- Dan Morris (dmorris@aol.com), September 16, 1999.

Dan,

Thanks for your response. I found a couple data sheets on the Sony PC100. It sounds like a great camera, but I can't find the price. Do you have any idea what the price is?

Stu

-- Stuart Berman (stuberman@iname.com), September 17, 1999.


One of the press releases said $2050.

-- Dan Morris (dmorris@aol.com), September 17, 1999.

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