Which is the best among Mini DV, Hard disk and Flash memory?

[magisu6]

What is the difference between them? And which is best? I want to buy camcorder, but I do not know how to choose. How do you think about these three models? I can get much information from here. Thanks.

[johnmc]

Flesh memory

[MarkE19]

It all depends on what is important to you.

miniDV pros:
tape is the best archive media
best PQ for the cost
if captured as DV .AVI files there is no loss of PQ with capture or editing
tapes are very cheap at under £3 each

miniDV cons:
getting footage onto PC is in real time (1 hour tape to PC takes 1 hour)
1 hour of DV .AVI files eats up approx 13Gb of HDD space

flash/HDD pros:
putting footage onto a PC is just drag & drop, ie quick & easy
higher compression can be used to get more footage on the card/HDD
no rewinding of tape to find the required scene to watch

flash/HDD cons:
higher compression will give lower quality footage
the footage is already highly compressed and editing can lead to a fair amount of quality loss
quality not as good as miniDV unless paying a fair bit more for the camcorder
you need to backup your footage somewhere to reuse the HDD or card

Mark.

[merena]

Best is for picture quality is Mini-DV it always will be the best.

Hard Disk is best for ease of use and storage capacity. But if you want to do serious editing you may run into issues. Movies stored on harddisk are stored in a mpeg2 or 4 which means you are only getting every other or every 4th frame.

To bottom line it for you.
If you want to do just regular capture the family recording then hard disk recording is absolutely the way to go, it's simple to use, easy to work with and you never have to worry about tapes or anything.

give you an web suggestion www.gizmograbber.com