On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:01:44 -0800, Cad wrote:

>I visit a few sites where still images from SONY camcorders
>are provided for comparison. In general, people say TRV30
>and TRV900 are good ones to have. I wish I can view some
>video clips that you guys captured with your SONY
>camcorders. That way I can really see their video outputs.

Viewing unmodified comparative motion-video clips
from various cameras shooting the same material at the
same time (under the same lighting conditions) is
really the only way to properly judge cameras, BUT, this
requires more bandwidth than we currently have on the
'net, so it is impractical. I tried the (almost) next best
thing: selection of best-frames from comparative footage
and putting moderately-compressed comparative frame-grabs
on web pages (see:
www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder-comparison.htm
www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder--comparison.htm
www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/sony_dcr-vx2000.htm), and adding
verbal descriptions of motion-effects that were not
obvious in the frame-grabs. When I put up the first
comparison site, I asked in the video NGs who would be
interested in brief unmodified comparative DV-AVI
clips on a CD, loadable to your HD and readable using
the free Canopus read-only DV-codec (it could be
FireWire copied to tape for TV-viewing in original
quality). Almost no one was interested...;-)