On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:07:41 -0400, "Jim Harvey" wrote:

>Here's a hypothetical for you. What would deliver a better picture;
>
>Standard MiniDV 1/4" chip 3ccd camera (pick your brand) or a 1/2" 3ccd Hi8
>camera (EVW-300, TSC-100(0) or the like?

My guess is that *if* all were recorded to Mini-DV, I would
prefer the high-quality analogue cameras; if the 1/3"
PD150/VX2000 were added to the mix, it might be closer...
Call me old-fashioned, but DV artifacts are becoming
more and more annoying to me (those produced by the
sharpest 1-chippers, the poorest 1/4" 3-chippers, and
lately, on broadcast TV [let alone satellite stuff...!;-]).
It appears that the Mini-DV format itself is not the
main source of the image problems, but the poor DV camera
imaging devices... As with digital audio when CD's and
players first arrived, some of it was OK/good, just as
some DV video is OK/good, but some of it was/is dreadful.
Time and technology mostly cured this with audio, though,
and the same is likely to happen with video...