No More Video Blogging?

By Vlad Zablotskyy September 14, 2007 Bookmark and Share

I know that few of my “blogging” buddies may be disappointed not to see me video blogging these days. I will be back!

The reason I do not video blog is that my Sony DCR-SR82 is on its way back to the store. I have to say that I am very disappointed by the performance of this camcorder. The main attraction when I bought this camera was its impressive 60BG hard drive while entire camera fits the palm of your hand. Unfortunately the video quality made by this camera is far from being on par with its MiniDV cousins, in fact it does not even match the quality of videos made by Flip Camcorder- and the funny part is I could have both MiniDv camcorder along with the Flip Camcorder for nearly the same price as I paid for Sony DCR-SR82.

Bottom line is that Sony DCR-SR82 is way overpriced for the quality of footage it delivers.

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  • vlad - bummer on your camera

    I took the plunge a few weeks ago and purchased a digital video camera

    panasonic SDR-H18

    it isn't perfect (it takes a second or two to turn on and the color has trouble adjusting a few times) but has been working fine for me and the quality is the same as my digital camera (except now I can record longer than 7 minutes, lol).

    remember for 4-500 dollars you are just getting an entry level hard drive camera so don't expect hollywood quality

    mark
  • Thanks Mark,

    On one hand I really do not need that much- after all there is limit with what we can do with web videos.

    But I believe we will see great improvement over the period of next few months and if you look at most of the higher end camcorders they all are MiniDV type.

    The down side with MiniDV is the capture process, but I think I can deal with it.
  • Vlad, you should just use whatever picture camera is lying around. I've been doing that all along, and it works fine...
  • Chris,

    I think I will be getting two cameras at this point one might just be Flip for quick vlogging, I am however in the middle of a project that would rather have some what better quality of the footage.

    Hard disk camcorders come short of what I need. I am sure that the future of the digital video is not MiniDV but so far these camcorders are capable to produce the best quality.
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