Pros and cons of HD video camcorder with hard drive

Hi

I have a very strong preference for tape. I hate AVCHD cameras. All AVCHD camera should be prevented from working with professional editing equipment. There is no place for hard disk based cameras. So many problems...

Justin.. Durban.. South Africa

The main advantage of Disk and Flash based cameras are that they can be made smaller because they don't have to accommodate the tape and mechanism. It depends what you want to do with it if it's the right camera for you. If you aren't doing professional work then I would go with a flash memory camera or one that has a disk and can handle flash memory too.

if you are going to record something like a baseball game that may last two or three hours, most hard drive based camcorders will handle the long continuous recording time.

Why do I prefer tape....

Well I will use a famous example as way of analogy...

Years ago before Bill Clinton was prez, he was photographed at a function with the then unknown Monico. When the scandal broke about zippergate. 1 and only 1 photographer out of about 150 had kept the photo...why... he shot on old style film and not digital.

He was able to archive each and every shot. The newer snappers using dig cameras just deleted.

The same with video. With tape you less likely to re-use the tape, so with AVCHD you only keep what you use and delete the rest. Or you might accidently delete footage, camera is damaged--footage lost.

Look there are 2 ways to solve this problem, the easy way and the professional way.

The professional way: FIRESTORE and tape as back up.
The wrong way AVCHD.

I hear you say 14.5 hours per hard drive. How much of that are you going to keep?
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP 120 GB DATA?

Enough said...
AVCHD MUST BE BANNED!!

Justin Durban South Africa

Wow, you are a real wackjob