01-17-2005, 12:34 AM
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Originally Posted by retroeric
Hmmm, let's see. I have a brand new Panasonic PV-GS14 and a brand new JVC GRD33 miniDV camcorder. And neither of them get the low light results of my piece of crap old Sharp Viewcam analog camcorder that is 6 years old. What's up with that?
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I'm thinking: newer smaller CCDs are less light efficient and new camcorders have smaller cheaper lenses which also capture and concentrate less light.
The trade off is usually smaller cam size, smaller tapes, and more pixels in the image for better resolution. |