I have aquired a DC50. Unfortunatly, neither the wife nor I posses a engineering degree. I've read through the manual, however, I still have a few questions about how this thing opperates, if you don't mind.

1st) this Camcorder uses both a disk and a miniSD card. Can it store video to this card, or only photo's?

2) does it offer stability control while recording?

If possible, I plan to use the camera in my race car to record races that just under 2 hours. the camera would be subject to vibration and odd temperatures. Occaisionally it will have to survive moist enviroments as we do race in the rain.


thanks for the input!
regards,
hoop

User's Guide, p. 12 lists operating modes. This camera cannot record video onto a memory card, but can record still images to disk.

User's Guide, p. 117 specifies image stabilization type. DC50 has optical stabilization.

In regards to 2hr video, this is possible only with dual-layer disks in the lowest-quality recording mode: 108 minutes (User's Guide, p. 116) In normal recording mode a standard single-layer disk fits only 20 minutes of video.