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"Best Compact Minidv Camcorder in this price range" on by 95carreacab
Pros: I specificly needed a portable minidv camcorder for my snowboarding videos but i still needed great video quality.I googled the hv40 and found this site hv40.net and readsome reviews and i found it for $200 less than msrp great camera & great price
Cons: its minidv (if thats con)
Summary: Being most cameras these days record to a hard drive or flash memory,i needed a minidv format hd camera.I was in mammoth ca snowboarding and i hit a mogel and when i got back to my room i found all my video from the past 3 days somehow got deleted due to the fact when your boarding down a black diamond its very bumpy and the vibration caused my hard drive to fail.So i came across this site hv40.net and ordered the camera overnite for like 200 less than msrp and the nexd day i had my camera in time for my afternoon run.I love the minidv format much better than a hard drive being if something goes wrong with the tape i can pop in a new one.With my harddrive canon wanted $600 to fix my old hard drive and the 6 hrs of video was not something that they were able to restore from the hard drive.So now im a firm believer in the tapes and this camera works great, my video quality is the same as in a shaun white video.Highly Recommended!!!
Here is the link to the site I found on Google. <a href="http://hv40.net" target="_blank"> Canon HV40 </a>
Updated on Dec 4, 2009
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I film my kids skiing and snowboarding every year, and was about to go to a hard drive based camcorder. Thanks for the heads up. I'll stick with tapes.
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Was this really a review? I have only seen two reviews of this product including this one and another at ConsumerReports. The CR review was a real review because the user spoke about the camcorder's capabilities as oppose to the benefit of miniDV over Flash or Hard Drives. In this review the user could have gotten any miniDV and it would have worked for him. What I'd like to know is if the camcorder record in "Native 1080p24" as the manufacturer boasts. The Reviewer on CR says
"I was astonished to discover that it does NOT record 1920x1080. Its highest mode is 1440x1080 and the image quality is pretty average at that. The documentation that I found was misleading, because I saw numerous references to a 1920 x 1080 resolution and I never saw any warnings that would have led me to believe that the only thing on this camera that gets 1920 x 1080 resolution are still photos." END
Does anyone have a more thorough review confirming or denying what the CR Reviewer says?
