frankh
Well Known Member
This one is in response to Groucho's excellent write up of how to make his bullet cam work.
On Bryan's site you will see a list of camcorders that have AV inputs, necessary to read the putput of the bullet cam.
Unfortunately this information is incorrect in that if you go thru Circuit City's website looking for camcorders with AV inputs there are indeed VERY few mini DV 'corders that have an AV input.
Furthermore this site cannot be trusted as I bought a Panasonic PV-GS320 corder with an AV plug only to find that it is an AV OUTPUT only. In other words it will not read the bullet cam in through that port, despite the fact the site advertises an AV INPUT on this camcorder.
According to CC the ONLY cam that will import AV images is the Cannon DV-20, i,e the high definition camera that Bryan has.
Its also twice the moola at $719. A good deal for a HD corder but more than i wanted to pay.
There are cheaper disk cameras that have AV inputs but the customer write ups on them are mixed at best and I don't know how the DVD drive will stand up to G's.
If anyone knows of a Mini DV cam that will work please let me know.
I'll put a note in Bryan's inbox on this.
Thanks
Frank
On Bryan's site you will see a list of camcorders that have AV inputs, necessary to read the putput of the bullet cam.
Unfortunately this information is incorrect in that if you go thru Circuit City's website looking for camcorders with AV inputs there are indeed VERY few mini DV 'corders that have an AV input.
Furthermore this site cannot be trusted as I bought a Panasonic PV-GS320 corder with an AV plug only to find that it is an AV OUTPUT only. In other words it will not read the bullet cam in through that port, despite the fact the site advertises an AV INPUT on this camcorder.
According to CC the ONLY cam that will import AV images is the Cannon DV-20, i,e the high definition camera that Bryan has.
Its also twice the moola at $719. A good deal for a HD corder but more than i wanted to pay.
There are cheaper disk cameras that have AV inputs but the customer write ups on them are mixed at best and I don't know how the DVD drive will stand up to G's.
If anyone knows of a Mini DV cam that will work please let me know.
I'll put a note in Bryan's inbox on this.
Thanks
Frank