jvc everio good or bad?

[G-systems 0]

Who has jumped with the everio from JVC
and is it practical or not at all

Gunnar

[EricTheRed 0]

Bad
1) JVC
2) Hard drives and altitude do not get along well

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[Thunderbow 1]

[2) Hard drives and altitude do not get along well

[gulaz 1]

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I'm pretty sure you can put a card in that also.

From what I have seen, and I could be wrong, but any of the camcorders that take a card do not perform well. 640x480 resolution, at 10 frames/second. They just cant dump video down to a card fast enough.

[AndyMan 7]

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I'm pretty sure you can put a card in that also.
From what I have seen, and I could be wrong, but any of the camcorders that take a card do not perform well. 640x480 resolution, at 10 frames/second. They just cant dump video down to a card fast enough.

I agree, although we will get to a point where this changes.

All of the major card manufacturers are releasing CF and SD cards that are literally 32X faster than they were just a year or two ago. As card speed and capacity increases, we'll quickly get to the point where they can handle high quality video.

Such a camera *could* come out any days now, I suspect. That said, I doubt we'll see a usable camera like this for a year at least, certainly not one thats durable and has a LANC port.

To the original poster, JVC cameras are not durable, and generally do not last long in Skydiving.

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[gulaz 1]

I was thinking about this problem the other day, and they probably could do it now, if they built, for lack of a better term, a 'RAID' array of a couple cards, and wrote to them in parallel. Im thinking about playing with solid state media and trying to do this. Just for something to do

[EricTheRed 0]

Some of the newest fastest cards are fully capable of handling the data rate for MPEG2 and good quality MPEG4. Still pretty spendy though. I'm not sure but the bottleneck may now be getting good enough real time encoding of the videostream.

IMHO: the tech is do-able now, the issue is one of product life cycles and we won't see major brand solid state camcorders until:
a) flash gets cheaper, and b) the full profits are extracted from miniDV.

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