mrad01 wrote:Ahh, that's good to know!
I've been inspired to possibly do a couple on my little collection so far...will post links if I figure out how to use this bloody SLR for video..!!
Yea, I say do it. It's fun to see people's individual take on their machines.
I've found the whole video/YouTube process to be a learning curve for me, and it takes much longer to produce them than the videos would suggest. The biggest PITA was getting the video from the (old) digital tape-based camera, to a modern machine when the only connection on the camera was Firewire. My modern laptop and my XP box only has USB, and I did want to fork out for an adaptor. I was lucky enough to find an old XP (2005) laptop which DID have a Firewire connection and so use this as an intermediary!
Actually the old camera does have an SD card, but it is assumed this is used for still images (I guess those days the cards didn't have much capacity). You CAN use the cards for video but this is automatically converted to low resolution. There was no way you can prevent this! The first three videos I uploaded (my talking about the website and the challenger and sorcerer videos) all came off the card. That's why they are so lo-res.
The camera also has USB port but this is only to get images off the card, not the tape. I'm assuming this is because it's USB 1.0, and data transmission was regraded as too slow for the high quality images off the tape.
Once I dug out this old firewire XP laptop, I could then get higher quality stuff from the digital tape.
I'm still not happy with the audio from the camera's built-in mic, but I can live with it until I can afford another solution.