Lars,
If it was me, I'd buy a mini-DV camera. I own the Canon Elura, which I like
a lot. It's small and light and the quality is amazing. It also takes
digital pictures, putting hundreds, if not thousands of pictures on one tape
(admittedly at low resolution).
I think all the major vendors make excellent equipment, Sony, Canon and JVC
are the ones I'm most familiar with.
I actually download the video and edit it, but that requires a couple
things:
- Firewire capability on your computer (my desktop had it, I bought a PCcard
for my laptop).
- Enormous amounts of disk space and just as important, memory.
The one feature that I considered critical is not on every camera. All the
cameras let you copy the video from the camera to your PC over firewire.
Only some let you copy from the PC to the camera over firewire. That's
important. Once you're done editing, you want to be able to copy back to the
camera as an original. That way, you have a nicely edited video, in perfect
quality back on the tape. From there, at least with my camera, you can
connect it to a standard VCR and make a first generation copy.
You also need editing software. The pccard I bought was about $75 dollars
and came with decent software. It was worth it just for the software.
Have fun!
Tom
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