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Posted by mv on 02/13/07 15:49
In message <53c5kcF1rfgvbU1@mid.individual.net>, Richard Crowley
<rcrowley@xp7rt.net> writes
><mv@movingvision.co.uk> wrote ...
>> <ulixi@emmail.it writes
>>>What is the best brand? I will use the tapes with Sony cameras.
>>>thanks for your suggestions.
>>
>>
>> As much as I regret to make the assertion, the replies you've had on this
>> issue simply don't add up to the huge ten year experience of our company
>> using most types of DV, DVCAM and HDV equipment in the most challenging
>> environments human beings and cameras can be in. From deserts to jungles,
>> to mountains, to both poles and at sea in a few oceans, including the
>> Antarctic on a 46 foot yacht, kayaking off Alaska and many more impressive
>> feats of location camerawork. Our archive of literally thousands of tapes
>> of which over 99% were recorded on bog standard Panasonic consumer miniDV
>> costing less than $2 each that have been remarkable not only for being
>> able to record at a quality equal to any over hyped $20 'master tape' but
>> also for reliability, consistency and a lack of any problematic recording
>> or data retentively issue.
>
>How did you decide on Panasonic (vs. other available
>brands, etc.)? Your data sounds entirely consistent with
>what others have experienced (including myself), but
>clearly not with the number of data points you have. :-)
>
>
Stuck with basic consumer level Panasonic from the beginning, only
because of the now merely historic tape lubricant issue whereby during
1997 Sony and Panasonic lubricants caused a chemical reaction when mixed
that caused hard sticky globules to ruin ones heads. Also an
understanding of just how different digital recording is to analogue in
as much as fine particulation of the tape surface has no relevance to
the quality of the recording. This left only the issue of tape
reliability and magnetic retentivity and quite frankly even the cheapest
consumer tape was more than adequately specified for the fifty or so
passes rarely demanded of any tape.
The assertions that one should use Sony tapes in Sony cameras or how
important it is use ludicrously expensive 'Master Grade' tapes for
broadcast and professional work are no longer a matter of any doubt for
us. Our experience has proven the contrary to a massive and overwhelming
degree that emphatically prove that the Emperors new cloths are indeed
non existent.
--
john
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