Posted by ushere on 03/19/07 22:47

Maciek Szyman'ski wrote:
> ushere wrote:
>
> Thak you for response.
>
>> will power camera through 14 pin cable. but not for long.
>
> Is the oposite also true? I mean if I've an external battery connected
> to the camera it will power up the recorder?

no

>
>> in all honesty, unless you really can't afford better, or are trying to
>> get the look of low band umatic (UGH), dump it. any single chip dv
>> camera is going to give you an infinitely better picture.
>
> Well, first of all I just like old analog equipment and I'm quite happy
> with test recordings made on this machine. Much better looking than
> S-VHS I've used before. And from my experience one very often misslooked
> part of video acquision system is lens. I've never seen consumer grade
> camera fitted with an acceptable lens (maybe I'm spoiled by Zeiss
> optics), and I'm expecting Tamron of KY-1900 to be a good quality one.
> But never mind, it's not the point. Anyway thank you for your help.
>
> Maciek

good luck

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