New Video Camera

We decided recently to go ahead and get a new video camera and since we've been piling on the Air Miles recently, decided that it would be a great thing to get with those instead of cash.  It's probably a much higher end model than we "need" and if we were buying it with money, we likely would not be getting this one... it retails for +$700!  But "free" with Air Miles (no tax, no shipping)?  Yes please!  It's an older model (last year?) and when it came out, it was over $1000.

We decided to get a flash memory model instead of the hard drive or tape based ones.  It's super light and small as a result, but of course limited in memory (recording time) compared to a hard drive one which is common to see 120 gb or more.  Ours has dual SD memory slots, and we bought two 16gb cards which gives us 5 minutes shy of 3 hours at the maximum HD resolution.  At medium resolution it's 5 hours 45 minutes which should be lots.  SD cards can be had at 32gb, and more recently higher, but they get quite costly above that.  Two 16 gb cards were a good compromise for cost and recording time.  And it's easy to expand later when prices for those cards get cheaper.  So all in out of pocket was $90 for the two memory cards.

Looking forward to using it and seeing the picture quality!

We had another tape camcorder that Den gave us to use that he found around the office and was being unused.  It came in very handy as we didn't have one before and we put it to good use.  We have about 10 cassette tapes laying around now about 1 hour of video each.  I'll need to get them on the computer and at the very least archive them onto DVD.  When we sell it, we'll send over the profits.  ;)