But keep in mind the issue of preservation. Unless you are religious about making a DVD out of the video on the hard drive, you're going to erase it, and then it's gone forever. With Mini DV or an in-camera DVD burner, all you have to do is label it after you shoot it. /rich On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Gary Schrock<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > FWIW, we just use a standard Sony miniDV camera. Personally, I kind of wish > the thing would die so we could get one that's hard drive based instead of > miniDV, because transferring from tape to the computer is a 1:1 time based > operation. With miniDV set on the longer record time, a standard tape > yields 90 minutes of recording, which generally has been fine for the job > talks we have. > > > Gary >