MiniDV websites

[bladestorm]

Does anyone know of any sites that have unaltered videos taken straight from MiniDV camcorders for download?

[Craig Tucker]

Well at 13GB an hour I doubt anyone would host unaltered (assuming you mean uncompressed here) DV video for download.

[bladestorm]

I'm sorry, I forgot about the bitrate of DV. But, are there any encoded to mpeg2 or even stills of the original DV?

[ImaWeTodd]

Why? Shopin for one? These are older, but you didn't say why.


Sample Images from Ten Digital Camcorders

Below are several images from different digital video cameras: the Sony TR7000 and TRV120 Digital 8, Sony TRV10, TRV900, VX2000 and Panasonic MX3000, DVX100 MiniDV, and Canon Elura, Elura 2mc, and GL1 MiniDV. Some of these cameras can use separate solid-state memory devices for stills, but all these images are all full-frame (2 field) captures from normal (interlaced) video from tape playback, except I also have the DVX100 in progressive (full-frame, noninterlaced) mode. The cat image is a 300x250 pixel detail cropped from the full 720x480 DV frame captured via firewire from each camera, and saved as JPEG from Photoshop (Quality 8). The resolution test pattern also a detail cropped from the full pattern in each case. The full screen and detail area is shown below at lower resolution but the proper 4:3 aspect ratio