Posted by adam my recomendation...and you dont want to hear it...but look into the small DV cameras that also have compact flash cards to take stills independantly...you get twice the bang for only about a hundred dollars more. and if you pick one up online you can get them for close to half of retail. i just picked up two canon elura 2's for $699...and they are $1200 at any camera shop. and the elura 2 MC has a flash card for independant stills....and is the size of a pack of cigarettes..no pun intended, honest, thats all i had lying around for size comparison. for anybody who has thought about doing some candid photography...you cant beat a video/still cam with a reversable LCD display thats fits in the palm of your hand. Adam
on 11/7/2001, 2:17 pm
sony is a sketchy choice if you ask me...this is from someone who owns a sony digi-still cam and a sony laptop that i would gladely trade for a loaf of good italian bread.
the only problem with sony is all the media storage formats are all sony exclusive...and on their computers all the software is sony branded proprietary software.
its no biggie if you own all sony cameras, camcorders, computers, pda's...etc etc etc. there wont be any conflicts. but if you own a sony laptop and want to plug a 4 thousand dollar canon XL-1 DV cam into it....*BONG* error message....."THATS NOT A SONY CAMCORDER...WOULD YOU CARE TO TRY AGAIN?" I bought the sony because it had firewire built in...its easier to run windows on a MAC than to try and use any non-sony hardware on a sony computer.
now for the media...its all sony proprietary media. it works well in a sony computer or pda...but if you have non sony computers you will have to get costly card readers...and if you have non sony cameras and sony computers...the same only vice versa.
in short sony makes excelent hardware.....cameras and computers...but if you go sony you have to go all the way sony...and thats why they did it like they did.
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