Camcorders

Head Cleaners – the camcorder’s best friend

Experts use them to maintain the cleanliness of their recording heads allowing them to function at maximum effectivity each and every time. Some argue that this only wears the heads faster but it is better to have a worn out head than a dirty one that can fail you in an instant. As time develops, [...]

Less is better – Zooming in

The zoom feature in most cameras allows you to get nearer to your subject than physically possible. But there’s a bad side to this feature that is enough to cause splitting headaches when your audience watches your film. If you want to zoom into a subject, it is better to zoom in then record, shifting [...]

Batteries

The usefulness of a camcorder is not only limited to the ability of the videographer but also on the type of equipment he chooses to use and maintain. Maintenance is a vital part of getting good video footage and caring for your stuff allows faults to be found preventing failure in the middle of your [...]

Black Masking

The process is called so for it makes an old tape free and void of all previous video and audio that has been recorded onto it. It can be easily done with the lens cap on and in an isolated room. It can also be done before getting to bed so background noise is minimized [...]

Long Play Mode – Good or Bad?

Some camcorder’s have this nifty feature that allows you to save more video onto your DV tape (as much as 30 minutes more). There is quite problem though for the tape tends to record slower than the normal rate it is designed to, there is a very good possibility of having lost frames as you [...]