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Digital Video Cameras Make VHS Obsolete
By Trevor | July 4, 2007
Using digital video cameras together with a home computer and decent editing software, you can produce a motion picture-quality video that would rival Hollywood filmmakers.
After all George Lucas managed it with Star Wars, Episode II. So there is no reason why anyone can’t. George used digital video cameras to shoot the entire movie in digital format, which was the first movie ever made that way.
The old movie films during the 1950’s were typically about 50 feet long, although 100-foot rolls were available in 8mm and what later became known as Super-8.
The quality was far away from what we expect today from modern digital video cameras.
Pictures were subject to shaking, most cameras had no zoom capabilities and making an exact copy was virtually impossible to do at home.
Before long, movie cameras advanced to using video tape. Initially, two versions of tape emerged with cassettes which in the UK were known as VHS and Betamax. .
The first of the digital video cameras was developed by Sony, the Mavica. This was the first digital camera aimed at home use.
The Mavica was actually a movie camera taking still frames, because of this it was only natural for digital movie cameras to evolve from the rapid growth in technology.
Today’s consumer digital video cameras can produce a film that is much higher quality than an analog professional camera, which would cost you about ten-times more.
The great advantages of using digital video cameras to record movies include storage without loss of quality and simple editing using a standard home computer.
Additionally, a short section of the digital movie can be copied and sent through e-mail to share with family and friends, or posted onto YouTube or similar video publishing websites.
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