CLASSIFICATION AND PARAMETERS OF DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS

You may find the question in the headline strange, but it is by no means random. Now everything is mixed up in the established notions of what is good and what is bad in relation to video cameras.

And what, in fact, is a digital video camera?
The first digital video cameras were practically no different from analog ones – just the video was compressed in DV format and recorded on tape already in digital form, the entire camera part was used as usual – the same as in old video cameras.

This made it possible to kill immediately a flock of birds with one stone, since recording in a digital form on a tape eliminated tape noise, hardware compression in digital format made it possible to get rid of complicated and expensive video capture and digitization boards. Continue reading →