Looking for an USB digital video camera

Archived from groups: rec.photo.digital (More info?)

On 10 Feb 2005 10:54:18 -0800, dcharlesm@gmail.com (Daniel Charles)
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I´m looking for a couple of USB digital video cameras. After reading
>some posts on this group I found out that firewire is kind of a
>standard for camera pluging in. Because of hardware restrictions I do
>need to find a digital video camera but the interface to the computer
>should be USB.

Beware, some video cameras have both firewire and USB. But the USB is
actually only capable of downloading any stills of the camera,
Firewire is the chosen standard for video - real-time video transfer
bandwidth requirements are quite demanding and firewire can handle
this.

>I would appreciate if someone knows where I can look for such a thing
>like this.

I suggest you spend $15 and buy a firewire card for your PC (if it's a
laptop, a little more for a PCMCIA version). Even if you did find a
USB camera, you'd probably be making many compromises by choosing to
buy it.

Of course, if you just want a web-cam, not a video camcorder, then
there are plenty of USB ones to choose from.

BTW, this is OT for this newsgroup. Please try rec.video.*

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