There are a lot of tapes out there...
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The Cash
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The best tape for DVX are MQ and PQ Panasonic tapes. They are the most professional tapes for MiniDV. I used DVCam tapes in my MiniDV camcorders and they didn't do better than PQ's. With Panasonic tapes I noticed improvements in color in my images. And they are very sturdy and reliable. I won't be using any other tapes besides Panasonic's from now on.
kitsu
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The Cash said:
You will -not- get better color with one tape vs. another when dealing with digital video. It is the same way a Word document will not look any better backed up on a Memorex CDR vs. a TDK CDR.
Yes, better tape stock will yield better reliability and durability, so you should have fewer dropouts and the like. 1s and 0s will go on the tape the same way no matter what stock you are using, and that depends on the camera.
The Cash
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Well Kitsu, I'm telling you that I use one tapes with my sony camcorder and later I switched to Panasonic tapes. I didn't changed any setting on my camcorder and the image quality looked somehow better. Not much better but better. I switched back to the old tapes again and the old look was back. I must suspect that the reason for that is in the tape cause I was at that time using a small camcorder that hadn't much settings to adjust and I was allways recording with the same one. With both tapes the weather outside where I was shooting was the same with same ammount of light so the light isn't the reason. Also as I wrote before, even my friends noticed the difference in color with Panasonic PQ's. Maybe the tapes are more sensitive to light or something, I'm no technician or something, just telling you my opinion.kitsu said:
