I'm working on an interactive art installation and I'm looking for the absolute cheapest progressive frame DV camera I can find. It can be 24p, 30p, whatever, but it must be progressive, not interlaced. It should have a firewire output and that's about all I need. If anyone has a trashed camera that is still able to output a progressive signal via firewire, I'd be interested. Anyone know of any discontinued cameras that are fairly inexpensive? Single chip is fine--the cheaper the better. Thanks.
Cheapest progressive DV cam?
- Thread starter Barry_S
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Billy Pilgrim
Stye in my eye
What about the Canon HV20? It's new, it has 24p, it's HDV, and costs about $700 on B & H.
Sony TRV-70 has 30p. its a nice sharp picture too....
mikkowilson
Steadi-Guru
TRV900 has progressive too if I recall corrently.
- Mikko
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Barry_Green
Moderator
TRV900 was 15p. HV20 doesn't do progressive in DV, only in HDV.
If you want cheap but non-DV, you can get a progressive Aiptek for $99 that shoots HD.
If you want cheap but non-DV, you can get a progressive Aiptek for $99 that shoots HD.
mikkowilson
Steadi-Guru
Thanks for the all the suggestions. I don't want anything that looks even remotely attractive as far as theft goes, so maybe one of the Aipteks would work. Actually it can be anything at or above DV resolution as long as it streaming a minimum 24p signal over firewire (or usb if necessary). Do the Aipteks have firewire out in realtime?
Barry_Green
Moderator
No streaming. For that you want DV or HDV.
An old used Canon Elura may be the best bet, they had 30P progressive and should be inexpensive on ebay.
yup.. i have one its a nice little cam...
The Elura looks perfect. Very cheap, and progressive output via firewire. I'm looking for a camera to feed some pattern recognition software, so unless the resolution on the Elura is really bad, it should do the trick. Thanks Barry.