Re: Portable recorder for 100 bucks or less (for unexpected foley)
 

Thanks Jay I had been looking at this post as I sold my sony D50 a few months ago and was looking for a lower cost unit just to have one in my camera bag. The DR-05 looks a very nice new machine and I will check it out once it is released as it looks more robust than the H1 but has better button layout than the DR-03. I also like the mic/line input on the top and the fact that there are minimal controls to be accidentaly knocked.

http://tascam.com/product/dr-05/specifications/

Re: Portable recorder for 100 bucks or less (for unexpected foley)
 

The H1 is great, but the battery life on it is terrible. It takes one AA battery, and in no time the H1 drains all the juice from it.

Re: Portable recorder for 100 bucks or less (for unexpected foley)
 

Well, I just ordered one. I don't know why, but I have a strange addiction to these little hand recorders.

I must say I find one thing rather humorous about the DR-03. It has a "stealth" recording mode whereby the backlight and "recording" LED are turned off. Yet the case has a bright orange band the whole way around, which makes it highly visible, lights or no! For true "stealth" use it should come with a can of flat black paint.

On a serious note, I regret to report that B&H has an arcane, confusing, and dysfunctional ordering process. I have a PO Box which I use for all mail, including my credit card accounts. But of course UPS can't deliver there, so I need to use a physical street address. B&H won't let me use separate addresses with my PayPal account. Whatever I enter as the PayPal shipping address shows up as shipping and billing address on B&H. But the card company won't confirm the payment because the physical address is not the mailing address on my credit card account. Every time I tried to change one of these addresses on the B&H site, it ported me back to PayPal. After logging into PayPal four times, changing things, and being ported back to B&H where the wrong field had been changed, I just gave up and specified USPS shipping to my PO Box (so now it will either be late or lost).

Re: Portable recorder for 100 bucks or less (for unexpected foley)
 

I just saw a picture of the DR-07MkII. It looks very similar to the new DR-05 but a little more advanced. Street price for pre-ordering was $150 versus the $100 for the already available DR-05.

Re: Portable recorder for 100 bucks or less (for unexpected foley)
 

Zoom just brought out the Q3HD that also records HD video!

Re: Portable recorder for 100 bucks or less (for unexpected foley)
 

That has been out here (USA) for at least a month. I got ripped to shreds for mentioning it in the audio forum on another website. Personally, I think it looks rather interesting... perhaps as a POV cam inside a wedding cake, or wherever.

Zoom's audio recorders aren't bad, so hopefully this has better audio than the Flip, Kodak, or other similar hand-size video cams.