Bob Hart
April 14th, 2008, 12:49 AM
I have a quiet confession to make.
Having read a multitude of horror stories on HDD devices in general and the Firestore products in a generic sense, I had become sceptical about how useful these things would really be.
I have since had a play with a DR-100 on a JVC HD-100 in helping the owner-operator set it up. There were some initial glitches with the main camera itself and the second cam. Both had obsolete firmware and dud firewire ports, one totalled, the other struggling on - just.
If one sensibly and strictly follows the instruction set and phones those who know instead of innovating and making it up as one goes along, the system is discovered to be reliable and easy to use.
The convenience of copying into computer of an hour's material in about nine minutes versus real-time capture is hard to beat.
Having read a multitude of horror stories on HDD devices in general and the Firestore products in a generic sense, I had become sceptical about how useful these things would really be.
I have since had a play with a DR-100 on a JVC HD-100 in helping the owner-operator set it up. There were some initial glitches with the main camera itself and the second cam. Both had obsolete firmware and dud firewire ports, one totalled, the other struggling on - just.
If one sensibly and strictly follows the instruction set and phones those who know instead of innovating and making it up as one goes along, the system is discovered to be reliable and easy to use.
The convenience of copying into computer of an hour's material in about nine minutes versus real-time capture is hard to beat.