Why do professional camcorders use tapes and not hard drive?
Your right, Tape based camcorders do produce a much higher quality video. Until you start to get into the higher end such as Red a basic camera would be around $30, 000 certainly out of my price range. So us mortals have to use the best we can, its all down to compression, the more the video is compressed the less information in actually saved. Sure tape based video is compress but we are talking about the amount of compression, uncompressed video runs at about 85GB per hour, there are not many flash drive camcorders that can one hold this amount of data, two can handle the data transfer rate. Hard drive cameras are not much better obviously they can save/hold more. If you watch outside broadcasts, you will see many tape based camcorders, even documentaries will use them. are you looking for a “professional” camcorder or a “prosumer” camcorder. the latter is more of a half way between the two, most people (unless you are a trained camera man) would opt for this type of camera, they giv
