• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Camcorders with hard drives

They look really cool, but I'm worried the cameras might be a little too new. I want to wait until the 2nd generation of these comes out.

It seems like they get some pretty bad reviews on Amazon, etc. I'm not sure how valid those are though. They're probably the vocal minority.
 
Problem with those is they record in MPEG2 so right off the bat you have compressed video to deal with rather than raw digital video. MPEG2 is ok for family stuff, the kids game and if you don't ever want to do anything with your storm video much but watch it.
 
low light capability and as David says Mpeg2 is a highly compressed format. The main issue would be editing mpeg2 footage without serious issues.
 
I sell these where I work... I have heard complaints of bad low light problems inside around the house...much less around a storm. Though a very neat concept I would stay away from them till they get better.

Dan
 
I sell these where I work... I have heard complaints of bad low light problems inside around the house...much less around a storm. Though a very neat concept I would stay away from them till they get better.

Dan

Oh, the technology is there, but it's on the very high end commercial/news type cameras. Our station is using some of these and they are sweet. They can get about 20 min of video on the little drive cards in HD and just pop them out and into the edit machine. That are very much on the pricey side though. Someday I suspect we will see something like that in the price range of something like what the Sony VX2100s are going for now. There is always something better on the horizon, but at some point, we have to reach the point of diminishing returns.
 
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