Hard Drive Camcorders

[Skip Talbot]

This is a rather obscure feature that probably no one knows off the top of their head, but I'll throw it out there anyway. Does anyone know of a hard drive camcorder that lets you take a still while simultaneously recording video? And even further, can I continue recording video and pull that still down onto my computer?

Sure I could just do a video grab after the fact, but I'd like to be able to send stills from my video during the chase. The other option I have explored with my current video camera is to stream the video to the laptop and grab stills from the stream. Maintaining that stream becomes rather cumbersome, but so far its the only option I've found as I don't know of a video camera that has these features.

 

[Eric Flescher]

apparently they do

I suppose they can be downloaded to a scandisc like 3ccd camcorders have and worked from there. Here is one model but I am sure the others do the same

Sony DCR-SR100 Hard Drive Camcorder
The still image capture, or digital camera portion works quite well allowing the user to take still photographs with 3.048 megapixels of resolution. The clarity of the images is good but not great. We're not sure that this will replace a digital camera completely. But again, for the serious traveler this is a perfect solution to cutting down on equipment for the long trips.
http://www.videomaker.com/article/12669/