Originally Posted By sherrytodd I go through this every trip. I can only handle one camara at a time and can never make up my mind whether I want to take the digital camara or my video camara. I love watching the videos at home, but at this point I've accumulated over 40 hours of combined DL - WDW footage. I love taking my digical camara because I like to take the time to get a little artistic, it slows me down and forces me to notice the details and then I can also put the photos on the web and share with friends, but I feel like I've missed out on the sounds and the kinetic feel of the place. What is your preferance for preserving your Disney memories?
Originally Posted By mickeymeg It probably wont help.... but I have the same problem. I have video, digital and 35mm film camera. And I can be a bit of a photography geek at times. and every time I go I end up paking 40lbs of equitment with me. This next trip will only be a quick one and I am trying to convince myself that the small digital I can stick in my pocket will be sufficient. I dont know if I will be able to do taht though. any tips ?
Originally Posted By sherrytodd I'm leaning toward the digital this trip since I've been checking out everyone else's trip reports and blogs and want to do one for our trip, but I LOVE watching my home videos and can't go a week without popping one in. What to do?
Originally Posted By tooele13 I don't know if this helps or not, but they now make digi cams that can also do video clips. Our digicam is 2 1/2 years old and it can only handle 3 minute video clips at a time. My sister has one that is limited only to the gb of her memory card. I actually have a camera bag that's 8" X 8 1/2" X 4 3/4" that can hold both my digicam and camcorder as well as other essesntials (extra memory, extra mini-dv tapes, cash, cc, lip gloss, tissue, APs/parkhoppers). I took this bag on our last trip and will probably end up taking it again on our next trip. If i had to chose only one though, I'd probably end up taking my digicam. My daughter loves to flip through our photo albums.
Originally Posted By Horse Crazy I ended up with just a digital, mostly because it was the first trip with my family, and I wanted to enjoy the trip without walking around looking thru the viewfinder of a video camera the whole time. We took lots of pictures and scrapbooked them at home. I enjoy looking at the scrapbook just as much as watching a movie, and I don't regret it.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd That is one drawback that I feel is with the video camara is that I do experience the whole trip through the view finder, but it is far easier to relive the trip when you're back.
Originally Posted By momof4boys We take the video camera into the park with us maybe one day- and then also when we go to Goofy's kitchen. The rest of the time we take the digital camera. I try to then have the boys talk on the video camera in the evenings telling their most memorable events of the day.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I only use a video camera if I want to tape a specific event; a parade, show, etc. Otherwise it's the digital camera only... my digicam will do video as well. The quality is lower than a video cam, but it's acceptable for capturing those moments that you'd like on video.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd Ya, my digi-cam will do video, but as above the quality isn't as great.
Originally Posted By hlbtimes2 My husband does the video, I do the stills. Our video camera also takes stills, so he usually manages to take a few. Our digital camera takes a couple minutes of video at a time, so I use that from time to time. Maybe you could take both. Use one on one day, and the other on another day?
Originally Posted By mickeymeg my biggest debate is digital vs film camera. The film camera is just so much better at quality photos while the digital is small and you can go snap happy ... I usually have both... but for such a short trip do I really need to pack both around ?
Originally Posted By sherrytodd mickeymeg - I used to shoot nothing but slide film, but I'm a digital convert. I've gotten some beautiful photos with my Kodak Digital that I've enlarged, cropped and blown up to 16X20 with no grain. Plus with the digital I can fix mistakes which I can't do easily with slide. If you find a digital camara with good optics then I think they are almost as good as film now. I keep a lot of my photos on our website. <a href="http://sherrytodd.home.att.net" target="_blank">http://sherrytodd.home.att.net</a>
Originally Posted By mickeymeg your photos are amazing ! Can I come on your next holiday, Belize and Peru both look like stellar places to visit ! If my digital was more high tech (digital SLR) then I could learn to love it more ... until then its great for the many snap shot type photos I take but I like something I have more control over for the photos I think about =)
Originally Posted By ImTinkerbellsfan I do both. My husband and I switch off with the digital SLR camera with all the lens and the DVR. It's fun and it works for us.
Originally Posted By dzy76 This is always a hard one for me, too. I end up taking both, using my digital a lot and leaving the video camera in the room most of the time, worried that it will be stolen! Anyway, I try to take the video camera in the morning when I'm fresh and feel like lugging things around with me, end up leaving it in the afternoon usually. Or take it when there is something specific I want to tape (like fireworks!). I'm not very good at taping though and everything ends up making me seasick when I watch it, lol.
