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G85 overheating? record time? light sensitivity? stabilization?

Started Jan 25, 2018 | Discussions thread
Michael Meissner
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Re: G85 overheating? record time? light sensitivity? stabilization?

hindesite wrote:

And you could consider the G7 as your main camera - since you are tripod mounting it, you don't need stabilisation anyway, and the camera is very cheap. In fact, the Z-cam E1 would be absolutely ideal for you application. and it is even cheaper. There's probably people round here with one that don't know what to do with it, maybe they'll sell you theirs?

Funny I returned my Z camera E1 specifically because it was useless to me as a video camera (one of the two reasons I bought it).  I tried to use my Z with my current microphone (Azden SMX-10) that works perfectly on my G85, and the sound level was so low I could barely hear it on my Linux system with the speakers turned up full.  Evidently, a $250 Rode microphone works fine, but I felt that as limited as the Z camera E1 is, that having to get a more expensive microphone made it too expensive.

The limited documentation for the Z camera E1 does not indicate whether it has the 30 minute recording limit.

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