Stephen McDonald

Can the hotshoe for a flash on the FZ80 also accept a hotshoe mike?

Could you provide a link to information about the Panasonic FZ82 having a hotshoe? Also, Sas7795 stated that it came with a 5-year warranty. Any information about that offer would be appreciated.

Glad that misunderstanding is resolved. I have used the Sony HX400V for 4  1/2 years and if you see my signature lines, there's a link to my Flickr album which has several hundred photos from it. ...

On ignore?? I've always regarded you as a friendly ally on these forums. I'm a bit shocked by your suggestion. The Canon SX1 IS I tried for two weeks, used a 43.5 Mbps MOV CoDec for 1080 video. It ...

Since there is a mike input, you'd think they would at least have stuck a cold shoe on it for a wired mike. That would be about a 50-cent item, purchased in bulk. The best place to buy one is a ...

Maybe Canon gave a last-minute order to remove the hotshoe and the tape covers the hole where they pulled it out of the prototype?

Since you repeated what I said about why the SX70 lens was different, about the raised grip around the housing and the zoom switch, I shouldn't have to be repeating those details. The zoom switch ...

I think you're right. Sony seems to have abandoned this type of camera and if Canon is making another stab at it after 4 years, it's logical to think they would make the effort to make themselves ...

I checked out the Clearviewer and I liked it. So I made a couple versions of it of my own, using the lenses of cheap diopter eyeglasses stacked up three-deep. But the larger, closed chamber of the ...

I think what Canon is saying with that, is for you to imagine that the video was shot with an SX70.

I've seen videos on the websites of major manufacturers, that they claim were made by the fairly low-cost  cameras they were promoting at the time, that displayed rolling-shutter artifacts that ...

I don't think we can have much confidence that any of those images actually came from an SX70.

Jeff, your review of the Olympus C-2100UZ 18 years ago, convinced me to buy it and go into the digital era. I really like the feature where the extending lens is entirely contained in the outer...

The Digital8 VCR I have, is model GV-D200. It might be cheaper to buy a used Digital8 camcorder to play the Hi-8 tapes, but there's a better chance that it would be worn out. There just isn't any ...

In case I buy a Canon SX70, I've put together a solution for its missing mike shoe. I've taken a strip of wood, 7 inches long, 1.25-inches wide and .25-inch thick. I mounted a cold mike shoe on ...

About 15 years ago, I bought a very small, Sony Digital8 VCR, to go with a camcorder that used the format. It is a digital version of Hi8 and uses the same tape cassettes. It will play back ...

I've seen some  online videos about HDMI dongles with A VGA adapter, that has a stereo mini-jack on it, to give a headphone output to a camera without that feature. Has anyone here used one and ...

Has there ever been a case in all recorded history, where Canon has added or restored a feature in production models, that was left off the specifications on what was first announced? Here's what ...

Is there a possibility that the CHDK group may have something to offer in features for the SX70? If you look at what is now available for the SX60, that may give an answer.

And there's also the possibility that a pre-production model, which is what early testers would be using, has not had its firmware tweaked to the best level. Sometimes, even the first batches of ...