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Hi Quinn.
The Canon GL2 is not an HD camcorder, but would probably produce a better quality than a copy from a HD compressed edited format.
According to my past experiences, premium tapes have never improved the image quality from the camcorder itself. Premium tapes generally have a better tape coating to minimize drop outs, and allows you to get longer tape life of reusing the tapes over and over again.
Bottom Line:
- If you use inexpensive tapes only once for recording and the video picture quality is very clean, then stay with that brand and pay less money
- If you use the tapes over and over for recording and play back, then paying the extra money for premium tapes can be worth it. Because the tape coatings do wear down each time the tape records or plays.
An extreme example is like renting a VHS movie from a BlockBuster that has been played many times over. It gets to a point where the tape is not worth watching anymore.
There is nothing wrong with using both for right needs.
Happy Shooting!
The Canon GL2 is not an HD camcorder, but would probably produce a better quality than a copy from a HD compressed edited format.
According to my past experiences, premium tapes have never improved the image quality from the camcorder itself. Premium tapes generally have a better tape coating to minimize drop outs, and allows you to get longer tape life of reusing the tapes over and over again.
Bottom Line:
- If you use inexpensive tapes only once for recording and the video picture quality is very clean, then stay with that brand and pay less money
- If you use the tapes over and over for recording and play back, then paying the extra money for premium tapes can be worth it. Because the tape coatings do wear down each time the tape records or plays.
An extreme example is like renting a VHS movie from a BlockBuster that has been played many times over. It gets to a point where the tape is not worth watching anymore.
There is nothing wrong with using both for right needs.
Happy Shooting!
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