I have the same plans for May 2004 and I plan on covering over 17,000 miles. I asked a friend the same question, what is the best camera for my trip? Immediately he said the Sony DCR-TRV950 MiniDV Digital Camera. This camera is not only light weight but can record an hours worth of high quality video on a cheap medium and take countless numbers of digital photos. I seen this camera as low as $1449 USD from a place called cameratopis but they donâ(TM)t have a web site, I think, only a number 1-718-837-7722. Though my trip also involves sleeping out of a tent the entire time I have been shopping around for the best at a low cost. I am going to buy this camera next year some time after xmas and hoping the price will be around $800. I do not recommend media mail when shipping your tapes since media mail is the last class of mail to be sorted. I sold books on half.com for a while and found it to be a pain in the ass. Just spend the money to ensure a safe trip home for your tapes. Since the tapes are cheap I plan on buying a lot along the way. The digital pictures are saved on a memory stick. I also tried to figure out how to save a shit load to a disk of some kind. I seen a 2 Giga bite flash memory stick for 2 grand but Iâ(TM)d rather buy a http://www.panasonic.com/toughbook/ In the end I most likely will buy a bunch of MiniDVs and two 64 megabite memory sticks. Where Is your friend traveling to? Does the name Alby Mangels mean anything to him?
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I have the same plans for May 2004 and I plan on covering over 17,000 miles. I asked a friend the same question, what is the best camera for my trip? Immediately he said the Sony DCR-TRV950 MiniDV Digital Camera. This camera is not only light weight but can record an hours worth of high quality video on a cheap medium and take countless numbers of digital photos. I seen this camera as low as $1449 USD from a place called cameratopis but they donâ(TM)t have a web site, I think, only a number 1-718-837-7722. Though my trip also involves sleeping out of a tent the entire time I have been shopping around for the best at a low cost. I am going to buy this camera next year some time after xmas and hoping the price will be around $800. I do not recommend media mail when shipping your tapes since media mail is the last class of mail to be sorted. I sold books on half.com for a while and found it to be a pain in the ass. Just spend the money to ensure a safe trip home for your tapes. Since the tapes are cheap I plan on buying a lot along the way. The digital pictures are saved on a memory stick. I also tried to figure out how to save a shit load to a disk of some kind. I seen a 2 Giga bite flash memory stick for 2 grand but Iâ(TM)d rather buy a http://www.panasonic.com/toughbook/ In the end I most likely will buy a bunch of MiniDVs and two 64 megabite memory sticks. Where Is your friend traveling to? Does the name Alby Mangels mean anything to him? -Terry inbox@tutkia.com