At the time, my first camcorder was one of the earliest to actually record digital video files to a 30GB spinning HD. And of course, in those days most camcorders were designed to film through a view-finder as it rested on your shoulder so that your arm didn’t fall off after 10 minutes of recording your 8-year-old’s Ronald McDonald birthday party!Īfter having grown up in a ‘camcorder’ house, surprisingly I didn’t buy my own until about a decade ago while in my early 30s and just after my wedding. Granted, the camcorders my parents used back then were about the size of a small toaster, weighed anywhere from 6-12 pounds, and the recorded analog standard definition video (sub-SD based on today’s definition) to VHS’ smaller form factor VHS-Compact and eventually to full size VHS tapes. While there were previously film-based alternatives to capture life’s ‘regular’ every day moments, the VHS tape really brought home video to the mainstream. Prelude / Introduction – Memories: Fading MemoriesĪs a child of the 80s and young adult of the 90s, I feel like I was a member of the earliest generation whose parents had easy access to consumer level and relatively inexpensive video recording capabilities. For those solely interested in the technical and procedural review of the Elgato device, please feel free to jump down to “Getting on with it…” I won’t be offended. As such, I felt compelled to elaborate a small amount on why I embarked on this project and how the combination of my personal / family situation, my nostalgic nature, my interest and appreciation for technology, and my paranoid approach to data management, and archival led me to this point.
Working through the outset of this project was emotional as well as therapeutic for me. This item was purchased with proceeds from the Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund. John Greenaway is a Home Tech listener since show #1 is guest writing for The Average Guy Blog.
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