How does a camcorder work?
You know, a camcorder's a very sophisticated piece of electronics, but essentially, you've got an image that has to pass through glass, just like any image even from our still days. Now the difference is the CCD. If you have a film camera, you've always put the image on to some sort of fim and it's exposed it, it's been in exposure. Well that's what a CCD is, it's essentially the film of a video camera. What we're doing is we're taking information through a piece of glass and then we're converting it to an electronic signal, and we do that with the image censor. So we focus that image information on that image censor with the glass, boil it all down to electronic information, whether it's analog or digital, it all has to be moved into an electronic world and from there we move that information onto some sort of media, whether it's tape or whatever, it has to be recorded to something. So really its just a matter of acquistion, meaning getting the information through the lens, turning it into something that the format can store it on through the CCD and then laying it down onto some sort of storage device like tape.
