anyone know of a good way (that doesn't cost $500) that I can try to setup on my camera to not run tapes. unfortunately my camera will not be utilizing tapes anytime soon due to some damage.. any insight would be sick thanks!
if you wanna run it cheap, you're making some compromises. most expensive tapeless solutions are 100% the same quality as tapes as they run through firewire, cheaper solutions will be through AV/RCA. the most common cheaper solution is the immersionrc powerplay, shit was originally meant to be for VR drones but it takes AV cable input. that means there's a bit of a quality drop compared to firewire, and also some other things; some darker colours tend to take on a red tinge/almost checkerboard pattern, and you might get a weird jitter when shooting fisheye.
here's 10 clips total, first 5 are through firewire, remaining 5 via the powerplay. canon gl1, opteka 0.3x