Albert Maysles's New Camcorder

This past Sunday's New York Times Magazine "Domains" feature profiled legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles.

In the course of the Q & A format he was asked what his newest gadget was.

His response: "My Sony DSR–PD170 video camera. Last year I switched from film to video. The major reason is that an hour of film costs a few thousand dollars, whereas an hour of video costs $5."

I asked my crack research team to investigate this camera (above) and they brought back this review.

Sounds like a winner to me.

Perhaps when Apple and Stratellite™ and Google Video get their stuff together this will be the inaugural camera for bookofjoeTV.

For $3,120 you get a professional-quality piece of equipment whose equivalent would have cost you $50,000 six or seven years ago.

The best part: the equivalent of this camera will cost $500 in two or three more years.

I love digital.

BNA (bits not atoms) rules!