Got a tape camera? Who am I kidding, no one does. But there used to be a debate on what brand of tapes to use, and what would happen if you used various brands in a tape deck...
Well, it's not too cool to mix them. You can get what's called a tape clog, and well, it is what it sounds like... gunk all caught up in your junk...
How to avoid this? Pick a brand and stick with it. Is one brand better over the other? Not really, so long as you don't switch. Personally, I always used Sony tapes. The Sony Beta medium was the standard for years. From what I was told, Sony used a more wet lubricant, while Panasonic tapes were a dry formula.
Check out Phil Phang's article on miniDV lubricants if you're interested.
I don't use a tape camera anymore, but I still have a few miniDV blanks floating around. I do have two storage boxes full of used tapes- some recorded with SD and some in HD. I sold my only tape camera awhile back... I had toyed with the idea of getting a cheap camera to capture the footage again just to have it... but at 12GB an hour... I guess the other option would be to get something like an HD-PVR or a Blackmagic Intensity and capture footage in a compressed, modern, format.
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