She sets her video camera and tape recorder, tools of the trade, on the passenger seat and blushes when she notices the boxed porta-potty in the backseat.

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Enter video analysis, which has evolved plenty since I was in high school and used an 8 mm camera to tape myself hitting against the tennis ball machine.

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After the Pennsylvania spycam incident, in which school-loaned laptops were secretly snapping photos of high school students, many paranoid techies said they would keep duct tape covering the camera in their laptop when not using it.

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Pascal, eavesdropping, wished that he had a video camera, or at least a tape recorder.

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The camera records HD video images to mini DV tape using MPEG2 video compression technology.

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It suffered from short-circuits, faulty radio and power systems, an unreliable tape-recorder, a sticky camera platform, and the loss of much of the gas that supplied its stabilising thrusters a problem overcome by repositioning its solar panels and main antenna so that they acted as solar sails, stabilising the probe via the gentle pressure of sunlight.

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And he showed her a tape from a broadcaster he liked, walking through a house as he talked to the camera, making the audience feel like they were right there with him.

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Demonstrating simple procedures such as properly charging and inserting the battery, inserting a tape or memory card, and selecting the correct recording mode eats up classroom time when using a regular camera.

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