Just purchased a Canon GL2 on eBay and am looking for the best way to connect the camera to my Osprey 260e card up to 150 feet. We broadcast in SD and are looking for an upgrade from the composite cables we have traditionally run. Any recommendations on the best solution? Also, looking at an actual brand or link to cables that have worked best for you. Seems like all the cables on Amazon have mixed reviews.
Jim, The GL2 only has composite, s-video or DV (Firewire) outputs. For that length you might need to look at s-video which you can get in 150 ft lengths or look at some s-video to cat5 baluns which will get you longer. You can also look at firewire cables but they really only seem to go to 25 metres (75 ft). And you need a firewire input on your PC. For longer you will need to use extenders/repeaters and they get expensive. If you are sticking with the composite one you can get shielded coax cables made up in whatever length you want. Either way you do it you are going to need a av plug to bnc composite converter, or a s-video to Composite bnc converter
BNC is just a connector type. Composite can indeed be ran over a BNC cable. Basically what you must really look for is 75 ohm impedance in whatever cable you buy, however just by being a BNC connection on each end will not really afford you any extra quality.
You might consider converting the Y/C signal from the camera to SDI, then running SDI for the longer distance and then either investing in SDI capture hardware or converting back to Y/C.
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