Through the Looking Glass

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“Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It’ll be easy enough to get through.”

With these words, Lewis Carroll’s Alice begins a journey of wonder and amazement that still fascinates generations of readers. In the spirit of Through the Looking Glass, we can use our imaginations to go through the lens of our camcorder and look at the world inside. Rather than just having a fanciful adventure, we will look around and see how our camcorder works. Watch your step Alice, some things are different on the other side.

The View from Above
“I should see the garden far better,” said Alice to herself , “if I could get to the top of that hill.” Our trip will also be easier if we start with a good overview. A camcorder performs several functions; capturing images, recording them to tape and playing them back on our televisions. An array of knobs and buttons allow us to control it all. The part of the camcorder that images the light is the camera and the part that records and plays back the sound and images is the recorder: CAM(era) (re)CORDER. We can also divide the controls into camera controls and recorder contr…