MiniDV Capture Quality

Does footage look the same from:
*a $2500 3CCD Sony/Cannon
*a $1500 miniDV capture deck
*an old $200 Panasonic home video camera?
Basically I am asking if capture quality changes depending on what is being used?
Thanks.

Of course not. If all MiniDV cameras captured exactly the same image, nobody would buy an expensive camera over a cheaper one, and there wouldn't be the hundreds of models there are out there. They are all the same resolution, but resolution is only a small part of the image quality equation.
a $1500 miniDV capture deck
Decks don't capture footage, they just play it back. So however good or bad the footage from a MiniDV tape is, that's how good or bad you'll get it from the deck.

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