ABSTRACT
The utilization of mechanical means of recording may appear to eliminate some of these problems. An audiotape recorder registers a wide range of sounds and a video-tape recorder registers visual behavior falling within its scope. (We are ignoring for now the problem of camera placement; use of zoom versus wide-angle lens, and so on.) A stand taken in this chapter is that the problems of selective observation are not eliminated with the use of recording equipment. They are simply delayed until the moment at which the researcher sits down to transcribe the material from the audio-or videotape. At this point, many of the classic problems just emerge.
