Hello Collin, If you get a camera that will do mpeg4 encoding, you can usually get about 40 minutes of video on a 1gb card. That would be at 640X480 and 30 fps. Shooting at 15 fps can be quite jerky looking.
So my recommendation would be to look for those specs. There a several cameras out there that can do that, including the Pentax Optio MX's and at least the newer A10. Some other cameras are encoding to mpeg2 and I think you get about half as much video time out of them for the same megabytes. I would just go look on www.dpreview.com and read the specs of a bunch of cameras and look for those capabilities. I'm sure there will be a bunch of choices that would suit your needs. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 5:00:22 PM, you wrote: >>What you didn't specify was the video image size and the frame rate. >>Nor did you indicate the size of storage card you would use for the 20 >>minutes. Is audio quality an issue? Do you want to be able to zoom >>while videoing? What about anti-shake? >> >>Having delved into the P&S video aspect a bit, those questions need CRB> to be answered. >> >>-- >>Best regards, >>Bruce CRB> Thanks for the additional thoughts. I'd not considered them. CRB> I really don't know what size of card would be required for 20+ CRB> minutes of video. CRB> I'm assuming a 1 or 2 gig would be adequate, but someone can correct CRB> me on that. CRB> Frame rate would need to be 15 or so. CRB> Audio quality is not an issue. This is for practice rather than presentation. CRB> It will be stationary so zoom while shooting is not critical. CRB> Sincerely, CRB> Collin Brendemuehl CRB> http://www.brendemuehl.net CRB> http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com CRB> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" CRB> -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
