----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:59 AM Subject: Re: My comments on Optio 430RS
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Brad Dobo wrote: > > > Ok, just a subjective option on something that has come up with recent > > posts on the Optios. This goes for a whole variety of other digital > > P&S by different brands, but am I the only one who thinks that the > > movie mode functions are stupid? > > It's a tool designed for one thing, and that's compressing video down to a > size and a format that makes it easy to view videos on a computer and to > transmit them electronically between computers. If you need high quality > video, then this ain't it. OTOH, if you just want to take a short movie > of your family sending their Christmas greetings, and email it to > relatives, then I'd much rather use a p&s digital camera's video mode than > a high-end digital camcorder. > > chris Hey Chris, Well, have you seen the results? At 15 frames per seconds it isn't exactly fun to watch, and indoors as in your example...yick. 30 seconds is all ya got kids, move fast! Then you move fast at 15 frames per second and what do you get, nothing. Plus it's avi, not small enough if you want small. Anyhow, a video that shows Uncle Pete and your 5 year old son opening a present that you can't make out, see the faces, nor the whoops of excitement from the kids. Digital cameras should stick to what they are good at, stills. It's like taking my same camcorder, hitting the photo button a few times to a Sony memory stick, put it on your computer and you have a wonderfully lousy 640x480 cap that is sadly lacking, so camcorders should stick to what they are good at, moving pictures! I take the camcorder, film it with audio and quality, transfer via a dv card, quick edits in Adobe Premier, use a Panasonic plug-in for mpeg, and viola! A smooth clear picture with superb colour and audio, and it's small. Throw it onto my ftp, and they can download to their hearts content. Do it enough, it takes no time at all, even toss some effects in and titles! The movie modes are just too poor to use, at least with the Optios. And the photo features are just too poor to use on camcorders. Regards, Brad.
