A Night of Pool
The past week I've been playing with my favorite Christmas present, a one-time-use camcorder. It's made by a company called Pure Digital Technologies. The camera itself costs about $30 and comes with 20 minutes of recording time.
They're available at most Duane Reade, Rite Aid and CVS stores. When you've used up all the video time, you take the camera back to stores equipped with Pure Digital's processing computers (in the one-hour photo lab area). For about ten bucks you get a DVD that contains all your video clips (in Quicktime format, even). As I said, the one I got for Christmas is the one-time-use version, and it's what I used to make the following video. However, the quality is bare bones at best. And I discovered that the audio doesn't transfer into iMovie. Fortunately, Pure Digital makes a higher quality camera with a USB device that allows you to download straight to your computer, avoiding the hassle and cost of taking it back to a lab for processing. I picked up one of these this week and immediately liked the results. The $129 price tag is worth it in the long run. In addition to it being reusable, the resolution is higher, the audio transfers into iMovie, and there's even a 2x zoom lens, among other features. Soon, I'll have a nice video to post using the newer camera. Until then, here's something I put together using the cheaper version. It was shot at Sophie's by several people on December 26, 2006. For some reason it transferred to YouTube way too dark. But what do you expect from a $30 camcorder?
They're available at most Duane Reade, Rite Aid and CVS stores. When you've used up all the video time, you take the camera back to stores equipped with Pure Digital's processing computers (in the one-hour photo lab area). For about ten bucks you get a DVD that contains all your video clips (in Quicktime format, even). As I said, the one I got for Christmas is the one-time-use version, and it's what I used to make the following video. However, the quality is bare bones at best. And I discovered that the audio doesn't transfer into iMovie. Fortunately, Pure Digital makes a higher quality camera with a USB device that allows you to download straight to your computer, avoiding the hassle and cost of taking it back to a lab for processing. I picked up one of these this week and immediately liked the results. The $129 price tag is worth it in the long run. In addition to it being reusable, the resolution is higher, the audio transfers into iMovie, and there's even a 2x zoom lens, among other features. Soon, I'll have a nice video to post using the newer camera. Until then, here's something I put together using the cheaper version. It was shot at Sophie's by several people on December 26, 2006. For some reason it transferred to YouTube way too dark. But what do you expect from a $30 camcorder?
posted by Cary at 1/11/2007
1 Comments:
I love the guy whose bridge-hand (almost) never touches the table. You, too, C. but that other guy's wild.
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