Over the years, I've used the Original Sony Floppy Disk Camera. By todays standards it Sucks Big Time but it started the revolution away from film. I've still got it for use to document things in an emergency. The monster battery stays charged forever. No video capability at all, unless you consider 6 shots in one frame video.
I next moved up to a water resistant Olympus with XD Cards.. 4 mega-pixel, great pictures but still really no satisfactory video... I now use this camera for photos documenting work on the bikes or trucks...
My next step was to a Fuji Film 6 mega-pixel camera, still using XD Cards. Video was at a barely acceptable level and the sound reproduction was really lacking depth...
I then bought a Z915 Kodak, 10 mega-pixel, SD/SDHC Card. It has a 10x optical zoom and does surprisingly good 640 X 480 VGA Video. Sound reproduction is really good too. I started using it at our last Central Florida Tech Day with great success. Also did the videos for the Mark's Exhaust Thread and a video for the "Other Exhaust" thread of my Kerker on the 89 at idle.
Still not totally satisfied, I had some reward cards so I started looking at Pocket Camcorders. I refused to buy something that was So-So. I tried a Flip but it wasn't as good as the Kodak. Took it back.
Went out the other day looking for a Kodak ZI8. Every store I went to had older models.. Then we went to WalMart.. They had a Kodak ZI10. I didn't even know it had been released... $159.99 and it was mine... When I got home, I ran test videos. Started with 720 @ 30 frames Per Second, then went to 720 @ 60 FPS and 1080 @ 30 FPS. That's when I began figuring out what the SDHC Card Class meant, SPEED. The highest class card I had at this point was a Class 4. It was fast enough for 720 @30 fps but really chopped up anything beyond that.
I did some research and found that it needed a Class 10 SDHC Card at the bare minimum.. Not wanting any limiting factors, We went out last night to Best Buy and found a SanDisk 16gb SDHC, Class UHS1, Extreme Pro. It's over twice as fast at capture as a Class 10 Card... Wow, it cleared up any crap or artifacting at the highest resolutions... If the Sound reproduction is as good as I think it will be, this is the ultimate in Pocket Camcorders... Gotta do a bike running video and post it back here...
Hope this will help any of you looking for a great little Pocket Camcorder.
It will take a while for me to figure out this little camera, it's loaded with features including a 3" Touch Screen, on camera editing, a Share button the will log me into an account and upload a selected video through the computer, in the required format for the site...:biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:
BTW, What are others here using?????? And, are you happy with the results?
Thanx,
Dave
I next moved up to a water resistant Olympus with XD Cards.. 4 mega-pixel, great pictures but still really no satisfactory video... I now use this camera for photos documenting work on the bikes or trucks...
My next step was to a Fuji Film 6 mega-pixel camera, still using XD Cards. Video was at a barely acceptable level and the sound reproduction was really lacking depth...
I then bought a Z915 Kodak, 10 mega-pixel, SD/SDHC Card. It has a 10x optical zoom and does surprisingly good 640 X 480 VGA Video. Sound reproduction is really good too. I started using it at our last Central Florida Tech Day with great success. Also did the videos for the Mark's Exhaust Thread and a video for the "Other Exhaust" thread of my Kerker on the 89 at idle.
Still not totally satisfied, I had some reward cards so I started looking at Pocket Camcorders. I refused to buy something that was So-So. I tried a Flip but it wasn't as good as the Kodak. Took it back.
Went out the other day looking for a Kodak ZI8. Every store I went to had older models.. Then we went to WalMart.. They had a Kodak ZI10. I didn't even know it had been released... $159.99 and it was mine... When I got home, I ran test videos. Started with 720 @ 30 frames Per Second, then went to 720 @ 60 FPS and 1080 @ 30 FPS. That's when I began figuring out what the SDHC Card Class meant, SPEED. The highest class card I had at this point was a Class 4. It was fast enough for 720 @30 fps but really chopped up anything beyond that.
I did some research and found that it needed a Class 10 SDHC Card at the bare minimum.. Not wanting any limiting factors, We went out last night to Best Buy and found a SanDisk 16gb SDHC, Class UHS1, Extreme Pro. It's over twice as fast at capture as a Class 10 Card... Wow, it cleared up any crap or artifacting at the highest resolutions... If the Sound reproduction is as good as I think it will be, this is the ultimate in Pocket Camcorders... Gotta do a bike running video and post it back here...
Hope this will help any of you looking for a great little Pocket Camcorder.
It will take a while for me to figure out this little camera, it's loaded with features including a 3" Touch Screen, on camera editing, a Share button the will log me into an account and upload a selected video through the computer, in the required format for the site...:biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:
BTW, What are others here using?????? And, are you happy with the results?
Thanx,
Dave