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Author:  pcernie [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:30 pm ]
Post subject:  1080p Camcorder - £150

No idea if this is a good deal or not, I'll let you decide:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod ... J&T=295029

Author:  Nick [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

Quote:
Media: External SD Card (Up to SDHC 8GB Class 6)

I don't know how many hours of footage that will hold, but I suspect it's not much at 1920x1080!

Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

Nick wrote:
Quote:
Media: External SD Card (Up to SDHC 8GB Class 6)

I don't know how many hours of footage that will hold, but I suspect it's not much at 1920x1080!


Through history, amateur moving picture recording devices have typically been limited to 3 - 10 minutes. You should be able to fit a darn site more than that on. Cards are pretty cheap, and most videos are made up from fairly short scenes. I don't see storage as the issue.

My question is; what's the quality like? At that resolution, cheap glass, cheap CCDs and under-powered processing are bound to produce grain, visible artefacts, poor image and possibly stuttering.

I might be wrong though. I'll see if they'll let me play with one :D

Author:  ProfessorF [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:14 pm ]
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I'm impressed.
It offers 8 megapixels from a 5 megapixel sensor. :?

Author:  Nick [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

Hmm, I don't agree JJ.

I wouldn't want to take 10 SD cards with me on holiday. I would want to take one and leave it in the camera.

If you aren't going on holiday, and you are instead going to record a birthday party or sporting event etc then you can pretty much guarantee that anything of interest will happen while you are changing cards.

It's a deal breaker for me, I'm afraid.

Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

Nick wrote:
Hmm, I don't agree JJ.

I wouldn't want to take 10 SD cards with me on holiday. I would want to take one and leave it in the camera.

If you aren't going on holiday, and you are instead going to record a birthday party or sporting event etc then you can pretty much guarantee that anything of interest will happen while you are changing cards.

It's a deal breaker for me, I'm afraid.


Think yourself lucky you never used 8mm cine then :lol:

Just knock it down to DVD resolution if you need more than 30 minutes. Doesn't make it any worse than any other 'corder.

Author:  bally199 [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

OH GOD!

It's the Toshiba (?) Camelio!

For those who have never heard of it, basically it's a cheap chinese camera, rebranded as a Toshiba camera. And it's pretty poor.

Ashens review on Youtube. Dry British wit FTW!

Waste of money. As are most devices from maplin. *shudder*

Author:  pcernie [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

bally199 wrote:
Waste of money. As are most devices from maplin. *shudder*


Oh I dunno, I've got a USB hub that also charges batteries, a decent PSU and various useful bits and bobs over the years from them, all cheap otherwise I wouldn't have bought them ;)

Author:  bally199 [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

You must've been on a good day then.

I bought 2 Wifi dongles from them, and within a week they'd stopped working. A PSU I bought stopped working and took my mobo with it after half a hour on Crysis (my old old pentium 4 machine), and I've had other tat from there (like a USB flash drive) that knackered up after a week or two.

:D

Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

pcernie wrote:
bally199 wrote:
Waste of money. As are most devices from maplin. *shudder*


Oh I dunno, I've got a USB hub that also charges batteries, a decent PSU and various useful bits and bobs over the years from them, all cheap otherwise I wouldn't have bought them ;)


I've bought loads of stuff from them. Their PP3 rechargeables were cheaper than anywhere I could find on-line. I got my little 7" TV which is OK. Over the last 30 years I've bought I don't know how many little components, but that was mostly because I could actually go get them. A bit like RS - expensive but fast. I confess I may have bought a mouse at PC World for £20 for the same reason...

Some of their PC stuff is a real laugh though - 5 year old GFX cards for over £9000 :lol:

Author:  pcernie [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

bally199 wrote:
You must've been on a good day then.

I bought 2 Wifi dongles from them, and within a week they'd stopped working. A PSU I bought stopped working and took my mobo with it after half a hour on Crysis (my old old pentium 4 machine), and I've had other tat from there (like a USB flash drive) that knackered up after a week or two.

:D


I've bought stuff from their stores all around Belfast and never had a problem, same with online :P ;)

Author:  pcernie [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:46 pm ]
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JJW009 wrote:
Some of their PC stuff is a real laugh though - 5 year old GFX cards for over £9000 :lol:


Yes, they rival Apple for some of their memory prices I've noticed ;)

As you say, being able to just walk in is very handy :)

Author:  saspro [ Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150

Nick wrote:
Quote:
Media: External SD Card (Up to SDHC 8GB Class 6)

I don't know how many hours of footage that will hold, but I suspect it's not much at 1920x1080!


It's compresses it using AVCHD. According to the site "Up to 2 hours recording of high definition video on an 8GB SDHC card; it supports SDHC cards up to 16GB "

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