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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 | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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 ![]() |
Author: | ProfessorF [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150 |
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 | |||||||||
Think yourself lucky you never used 8mm cine then ![]() 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 | |||||||||
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. ![]() |
Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:41 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150 | ||||||||||||||||||
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 ![]() |
Author: | pcernie [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:43 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150 | |||||||||
I've bought stuff from their stores all around Belfast and never had a problem, same with online ![]() ![]() |
Author: | pcernie [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:46 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: 1080p Camcorder - £150 | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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