Comments on: Further adventures in disposable video

By: Bill Wood

Bill Wood — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:48:53 +0000

Easy to use, however, a huge SECURITY concern.
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Reports that View Your Videos.exe in the root directory of this device is a Trojan Horse; TR/Philis.A

By: Ken McCarthy

Ken McCarthy — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:43:17 +0000

I’m obsessed with this little camera… Can’t you tell?
But another warning. As cool as the purely disposable model is – and it is waaaay cool – it has an annoying drawback which I just discovered.
You’ve got to deal with the knuckleheads at CVS or where ever to get your video off of it.
To continue the saga of my filming of the New Orleans jazz parade – the one where I hit the “delete all” button by mistake – I dropped off disposable version at my local CVC (20 miles round trip from my country home) and when I got back to the house, the DVD they gave me was blank!
I admit it. I had a panic attack because like I said earlier, the footage was very meaningful to me and cannot be reproduced (for less than a couple of thousand dollars and a trip thousands of miles from my home.)
Anyway, it turns out they mastered the disc incorrectly – and knew it – but gave me the disc anyway because they hadn’t bothered to read their own screen.
No apologies. Another 20 mile round trip in the car for me.
In a pinch, the dispobable model is better than nothing, but if the re-useable model is available in your area, get it. It allows you to take the video off the camera yourself.
Just make sure you turn the camera off before you put it in your pocket!

By: Ken McCarthy

Ken McCarthy — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:47:48 +0000

To Ed:
You made my day!
I strongly encourage everyone who has yet to shoot and post a video to follow Ed’s example and just do one.
With this camera, it really has become child’s play.

By: Ken McCarthy

Ken McCarthy — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:44:38 +0000

I took the new version of PureDigital’s video camera on a week long trip I took to New Orleans (just got back last night)
I’ve got to say, the camera is even better than I realized.
The new version has a zoom function. Also, on playback you can now raise and lower the audio.
Another thing I should have read and failed to – much to my sorrow and hopefully never to yours – is that when you hold down the delete button for more than 3 seconds, it sets the system up to erasse ALL the video on the drive, not just a single scene.
This is very handy if you actually want to clean the slate, but it’s inconvenient (to say the least) if you don’t.
I discovered – the hard way – it’s possible to do this accidentally with the camera in your pocket, especially if you’re dancing which I was at the time.
Ouch!
I took the camera out of my pocket to resume shooting after a break only to discover the entire hard drive had been wiped clean.
I lost about 20 minutes of truly amazing footage of a jazz parade in New Orleans.
Luckily, I had a back-up disposable which I’d given to another marcher so she coud take pictures too and everything she shot was safe and sound.
The moral of the story:
Turn the camera off before you put it in your pocket or you may get results you didn’t anticipate.

By: Henri Cousineau

Henri Cousineau — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:55:13 +0000

Hi
I saw some videos on the internet with no backgrounds…ie you see the person talking but with a white or no backround. I find this neat and would like to know how to do it.
Here is an example
http://online.videoprofessor.com/
I use Movie Maker but would use an other format if necessary.
Can you please help me
Henri

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:12:40 +0000

DEMO and Follow Up
Got it at Costco. It is as good as Ken says. Motivated me to do my first uploading to youtube and google video.
Wanna see what the camera’s output looks like? I thought so.
Here are the links.
Google Video
http://video.google.com/videouploadfinished?docid=-9112565865904444951&cid=d495fe064660b183
YouTube (still is being processed as I make this post – Google makes them available much faster – in a few minutes – youtube can take a while)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kcIr8gMyJg
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By: John Jaworski

John Jaworski — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:49:49 +0000

Great Camera. I got my 60 minute camera from Amazon.com. It came in today. I am BLOWN away. Really easy to use, really good quality, really portable. I give it 2 thumbs up.
Thanks Ken, finally I’ll be able to carry a video camera with me! This will change the video part of my business.
Thanks!
–
John Jaworski

By: Virginia Van Vynckt

Virginia Van Vynckt — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:05:38 +0000

Oh, why didn’t you post this a week ago, when my husband was shopping for my Christmas gifts?
Very cool. A lot handier than the nice but relatively static iSight videocam built into my Macbook.
I’d agree video has arrived in a big way.

By: Chui

Chui — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:03:33 +0000

Most digital cameras are capable of video too. For shorter clips, it’s perfectly adequate.

By: Brian Lord

Brian Lord — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:53:42 +0000

Hey Ken,
Yet another interesting post. Thank you.
Does anyone know if this camera is available in Australia as yet? Just curious.
I can always do the Amazon thing but was wanting to get one now! You know, the old instant gratification thing
Thanks
Lordy