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dadob · 03-07-2009, 09:24 PM

This camera is limited to 8gb sdhc card. It also plays mp3's. Stills captured from video are very nice and print worthy, so I don't shoot stills much. Extra lion batteries are inexpensive but be warned there are two batteries sold with the same model number, go figure, only one of them fits so look at the photos of the batteries carefully.

I've had this camera since early december and am still ecstatic about it. I haven't seen this good a deal yet. There are some 5x optical cameras for about the same price. I agree the focus can be dodgy but you can learn to finesse it my won't focus at 10x too well so I back it out to about 9x. Does a good job at macro. Went to the grand canyon and las vegas and captured some great and gorgeous memories compared to the vhs-c dissapointment of my Hawaii vids. It look lots better than high 8. It looks like 1080 to me even tho it's 720. I figure 250 bucks is worth it (the price is up) until 1080 p comes along at the same price with the same power of zoom or better. I don't like the idea of lugging 500 bucks of camera around, I'd probably loose it. This camera seems so well designed even tho it's lite it has held up. I'd like to know what company produced this and check out their other products. I had cheap video cams before and was disappointed but this one is is tops for me. Do a search Traveler camcorder Aldi to find it on the web. It's not in their weekly adds on their web site. My store didn't have them anymore. They had them for christmas only.

I also notice that when you use the pause record feature it makes files with the same number except one digit changes incrementally. When the camera plays them back they are amazingly knit together seemlessly. But if you download them to your computer or another player you have to play each pause segement separately using an h264 player. That's not good so I found a free editor and knit them together myself. It wasn't too hard but you need a fast dual cpu computer or it takes for ever. If delete scenes it takes a bunch longer. I've hear sony has an editor for about 89 bucks that is very fast anyone know about it?

dadob

03-07-2009, 09:24 PM	#7
dadob What is HD? Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2	This camera is limited to 8gb sdhc card. It also plays mp3's. Stills captured from video are very nice and print worthy, so I don't shoot stills much. Extra lion batteries are inexpensive but be warned there are two batteries sold with the same model number, go figure, only one of them fits so look at the photos of the batteries carefully. I've had this camera since early december and am still ecstatic about it. I haven't seen this good a deal yet. There are some 5x optical cameras for about the same price. I agree the focus can be dodgy but you can learn to finesse it my won't focus at 10x too well so I back it out to about 9x. Does a good job at macro. Went to the grand canyon and las vegas and captured some great and gorgeous memories compared to the vhs-c dissapointment of my Hawaii vids. It look lots better than high 8. It looks like 1080 to me even tho it's 720. I figure 250 bucks is worth it (the price is up) until 1080 p comes along at the same price with the same power of zoom or better. I don't like the idea of lugging 500 bucks of camera around, I'd probably loose it. This camera seems so well designed even tho it's lite it has held up. I'd like to know what company produced this and check out their other products. I had cheap video cams before and was disappointed but this one is is tops for me. Do a search Traveler camcorder Aldi to find it on the web. It's not in their weekly adds on their web site. My store didn't have them anymore. They had them for christmas only. I also notice that when you use the pause record feature it makes files with the same number except one digit changes incrementally. When the camera plays them back they are amazingly knit together seemlessly. But if you download them to your computer or another player you have to play each pause segement separately using an h264 player. That's not good so I found a free editor and knit them together myself. It wasn't too hard but you need a fast dual cpu computer or it takes for ever. If delete scenes it takes a bunch longer. I've hear sony has an editor for about 89 bucks that is very fast anyone know about it? dadob Last edited by dadob; 03-07-2009 at 09:42 PM.