Soldato
hmm well ive had this cam on charge since 11am ish and its amber(orage) led is on it hasn't flickerd (or changed colour) i've manged to take a picture with it.
How do you rec with this thing?
Could always read the instructions?
Mini keyring-sized digital camera/camcorder
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Could always read the instructions?
Soldato
^ yeah i could but ill read the website that was posted here
cba with all that small text
cba with all that small text
Weey, they've finally arrived. They're smaller than I expected 
Will charge and try one now..
Will charge and try one now..
Soldato
Not sure how ambitious you guys are but this guy took nasa quality photos of earth with a homebuilt £500 Satellite using parts off ebay -
Soldato
Ah bugger I have broken mine. 
Bloody Micro SD was not popping out and I wanted to replace it with the new 4gb oneI had delivered. Thought an open paper clip gently poked in at the side would release it but it slipped and went right inside. No working.
Will have to order another I have spent £6 on a damn card now!
Bloody Micro SD was not popping out and I wanted to replace it with the new 4gb oneI had delivered. Thought an open paper clip gently poked in at the side would release it but it slipped and went right inside. No working.
Will have to order another I have spent £6 on a damn card now!
Soldato
Ah bugger I have broken mine.
Bloody Micro SD was not popping out and I wanted to replace it with the new 4gb oneI had delivered. Thought an open paper clip gently poked in at the side would release it but it slipped and went right inside. No working.
Will have to order another I have spent £6 on a damn card now!
You might have just snapped one of the wires that connects the battery to the PCB. I'd open it up and see before you order another.
I couldn't get the MicroSD card out of the first one I shoved it in, had to take it apart with a little screwdriver to get it out 
Quite a well made little thing considering it's a huge bodge made up from bits of mobile phone (Read the Chuck Lohr review ) and it only cost £9
Quite a well made little thing considering it's a huge bodge made up from bits of mobile phone (Read the Chuck Lohr review
) and it only cost £9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnge074Y6Gw quick sample vid - quality's pretty good really, all things considered!
Soldato
Looks like it can only cope with well lit rooms but nice quality and sound too
Or the paper clip is shorting something out. They could have caused permanent damage but might as well open it up and remove it now.
It'll just be a circuitboard glued inside some plastic, the cover doesnt matter
Or the paper clip is shorting something out. They could have caused permanent damage but might as well open it up and remove it now.
It'll just be a circuitboard glued inside some plastic, the cover doesnt matter
Mine bombed out today But managed to get a some nice on-bike footage of the commute to work, will get it uploaded. The camera is not being detected by the PC any more, and the LED is always on, you can't turn the unit off. Luck of the draw, will probably buy another one anyway!
But managed to get a some nice on-bike footage of the commute to work, will get it uploaded. The camera is not being detected by the PC any more, and the LED is always on, you can't turn the unit off. Luck of the draw, will probably buy another one anyway!Took a couple of pictures and videos today and just recorded some sound now. Its better than i originally thought. You have to be quite still but for £9 its amazing. Sound quality is really good, when im in a club i might tape it under something to record half an hour of a set
edit - just recorded my mate on guitar and it sounds loads better than an iphone mic! apple must spend about 50p on parts
edit - just recorded my mate on guitar and it sounds loads better than an iphone mic! apple must spend about 50p on parts
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Soldato
Have you tried the reset button?
Soldato
are guys encoding the files before uploading them to youtube? I don't really feel like uploading 2gb...
Poke the little reset button, one of mine did this to start with, resetting it fixed itMine bombed out today
Soldato
try windows live movie maker
Soldato
ok, I'll give that a go, I'm more familiar with VirtualDub however, I just need to get it down to 300Mb or so before uploading.
I think I may give XviD a go, tho it's been a while since I've encoded XviD.
Soldato
divx6 is better. youtube list recommend codecs since they will convert it again once you upload it wont stay xvid most likely
Soldato
A sample clip I did today, just walking around with the camera on.
Converted the original AVI with Any Video Converter to mp4.
Man of Honour
Quite good! What size cards are people putting in? 2GB MicroSD TF cards are going for £4.22 on eBay so tempted to just buy one of those.