Mini keyring-sized digital camera/camcorder

Frenzy said:
Where did you get your cards from hotwired?
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Some online auction site.

All I did was type in "8GB SANDISK MICRO SD SDHC MEMORY CARD FOR NOKIA E90 UK" in google and there it was o.0

Incidentally, can't post screenshots just yet but looks like accessing the card while its in the camera is about half the speed of accessing it with a dedicated card reader :/

Would have had the results earlier but accidentally had the benchmark testing my hard drives... Was extremely surprised when I saw about 120MB/s on the 1000MB sequential read. Then saw it was looking at C: drive -_-
 
Here's the benchmark from the cards when accessed while in the camera through the adapter.

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Much slower than when I tested them in a dedicated card reader.
 
more than quick enough write speeds though. I forgot i had a 4gb kingston card in my mobile, swapped this for pny and the kingston works fine in the camera. On bench tests its 1.6mb random write speed. Pny was 0.7. No duplicte frames, stutter with the kingston. Forget pny cards for these cameras, luckily the pny is fine in my phone
 
Frenzy said:
Where did you get your cards from hotwired?


My vid, commute to work in the morning. Had to trim it from 25min due to the 10min limit and couldnt be arsed with multiple uploads. It was sunny and youtube makes video quality look far worse than it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVc_UHstU4
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Aaaargh Lady gaga, Cheryl Cole, and other bad music. They play the same top 40 rubbish here too, exactly the same songs, I knew all of em unfortunately as the radio plays at my work :(.
And yeah, the roads in your area:eek:. I thought my roads were starting to be bad here ( slightly scratched/top ripped off in a small amount of places), but it's awesome compared to that in your area.
 
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I noticed that in Germany, a lot of the stations play English music 90% of the time. I think a lot of the roads in the UK have suffered badly after the winter this year, there was a 1 foot deep pothole at the bottom of my road plus many other minor ones that have appeared since Xmas.
 
I never seemed to mind top40 before I started work, I don't mind most of the songs up to about 5-10x, after that they get annoying, and I hear them more often than that at work :(. Only 2 radio stations I would listen to myself is Veronica FM ( 80's and 90's hits) and Arrow Classic Rock (classic rock :p).

I hate one station more here though than the hits/top40 stations: 100% NL, as the name says, only Dutch crap :(...

I can listen to anything, from 30's jazz to Rock n Roll to Hiphop to house and dance music to pop, but hearing the same pop songs over and over on the radio gets very annoying :(. I just don't like stuff like non english stuff ( there are exceptions, but few), hardcore, and current pop ish hiphop ( Lil wayne and those types...).


Oh well, I think youtube broke a lot of the video quality in his vid anyhow, would look much better on the source I think.
 
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What's the best method to upload these to YouTube at a good quality. Is it best to upload the source file or do you need to do some transcoding beforehand?
 
I'd imagine source would be best, I did that with the night video.

I used 2000kbit and 3000kbit xvid for my first test and the first ride video though, the 3000kbit xvid looked fine and didn't have much quality loss at 480p youtube.


iirc there is one format youtube works best for youtube, but I'm really not sure which that is...
 
snowdog said:
I'd imagine source would be best, I did that with the night video.

I used 2000kbit and 3000kbit xvid for my first test and the first ride video though, the 3000kbit xvid looked fine and didn't have much quality loss at 480p youtube.


iirc there is one format youtube works best for youtube, but I'm really not sure which that is...
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Mp4 I believe.
 
Lol, yeah i used to listen to radio 1 but realised 80% of the time they talk about useless random stuff when infact i just wanted to listen to some music.
I switched to touch FM but got put off by the new songs they played which i didnt really like.
Then i went to heart fm which i love because they play classics aswell as modern tunes.
Just giving galaxy a try and i have to admit they repeat pretty much all their songs, if i turn the radio on at the same time of day as the previous day they will pretty much be playing the same song.

Pot holes in my area are REALLY bad, i really dont understand why the council do not do anything about it. We have two schools one road away from me and it is quite a well off area yet they completely ignore it =/ There are other parts of coventry though that i wouldnt even risk driving around...

I encoded my video with http://www.h264encoder.com/ using standard definition, results are "ok" but they become even worse when uploading them to youtube.

My second spycam arrived this morning so ill post a test video of that later tonight :)
 
Still waiting on mine, just got this e-mail:

Dear Valued Customs,

Have a nice day.^_^

Thank you very much for your purchasing.
I am really sorry to tell you that because Hongkong Post Office had Halloween
Holidaya from 1 April to 7 April.
Item may arrive you a little late.

Please be patient to wait for it.Item will arrive you safely.

Regards


Hong Kong must be a strange place if they have "Halloween" in April

Wonder what the seller dressed up as... Jesus plus holes?
 
Just an update on my camera which died a couple of weeks back. Took it apart last night to have a look inside just out of curiosity (wouldn't switch on or be recognised when plugged into the PC with USB cable).

One of the tiny little screws inside had come loose and was rattling around, probably shorting out the camera. Removed screw and put it back together, and it is working fine again. Result :D
 
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