[geeks] My hacked CVS video camera

[velociraptor]

On 8/5/05, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:39:07PM -0400, velociraptor wrote:
> >
> >>The packaging says 20 min. of video--what's that show up as in MB's
> >>when it's mounted?
> >
> >
> > You dont actually mount the camera as a storage device... but a coworker
> > said that he recorded 25 minutes of video until the "space ran out" -
> > and it was around 80M (DivX/MPEG-4).  The camera has a 128M flash AFAIK.
>
> I dunno about anyone else, but the idea of use-once-and-throw-away
> disposable cameras bugged me enough .... the idea of a disposable
> digital camcorder is just wrong.

I think that with the cable it's actually reusable--otherwise, why waste
the time building the cable?

=Nadine=