How to Pick a Good Point and Shoot

Posted By: scott | Mar 27th, 2006 @ 1:00 PM

Hola world. I’m Scott and I’ve been helping to develop some of the pieces for 10. This is my first ‘on screen’ appearance though and I hope you find something you like here.

The basis of the piece was really straight forward. I wanted to go shopping for a point and shoot camera with someone who could help me evaluate what I would find. I’ve wanted a new camera since last Christmas’ blurry mementos and knew I could use some help. So, with a hidden camera, a guy who should know and a too cheap microphone, I went out and got one. And to the Tina and Laura fanboys – relax, they’ll be back tomorrow. Smiley

Tags: cameras, gadgets, recommendations

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njcu

what took you so long!!!!

njcu

Been thinking about picking up a point-n-shoot cam after picking up my Canon 8MP PowerShot Pro1... It's kinda too big for partying, but great for vacations and outings.

I'm not sure whether I really need 8+MP for the next Point-n-shoot i buy...

Scott, how happy are you with your cam, now that you've played with it a bit? Post some photos or something... lol

MoeB

the audio on the ipod version is once again out of sync

njcu

In reply to MoeB

#Mar 27th, 2006 @ 1:31 PM

Damn 1's and 0's getting in the way.

Adam

In reply to MoeB

#Mar 27th, 2006 @ 1:31 PM

Did you download the file or did you play it within the browser?

If not in the browser, did you play the video from your desktop or from a device?

Thanks, Adam

dotrock

Y do you convert files for psp in two different formats? Sometimes AVC and sometimes MPEG4?

Also y don't you add a thumbnail file and put it in a zipped folder? When extracted we get MP_ROOT/100MNV01/*.mp4 + *.THM? So people just connect to usb and copy the extracted folder just like that to root of psp?

That would be easier and nice (with thumbnail.. umm.. Yea!)

clamp71

Congrats on your new camera (good luck on expensing it!) . Did you consider putting up some side by side shots taken by low, medium and high end cameras and having your expert walk us through the differences. From a consumers perspective it would be nice to see if the difference in quality of the images would be clearly visible to an average user.

Also, what hapened to the weekly mash-up?