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A Tapeless Digital Camcorder For Your Pocket
spullara writes "I've been waiting a long time for a small, tapeless, easy to use digital camcorder. Tapes wear out, they require playback in realtime, and make producing ad hoc movies time consuming. Without these types of recorders you can forget about iVideoPodcasting. I found the Fisher FVD-C1 at an Apple Store last week and it was amazing, but it turns out there is a better one being imported from Japan, the Xacti DMX-C4 thats nearly identical, but better. You can read my review of it here (I have no association with any of these businesses). Wouldn't it be great if one of these devices had WiMAX to upload directly to the internet?"
I've been looking for user experiences/reviews on this little gadget for weeks. Many thanks!
Why stop at WiFi for uploading to the net?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
-- Obligatory, and the submitter asked for it
I bought the Fisher FVD-C1 and I can describe the video quality with one word, Awful! Also the sound quality was the worst I have ever experienced, tons of white noise and a hissing sound any time there was silence in the shot.
This camera comes nowhere near what Fisher describes as "DVD Quality". This camera is good for recreation and nothing more.
One thing I'll give Fisher is the build quality, very nice.
Following latin convention (cactus -> cacti, nucleus ->nuclei), wouldn't mini already be the plural of minus? Hey does that mean the plural of Linus is Lini? I guess that never comes up because he's one of a kind.