* Image Sensor: 5.0 Mega Pixel CMOS sensor
* Still Image Size: 640×480, 1280×960, 2048×1536, 2560×1920, 3264×2448 (Hardware interpolation), 4032×3024(Hardware interpolation)
* Movie Mode: QVGA: 320×240, VGA: 640×480 (30fps) with sound
* Shoot Mode: Still image, video, self-timer, mass storage device
* Image Display: 2.0” LTPS LCD
* Digital Zoom: 8x
* Shutter Speed: 1/8 sec. – 1/10000 sec.
* Focus Range: Normal: 1.6 ft. ~ infinity
* Self-Timer: Off / 2 / 10 sec.
* White Balance: Auto, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent
* Exposure Control: Auto
* Internal Memory: 64MB Nand Flash Memory
* External Memory: Supports SD card up to 8GB (card not included)
* Image File Format: JPEG, AVI
On a side note, I have used this brand, cheaper model, definitely a cheaper brand. Don’t think that I will be trying it for this amount.
I used my old digital camera, an Olympus C-5000 that is 5 megapixels and bought an underwater housing off of EBay that goes to 120 feet. I know the camera, having used it, and it’s a higher quality brand.
I later had to buy a new digital camera for my non-underwater pictures, but really I wind up using both cameras depending on which one’s batteries are dead. I’d research a housing for an older digital camera first, but that’s just me.
Digital cameras can record also. Not sure if quality is as good, but I filmed most of a dolphin ride & play down in Cozmuel, Mexico.
A word of caution. I once inherited a vupoint camera that someone did not want. It had nice packaging and was marketed as a 3MP camera or some such. However, the device itself was essentially hollow and composed of the cheapest possible components. It was worse than the cheapest webcams I’ve encountered and required an extremely well-lit environment to even produce an image. The driver support only extended to XP so I had a hard time even testing it. That camera was one of the few devices I’ve ever thrown out.
That said, here is a video taken by this camera. The author states that he used a 5MP waterproof vupoint so it’s likely the same model. Appropriately enough it’s a fuzzy bigfoot sighting.
I’ve used Flip videos a lot. Does anyone know how much video you can shoot with this one before it runs out of memory (not counting the SD)? Flips can go 60 minutes.
Interesting … but this one has a 90 day warranty. And if the length of warranty worries you, buy a SquareTrade for $8 … SquareTrade is GREAT. Reasonably priced warranty with excellent customer service.
Well, this worries me about the quality of the lens. The vid posted shows fairly sharp detail, but it seems to have problems focusing on distant, slow moving, large hairy object.
If you mean for like stop motion, then no. To really maximize stop motion video, you need a camera that supports firewire as well as a firewire capable computer as USB does not work with stop motion software.