Typical price: £470
What is it: Flash-based camcorder with an external lens that can be mounted on a head, helmet or arm for an intimate look at the action
What we think: Though image quality falls short of an entry-level miniDV camcorder, the unusual first-person perspective on your extreme-sports mishaps more than compensates
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June 3, 2006
Posted by: Jonathan Collender
"A really average camcorder"
What I like:
Size, and external camera
What I don't like:
The really poor image quality
Review:
The bad points:
Not a bad camcorder, if it was the year 1999!
Image quality is poor, my fist digital camera I bought way back in 1999 had the same resolution as this one, so one would think in the year 2006 with all the latest technology that you could get something small and yet powerful. Well, we are not there yet, maybe in another 10 years or so...
Battery life is aslo sucky, I had it out for what seemed a short time, no longer than an hour and it was was dead. Guess the answer would be to buy a second battery.
Good points:
The point that sold me was the external camera. I have long been looking for a device that was small and could be conceiled on you, just with a camera sticking out.
Lastly the size, that's pretty much it, not much more to say, overall just average...
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