Reply Comment 3: I'm not Jacques Cousteau, I don't have his equipment...but my results are nice. I've been diving for 40 years and had many cameras, still and movie. For the freedom (small, easy, light) this camera provides, it's perfect for tourists, amateurs, fun seekers. Bear in mind depth limitations. I recommend it for this sort of thing. It beats the Pentax Optio W-series hollow--and I have 30 years of product loyalty with Pentax...so that hurts to say.
Reply Comment 2:Check out my other snorkeling videos...I did them a little cleaner and with Final Cut, but the conversion to FLASH wipes out much quality--they have to have space on YouTube, ya know. If you burn the video files to DVD, they are stunning for an amateur.
Reply comment 1:Thanks for your comment--this was shot at the highest video setting--but capture was done via USB (not Firewire) on a cheap laptop, using Creator 9, so quality is maximized. Further, compressing to fit on YouTube, I went to a small MPEG II format which does not render well into FLASH...so the FLASH version on the internet is two compressions and a dirty capture away from the original quality.
Reply Comment 3: I'm not Jacques Cousteau, I don't have his equipment...but my results are nice. I've been diving for 40 years and had many cameras, still and movie. For the freedom (small, easy, light) this camera provides, it's perfect for tourists, amateurs, fun seekers. Bear in mind depth limitations. I recommend it for this sort of thing. It beats the Pentax Optio W-series hollow--and I have 30 years of product loyalty with Pentax...so that hurts to say.
DrBlizzardo 4 years ago
Reply Comment 2:Check out my other snorkeling videos...I did them a little cleaner and with Final Cut, but the conversion to FLASH wipes out much quality--they have to have space on YouTube, ya know. If you burn the video files to DVD, they are stunning for an amateur.
DrBlizzardo 4 years ago
Was this shot at the highest quality setting? Do you recommend this camera?
oblivion2500 4 years ago
Reply comment 1:Thanks for your comment--this was shot at the highest video setting--but capture was done via USB (not Firewire) on a cheap laptop, using Creator 9, so quality is maximized. Further, compressing to fit on YouTube, I went to a small MPEG II format which does not render well into FLASH...so the FLASH version on the internet is two compressions and a dirty capture away from the original quality.
DrBlizzardo 4 years ago