GonStarTrek
7th May 2004, 15:45
Has anyone bought the new Olympus C770 digital camera or know of a decent Digital Camera forum where it might be discussed? I'm thinking of buying one, but at ukp400+ (us600+) for it, I want to be sure it does things right !
This digital camera is the 1st one that I've come across that can record full-screen MPEG4 video (640x480 @ 30fps) (as well as its normal stills), so I'm curious about its MPEG4 quality: they reckon, with sound, it can record about 5 mins of video on a 128MBxD card, so with a 512MB you are talking 20 minutes (and if xD cards get bigger -I think 8GB is the limit) that would be very powerful. However given these values, it would seem the MPEG4 compression must be pretty high quality considering that most of us can create a high quality encoding of a movie at half that (e.g. 50mb=5mins) or more ! They do not specify what codec is used - only that its MPEG4.
I'd just love to hear from someone who has tried it out and can give the low-down on the vid coded and quality.
Ta
GonStarTrek
This digital camera is the 1st one that I've come across that can record full-screen MPEG4 video (640x480 @ 30fps) (as well as its normal stills), so I'm curious about its MPEG4 quality: they reckon, with sound, it can record about 5 mins of video on a 128MBxD card, so with a 512MB you are talking 20 minutes (and if xD cards get bigger -I think 8GB is the limit) that would be very powerful. However given these values, it would seem the MPEG4 compression must be pretty high quality considering that most of us can create a high quality encoding of a movie at half that (e.g. 50mb=5mins) or more ! They do not specify what codec is used - only that its MPEG4.
I'd just love to hear from someone who has tried it out and can give the low-down on the vid coded and quality.
Ta
GonStarTrek