Friday, February 8, 2008

New 12.1MP digital camera

I've been wanting a new digital camera for a while.  I have a 3.3 MP Kodak camera that's a few years that Tina gave me.  It's alright, not the highest quality pictures but it's slow and uses really old memory standards.  It doesn't take good indoor pictures or videos at all.  I do have a Canon digital camcorder, but it's not practical to bring around evrywhere, plus it uses tape recordable media, not electronic (like flash memory).  My Helio phone has a 2.0 MP built in camera and video recorder, but it records at 640x480 (poorly) @ 12 FPS (frames per second).

So... I got myself a shiny new digital camera that will last me for many o' year, the 
Kodak EasyShare Z1275.  It's a 12.1 megapixel camera (4011x3011 resolution pictures) with 5X optical and 5X digital zoom.  It has a ton of goodies (like image stabilization, etc.), but what it does that also really caught my attention was it takes full HDTV quality movies:  1280x720 @ 30 FPS (1080i HD).  Wowzers.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Decided it was time to upgrade from the 2.1 and go right up to 7.1 with the Creative Inspire P7800.  I'm very excited for this one, not just for movies, but also for some 3D/positional games.