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Old September 25th, 2003, 06:12 PM
Dan Stephenson
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Good luck, but I'm pretty sure they won't have the Galileo. I would
call them first.


You are right

Actually it appears that the Galileo has been
discontinued!


Good grief! Go to the Northface web site and email them for whatever
replaced it.

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Photos and movies from last year's 3-month European vacation and this year's
road trip through Wales:
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Old September 25th, 2003, 07:35 PM
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Thanks. You check out the new panoramas I made? They're a little
crude (hard to match exposure times in 360 degrees), but really nifty.


Yes I did! That was pretty cool stuff as well!!

I don't have a camcorder. I have a Sony DSC-P9 'Cybershot'.


Wow! That's neat!

I didn't realize dig still cams had the capacity to
take such long clips of video like that now days.

Are you saying that only memory stick devices can do
this? Such as Sony?

Ive been wanting some way to take dig video myself. I
don't currently own ANY dig cams... still or video

Maybe the Sony unit like you have would be a good unit
for someone who mainly wants dig stills... but might
occasionally want video as well?

Again..... that memory "stick".... how LONG could you
take a video? How many minutes?
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Old September 25th, 2003, 07:37 PM
John
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Actually it appears that the Galileo has been
discontinued!


Good grief! Go to the Northface web site and email them for whatever
replaced it.


Yep

Good idea.... will do that

There may still be some Galileo out there in stock at a
few places..... but they definitely dis-continued it!
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Old September 26th, 2003, 02:20 AM
Dan Stephenson
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In article , John
wrote:

Thanks. You check out the new panoramas I made? They're a little
crude (hard to match exposure times in 360 degrees), but really nifty.


Yes I did! That was pretty cool stuff as well!!

I don't have a camcorder. I have a Sony DSC-P9 'Cybershot'.


Wow! That's neat!

I didn't realize dig still cams had the capacity to
take such long clips of video like that now days.

Are you saying that only memory stick devices can do
this? Such as Sony?


That's right. Memory Stick was actually made by Sony, but no other
camera vendors have taken it up. So I cannot use anything but Memory
Stick in my camera. Which sounds bad, but really, once you get a few
Sticks that cover one day's photos, that's all you need. Then you get
a portable hard drive to download the day's photos to the hard drive.
(a laptop also words). I have a Mindstor drive. The batteries have
worn out, but when they are removed the drive just operated on AC from
the wall outlet.

Ive been wanting some way to take dig video myself. I
don't currently own ANY dig cams... still or video


Yeah, well, I try to be consciencious (sp?) about taking video. I hate
the inconsiderate tourist who wildly sweeps a pan over you without
asking. But it is a nice thing to do when a still photo doesn't put
you 'there'.

Maybe the Sony unit like you have would be a good unit
for someone who mainly wants dig stills... but might
occasionally want video as well?


Exactly my thought. And really, it is MUCH easier to be a 'good
photographer' than a 'good filmmaker'.

Again..... that memory "stick".... how LONG could you
take a video? How many minutes?


A little over 5 minutes straight. There is a low-qual 320x240 mode
that is like 11 minutes and a 160x120 mode that's quite a long time.
But when your video purpose is to take10-30 second clips, 5 minutes is
an eternity. The only problem I had with it was in filming buskers -
street musicians. You wanna film them a lot longer. (see my buskers
video through the Grand Tour link in my sig).

--
Dan Stephenson
Photos and movies from last year's 3-month European vacation and this year's
road trip through Wales:
http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda
(remove nospam from email address if replying)
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Old September 26th, 2003, 01:44 PM
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A little over 5 minutes straight. There is a low-qual 320x240 mode
that is like 11 minutes and a 160x120 mode that's quite a long time.
But when your video purpose is to take10-30 second clips, 5 minutes is
an eternity. The only problem I had with it was in filming buskers -
street musicians. You wanna film them a lot longer. (see my buskers
video through the Grand Tour link in my sig).



Yeah I agree on the above

I did at one time have an old analog camcorder ( now
stolen)...... but it was my first time owning a
camcorder and it turned out that I shot video in short
"clips"..... rather than 10 mins of "continuous" video.

Do you think cameras like you have might take
traditional tape based dig cam corders over since most
people don't take that LONG of a clip anyway?
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Old September 27th, 2003, 12:07 PM
Dan Stephenson
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In article , John
wrote:

A little over 5 minutes straight. There is a low-qual 320x240 mode
that is like 11 minutes and a 160x120 mode that's quite a long time.
But when your video purpose is to take10-30 second clips, 5 minutes is
an eternity. The only problem I had with it was in filming buskers -
street musicians. You wanna film them a lot longer. (see my buskers
video through the Grand Tour link in my sig).



Yeah I agree on the above

I did at one time have an old analog camcorder ( now
stolen)...... but it was my first time owning a
camcorder and it turned out that I shot video in short
"clips"..... rather than 10 mins of "continuous" video.

Do you think cameras like you have might take
traditional tape based dig cam corders over since most
people don't take that LONG of a clip anyway?


I'm certain of it. But until the memory capacity of still cameras
jumps a lot to take 1 to 2 hours of video, there will be a place for
camcorders. I guess if 1/4 resolution gives 5 minutes, then full
resolution gives 1.25 minutes. This is in a 128 MB Memory Stick. So
that means a 6.144 GB Memory Stick to take an hour of full resolution
video. That may take a few years to get developed.

--
Dan Stephenson
Photos and movies from last year's 3-month European vacation and this year's
road trip through Wales:
http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda
(remove nospam from email address if replying)
 




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