Wednesday, January 09, 2008

A great new little gadget

When you're married to a geek, you get a lot of fun gadgets for Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries. I never have to research what to get, install and implement. I have a living CIO in the house. Very practical.

This year Santa, hrm, the Husband gave me a new video camera. I have long complained about the lack of a good way to shoot video images (we have still images well covered in this house). The Sony video camera we got before our wedding was considered small and handy then, now it's monstrous and requires tapes...

But now I have motion pictures well covered too! This is my new little gadget - a Xacti (Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1a)!

It has a 10x optical zoom and record both 720-pixel high-definition video and snap 5.1-megapixel digital still images. And it slips easily in my camera bag! Hopefully now I will be able to take more moving pictures from California for the blog.

After all I live in the movie state...

5 comments:

Isle Dance said...

What fun! I love your photo an hour yesterday, too. Wishing you well on your test results. Cutting hair...oh my! :o)

Annika said...

Vilken fin present!! Trevligt att ha en Geek i huset, I wish :-)
SÅ länge sen jag videofilmade med min videokamera. Borde börja igen...

Desiree said...

Jättefin present. Kul att kunna göra små filmer med barnen att skicka till vänner och släkt.

JaCal said...

Isle Dance - it is! And so easy! Test results were good! Yes... scissors are confiscated...

Annika - mycket trevlig! Och praktiskt! ;-) Ja, med en "vanlig" kamera krävs så mycket - det ska vara laddade batterier, finnas film i kameran, man måste hitta kameran... den är är så liten att den går att ha med - och allt blir digitalt direkt! Åh, om du hade en - då skulle du kunna filma dina promenader!

Desiree - japp! Fast vi skickar dem inte - lägger upp dem. Hoppas kanske kunna åstadkomma lite "rörliga poster" här på bloggen också!

Isle Dance said...

Have you had a chance to play with this? How do you like it? Is there anything about it that you wish it had/could do/improved upon? I'm thinking of upgrading and thought I'd check! :o)