Something Wicked cool comes this way !

Do you have anything to contribute or do you just like seeing your name on the screen?

Hmmm. Sounds like you should have asked yourself that.

But... all you *did* was re-post the same message as the original poster, with your sig attached. No other comments or content. Why? :-)

Sorry - you posted a link that I missed. :-O

Yeah he clicked on the big assed picture of the product and posted that URL BFD I stand by my statement.

Jerry do you have anything to contribute?

Thanks for posting that. Looks pretty cool, especially considering the extremely small size. A few drawbacks.. One, it's just "computer video", not real video. Two, you can only fit one flight on it at a time, so you have to be able to connect it to a computer between flights to download the video.

Still, a nice easy way to get into onboard "video".

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Compared to film it is absolutely useless.

You are spoiled.

How many of those film payloads do you have? 1000?

There are OVER 1000 of these VGA resolution (TV) video/audio self contained devices.

Jerry

What's the difference between 'computer video' and 'real video'...? I don't have an ATV transmitter to put up, nor am I prepared to put my camcorder into a rocket just yet... :-)

I'm going to have to do that with my modified digital-cameras... the on-board and add-on SD-memory is only good for about two minutes' worth of recording. I expect to download the files after each flight.

Just FYI, Ray - I'm heading out to a launch in Michigan (Three Oaks, to be precise...) in ten days' time. If the weather cooperates, I'll be flying my dual-camera bay twice - once on a K motor, and once on an L. I've programmed my film camera to take 12 pictures at

1.6-second intervals, and the digital will take 1.5 minutes' of "computer video". ;-) I'll let you know the results...

Hi Len, Chris's videos are cool. I like them.

Cool stuff chris ! And for $150 dollars not a bad deal for a computer video device.

to answer your question to Ray however, here are some examples:

Computer Video:

Analog real video converted to computer video (you have to see the real stuff on a analog tv ;-)

you also can pull good looking stills out of real video that is not compressed

and example:

Art Upton

That's really good for 352 x 240

I never said they weren't. :-) I was just questioning Rays' assertion that video captured by a digital camera isn't "real".

My unsophisticated eyes can't tell the difference between the two... although I'm pretty sure that the second video is from LDRS in Geneseo... :-)

It is bogus.

video'...?

I don't know the technical differences, but I consider "real video" to be something I can play on any normal TV, just like VHS, miniDV, or DVDs, with at least the same level of resolution.

That's why I say this seems like a nice easy way to get into "video" payloads.

cooperates,

Cool!



Bear in mind - the resolution of a TV is pretty much the same as a VGA monitor... 320X240. My Centrios and HP digital cameras capture video in that resolution, 30 frames per second, and have outputs that can connect to a TVs' "Line In" jack. But because I've hacked up the cameras to get them to work remotely, I'll just be copying the file to my computer, and showing it off from there.

Given that I didn't actually look at the device in question, you may have a point there. :-) The cameras I use have to be hacked into, to remotely activate the shutter button and to disable the automatic power-down features.

Fingers crossed, that everything goes as planned. :-)

Frames, look at the frames. one jumps the other is smooth

VGA is 640x480. What you're refering to, 320x240 is usually refered to as QVGA (quarter VGA: half times half)

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

That's *interlaced* VGA... isn't it? :-)