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Specs. of a good camera
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Date: Wed, Nov 28 2007 09:06:15
Cameras are essential for a penspinner. Post here for the specifications of a good camera.
FPS:
30-60 FPS
30 fps is highly recommended, 60 is not very common because of the price, but iti is well worth your money. Combos seem more fluid and smooth when using a 60fps. 60 fps can also help to see your problems when spinning, it's easier to identify your mistakes. Back to 30fps, a basic standard for cameras that pen spinner's use.
Editing Software:
Vega 6
Windows Movie Maker
USB Transfering Speed:
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Image resolution:(quality goes up as resolution goes up)
640 x 480:Good quality at a price. usually records at 15fps or less though
320 x 240: commonly used, enough to get you through records at 30fps, usually
MegaPixels(MP):
8mp-1mp: camera phones usually have a 1.5mp-4mp avearge
Cameras usually are 5mp or higher, if not you have quite a fuzzy picture.
8mp is usually a camera with high quality pictures, but usually comes with a bad video fps recoding speed. -
Date: Sun, Dec 2 2007 17:27:10
Hah the camera I use is probabally 15 fps. Just watch one of my videos, the camera is crap
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Date: Sun, Dec 2 2007 21:18:54
Thanks for the info. Come to think of it I need a camera
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Date: Mon, Dec 3 2007 05:08:05
I use VirtualDubMod to capture video. It works quite well. (Go to file>capture avi to go to capture)
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Date: Mon, Dec 3 2007 05:57:11QUOTE (xz64 @ Dec 3 2007, 06:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I use VirtualDubMod to capture video. It works quite well. (Go to file>capture avi to go to capture)
Yeah the "software" part is pretty useless since there are hundreds of these ..
And the fact that I need a camera is a well known fact for me from the day I started to think about cameras (5 yrs old?
) but unfortunately, I never had one
Now I have a cheap webcam (for free ofc..) which just sux, but its better than nothing
And yeah, although these specifications are pretty much you can still have many problems with your camera even that it is ok with THESE specification. Mainly if you think you are going to use a camera for making photos, than the objective and other features of the camera (which goes to video aswell) is much more essential than megapixels (which are useful too, but two years ago ppl were dumb and cameras that were absolute crap had 6mpixels written on it. Yes, they HAD 6mpx, but it was crap camera..) -
Date: Mon, Dec 3 2007 15:07:51
my camera has 30 FPS 640x480, and it's ok, I think it's enough to film, I have another camera recorder and it has 25 FPS, and I don't see difference
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Date: Sun, Dec 9 2007 12:58:20
using camera with 30 FPS 640x480..
if you record something (eg. Penspinning) for 20 seconds, how big would the size of the video be in Kbs??
EDIT: would that differ depending on the camera?? -
Date: Mon, Dec 10 2007 00:57:46
20 secs i dunno bout kbps but its about a .5 mb file for 20 secs of shooting. Also depends on the type of format u shoot your movies(usually .mov)
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Date: Mon, Dec 10 2007 01:01:08QUOTE (WhiteFang @ Dec 9 2007, 04:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>using camera with 30 FPS 640x480..
if you record something (eg. Penspinning) for 20 seconds, how big would the size of the video be in Kbs??
EDIT: would that differ depending on the camera??
It would depend on the video/audio format.
20 sec at that setting with raw video/audio should come up to about.... ~15MB. -
Date: Mon, Dec 10 2007 01:03:30
i use my camcorder, and it has like 60 fps, but i want scott's 90 fps cam.
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Date: Mon, Dec 10 2007 01:30:32QUOTE (Aries @ Dec 9 2007, 07:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>20 secs i dunno bout kbps but its about a .5 mb file for 20 secs of shooting. Also depends on the type of format u shoot your movies(usually .mov)
I'd actually say more like 3mb. -
Date: Mon, Dec 10 2007 05:39:41
wha what? 0.5~3 mb? 15 mb?
and this is kinda off topic.. but whats the difference between the format? eg. mpg and avi.. whats the difference? quality? -
Date: Mon, Dec 10 2007 06:44:42QUOTE (WhiteFang @ Dec 9 2007, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>wha what? 0.5~3 mb? 15 mb?
and this is kinda off topic.. but whats the difference between the format? eg. mpg and avi.. whats the difference? quality?
yeah, its all about quality and size(compression)
Just look at a wmv file vs mpg, avi, mov. -
Date: Wed, Jan 9 2008 00:11:32
Any decent camera above 320x240 will film with a nice enough image.
About fps, 30 is the best you probably need, it's smooth enouth to understand everything and normally all finished videos that you encode will normally be made to 30fps as it is the standart used on internet. Even if you record and encode higher, sites like youtube will bring it down again to 30 or less.
Still, getting a 60fps camera really helps, because you can slow down the video to about 20% of its normal speep and still get decent fluid movements. You can use this to better understand your tricks and see what needs correcting or just to put a slow-mo in a video, cause it looks cool
I'm not that good of a pen spinner, I can only do some beginner tricks. I record all of my videos with 60fps and I use some slow-motion, you can check one here http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=_ngwoyhvzzU
This way you can get an idea of what you can do with a 60fps camera in terms of slow-motion.
Now imagine if you had a higher definition camera and something like 500fps, you could capture all of pen spinning in awesome detail. We would probably discover a lot of stuff that we didn't even imagine was happening with our fingers and pens. Just shearch "high speed camera" on youtube, to see what i'm talking about. -
Date: Sun, Mar 30 2008 04:54:20
Would this be sufficient for a good pen spinning video?
Technical Specifications
Hardware
o High-quality VGA (640 x 480) CMOS sensor
o Video capture: True 640 x 480 pixels
o Still image capture: 1.3 million pixels (with software enhancement)
o Frame rate: Up to 30 frames per second
o Built-in microphone with RightSoundâ„¢ technology
o Bundled headset
o Universal monitor clip for LCD, CRT, or notebooks
o USB 2.0 certified
Thanks