Art Processing Sharing Blog
I've been playing around with the Flip video camera recently. Its a really small (like a small cell phone size) video camera you can cary around in your pocket. It records an hour of mpeg video into memory and has a really simple usb connection built to transfer the video to your computer as well as repower the rechargable battery. The model i've been using is the Flip Mino
The resolution is only 640x480, but the extremely small size of the camera means you can carry it around all the time in your pocket. I was curious if anyone else on the forum has played around with these or other really small video cameras. A high-def version would be killer. I've seen ads for fairly low cost small high def cameras, but nothing this small or unobtrusive.
Unobtrusive is a key feature i'm interested in. There are a lot of times i'd love to have a video camera running but holding one in your face or someone else is just not going to work. I think you could rig this up in a shirt pocket and just walk around with it and it would be really unobtrusive. I've been wanting to do some supermarket image databases for photomosaic work in studio artist and most supermarkets will ask you to stop if they see you taking pictures since they think you're a spy for some other store. This could be the ticket to get those images.
The image above is from some temporal processing a short video segment i took while waiting at the airport last night. I think i need to use a tripod for these kind of shots to better get rid of camera motion for applications like this. Or write something for studio artist that auto-registers the individual video frames to get rid of the camera motion.
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i am interested in this flip camera, i take my camera to the beach to shoot pelicans and they are only there when i go without my camera.