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RE: Jpeg Format
Excellent Review
RE: Excellent Review
What separates a great review from an ordinary review is that in a great reveiw, the reviewer presents the item of interest in such a way that the reader feels as if they were actually using the device. This was accomplished very well in this review and for that I commend the reviewer.
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RE: Excellent Review
crd
RE: Excellent Review
RE: Excellent Review
Jon C. Zaring
jzaring@attbi.com
RE: Excellent Review
"The only real problem here is that if you use the camera, you can't store your photos on a SD card. They should have built in at least 16MB of memory into the camera (which would've added what, like $20 to the price?)."
I absolutely agree here. It makes no sense to have a camera if you have no ability to save the image.
RE: Excellent Review
RE: Excellent Review
FBN
Mac compatability?
RE: Mac compatability?
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Sean
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RE: Mac compatability?
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Sean
It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity.
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Where to buy
So does anyone know where you can buy this online as an international sale?
I an in New Zealand and getting stuff here can be a problem…
Not JPG on Palm
1) Very difficult to focus.
2) Although hotsync creates a JPG on desktop, it appears that on the Palm itself, the format is not anything standard. I have been unable to mail pics from the Palm directly w/o a hotsync. To me, that would be the advantage of the camera, i.e., take pics on the field and email them out immediately w/o need to go back home and hotsync.
RE: Not JPG on Palm
RE: Not JPG on Palm
RE: Not JPG on Palm
Jon C. Zaring
jzaring@attbi.com
RE: Not JPG on Palm
Incidentally, the voice recorder on the Tungsten works this way. If it is saving to the Palm's RAM, it saves in .pdb format. If you tell it to save automatically to the memory card, then it will save it as a .wav file. I don't remember for sure, but I think the Handera 300's voice recorder was the same way. Now that my curiosity is up I'll have to get mine out again and check.
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Sean
It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity.
-Somerset Maugham-
For Quick and Dirty Photos
Critical differences
I can understand Veo's rationale---develop a camera using SDIO and you can potentially stick it in Pocket PC's and Palms, not to mention upcoming devices. But this is the purpose of the UC---add on devices. The SD slot is for memory cards.
This is why I prefer the Pitch (http://www.igo.com/mapfiles/pitch.asp) over the Presenter-to-Go (http://www.margi.com/products/prod_ptg.htm), and why I'll continue to use my Xircom/Intel Wi-Fi sled (http://www.shop-intel.com/shop/product.asp?pid=SINT1043) even after someone releases a SD Wi-Fi card.
If you want a camera, buy the JamCam for about $25.00 (almost identical specs, but you can store as many pictures as you're willing to put on an MMC card.) Or buy any one of various SD-based cameras available today.
The biggest concern I have is that repeated use of this camera will destroy your SD slot, as described in the article. This seems like the final nail in the design coffin for this camera.
Palm Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/petrosino/pda
RE: Critical differences
FBN
RE: Critical differences
john
RE: Wireless remote?
;)
You download the presentation to Pitch, and 'pitch away'...
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sony t68i
The Comedy and Magic of Wanlu
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Lens quality
The one issue I do have with it though and other small add on cameras is the quality of the lens. I know these are cheap cameras and you're not going to get Carl Zeiss standard optics but the lens on the Palmpix is optically appalling. Although the images are reasonably sharp in the middle they are soft are the edge of the frame, okay for portraits but not landscape style shots. I'm sure most people would pay a small amount more for better slightly better optics.
My 2c
RE: Lens quality
Jon C. Zaring
jzaring@attbi.com
Returning new Veo
As David Pogue noted in the New York Times this week, "As a general rule, trying to create a new hit product by combining two older ones is a recipe for failure. This year saw the debut of phone cameras, music-player palmtops and even Internet camcorders - but you can probably count the number of friends who own them on the fingers of one closed fist." I already have a nice digital camera, a 4-megapixel Sony CyberShot. I don't want to take it everywhere but I'd like to have the option of taking a photograph on the spur of the moment -- even if it's not of the quality Ansel Adams or my late father (a professional photographer) would like -- and this was the appeal of the Veo. If I were at the office or on a trip and had only the Veo with me, I couldn't do anything with the pictures until I HotSync'd. This makes the camera worthless to me if I can't simply stick the SD card in my office computer, in my laptop computer (with which I do not HotSync), in my Palm, or even in Grandma's computer at her 100th-birthday party at the nursing home. I could get a teeny Aiptek digital camera and get actual JPGs on an SD card and then use a program like JPEG View to look at them on my Palm, but then I'm carrying another device, albeit a tiny one.
The only way the Veo would work for me would be if someone devised a standalone program capable of converting the .pdb files into JPGs on the fly (preferably on the Palm not on the PC, without having to HotSync.
Also, the thing is pretty cheesy. It feels like a toy. The pictures are decent, though, especially in macro mode. Fortunately for me, I bought it from the Palm Store, which means I can return it within 30 days.
Why no jpeg file on palm
Many people like to get jpeg file immediately but forget that it takes a lot of computing power to do so. Most of the palms are too slow.
By the way, the palm in the picture with keyboard like pattern in the VG area looks strange to me. Anyone kowns what model is that?
Ray
Palmpix
http://www.wheelchairmodifications.org
Conversion of pictures
Photo Storage on SD Card
then store the pictures on a SD Card later to free up space on the handheld? The storage issue only would come up if your handheld ran out of space while taking photos way from your PC.
Sending photos from palm and Mac compatibility
RE: Sending photos from palm and Mac compatibility
RE: Sending photos from palm and Mac compatibility
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