The Pocket Video Camera Benefit
Posted By nikonstunninggallery on May 30, 2011
Creative Labs Vado HD Pocket Video Camcorder 3rd Generation
Pocket camcorders like the Flip, the Kodak Zi8, and the Creative Labs Vado are at the forefront of a new video revolution. Why is this so?
Pocket camcorders that take HD video are in the $200 range, and dropping, lowering the entry costs of an exciting new hobby, and a new form of visual communication.
Because it fits in your pocket, you can take it with you anywhere. You can be ready to shoot at a moment’s notice. It can lay on the baby’s changing table (2nd shelf, to remain safely out of range of contamination) to catch a precious moment. You can pull over to the side of the road to catch a blue heron in its nest, and the slow flap of its wings as it departs for food for its chicks. You can be an amateur on-the-scene reporter of an event.
The list of possibilities is endless whenever you needn’t be prepared — when you can switch on and record in seconds, so when the skill required to shoot video is so low. What once was the province of techno-geeks is now in reach of each and every child and his grandmother. Flip HD camcorders plug straight into your computer, and with their FlipShare software allow it to be increasingly simple to offload the recording onto your computer, organize it, trim the cruft, and make a movie, complete with titles and credits, within a few minutes.
Pocket camcorders enable daily, personal, visual communication. Sharing video has never been easier, taken a shorter period, or required less of those with whom you want to share. Pocket camcorders typically have facilities for instantaneous upload to YouTube, to Facebook, or through an email.
If you like the thought of blogging (web logging), you may love the thought of vlogging (video logging) of the events and nuances of your daily life. It’s now far easier to exhibit a relevant video to a few family members than to send them a card. Refer to it as an online visit.
And it’s all about to get better. Not only are prices heading down, even as the video quality goes up, but “virtual telepresence” is coming. You will have the ability to stream video directly from your computer to some set-top box that displays it in your TV, and to the TV’s of other people who have a similar box. You can have your own TV channel and provide the “key” to your channel for your family and friends. Look for soon-to-be-released technology from Flip/Cisco.
It will not be long before your video channel can go live, out of your camcorder to your channel. Rather than just video communication, you will have video telepresence.
You aren’t getting this sort of quality wonderful this convenience and capability from the cell phone any time soon. But, you know what? These gadgets have become sufficiently small that I can carry my cell phone and my Flip within the same pocket!