[ale] OT: camcorder/camera combos

[Geoffrey]

I've got a sony camcorder that has a memory stick, usb, firewire and 
takes stills.  You won't get the resolution stills you do with standard 
still digital cams, but they are nice.  It also will create mjpegs, but 
unfortunately, there's a limitation of, I believe 15 seconds max.

Drew and I figured this out one afternoon.  It appears taht the 15 
seconds translates to, yeah, you guessed it, 1.44 mb.  Sad thing, as 
I've got a 128mb memory stick.

I've pulled images off of the memstick via the usb, it mounts via scsi 
emulation as vfat.  I've done capture via the s-video out.

I've not played with the firewire port, only because there's just so 
much time in the day.

If you want more info, let me know I'll dig up the specs.

John Wells wrote:
> I've a baby on the way and with Christmas almost here, I think it's
> finally time to invest in a camcorder.  I'd like to get something linux
> friendly in that it'd be nice to be able to transfer video over.  In
> addition, I'd like to be able to use it as a digital camera.
> 
> Picky, ain't I?  Does such a camera exist?  If so, are any fairly
> affordable and penguin-friendly?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> John
> 
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