From the AP:
For years, disposable cameras have been a magnet for last-minute photographic whimsy, encouraging all manner of embarrassing pictures from weddings and other social events. Watch out: There’s now a disposable video camera.
The $29.99 pocket-sized digital video cameras are able to capture up to 20 minutes of video and sound.
CVS Corp. stores, which has exclusive rights to sell them, will process the camera for $12.99 and return a DVD; users also can e-mail video and video greeting cards.
Pure Digital Technologies Inc. developed and designed the camera with just three buttons. One starts and stops recording, another is used to play back video and the third deletes recorded segments.
Grant Pill, director of photography and imaging at CVS, said the camera is ideal for people who don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars or fuss with too many controls.
Hundreds? Where were you when I spent thousands, you cut-rate bastards?
Oh well. Small consolation, but I think my Canon GL-1 has a built-in bread maker and can brew its own beer. Which are features I’m quite sure are missing from these CVS crapboxes. So it’s not like I’m that screwed, right?
(via drudge)
Hey, what ever happened to your idea of making Protein Wisdom Flash Animation short subjects? I’ve been waiting for those…
I don’t have money for Flash for Mac. Somebody lent me a copy to load and try out, but the serial numbers were wrong. So I have a really nice computer ready to do animation, but no animation software.
One of you ‘puter geeks out there help the brother out. Jeeeezzzz
Hey, dude you should have waited another month or two before spending all that money on your Canon GL-1 … The new GL-2 came out and it makes bread and beer like the old one, but it also has a built in tricorder for away missions, has a universal language translator that works in real time, weighs half as much and only retails at $79.99 MSR…
I’m thinking an armadillo could get into all kinds of trouble with one of those, even with just twenty minutes of recording time.
You may want to let the manager of your local CVS that a) no, he does not have your permission to buy one, and b) to report the credit card as stolen, because it is.
And God forbid his SEAL should get hold of it…
Hmmmm.
“http://www.istopmotion.com/”
Try this out.
You could use Play-Doh. Or the President Bush talking doll.
There has to be a Poor Man’s version of Flash out there.
You know what I think has a lot of potential? Super 8. Seriously, stop laughing. Bear with me here.
You capture the footage on real, genuine film (which has color saturation and contrast that video only dreams about, baby!).
Then you transfer the print to digital, which you can then run through your basic desktop non-linear editing system just like video.
Bingo, you’ve got your mini film studio.
They even make Super 8 film out of the high-grade 35mm film that the studios use, just cut down to size and wound into Super 8 cartridges.
The only problem is that you have to record sound separately. Super 8 film doesn’t have a sound stripe anymore. But even a Mini Disc can do that.
And the film-to-digital transfer process is difficult. Basically, you project the film onto a screen and record the image with a camcorder. It’s slow, expensive and produces crap-tastic results.
I’ve been working on a system to scan the film strip on a flatbed scanner, but it’s not quite ready yet. Once I do, though, it’s goodbye lawyering, hello movie biz!
And the guy in charge of this project for a chain drug store is named “Pill”, what are the chances?
Yes it’s cheap, but walking up to your neighborhood CVS photo counter with a disk full of homemade porn could be awkward.