Help with Video specs plz

[ms_pammy]

HI all!

Very glad I found these boards!

Im thinking about getting this camera http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_se...duct=1365&fl=4

Can someone tell me what this means.
AVI Movie with Sound;
640x480 (30/15fps)
320x240 (30/15fps)

I hope it dont mean it can only do 30sec of video?

Thanks so much
Pam

[mikeh]

i think you are right if you ad it up it is about 140 megs.
it is the internal mem. and write back all camera have that problem.

[Rocket_Scientist]

I would read that as a choice of either 30 or 15 frames per second. If it was limited to 30 seconds, I would expect it to say 30 @ 15 fps, or some such, and I cannot imagine that it will only do 15 fps. The length should be limited by the size of the card, although I have seen limits like 1 hour, irrespective of card size.

Well... on the other hand... I found this at another review...

...640 x 480, 30 fps, (for 10 sec), 320 x 240, 30 fps, (for 29 min)...

See this Review.

Personally, I'd go with a Canon, but mainly because I prefer SD over XD cards. And I know my Canon cameras do not have such a short limit. I (personally) also avoid cameras with built-in memory... but that's just me...

[SmartWombat]

AVI Movie with Sound;
640x480 (30/15fps)
320x240 (30/15fps)

I hope it dont mean it can only do 30sec of video?

http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/..._Manual_EN.pdf
You can read the manual before you buy it !

It is odd, the camera can record 18 min 37sec at 15fps 640x480 pixels.
But when recording at twice the speed, it can only record 10 seconds.

I think it's got to do with how fast it can write to the memory card, it can't quite manage at 640x480x30 to write it to the card quicker than it takes the video.
But 640x480x15 or 320x240x30 or 320x240x15 there is no such limit.

See page 55 of the manual.

[ms_pammy]

Thanks!