I just bought this digital camera
Canon Powershot A520 4MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom
Canon's new compact 4.0-megapixel PowerShot A520 digital camera.
Right out of the box, I could get great pictures and movies made.
I was smart to buy a 512mb SD card with the camera. I recorded a 2 minute movie and it created a 40meg file. I need to read the manual, maybe I can lower the resolution to reduce the file size.
Without reading the manual I was able to snap pictures and make .avi movies with sound.
I noticed a few things that might anoy someone. It takes a a couple seconds to review the picture.
And I'm not sure how to zoom while recording in movie mode.
I might find the answers in the manual if I would ever take the time to read.... However I'm amazed how much I could do without referring to the manual.
The movie mode is a special bonus. I didn't relise it could do this when I bought it. I thought it was only a digital camera. It's also a digital video recorder. Of course it won't record six hours live my camcorder. It will however record to an .avi file which I could include on a web page. Try that with a camcorder. My first project will be to film my kids and make the video availble to my parents to watch online... A short video clip of each grandchild online, That would be neat.
And here it is... Kids_climbing video (it's a large 4meg file so wait for it to load...)
I finally figured out how to compress it. Here is the instructions. Windows MovieMaker is just too easy. In ten minutes, I had the movie edited and saved. Wow!
Canon's new compact 4.0-megapixel PowerShot A520 digital camera.Right out of the box, I could get great pictures and movies made.
I was smart to buy a 512mb SD card with the camera. I recorded a 2 minute movie and it created a 40meg file. I need to read the manual, maybe I can lower the resolution to reduce the file size.
Without reading the manual I was able to snap pictures and make .avi movies with sound.
I noticed a few things that might anoy someone. It takes a a couple seconds to review the picture.
And I'm not sure how to zoom while recording in movie mode.
I might find the answers in the manual if I would ever take the time to read.... However I'm amazed how much I could do without referring to the manual.
The movie mode is a special bonus. I didn't relise it could do this when I bought it. I thought it was only a digital camera. It's also a digital video recorder. Of course it won't record six hours live my camcorder. It will however record to an .avi file which I could include on a web page. Try that with a camcorder. My first project will be to film my kids and make the video availble to my parents to watch online... A short video clip of each grandchild online, That would be neat.
And here it is... Kids_climbing video (it's a large 4meg file so wait for it to load...)
I finally figured out how to compress it. Here is the instructions. Windows MovieMaker is just too easy. In ten minutes, I had the movie edited and saved. Wow!
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