Multimedia camera great at shots
Jan 17, 2008
THE multimedia digital camera comes as a relief to carrying several media devices at ago. With its 9in1 function, this 2.4 inch Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a rotated panel device has a close resemblance with the usual camcorder and has been designed with today’s user in mind.
By Ronald Kabuusu
THE multimedia digital camera comes as a relief to carrying several media devices at ago. With its 9in1 function, this 2.4 inch Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a rotated panel device has a close resemblance with the usual camcorder and has been designed with today’s user in mind.
The sleek I-Nix NDV-2500 personal multimedia player model, eases the day-to-day life of the digital camera user from playing back their recorded videos, listening to music, and storing still pictures.
This model includes some of the following unique exciting functions:
Digital Video camera —with this feature, the device can work as a video camera for capturing motion pictures with sound and be able to view them at a later date or better still to make movies.
It employs the DV recording format, and the NTSC/PAL recording systems which makes it possible to make standard movies like the ones from Hollywood and could be played anywhere in the world. It also uses an SP recording speed for videos.
In the MPEG movie mode, this multimedia camera has got a resolution of 640 x 480 (VGA) and 320 x 240 (QVGA). Besides this exciting camera can also be used in video conferencing with people far from you or as a web cam over the internet by mere connecting it to the PC with microflash media program and USB connection.
Digital still camera - this allows this camcorder like device to take still pictures like those taken with a digital camera. It comes with an 8X digital zoom for distant picture targets.
With its 5.04 megapixels memory still resolution and a maximum still image size of 2592 x 1944, the user will have a clear and huge picture when transferred to personal computer through its USB 2.0 interface.
Besides, the camera has got inbuilt photography memory in addition to the usage of the removable storage in form of the SD and multimedia (MMC) cards.
MP4 and MP3 player —This allows the user to play his or her MP3 and MP4 files from iPods and USB flash disks using its USB port feature.
The music output can be listened to through the in-built speakers or more secretly through headphones thanks to the headphone jack on the device.
Remote control — the small light remote control helps the user to operate the device at a distance like when it’s to playback the recorded files of audio and video. It’s also used to navigate through the screen menu at a distance without touching this multimedia camera.
OSD language menu—this menu consists of the common international language options of Arabic, French and English. This makes it easier for different users, around the world.
Mr. Sachin of Compulink Limited along Kampala road, says this new technology comes in time to save modern user the burden of having to buy a separate digital camera, a camcorder, and an MP3 and MP4 players yet you could have all of these in this multimedia camera.
He adds that it has got other features like Voice pen, E-book, motion detection and can be used as a removable mass storage device.
It uses 2 pairs of AAA rechargeable batteries and some of the accessories it comes with include Software, CD-Rom, a USB Cable, an A/V Cable, camera bag, a Hand Strap and a 32 MB Memory Card.
The camera can be got at Compulink shop opposite Fido Dido in a price range between sh200,000 and sh350,000.
What you need for a PC to work with this camera
Windows 98SE/200/ME/XP/VISTA
Pentium III 800MHz, Celeron or AMD Athlon CRU
256MB of RAM
CD Rom
1GB of Free Hard disk space
Available USB port
THE multimedia digital camera comes as a relief to carrying several media devices at ago. With its 9in1 function, this 2.4 inch Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a rotated panel device has a close resemblance with the usual camcorder and has been designed with today’s user in mind.
The sleek I-Nix NDV-2500 personal multimedia player model, eases the day-to-day life of the digital camera user from playing back their recorded videos, listening to music, and storing still pictures.
This model includes some of the following unique exciting functions:
Digital Video camera —with this feature, the device can work as a video camera for capturing motion pictures with sound and be able to view them at a later date or better still to make movies.
It employs the DV recording format, and the NTSC/PAL recording systems which makes it possible to make standard movies like the ones from Hollywood and could be played anywhere in the world. It also uses an SP recording speed for videos.
In the MPEG movie mode, this multimedia camera has got a resolution of 640 x 480 (VGA) and 320 x 240 (QVGA). Besides this exciting camera can also be used in video conferencing with people far from you or as a web cam over the internet by mere connecting it to the PC with microflash media program and USB connection.
Digital still camera - this allows this camcorder like device to take still pictures like those taken with a digital camera. It comes with an 8X digital zoom for distant picture targets.
With its 5.04 megapixels memory still resolution and a maximum still image size of 2592 x 1944, the user will have a clear and huge picture when transferred to personal computer through its USB 2.0 interface.
Besides, the camera has got inbuilt photography memory in addition to the usage of the removable storage in form of the SD and multimedia (MMC) cards.
MP4 and MP3 player —This allows the user to play his or her MP3 and MP4 files from iPods and USB flash disks using its USB port feature.
The music output can be listened to through the in-built speakers or more secretly through headphones thanks to the headphone jack on the device.
Remote control — the small light remote control helps the user to operate the device at a distance like when it’s to playback the recorded files of audio and video. It’s also used to navigate through the screen menu at a distance without touching this multimedia camera.
OSD language menu—this menu consists of the common international language options of Arabic, French and English. This makes it easier for different users, around the world.
Mr. Sachin of Compulink Limited along Kampala road, says this new technology comes in time to save modern user the burden of having to buy a separate digital camera, a camcorder, and an MP3 and MP4 players yet you could have all of these in this multimedia camera.
He adds that it has got other features like Voice pen, E-book, motion detection and can be used as a removable mass storage device.
It uses 2 pairs of AAA rechargeable batteries and some of the accessories it comes with include Software, CD-Rom, a USB Cable, an A/V Cable, camera bag, a Hand Strap and a 32 MB Memory Card.
The camera can be got at Compulink shop opposite Fido Dido in a price range between sh200,000 and sh350,000.
What you need for a PC to work with this camera
Windows 98SE/200/ME/XP/VISTA
Pentium III 800MHz, Celeron or AMD Athlon CRU
256MB of RAM
CD Rom
1GB of Free Hard disk space
Available USB port