[757labs] Camcorders in Space

[matthew green]

Cann you text the cam from last year

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Trevor Lewis <trevorl.salad at gmail.com> wrote:
> How long was the flight last year? Looks like tigerdirect has 16GB sdhc
> cards for $19, and 8GB cards for $9. Not too bad cost wise.
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Almost_There at COX.Net <Almost_There at cox.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Matt;
>>
>> >Can you text it at non hd mode and see if you can tell it to take a pix
>> > ever min for 4 hrs how much space does it need.
>>
>>    At a little over 1M per picture, it would take (approximately) 16 Hours
>> to fill the 1 G Card I currently have.
>>
>>
>>    Testing Video...
>>
>>    At 1280 x 720 I ran it until the 1 G Card was full - 7:01.
>>    At 640 x 480 I ran it until the Card was full - 22:17, or a little more
>> than 3 times longer; approximately 3 G per hour.
>>
>>    If this camera ain't the right tool for the job, who else has one to
>> put up for evaluation?
>>
>>
>>    Good Luck!
>>    Ken_S.
>>
>> At 05:47 PM 10/23/2011, you wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you text it at non hd mode and see if you can tell it to take a
>>> pix ever min for 4 hrs how much space does it need
>>>
>>> We have a 4 gig card at the lab
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Trevor Lewis <trevorl.salad at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > The reviews on it are total crap (except for the obviously sponsored
>>> > ones),
>>> > but it seems that's all for people using it in 720p mode with the
>>> > onboard
>>> > memory. Some of the problems were fixed by using an SDHC card. It's got
>>> > a
>>> > 640x480 mode than might be a better option. An SDHC card might increase
>>> > the
>>> > total cost too much.
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Almost_There at COX.Net
>>> > <Almost_There at cox.net>
>>> > wrot
>>> >>
>>> >> Jason;
>>> >>
>>> >> >Does it split the files?  Most camcorders only handle FAT32.  Perhaps
>>> >> > a
>>> >> > test is in order?
>>> >>
>>> >>    Good catch!  I dunno.
>>> >>
>>> >>    Are we definitely going to use this camera, or does someone have
>>> >> another we can evaluate?  If so, I only have a 1 GB card, but I will
>>> >> order
>>> >> either a 16 GB or a 32 GB Card (I need to know which one we want.)  I
>>> >> don't
>>> >> know if it'll automatically spit files or not.  The manual doesn't say
>>> >> anything about FAT32; it does say "Class 2 and class 4 SD/SDHC cards
>>> >> up to
>>> >> 32GB are compatible" in one place in the manual, but elsewhere it says
>>> >> "SD/MMC/SDHC card (max 16GB)." so I don't know which is correct.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>    Good Luck!
>>> >>    Ken_S.
>>> >>
>>> >> At 03:26 PM 10/23/2011, you wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:23:14PM -0400, Almost_There at COX.Net wrote:
>>> >>> >     Records Video at 1280 x 720 pixels taking (approximately)
>>> >>> > 2,278,566 bytes per second, which works out to (approximately)
>>> >>> > 136,713,960 bytes per minute, and 8,202,837,600 per hour.  I would
>>> >>> > recommend being able to record a minimum of two straight hours
>>> >>> > (preferably more), which means a 16GB SD Card;
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Does it split the files?  Most camcorders / cameras / phones only
>>> >>> handle
>>> >>> FAT32
>>> >>> filesystems.  which have a max filesize of 4GB.  Also, unless the
>>> >>> camera
>>> >>> firmware was written properly ( ;-) ), it'll probably crap out at
>>> >>> 2GB.
>>> >>>  Perhaps
>>> >>> a test is in order?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> thx,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Jason.
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