Review
on the Lastest SS model and the previous DVi, DVX,& DV6
“I
have watched some of the videos on SupaStream and I am already
impressed with its ease of use. The quality of the video really
is significantly better than YouTube or comparable video sharing
sites. SupaStream seems like it
is the answer to the YouTube fuzzies.
This
site really seems to be the video sharing application that video
professionals and enthusiasts can take seriously. The
full VGA streaming gives a picture that brings video sharing
to a new height. By avoiding advertising altogether,
SupaStream users will see and share their videos in a cleaner
and more professional environment. The quality
of the stream will allow video enthusiasts to show their artistry
” - Proffessor Norman
Medoff author: Portable Video: Eng
CES
Partying
at MacWorld & CES 2 hours JAN 9 '07 ago by Jennifer O'Rourke
There’sa really cool video camera
here, called “Supacam“. Find it at Supacam.com
It shoots NTSC and Pal, 720×480 30fps, headphone jack, records
to Flash memory, 12
megapixel still camera, and sells for around $300.Really
easy and lightweight.
Videomaker BLOG - http://www.videomaker.com/blog
http://www.ptpalive.org/?p=107
The
last booth where I witnessed near-fisticuffs between overly anxious
Mac-fanatics was at Booth 1403, a company I’d never heard
of: Supacam. The Australian (wrong!-Ed)
company boasts an SD video recorder, player, still camera that looks
like a stepsister of the video iPod. The big selling points was
the ability to shoot tape-free, directly on to an SD card - up to
an hour and a half of material. I felt I had stepped into an OxyClean
commercial with a demonstration man that extolled the virtues of
this product, handing out a dozen of these $299 devices at a time
to the crowd. The sales pitch made this sound like a miracle and
I was drawn to this booth three times
during my six hour adventures at MacWorld. The energy never waned
and he crowds went wild over this product.
http://www.ptpalive.org/?p=107
Today
we bought a cool little video camera called the SupaCam that
is about the size of an iPod. It usesan SD card for storage rather
than tapes.
http://oshea.net/blog/archives/000393.php
Best
of NAR MidYear Meetings17 Nov 2006 6.Cool new camera! This
DVi Camera from www.supacam.com was $328 an is a tapeless
digital movie camera, 12 megapixel digital photos, stereo digital
video recorder,
and MP3 player and webcam (can replace your iPOD). They are extending
the show price
but I don't know for how long
http://joeann.realtownblogs.com/real-estate-productivity-tips/narneworleans/
The
Davey's: Best of NECC13 Jul 2006 by David
Best New Product: Supacam
The Strength of Weak Ties - http://jakespeak.blogspot.com
This
booth was the supacam booth. There sat a normal looking gentleman
in a lab coat
hawking the latest and greatest digital video camera. What set this
apart from the
other booths was the interesting way they wove a story through the
discussion of this
new camera (touted as the best video camera for the pricetag $328).
The spokesman
was thoroghly entertaining and knowledgeable. The way he told stories
about the
development process, the way the lens works, why it's important
to buy supplemental
memory cards,. No wonder people were
pulling out the charge cards right there on the spot
So, I lent the Supacam to Buddy George for his trip out to the east
coast, which just
figures... After carrying that thing around with me every day for
a month trying to
capture YouTube worthy video, there's some sort of Wicked Witch
convention going on
at the Water Tower today.Arhhhhg!
http://www.bigsoda.com/blog/2006/06/crap.html
hoot
Review: Supacam DVX
May 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Take
one part videocamera, one part digital still camera, add a MP3 player
and a digital voice recorder, and what do you get? The new Supacam
DVX multifunctional digital media device.
The Supacam DVX has a palm-size form factor with a flip-out 2.5in.
LCD screen for playback and realtime monitoring......
Before the DVX from Supacam were the DV4 and DV6. This latest version
has been shipping since the first of the year, and by most accounts
it's an improvement over the previous versions. It
also scores very high on the coolness meter.
It's about palm-sized and opens like a Star Trek communicator device,
and it's available in black/silver and red/silver color configurations.
Think of it as a sort of digital media Swiss Army knife. The
unique aspect of the Supacam DVX is its miniature all-in-one approach,
so there's no need to carry two or three additional items when you
are out and about
Now
the following feature illustrates the amazing things our customers
do with a SupaCam....
62
Gigabyte camera - leave the computer home?
Earlier we posted about the what would make an ideal camera for
documenting projects - remotely taking photos likely being the most
important feature/mod. But, what if you're going on a long trip
and will not have access to a computer to take the photos off? Or
worse, not being able to charge the camera. Lugging a laptop, getting
tons of batteries and storage cards is an option, but not a very
good one. Plus, who wants to carry all that stuff.
So,
here's a quick outline of what I'm about to test... take photos
for 7 days or so, not use a computer or electricity to charge the
camera. It's not super cheap, but compared to the options, it's
not so bad - it's an iPod video, with camera connector and a USB
power supply (for iPod and camera). I'm using cheapish digital camera,
but it does ok, for every 1 GB of storage, I get 416 8MP photos,
8 hours of voice recording and 1 hour 27 minutes of high quality
video recording. With 62 Gigs, that could be up to 25,000 photos
and almost 4 days of video. Not bad for about $700... Assuming it
all works. You "could" add a solar panel, flexible or
single panel, but that gets a bit expensive and adds more stuff.
Right now, all this could fit in jacket pockets and everything can
be charged via a little USB battery pack... Maybe REI will do a
camera one day with all this stuff bundled and ruggedized...
Links:
Supacam, 8MP, shoots 640 x 480 AVI,
uses phone batteries, $329 - Link.
2 GB SD card $50! - Link.
iPod video, $339 - Link.
iPod photo connector, $29 - Link.
USB batter charger, $15 - Link.
Documenting projects (photos and video) - some ideas - Link.
If you have other ideas, post up in the comments!
http://www.toyou.com/merle/article.cfm?id=39
Back to the Expo. There was this guy doing
a big sell on some digital camera called Supacam. “Good grief”,
I thought, “here’s another gadget that I don’t
have and would have no idea how to operate and I hate reading instructions”.
What struck me, however, was this camera that fits into the palm
of your hand is also a video camera and MP3 music player. Well,
it was on sale and I bought it.
Now, for those of you who understand this, I’ll profess its
qualities. It has an 8x zoom and can expand to 6.6 Mega pixels.
You can use it as a web cam, has a LCD display of 2.0” (and
the kind that you can change its direction), the internal memory
capacity is 16MC Flash Memory (but you can expand this by getting
the 256MB card and pop it in), and you can take a sequence of 5
shots in a row.
With the 256 MB card you can record 60 minutes. Accessories. It
comes with a battery, recharger, headphones, carry case and strap,
USB Cable, TV Cable and Edit Software that not only has programs
but INSTRUCTIONS!!!! Oh yes, there’s a User’s Manual,
and tech support, too.
The Supacam imported from the UK and made in China and with the
expanded memory sells for around $300. As
a comparison, I went to Radio Shack and viewed a Sony that similar,
minus the MP3 player (not a pop-out directional changing LCD) and
it was selling for $400.
Supacam
DV6 Video Camera
Only slightly larger than an iPod, Nisis USA's SupaCam DV6 is a
portable SD-card based camera the shoots 6-megapixel stills and
full-frame 30 fps video. full-frame video is MPEG-4 compressed,
but at $269, it's hard to beat simply
from a "wow, this is really cool" standpoint.
Oh, and it's an MP3 player (see Figure 4).
From looking at the image samples,
the camera's still quality is definitely superior to the still quality
found on most DV cameras,
By Mark Gibbs, Network World, 07/04/05
Last week we discussed MPEG-4 video, and this week we have a video
camera that records in MPEG-4 format: The Nisus Supacam DV6.
The
DV6 is remarkable. This completely solid-state device stores MPEG-4
video at a resolution of 640 by 480, or 320 by 240 pixels at a rate
of 30 frames per second with 8X digital zoom on secure digital multimedia
cards.
But the Dv6 isn't only a videocam, it is also a still camera with
a built-in flash that takes pictures at resolutions up to 6.6 megapixels
(2,976 by 2,232 pixels), an MP3 player and a voice recorder. And
its battery life is very good, at around 6 hours.
The VD6 has a 2-inch swiveling LCD screen and a USB 2.0 port for
file transfers with a PC. It uses exchangeable LI-ION batteries
and an optional remote control, outputs a PAL or NTSC TV signal,
measures a measly 3.94 by 2.76 by 1.18 inches, and weighs just over
6.2 ounces including battery and memory card.
The Dv6 comes with drivers for Windows and includes imaging software
for video (Ulead VideoStudio 7 SE Basic - an old release; Version
9 is the latest) and stills (Ulead Photo Express 4.0 SE, superseded
by Version 5) as well as a panorama creation tool (Ulead 36, up-to-date
version).
Oh, and you can use it as a video camera with your PC for videoconferencing
or as a Webcam, and as a USB drive. All this for $288! The image quality is very good for
its price. The video quality is good, though fast
panning in bright light will create transient pixilated artifacts,
and the dynamic range is limited. Obviously given the price of this
device you should have limited expectations, but the Supacam DV6
delivers an amazing value, far more than we would have expected.
http://orchidgraphics.com/media/020305.html
as retrieved on Sep 17, 2005 19:40:04 GMT.
In
the interim, Roger demonstrated the functionality of the SupaCam
DV6 <http://supacam.com/index2.htm>.
The camera is extremely versatile for it's size. It takes
6 MegaPixel still images. A high resolution file
in Photoshop's image size is 2976 x 2232 pixels; 6.2 in x 4.65 in
@ 480 ppi that can be resized to 11 in x 8.25 in @ 270 ppi with
no change to the image for printing with on an inkjet printer. For
video, it takes 30 frames per second DVD MPEG4 resolution (640x480
pixels) and did a good job at the meeting as Roger took still images
and video files of the audience which he showed on the PowerBook.
It also comes with a MP3 player, recharger, 3.7 V rechargeable LI-ION
battery (6 hours/charge), headphones, carry strap, carry case that
can be attached to a belt, USB 2 cable, TV cable and editing software
for a PC. Also included for Mac users is a link <www.divx.com/mac>
for downloading a codec necessary for video playback in QuickTime.
The price was $269 at MacWorld. The camera only comes with 16 mb
of memory, so the purchase of additional memory is required. The
DV6 uses SD memory and I went to Amazon and got a 1 GB SanDisk card
that allows 550 high resolution stills or 1 hour nine minutes of
video. You can also use the camera
as a hard drive and move files between computers by connecting the
USB cable and copying files to the camera which automatically appears
on your Mac OS X desktop.
June
19, 2005
The Samsung of the future.
Rick Segal at The Post Money Value was talking about a no name digital
videocamera he had purchased. He said that brand still meant something
but low prices put these kind of things within reach of more people.
When my first son was born my wife and I that weren't well off financially,
but we wanted to buy a microwave to make life easier. We didn't
like the price tags on the name brands, so we bought a huge cheap
microwave from a company named Candle, probably a lot like the Supacam
that Rick mentions.
That was in 1986. My oldest son just turned 19, and the fan in the
microwave died. Everything else was still working just fine. We
decided to get a newer, smaller name brand - a Panasonic.
I thought I fix the old unit, though it turned out that the fan
motor wasn't easily available, so we decided to put it in the trash.
The most interesting thing though was what I found inside when I
took it apart. It turned out that Candle was just the sale brand.
The entire microwave was made by a company that was unknown in North
America at that time - Samsung.
Of course we now know Samsung as a manufacturer of high quality
products, and I got a pretty respectable 19 years out of mine. My
father in law has a Toshiba microwave that must be going on 35 years
now. Perhaps Supacam is merely the
Samsung of the future. After all, North American
customers once would have equated Sony with cheap Japanese junk.
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