Old digital cameras 1994 until 1999
useing stills mode on the worlds first mini flash media camcorder launched in 1999 sharp internet Sharp viewcam CAMCORDER EZ1
uses smart media memory card there is a speculation brewing in my mind thinking that this maybe indeed not the first flash card camcorder as first reported the first "mini sized "flash cam YES bUT I HAVE ANOTHER CAMCORDER EARLIER EDITION STAMPED JANUARY 1997 called simply MPE-G1 (MOVEING PICTURES EXSPERT GROUP ONE) WICH IS WELL KNOWN THIS CAMCORDER EXCLUSIVELY BROUGHT TO US BY HITACHI WAS THE WORLDS FIRST DIGITAL CAMCORDER USEING NOT FLASH CARD BUT REMOVERBLE HARD DRIVE CARD PC CARD3 AKA PCMCIA III but the very total rewiterble hard drive it uses is exspensive and his is proberly why when users inset a flash mmediacard nto the pccard slot off the camcorder to record in flash memory opsed to hard drive the camera only allows still photos to be taken oposed to video film I AM THINKING THAT IT IS BECOUSE OF THE MEDIA CARDS PRICE A 256MB PC CARD IN 1997 WOULD HAVE COST A FEW HUNDRED POUNDS AND A LOW CAPACITY FLASH MEMORY CARD WOULD NOT BE ABLR TO POWER THECAMERAS VIDEO MOTORS I THINK THIS BECOUSE I HAVE A NUMBER OF NEWER CULLUNA PC CARDS TYPE 3 AND THEY HAVE NOT THE CAPACIY TO RECORD VIDEO IMAGES ON THE MPE-G1 CAMCORDER EVEN THOUGH THEY COST PROBERBLY £000 EACH IT WOULD NEED MAYBE £600 CARDS TO GET IT TO RECORD VIDEO INSTEAD OF ONLY MUSIC AND STILL PICTURES PRICEY BUT WAS INTENDED FOR A EVERLATING TOTAL REWRITERBLE MEDIA TO UPLOAD IMAGES TO THE INTERNET AND STORE THEM ON THE HARD DRIVE JUST AFTER THE INTERNET BECAME COMERCIALISED IN 1995. VALUE FOR MONEY? WELL THE SHARP VL-EZ1H CERTAINLY COST LESS ONLY £750 IN TODAYS MONEY COMPARED TO A WOPPNG £2800 INCLUDEING THE 256 MB REMOVERBLE HARD DRIVE CARD (PC CARD 3 )AND IS QUITE SMALLER THAN THE HITACHI MPE-G1 maybe the manufactures could not make the vl-ez1 smartmedia flash card smaller at a higher price as it was unherd of in its day to see miniture camcorders the size of 20 cigaretes and would have contredicted other products sold in the same catogory as the ez1 cousing confusion indeed you maybe able to use the mpe-g1 as a FLASH-CAM BUT IT WILL BE PRICEY THE PRICE ON of a SanDisk Extreme Pro 128MB compact flash memory card is over £1000 a used card will set you back £300 with 30 rewrites on sold by a professional photographer maybe a option only to be considerd if your MPE-G1 hard drive is writerble no more and you need a replacement wich i dont think they mke pc card 3 any more so itseems in reality as the only option good old exspantion BUT IT MAY NOT WORK TRY THE COMPACT FLASH 128GB CARDFIRST INSIDE THE hITACHI MPE-G1 BEFORE YOU BUY IT TO SEE IFT HE MOVIE MODE SIGHN DISPLAYS ITS SELF ON THE CAMCODERS LCD else you will end up like me forever takeing still pictures instead with a compact flash card.
useing stills mode on the worlds first mini flash media camcorder launched in 1999 sharp internet Sharp viewcam CAMCORDER EZ1
uses smart media memory card there is a speculation brewing in my mind thinking that this maybe indeed not the first flash card camcorder as first reported the first "mini sized "flash cam YES bUT I HAVE ANOTHER CAMCORDER EARLIER EDITION STAMPED JANUARY 1997 called simply MPE-G1 (MOVEING PICTURES EXSPERT GROUP ONE) WICH IS WELL KNOWN THIS CAMCORDER EXCLUSIVELY BROUGHT TO US BY HITACHI WAS THE WORLDS FIRST DIGITAL CAMCORDER USEING NOT FLASH CARD BUT REMOVERBLE HARD DRIVE CARD PC CARD3 AKA PCMCIA III but the very total rewiterble hard drive it uses is exspensive and his is proberly why when users inset a flash mmediacard nto the pccard slot off the camcorder to record in flash memory opsed to hard drive the camera only allows still photos to be taken oposed to video film I AM THINKING THAT IT IS BECOUSE OF THE MEDIA CARDS PRICE A 256MB PC CARD IN 1997 WOULD HAVE COST A FEW HUNDRED POUNDS AND A LOW CAPACITY FLASH MEMORY CARD WOULD NOT BE ABLR TO POWER THECAMERAS VIDEO MOTORS I THINK THIS BECOUSE I HAVE A NUMBER OF NEWER CULLUNA PC CARDS TYPE 3 AND THEY HAVE NOT THE CAPACIY TO RECORD VIDEO IMAGES ON THE MPE-G1 CAMCORDER EVEN THOUGH THEY COST PROBERBLY £000 EACH IT WOULD NEED MAYBE £600 CARDS TO GET IT TO RECORD VIDEO INSTEAD OF ONLY MUSIC AND STILL PICTURES PRICEY BUT WAS INTENDED FOR A EVERLATING TOTAL REWRITERBLE MEDIA TO UPLOAD IMAGES TO THE INTERNET AND STORE THEM ON THE HARD DRIVE JUST AFTER THE INTERNET BECAME COMERCIALISED IN 1995. VALUE FOR MONEY? WELL THE SHARP VL-EZ1H CERTAINLY COST LESS ONLY £750 IN TODAYS MONEY COMPARED TO A WOPPNG £2800 INCLUDEING THE 256 MB REMOVERBLE HARD DRIVE CARD (PC CARD 3 )AND IS QUITE SMALLER THAN THE HITACHI MPE-G1 maybe the manufactures could not make the vl-ez1 smartmedia flash card smaller at a higher price as it was unherd of in its day to see miniture camcorders the size of 20 cigaretes and would have contredicted other products sold in the same catogory as the ez1 cousing confusion indeed you maybe able to use the mpe-g1 as a FLASH-CAM BUT IT WILL BE PRICEY THE PRICE ON of a SanDisk Extreme Pro 128MB compact flash memory card is over £1000 a used card will set you back £300 with 30 rewrites on sold by a professional photographer maybe a option only to be considerd if your MPE-G1 hard drive is writerble no more and you need a replacement wich i dont think they mke pc card 3 any more so itseems in reality as the only option good old exspantion BUT IT MAY NOT WORK TRY THE COMPACT FLASH 128GB CARDFIRST INSIDE THE hITACHI MPE-G1 BEFORE YOU BUY IT TO SEE IFT HE MOVIE MODE SIGHN DISPLAYS ITS SELF ON THE CAMCODERS LCD else you will end up like me forever takeing still pictures instead with a compact flash card.