Water proof cameras

I see the ads for water proof cameras over there to the left <. And thought that I might ad one to it.
My wife bought me a water proof camera that straps to your wrist like a watch and is small but flips up to use. with a 2 GB chip it will hold a lot of photos or up to 50 minutes of video, yes it will do video al though the res is not the best. It is called HERO at   

         GoProcamera.com  My wife bought it at NRS for my B-day last year.

Been waiting for someone to get one of those and review it.  Got any sample pics or video?

-Allen

Oh, here's an Amazon link to the Hero 3 camera.  Hmm ... I need to get coding and do rotating camera ads on the left.

Here's another camera/camcorder hybrid that I've been considering.  It's the Sanyo VPC-E1.  Last year I got a waterproof case for a Sony DV camcorder.  I used it very little as it was too bulky.  Hmmm ... I got some tapes somewhere I need to edit.

Anyway, I'm looking for something I can just slide in my pocket like I do with my Optio, but with better video quality.

I've eval'd some of the earlier Sanyo versions of this camcorder as I used to work in that industry.  The photo and video quality is pretty good.

-Allen

Allan how do I post a video clip, it's 122mb. I took it with the hero cam

Hmmm ... I'm not equipped to handle files that large.  Your only option is to upload it to something like YouTube.  But then you are at the mercy of the re-encoding they do of the algorithm, which is never as good as you get straight off the camcorder.  Let me think if there is a better way and get back to you.

-Allen

Allan how do I post a video clip, it's 122mb. I took it with the hero cam

Not trying to be a smart ass but.. edit it so it's much smaller. 122MB is massive. 15-20MB will let it play much easier on the web.

Z

Hmm ... I need to get coding and do rotating camera ads on the left.

Well, that was easy enough.  Rotating camera ads are now enabled.

-Allen

Hey Zee I'm more garden gates then Bill Gates. Hell I'm lucky I can find my way to this site. I tried to edit it in Winvideo but I am clueless and the help page was not a help. Really makes a guy feel like, well like Carlos Manceia would say de de de. I guess Ill just take some stills and post those. But it does a good job on vid as long as the play screen is small, plugging it in to the 50" really reduces the res...

Hey Zee I'm more garden gates then Bill Gates. Hell I'm lucky I can find my way to this site. I tried to edit it in Winvideo but I am clueless and the help page was not a help. Really makes a guy feel like, well like Carlos Manceia would say de de de. I guess Ill just take some stills and post those. But it does a good job on vid as long as the play screen is small, plugging it in to the 50" really reduces the res...

He he! No worries. Video is a whole new realm when you put em in computers. Like you did, make the screen dimensions as small as possible and if you can edit the FPS (frames per second) slow it to 15-20 and it will take down the size while not making the video too slow.

If you ever can, edit on iMovie. It's so incredibly easy. Really great program.

Z