Ok, its not "commercial quality." In fact, not even close. But for a CAMERA (not a video recorder) this is not bad at all!
Of particular interest is that this was taken at close to 80', on an OVERCAST day, with only AMBIENT light, and using the camera's internal "white balance" computation (by shooting the back of my dive glove, which is white, in "compensate" mode before the video was taken)
NO RETOUCH of the video was done on the surface. I did convert it from Quicktime's internal camera format to Indeo AVI for Windows, and there IS some loss of quality doing that.
The grain is due to the low light level in general today; the sun was not shining during this shot in any material way, and it was quite dim down at depth. Bright sunshine would have likely dramatically improved the quality on that account.
What astonishes me is just how servicable this video is from what is supposed to be a STILL camera....
This is a very short clip, and please DOWNLOAD it (do not try to play it from the web server) first. I can get upwards of 10 minutes on a 256mb compact flash card.... which isn't bad at all! Note that the file is about 1.6MB.
http://www.denninger.net/dive-pics/Frangiska-vid.avi
Of particular interest is that this was taken at close to 80', on an OVERCAST day, with only AMBIENT light, and using the camera's internal "white balance" computation (by shooting the back of my dive glove, which is white, in "compensate" mode before the video was taken)
NO RETOUCH of the video was done on the surface. I did convert it from Quicktime's internal camera format to Indeo AVI for Windows, and there IS some loss of quality doing that.
The grain is due to the low light level in general today; the sun was not shining during this shot in any material way, and it was quite dim down at depth. Bright sunshine would have likely dramatically improved the quality on that account.
What astonishes me is just how servicable this video is from what is supposed to be a STILL camera....
This is a very short clip, and please DOWNLOAD it (do not try to play it from the web server) first. I can get upwards of 10 minutes on a 256mb compact flash card.... which isn't bad at all! Note that the file is about 1.6MB.
http://www.denninger.net/dive-pics/Frangiska-vid.avi
