rprice54
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I'm the proud owner of a new ContourRoam with the contour underwater housing. We're leaving this weekend for a week long trip in San Salvador. I'm trying to not bring my laptop if I don't have to, so I want to get the camera setup right before I leave since I need a computer to make changes.
I've made some sample videos walking around the house and yard between 1080p and 720p, both at 30FPS. I'm not interested in the 'tall HD' setting, not sure what that's for. On my 27" iMac 2560 x 1440 display I can see a small but noticable difference in picture quality between 1080 and 720, but when I play it back over my Apple TV (which is how I would be viewing the video on my TV after the trip) on my 1080p plasma I can't tell a difference between the two- but I don't know how much of that is because the AppleTV cuts out at 720p anyways (at least the old one does).
the other thing I noticed is that the 720 setting has a wider angle of view, but at the expense of introducing a large amount of fisheye effect. Maybe that won't matter underwater, but in the house, surrounded by straight lines, it's very apparent- things seem farther away with the 720 than the 1080 which seems a little more zoomed in. So overall I think I like the 'look' of the 1080p over the 720.
I have 36GB of cards available, which should hold more than 8 hours of 1080p footage, so I don't think storage will be an issue (16 dives) even if I record every minute of every dive- and realistically I won't, who wants to record a safety stop? Plus I'm bringing my iPad which has 12GB free, so I can offload videos if I start running tight on space. And for whatever it's worth, two 46 second clips I made, trying to walk an identical route through the house, are 66MB and 69MB a piece, not really much of a space difference.
All that to say, I think I'm going with 1080p but wanted to see what you guys thought. Thanks.
I've made some sample videos walking around the house and yard between 1080p and 720p, both at 30FPS. I'm not interested in the 'tall HD' setting, not sure what that's for. On my 27" iMac 2560 x 1440 display I can see a small but noticable difference in picture quality between 1080 and 720, but when I play it back over my Apple TV (which is how I would be viewing the video on my TV after the trip) on my 1080p plasma I can't tell a difference between the two- but I don't know how much of that is because the AppleTV cuts out at 720p anyways (at least the old one does).
the other thing I noticed is that the 720 setting has a wider angle of view, but at the expense of introducing a large amount of fisheye effect. Maybe that won't matter underwater, but in the house, surrounded by straight lines, it's very apparent- things seem farther away with the 720 than the 1080 which seems a little more zoomed in. So overall I think I like the 'look' of the 1080p over the 720.
I have 36GB of cards available, which should hold more than 8 hours of 1080p footage, so I don't think storage will be an issue (16 dives) even if I record every minute of every dive- and realistically I won't, who wants to record a safety stop? Plus I'm bringing my iPad which has 12GB free, so I can offload videos if I start running tight on space. And for whatever it's worth, two 46 second clips I made, trying to walk an identical route through the house, are 66MB and 69MB a piece, not really much of a space difference.
All that to say, I think I'm going with 1080p but wanted to see what you guys thought. Thanks.