My wife surprised me with a Canon S400 digital camera a few months ago. Overall, I’m very satisfied with it. The picture quality is great and the camera is tiny.
One of the features I hadn’t tried out yet was the ability to record movies. This amazing camera can record 15 frames/second video at either 320×240 or 160×120 resolution with audio. Each movie clip can be up to three minutes in length.
While we were watching the Oakland A’s come from behind in the bottom of the 11th inning to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2 Tuesday night, I decided to finally record a movie clip. I would have recorded more segments, but the people in front of me kept moving in the way. Next time, I sneak in the poison darts.
So, here’s a clip of Eric Chavez hitting a foul with Tejada running to second. Sorry it couldn’t be more exciting. Next time I will record more bits in hope of grabbing something better, like a fight between the team mascots or a very large person being cut off at the Krispy Kreme stand after the 7th inning. The clip is a 1.4 MB AVI file at 320×240 resolution and lasts about 5 seconds. I’ve used QuickTime to view AVI files (including this one) on Mac OS X and Windows XP and I’ve used xine to view AVI files on Linux.