Thursday, June 09, 2005

The CVS pharmacy chain is selling disposable video cameras. As if the clicking of disposible cameras wasn't bad enough, we now get to sit through our kid sisters' graduations while looking over a sea of hands holding $30 ipod-sized boxes above everyone's heads. How's the quality? You'll find out when your uncle and aunt invite you over to their house to watch the 20 minute (max record time) DVD of their trip to the Wisconsin dairy fields.
Pill called the film good VHS quality, but acknowledged it isn't on par with that produced by some personal camcorders.

"George Lucas isn't going to use this to shoot Star Wars IV," he said, "but a budding George Lucas may use this to shoot something in his backyard."