Pocket-sized - the Mini Digital Camcorder

They're starting to appear everywhere now, a Mini Digital Camcorder is now all the rage and it's hardly surprising. Wherever you go, and whatever you see, you can capture those precious scenes with a Mini Digital Camcorder. Have you seen one? If so, the advantages of a pocket-sized mini digital camcorder will have been obvious; portability, featherlight weight and great usability for those hard to shoot scenes.

Micro Magic, with added 'Gadget Factor'

It's happened across the technological world, particularly with image, audio and communications technology - everything's smaller, lighter and funkier compared to even the recent past. Just think of how mobile phones have transformed in recent times. With imaging alone, massive advances in image compression technology capabilities have meant rapidly falling file sizes and growing image quality.

But however small they've these devices have got, the number of features has continued to increase, and the quality offered has improved beyond reason! All this applies to the digital camcorder, and this, it's smallest, lightest incarnation, the mini digital camcorder.

A Multi-media Marvel

The mini digital camcorder is really an even smaller version of the hard drive camcorder where the recorded scenes are stored internally on a hard drive or MMC card for later upload to a PC using Firewire (faster) or USB 2.0 (slower), connection.

Full advantage is taken of the MPEG-4 video compression format to convert and store the raw video, offering excellent picture quality with a minimum storage requirement. They can also operate as excellent stills multi-megapixel cameras. The results are then largely dependent the lens quality being largely uncompromised by the device's dual role.

Current mini digital camcorder models even incorporate features such as an mp3 player, webcam facility and a voice recorder. This multi-functioning makes for an amazingly practical go-anywhere device. Oh, and it records video too!

A Mini digital camcorder will tend to be relatively cheap to buy reflecting their high level of attractiveness to a wide and growing market. Younger people are drawn to them in particular given that low cost, high portability, gadget-factor and the sheer fun to be had from reviewing the days events gathered around a tv at the end of the day.