The first camera is a Sony Cybershot W830 20.1 megapixel 8X digital zoom that I got on ebay brand new for a paltry $100 USD. I bought it because my friend had one that he'd bought a year before for about $180 USD so I was able to benefit from seeing it function and the quality of the pictures...I was totally impressed with the images for such a small camera, it fits in the palm of my hand and slips easily into my shirt pocket completely hidden.
The second camera is a Canon PowerShot SX700 HS 16.1 megapixel 30X digital zoom. I got this camera from the same friend as it had stopped working. He'd been keeping it in a dresser in it's original box. The original model he'd purchased was the PS SX280 which was frot with battery issues. To his frustration he returned that model twice to the point that Canon just upgraded him to the SX700 which also took a dump. To this day he hates anything Canon. After haggling with him he finally just gave it to me and wished me luck trying to make it work. I found out of the four battery chargers he'd bought not one worked so again I turned to ebay and found a Kastar Charger for $40 USD and figure it was worth the gamble. Well, the pictures are proof that it worked. It's a great camera and takes beautiful low light photos. The 30 power zoom is incredible for such a small camera. Yea I'm happy. The picture of the Sony was taken with the Canon and etc. I highly recommend either or both cameras; well worth the price.
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I have had at least one occasion where a camera mounted microphone put a furry intrusion into the shot, and those micro cameras have a very wide field of view. There's no doubt that they work though.
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea wrote
The battery compartment latch gave out.
The universal hardware solution:
I tried that 
. Also rubber bands & velcro. But nothing worked at keeping batteries firmly in place so the camera could stay powered up.
Great to see people here. These forums are so cool cause everyone can share, help each other, and just have fun sometimes. Sometimes I get involved with stuff I'm trying to learn where it's not really fun anymore.. due to dealing with my own ignorance and shortcomings. Luckily that hasn't happened lately (the ugly side of learning). I had a cyst removed from face and wanted to share with someone in NY so I looked around for a camera and found out the best thing would be to use the caveman method, before cameras were invented. This is what I showed my friend in NY regarding recent surgery.
A few days later I wanted to share some cool wall spreader I bought from B&H (2x4) and used vertically to support a drawing table I'll use for painting something this winter. I put angle iron on bottom of table edge so I can clamp table to 2x4 at desired angle (fast adjustment) to make table sturdy. Plus could add light instead of using stupid desk lamp that was on table before (not doing good job for lighting area). So I got out the trusty Olympus TG1 and shot this.
You can drop the TG1 into a pot of boiling beef stew and it you get it out really fast and wash it off with cold water it will still work ! NO KIDDING ! (this happened to me ) Can take into water with you, under water, and shoot pics and video !
Video is mov wrapper H264, which is junk basically, but sometimes better than nothin.
You have to be REALLY close to a fish if you want to shoot stuff like that underwater, or there's not enough light.
A few days later I wanted to shoot some neighbors brand new barn he had built and so I got out the Nikon d800 which is really cool for stills and also is pretty good for DSLR for video IF you use the HDMI out (uncompressed) to a recorder ( I use cheap Atomos Ninja thing with DNxHD to card ). So I shot the barn.
A while back (couple years now) I tested Nikon d800 for video and slated sound and for first time used PPro to edit...with nice neighbors helping me. It came out like this (excerpt cause this is the most important part re: static camera and basics without head and tail etc.)
First test of shooting live with slate and using PPro to edit.
Later on I edited some DVD dailies from a pilot I happened to work on...and learned TONS of stuff about editing with PPro...
First test of editing DVD dailies in PPro (keeping track of editing process, e.g. throwing out junk, renaming files, different video layers for each camera ( 3 cameras, common slates) etc.
Huge learning curve for keeping track of things. Also Bill Hunt help with invented overlay of B&W video aspect ratio effect ( on roof ). I used the static to make cuts between cameras and and had to sell that with overlay.
Now, I know this is a lot of junk here..but the main thing I'd like to say is that the adobe forums do, in fact, add value to what we are playing around with and can be very helpful.
And it's nice to see people here are still contributing to sharing and having fun and staying in touch or meeting new people.
Happy holidays you all...
Rod
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