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Fujifilm FinePix M603.


It's hard to tell whether the M603 is basically a tiny digital camcorder with still-image capability or the reverse, since this 3.1 megapixel digital camera takes still shots, obviously, but can also record 640x480-dot AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples.  movies at 30 frames per second. At that speed, the video should be very smooth without any of the horrible, experience-ruining jerkiness jerk·y 1  
adj. jerk·i·er, jerk·i·est
1. Characterized by jerks or jerking: a jerky train ride.

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 of other cameras. The M603 is equipped with a 2x optical zoom Changing the focal length of a camera by adjusting the physical zoom lens. All zoom lenses in film cameras and digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are optical zoom. Digital point-and-shoot cameras as well as consumer and prosumer video camcorders have optical zoom, but they also  (4.4 digital) and is styled to be held upright--the top half of the camera, when held like this, is taken up with the massive built-in 2.5-inch LCD monitor/viewfinder. Thanks to the M603's other special function, still images up to a maximum of 2,832 x 2,128 can be taken and then edited while still in the camera.

There are a few storage options on the new camera; go for the new, small-format "xD-Picture Card The xD-Picture Card is a type of flash memory card, used mainly in digital cameras. xD originally stood for extreme Digital.[1] The cards were developed by Olympus and Fujifilm and introduced into the market in July 2002. ," a Compact Flash card or an immediate download via the USB USB
 in full Universal Serial Bus

Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
 cable (and cradle). The microdrive can store the most video footage, obviously, slipping into the CF slot and giving owners 15 minutes and 9 seconds' worth of 30fps video with its 1GB capacity. It is priced at [yen] 88,000.

More Info: www.fujifilm.co.jp/news_r/nrj979.html
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Title Annotation:The pulse 2: the best of J@pan Inc's newsletters: gadget watch, wireless watch and music media watch
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Date:Dec 1, 2002
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