“Tapeless” video recorders may not have caught on like many would have hoped, but that doesn’t mean you can’t benefit from the failure of so many future-savvy, enterprising companies. Take for example, the Sanyo Fisher FVD-C1 Pocket CameraCorder, a 3.2 megapixel still camera and video camera hybrid that uses SD memory cards instead of tape [...]
The Aiptek Pencam SD 1.3 was my next camera after the loss of the Mini Pencam. Pricing for both pencams at the time was about equal, though it seems that now the newer Pencam SD has actually gotten cheaper than the Mini Pencam by about $20.
The addition of a Secure Digital card slot was a [...]
The Aiptek Mini Pencam (still available on Amazon) was my very first digital camera, back in 2002, and it was a decent entry-level device. Image quality was excellent: 1.3 megapixels (1248 x 960 px), sharp lines and bright colors, as long as the lighting was good (the Pencam Mini has no flash). No color LCD, [...]
Aiptek, the company most popularly known as purveyor of the Pencam line of cameras, also sells a host of other tiny gadgets for startlingly cheap prices: Pocket Digital Video Cams starting from $24.99, a small non-Pencam camera for $19.99, and, oh, oh, night vision scopes!
Soon: a couple of entries on Pencams I have known.
Oregon Scientific has a whole line of digital cameras — as well as other devices — but the smallest, thinnest, and cheapest of them all is the Thincam 1.3MP. I got mine for $40 (open-box deal) at the Discovery Store, and have found it to be an excellent low-cost tiny camera, most unique in its [...]