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Old 7th Aug 2011, 19:16
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You need to do a whole lot more work to get videos of a generally acceptable quality.

These miniature cameras all suffer from a ultra fast shutter which creates the weird prop effects. I've got through several of them.

One can alleviate the artefacts a bit with a neutral density filter, which slows down the shutter, but really one needs to use a camera with a manual shutter control, like the semi-pro camcorders have.

I am now using a Canon Legria G10 and with a 1/120 (or slower) shutter the result is really good. But obviously this costs more money.

Vibration is also an issue. It blurs the image. One needs to make an anti-vibration mount. People doing this seriously use special vibration absorbing bushes like these to make up a camera mount. They are cheap enough but hard to get in the UK; I have ordered some from the USA.

Here are some suction mounts.
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