This is a small, light, flash based digital camcorder. It accepts SDHC cards up to 16 GB. It records in mpeg-2 format in 3, 6, and 9 mbs bit rates. The video quality is great for a camera of this size, but does exhibit digital noise in low light. It has configurable and preset exposure settings for various situations (snow, fireworks, etc.). Most importantly, it has an external microphone jack. (Always use external microphones. Even a cheap one <$50 will give you better sound than the internal microphone on just about any camcorder.) It can also take photos, but not very good ones.
So how does it work with Linux? Fabulously. Plug in the USB cable, turn it on, and it's recognized as a USB storage device. On PCLinux, KDE automatically mounted it for me (after asking). Simply drag your videos and photos to your hard drive, unmount, and you're done.
The video files themselves have the extension .mod, but play just fine in mplayer. Avidemux opens them and automatically recommends indexing (as it is an mpeg file). The only caveat is that the video by default is 720x480 16x9 aspect ratio, so don't forget to set the resize filter appropriately or the video will be squished.
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