Just call it the bloggie (TM) -it's a lot friendlier to your mouth than "MHS-PM5"
Just call it the bloggie (TM) -it’s a lot friendlier to your mouth than “MHS-PM5,” which sounds a little like something just waiting to close down schools and introduce an aporkalyptic prophecy logo on national news networks. Derek, by the way, was near trilling with excitement over a product called “bloggie” from a big-name manufacturer.
The bloggie (TM) records 1920×1080 HD video to a 1/2.5″ CMOS sensor -it’s small being 3/4 inch thick, 4 3/8 long, and 2 1/4 wide, and yet they’ve crammed Face Detection, SteadyShot optical image stabilization, a fold out USB 2.0 adapter, and a 2.4″ LCD monitor which slips between portrait and landscape playback with the angle of the device.
I hear a number of people deride the tiny-cam market, but I love ‘em. Sure hours of vacuous inanity gets recorded, uploaded, and repeated in the vast, practically infinite space of the internet but hey, that seems to describe most television programming too.
The bloggie (TM) has only 26MB onboard memory, but takes Sony’s proprietary MemoryStick technology and the 8GB size should render about 80 minutes of full HD recording. It appears in teal, eggplant, and white.
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The god-phones do this (iPhone, Droid) already plus you can upload to you blog pretty well instantly.
Of you want a great quality photo to upload later, a Leica or Micro Fours Thirds cam or LX3 would do it.
The advantage for something like this is it’s single-mindedness. To my knowledge, no smartphone does HD video yet, and when they do it won’t be with the kinda quality one of Sony’s dedicated camcorders is famed for. Add in the fact that smartphones are also that, phones, and require monthly sbscriptions, and that dedicated still shooters will undeniably take better pictures that are way more than the casual blogger needs and you can start to see where this product fits. The Flip is an extremely successful product, and you can’t blame Sony for wanting a slice of a market that undeniably has to exist.