When fun happens, the bloggie camera records it all in 1920x1080 high definition MP4 (H 264) format MP4 is a popular multimedia format that compresses the size of your audio and video, making files small enough to easily transfer to your compatible PC or Mac Swing out the built-in USB arm and connect your camera directly to your compatible PC or Mac It's the quick and easy way to upload videos and charge your battery without having to hunt for cables Show your videos to the world Just use the pre-installed Picture Motion Browser (PMB) Portable software to pre-select videos and images in the camera and easily upload them to a compatible PC and popular internet sharing sites No additional software needed At approximately 0 9" thick and 2 2" wide, the bloggie is ultra-compact and easy to carry in your bag or pocket And don't worry about the lens - it swivels out of the way for protection while not in use The bloggie camera features a unique lens that swivels up to 270 degrees and instantly powers on the camera when you rotate it outward It's perfect for spontaneous moments - just grab the camera and start shooting immediately
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Product Details
Fun Full HD video and still shooting
Quick easy web uploads with built-in USB arm
360 Video Lens and 4GB Memory Stick supplied
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Ideal for schools
Review Date: May 28, 2010
Reviewer: Arthur Wyatt, London England
Bought for wifw (teacher)- As soon as they saw it at school they bought another as suitable for putting events on school web site giving quality videos / pictures
fit for purpose / easy to use / quality product at this price
A nice little fun camera, but has issues for the price
Review Date: March 2, 2010
Reviewer: Arheddis Varkenjaab,
This is a very smart little device, with Sony's usual high build quality. Very simple to use, just press 'record' and you're off. Picture quality is excellent, and the rotating lens is a great idea that allows you to film stuff at odd angles, or even yourself.
The 360 attachement is great fun, though you might find it not worth the extra cash. It is basically just a conical mirror that attaches over the lens, allowing you film in all directions at once. You can then use the software that comes with the camera to 'unwrap' the cylindrical image, giving you a super-wide angle picture. The quality suffers, as you might expect, but the novelty value more than makes up for it. It's lots of fun, and you can get some great effects with it. I'm imagining things like holding it up above your head at a party and filming everything, or leaving it running in the middle of a table at a family meal and filming the whole thing... lots of possibilties!
Battery life is fantastic, and the camera is about the size of a chunky mobile phone. Easily small enough to always carry with you, and quick to start and fantastic for filming your life. The rotating lens also has a trick, in that with it set at the correct angle, you can very easily film people and things while 'appearing' to be using a phone to send a text message. Excellent for candid shots. There is a tripod screw at the bottom, and the camera will stand up on its own. You can also rotate the lens so that you can lie it on its side and film.
However, this camera does have some downsides, and they are silly ones. Sony always makes beautiful objects and then spoils them by overlooking the details.
Firstly, image stabilising only works on the lowest quality setting, 30fps at 720p. Not a huge problem, but why?
Stills camera is very poor, not much better than a mobile phone. And no flash! Given the excellent xenon units sony uses on its mobile phones, there's not much excuse for this.
Low light perfomance is essentially non-existant. This is the biggest downside - this camera is meant to be always with you, and your most fun is usually in the evening, out with friends.
The user interface is very unintuitive - pressing 'play' to view pictures often results in you going back to record mode, or at least, not actually showing you the image.
Deleting a picture or recording takes half a dozen key presses, which means you rapidly fill up the memory card as you're too busy recording to stop and file through things to delete stuff. Silly things, but they get in the way, they slow you down.
The supplied software is awful, and is really only useful for 'unwrapping' 360 images as I've mentioned above. For example, you can't rename files! There is just no option to do so. If you 'manually' rename a file in windows explorer, the sony software promptly crashes.
The 'upload to internet' functionality is poor (no facebook! no flickr!), although you can manually add sites to upload to. However, this works by simply copying the file location of the video to clipboard so you can upload from the site's upload page which the software opens for you. Clunky, but it works - oh, except that Sony for some reason have decided you must use Internet Explorer rather than your default browser. It also can only copy the location of a single file. Sony's usual poor attention to detail here - it's a good idea, but not much use in practice.
Despite my whinging, this is a really fun bit of kit and I'm really pleased with it, hence the 4 stars. It's simple to use, discreet, excellent quality, looks good and is a lot of fun. However, this camera sells at a premium and if Sony want to compete with the likes of the Flip or Kodak's excellent cameras (which sell at almost half the price), its very disapointing not to be much, much, better.
Slick little camera
Review Date: August 8, 2010
Reviewer: K. Wright,
The Sony Bloggie is an attractive looking camcorder/camera and it small enough to fit into your pocket. It is very simple to use, just choose whether you want to shoot still pictures or film and off you go. I found that the picture quality when taking still images wasn't good at all but was much better when used as a camcorder. The sound when filming at a concert was very impressive and this would be one of the main things I would use this camera for. Another positive is that you can flick the lens around to any angle to take pictures in awkward places, including photos of yourself.
The unique selling point of this camera is the 360 degree filming which uses a little attachment fastened onto the lens. I used this once and after finally unwrapping the image with the clunky software provided found that the quality was very low. This aspect of the camera really is just a gimmick and I wouldn't recommend this if you are looking to use this feature a lot.
This is a simple, fun camera and is easy to use if you have never used a camcorder before. It would be particularly good for children as it is very user friendly, although the same can't be said for the software. Overall this is a fun and nice looking camcorder although I am sure there are similar things out there with better software or a better price.
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Ideal for schools
