Mini Digital Camcorder; One That Fits Nicely Into Your Pocket

If you have trouble carrying your camcorder around, and because of that, you miss out on your favorite moments everywhere you go; you no longer need to worry. Lately this new, small type of camcorders, or better known as mini digital camcorder, has been slowly taking over the market. Not long ago, we were still using camcorders weighing up to two pounds, but today, these new camcorders weigh only as much as your mobile phone.

The Small Sexy Gadget

This new trend is really not so new after all. It actually started with mobile phones. Once mobile phones were as big as bricks, then they became as sexy as a fish, and some time later they turned to be as small as a matchbox. This inspired the digital camcorder makers as well, when they switched from huge and bulky camcorders to sexy thin ones that fit into a small pouch, and eventually now they have the small ones that even fit into a small pencil case.

The best part is that no matter how small the mini digital camcorder have become, the quality of the image has never decreased, due to the invention of superb compression technology which saves the whole video in a smaller file size, but at a very high quality rate.

Technological Wonders

This mini digital camcorder is actually the miniature version of the hard drive camcorders in which you record and the raw video would be stored inside the internal drive, which you can transfer out to a computer through USB 2.0 or FireWire.

The video is saved in MPEG-4 format, which is the best video compression format to store a raw video file with the highest quality in the lowest capacity. In addition to this, the mini digital camcorder can also be the best digital still camera, and most of them have very high quality picture capturing ability with Carl-Zeiss lens and up to 8 Megapixels. Better still, the latest version of mini digital camcorder from companies like Creative have an MP3 player, voice recorder and webcam integrated.

Mini digital camcorders cost much less than traditional digital camcorders, because this type of camera is very high in demand and has a very good market among teenagers, especially those who love to travel and capture every beautiful moment in their daily lives. They come in colors which many people would love, and they simply fit in your palm. Captured videos can also be directly played on TV to be shared with everyone.